Collier’s Magazine 1940-1945

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February 3, 1940

Ice Skating Couple Collapsing by Joe Kneisel. Fiction by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, others, Skiing, Ballerina Nana Gollner, Moe Annenberg, Fear Comes to Sweden by Martha Gellhorn

Good

$25.00

July 6, 1940

Couple at Beach by Alan Foster. Today’s Germany in a Novel by William C. White, Mexico Must Choose, Front Seat in Flanders by Quentin Reynolds, Fast New World of Travel, Batting Averages are Cockeyed

Good

$20.00

August 10, 1940

Baseball Pitcher & Batter by Ronald McLeod. General DeGaulle, Pride Pitching – Tex Carleton, We Furnish the Home, Quinine Supply

Good, spine tears

$35.00

September 28, 1940

Flying Ducks by Lemuel Parker. Hell on Devil’s Island, Baseball’s Derringer & Walters, Hunting Conservation – Game Bird illus. by Parker, Poker

Good

$20.00

 

April 26, 1941

Giraffe & Baby Chimp by Lawson Wood. Inside Italy, Top Ten in Contract Bridge, Our New Army, Vivienne Segal, Mexico Makes Up, Vegetables at the Flower Show

G/VG

$25.00

July 12, 1941

The B-19 Bomber photo cover. The Guns Are Coming, Air Defense, Ann Sothern, Plymouth (England) Fights Back, Our New Army, Hal Davis

Not Available

NA

July 26, 1941

Young & Old Sailor by James Chapin. What German Paratroops Carry, Taking of Crete, Jalopy Racing, Margie Hart, Panzer Diary

Fair/Good, cover tears, chipping

$15.00

September 6, 1941

Couple Tanning on Beach by John Floherty Jr.  General Auchinleck, Our New Army, Chimpanzees, Leon Henderson, How Moscow Takes Its Bombings, Sid Hudson

Good, stamp on cover

$20.00

October 18, 1941

Indian & Lady with Gas Can on Donkey Back by Gilbert Darling. The Oil Shortage, Russian Women at War, FDR – Lend-Lease Etc., Golf, Ohio State Football Coach Brown, Bringing Rubber Home

Good, label cut off bottom of cover, stamp

$17.50

 

Same

Good, cover tears

$15.00

October 25, 1941

Lady with Military Insignia Ring by Al Moore. War in the Desert, Our New Army, George Halas, Abbott & Costello, Weddings in Vegas

Good, label cut off bottom of cover, stamp

$17.50

November 1, 1941

Hitler Gambling with Russians & Death by Arthur Szyk. Skin Diving, America’s 1917 Censor Makes Comparisons, Marines’ New Amphibian Tanks, Rational Defense, Life of a Modern Minstrel

Good, label cut off bottom of cover, stamp

$25.00

November 8, 1941

Chimpanzee Blowing Reveille by Lawson Wood. Death of a Dutch Town, City of CourageMoscow, Lambs, Keep ‘em Flying in the Navy, Mr. Wilkin of the Redskins

Good, label cut off bottom of cover, stamp

$17.50

November 15, 1941

Football Players by Walter Bomar. Moscow’s Wounded, Virginia Gilmore, Where the R.A.F. Failed, Doping in Racing, Sir Stafford Cripps, What Officials Are Doing to Football

Good, label cut off bottom of cover, stamp

$17.50

November 29, 1941

Army Motorcycle Corps (photo cover) – Toughest Guys in the Army.  Navy Football, Old West Author Ernest Haycock, Anna Lee, Swede Larson, Our Bases in the Aleutians, Men’s Coats

Fair/Good, label cut off bottom of cover, stain

$15.00

December 13, 1941

Frank Albert of Stanford University Football. All-America Football Team, Voice of Russia, General Wavell in India, Be Fair to France, Mass Production in a Shipyard

Fair/Good, stain, stamp

$15.00

 

June 13, 1942

Futuristic Pilot photo cover. Tips from Men in the Armed Services, War in the Woods, Thomas Hart Benton, New Pilots

Not Available

NA

July 18, 1942

Woman with Flowers & Pot by Bill Gillies. Japan Hits Below the Belt, Janet Blair, Second Thoughts on a Second Front by Quentin Reynolds, Save That Pilot!, Joe Gordon, Diver’s Gold (Niagara)

G/VG

$25.00

October 3, 1942

Boy Trying on Dad’s US Navy Cap by Henry B. Sutter. How Anti-British Tales Start, First Lap on Tokyo, The Magic Marines (in the movies), Diana Barrymore, Shostakovich, Ship Salvage Job

