The 1930’s are a bad decade for completeness in my index, but this second half of the decade is a lot better than the first half. Still a lot of pseudo-science and pop history content, but this is pretty much the last of that stuff.

Some highlights of the late 1930s are the Salvador Dali covers, which attract a lot of art collector interest on eBay when they rarely show up. There’s also the only American Weekly cover series by famed pin-up artist Zoe Mozert. A series on regional cooking by the great James Montgomery Flagg is a criminal waste of his great talent.

In late 1939 we get some prime Stripper’s Guide fodder, Flossy Frills by Russell Patterson. She’ll appear in several series into the early 1940s.

Some notes on the listings:

* when you see a “#”,
that means that the cover is part of a numbered series and the number is
given on the cover. Sometimes I remembered to write that down,
sometimes I didn’t so its catch-as-catch-can. If a series cover
explicitly states that it is the first or final installment and its not obvious from the surrounding dates, I sometimes
note that as “(start)” or “(end)”.
* when I say “(story illo) that means that the cover is illustrating a text story in the magazine.
*
I don’t make guesses about covers I haven’t seen. Therefore, even if I
have one missing issue between installment 2 and 4 of a series, I resist
the urge to assume what may be obvious.
* When a cover is
descibed as, say, “Famous Fishes (Herring)”, that means that the cover
is part of a series titled Famous Fishes, and this particular cover
depicts the herring.