1940/09/21 — Cover design by Vernon Grant
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Inside the Pages of Old Magazine Back Issues
Issue by issue contents page listings for back issues of old Collier's magazines. Locate subjects, articles, stories, authors, illustrators, and other information hidden inside various vintage editions of Colliers magazine.
1940/09/21 — Cover design by Vernon Grant
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1940/08/31 — Cover design by Alan Foster
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1940/08/24 — Cover design by Arthur Crouch
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1940/06/29 — Cover design by Jaro Fabry
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1940/04/13 — Cover design by E.M. Jackson
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1940/03/10 — Cover design by Jaro Fabry
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1940/02/17 — Cover design by Jay Irving
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1940/02/03 — Cover design by Joe Kneisel.
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Notable Advertising includes: Coca-Cola, Lily Pons for RCA Victrola, and a Lucky Strikes ad on the back cover. (Note * means ad is less than a full page)
1940/01/20 — Cover design by Robert O. Reid
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1940/01/06 — Cover design by Arthur Crouch
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1939/12/09 — Cover design by C.C. Beall
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1939/09/16 — Cover design by Arthur Crouch
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1939/09/09 — Cover art by Joe Kneisel
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1939/06/03 — Cover design by Lawson Wood
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1939/05/27 — Cover design by Alan Foster
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1939/03/18 — Cover art by Arthur Crouch.
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Notable Advertising includes: Full page ad on the inside cover for Schenley’s Cream of Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey with artwork by Norman Rockwell, Florsheim shoes*, 1938 National Race Champion Floyd Roberts for Firestone, 2-page color ad for Plymouth, Buick, Kellogg’s Pep*, 2-pages for Good Year, color ad for Chesterfield Cigarettes, 2-page color ad in the middle for Packard Six & 120, Pullman, Irene Dunne & Charles Boyer in “Love Affair”, Phillip Morris*, and a beautiful color ad for Coca-Cola on the back cover and shown below. (Note * means ad is less than a full page)
1939/03/11 — Cover art by Paul Shively.
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Notable Advertising includes: Auto-Lite Spark Plugs, International Trucks, De Soto, Pontiac, Remington Rand, “Blizzards to Order Help Build Better Cars” is a 2-page ad for Ford Motor Company, “Alphonse and Gaston see Coney Island” for Kellogg’s All-Bran, Nash Auto, Studebaker, “This is the Way to the New York World’s Fair” says Pennsylvania Railroad, “San Francisco 1939” from Californians Inc, Gilette Blades, Old Gold Cigarettes with illustration by George Petty*, Budweiser, Lord Calvert ad on the inside back cover with color illustration by George Hughes, and finally a Camel Cigarettes ad on the back cover with record-holding woman parachute jumper Marie McMillin in a comic strip. (Note * means ad is less than a full page)
1939/03/04 — Cover art by Robert O. Reid.
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Notable Advertising includes: John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company ad is illustrated by Revere Wistehuff, Chrysler, “Many a Bucking Bronco is only a Bad Plug” for AC Spark Plug Division if General Motors, “Flood! Sleet! Hurricane!” from Western Electric, and a Lucky Strikes Cigarettes ad on back cover. (Note * means ad is less than a full page)
1939/02/25 — Cover art by Jon Whitcomb.
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Notable Advertising includes: Rice Krispies on the inside front cover, Walt Disney in a color photo for De Soto with headline “Walt Disney, You’ve Got Another Hit”, “The Strange Fever Called Tulipomania” tells a story about the tulip craze in Holland in the 17th Century for The Travelers Insurance Company, “Fair Enough” by C.A. Voight for Kellogg’s All-Bran, Pontiac from General Motors, Champion Spark Plugs, Aunt Jemima’s Pancakes*, color ad for Canada Dry Ginger Ale, full-page ad for Schnley’s Cream of Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey is illustrated by Norman Rockwell, Spud Cigarettes, and a comic strip titled “Hilda’s Other Husband” on the back cover for Ovaltine (Note * means ad is less than a full page)
1939/02/18 — Cover art by Ronald McLeod.
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Notable Advertising includes: full-page b&w ad for the film “Huckleberry Finn” with a large pic of Mickey Rooney, Pullman, 2-page ad for Texaco, Schlitz, Packard Six & 120 with color illustration by John Falter, New 1939 Chevrolet Trucks, Madeleine Carrol for Calox*, Philip Morris*, and a Chesterfield Cigarettes ad on the back cover. (Note * means ad is less than a full page)
1939/02/04 — Cover art by Lawson Wood.
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Notable Advertising includes: full-page ad for “Ginga Din” with Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen and Douglas Fairbanks Jr., “Its taste holds the answer” color Coca-Cola ad on the inside back cover, and a Lucky Strike Cigarettes ad on the back cover. (Note * means ad is less than a full page)
1939/01/28 — Cover art by Howard Butler.
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Notable Advertising includes: “Myrna Loy in a new picture” features a color photo of actress Myrna Loy for DeSoto, Dodge Trucks, Pontiac, Schlitz, Schenley’s Cream of Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey ad is illustrated by Norman Rockwell, Constance Bennett and Roland Young in “Topper Takes a Trip”*. (Note * means ad is less than a full page)
1939/01/07 — Cover art by Jaro Fabry.
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Notable Advertising includes: Melvyn Douglas for Calox Powder*, Union Pacific Railroad*, color ad on inside back cover for Ford showing the De Luxe V-8 Fordor Sedan and the V-8 Tudor Sedan, beautiful multi-paned Coca-Cola ad on the back cover and shown below this listing. (Note * means ad is less than a full page)
1938/12/24 — Great “Before and After,” or is it “Dream and Reality” cover designed by Jay Hyde Barnum
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1938/12/03 — Cover design by Arthur Crouch
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