Good

$20.00

October 31, 1942

Sailor at Signal Controls photo cover. Convoy to Murmansk, Detroit Strains at the Federal Leash, Betty Hutton, Battle of the Atlantic (with double-page color cut-away view of a Submarine), Football

G/VG

$25.00

 

February 13, 1943

Soldier by Jews W. Schlaikjer. Meat Rationing, Oil for the Planes of China, Mission Over Kiska, Sax Rohmer short story, Mike Moran’s Men, Alpacas, Wooden Ships in the War

Fair/Good,

stain

$15.00

April 17, 1943

Sailor & Kids by Henry Sutter. Mud and Blood of Tunisia, Submarines Production, The Average Man, Inflation in One Easy Lesson, Learning to See, Sinatra – Gift to the Girls

Not Available

NA

June 26, 1943

Soldier & Baby photo cover. I Still Believe in Non-Violence by Mahatma Gandhi, Russia’s Children Mobilize, Lena Horne, The Husband Shortage, British By-Election, Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo – conclusion, General Devers, League of Nations

G/VG

$25.00

August 21, 1943

Propeller Manufacture photo cover by W. Eugene Smith. Sax Rohmer fiction – Conclusion, Airpower Is Winning, No Birds – No Crops, Wang Ching-Wei, Living in Moscow, B.G. De Sylva, Mother of 11 in the Service, How the Finns Live, Medical Rationing, Curare

Not Available

NA

August 28, 1943

Soldier & Mussolini Poster by Ronald McLeod. While Rome Burned, Skip Bombing Techniques, A Ship Is Born, Doctors at Sea, Ladies of Congress, 15 Hours with Winston by a Sculptor, Nazis in the Balkans

G/VG

$35.00

September 18, 1943

Soldier Partaking of Foreign “Smoke” by Ronald McLeod. Race Riots Coming, How Equal Are Women?, We Saw Hamburg Die, Paratroops Behind Nazi Lines, Dizzy Dean, Hitting Hitler’s Oil Barrel – Ploesti, Sten Gun

Not Available

NA

September 25, 1943

General Dwight D. Eisenhower – Portrait by Ronald McLeod. With Eisenhower in Sicily, The Destruction of Germany, Eve Curie, Russian Spirit, Miss Subways, Fire Losses, Carl Sandburg – “Transatlantic Call”

G/VG

$35.00

October 30, 1943

Soldier & Bowl of Rice by Ronald McLeod. Revenge in Poland, WACs in Africa, Task Force Zero on Marcus Island, Yale & Use & Misuse of Alcohol, Fur Coats, Archbishop Spellman

Not Available

NA

November 27, 1943

Soldier Eating Chicken by Ronald McLeod. Can Italy Learn Democracy?, England’s Parapups, Burlesque Is Dead, Eye Surgery, Japan’s New Policy of Conquest, How Corsica Was Liberated by Andre Maurois, John C. Donnelly’s Nutritional Bullets, Aircraft Carrier Through the Panama Canal

G/VG

$25.00

December 11, 1943

Merchant Marine William M Thomas – Service Medal winner by C.C. Beall. Meaning & Implications of Fascism, Hawaii’s Racial Medley, Meteorites, Sulfa Compounds & Colds, Dept. of Labor’s Cost of Living Index, Victory at Volturno, Bomber Ground Crews, Bronko Nagurski

Not Available

NA

 

January 1, 1944

Hair Baubles photo cover. Hitler’s Bombed-Outers, C.S. Forester Fiction, One World – One Market, Bendix, Vice Admiral Spruance, Testing Rations, US Companies in Ireland – 2 copies

Good

$20.00

January 22, 1944

Model photo cover. The Abortion Racket, Yugoslavia Time Bomb, Rise of the Rocket, Art of Cheesecake Girlie photos, Convoys, Dixon Illinois – Home of the Bazooka, Jane Froman, Stillman’s Gym on 8th Avenue, What Went On at Cairo Conference, Goose Hunters

G/VG

$25.00

 

Same

Fair/Good – torn cover, bleed-thru

$15.00

February 5, 1944

Soldier & Beard by Ronald McLeod. Mechanized Army, “Mexican Hayride” Musical, Herbert Hoover, The Jap as Killer, Childhood Diseases, Canada & Aviation

G/VG

$25.00

 

Same

Good – spine edge tears

$17.50

March 4, 1944

Lieut. General Alexander Vandegrift photo cover. Mysterious Gerald Smith, Skyway Markers & Air Routes, Black Market Lingerie, New Ration Tokens, London’s Heroic Children by Martha Gellhorn, War Below Zero, 13-Year-Old Arizona Artist Beatien Yazz

G/VG

$25.00

March 25, 1944

Woman Soldier photo cover – Canadian?  Invasion Lies, Mother Cabrini, Robert Hannegan, New York’s Havana Nightclub (in color), Surviving at Sea

G/VG

$25.00

April 8, 1944

Woman in Hat color photo cover. Invasion by Quentin Reynolds, Britain’s Freya Stark, Blossoming Hats, NYC Boxing Commissioner Dr. Powell, US Army World Airways – 2 copies

G/VG

$25.00

 

Same

Fair/Good – spine tears, stain

$12.50

May 6, 1944

Russian Female Soldier photo cover. When Will Rationing End?, Rescue of a Patrol Bomber in Canadian Wilds, Helping Maimed Servicemen, Ordeal of Leningrad, Actor’s Agents, Old-Time Religion Goes Global, Italian Fighters in the Mountains by Martha Gellhorn

Good, spine edge fraying

$20.00

June 3, 1944

Female Soldiers at Memorial photo cover. Elmer Davis, Doomsday in Hungary, Gliders & Allied Tactics, Miles White Show-Girl Costumes, Bowler Ned Day, Peace by the Map, Victory Gardening Headaches

Not Available

NA

July 29, 1944

WAC Cover. On the Victory Tide, Hell For Hirohito, Sidney Hillman profile, Country Auction, Paul McNutt

Good

$20.00

September 2, 1944

Sailor & Girl on Swing by Vernon Grant. Nazism’s Last Stand, Russia Beckons Big Business, St. Louis Browns, Mink to Match Your Hair, Herbert Brownell

Not Available

NA

September 9, 1944

Soldier by Ronald McLeod. Twilight in Germany A Report from Inside the Reich by Konrad Warner, More Hat for Your Money, From Poll to Poll, Truman of Missouri, Doris Hart, Mother Moore

Good, gouge at spine, approx. 16 pages missing

$15.00

October 14, 1944

Lawson Wood cover. France Today & Tomorrow, Our "Pampered" War Prisoners, Small-Fry Charmers, Congressman Vito Marcantonio, Battle Jacket Fashions, Microbe Killer

Good, corner stain

$20.00

December 9, 1944

Vernon Grant cover – Girl at Piano. Close Call at Leyte (photo of Gen'l. MacArthur's "Return"), Songwriters Yip Harburg and Harold Arlen profile, Three Mexican Artists, Greece - Proving Ground for Peace, Mechanical Fire Computer on B-29s, Judith Anderson & Shakespeare for the Troops

G/VG

$25.00

December 23, 1944

Totem Pole in Ice & Army Trucks by Robert Held. Alaska – Land of Opportunity, Secret of the Red Army, Clement Moore & “Visit From Saint Nicholas”, Mothers of Stars Inc., Death of a Dutch Town by Martha Gellhorn, GI View of the Pacific, Collier Trophy Winner, Well-Groomed Serviceman, Liberation Glory Be! By Gertrude Stein

Not Available

NA

 

January 13, 1945

Walrus & Bears by Lawson Wood. Second Battle of the Philippines, Belfast Maine Railroad (in color), Cause of China’s Tragedy, Explosive Plant Safety, General Patton at the Pay-Off, Training a Sea Lion, Jane Russell, Wounded Servicemen Building Things

Good, spine tears

$20.00

January 20, 1945

Cowboy & Woman by Wilson Cutler. Report From Italy by Archbishop Spellman, Port of New York Flows Supplies of War, 2nd Battle of the Philippines part 2, June Haver, Finland & Russia, Soldier Souvenir Hounds, Big-Money Trees, Reform School The Republic

Not Available

NA

February 3, 1945

Female Soldier photo cover. Battle for Spain, Can China Unite?, President and the Press, Hollywood Fashions, Wild Boar Hunt, Penguins, Dirt-Cheap Houses

Good

$25.00

February 17, 1945

Abraham Lincoln by C.C. Beall. What the War Did to One Family, You Too Can Capture a Jap, Russia vs. Britain in the Mediterranean, Journey Into France, Rescuing Flyers in the Himalayas, Heat From Cold, Finnish-American Fishermen on Lake Superior

Good, cover tear

$20.00

February 24, 1945

Donald Duck & Latin Dancer. De Gaulle Challenges the Future, Foot Trouble, Mount Vernon, Japan’s Failure in the Philippines

Fair/Good, loose cover, edge chipped

$15.00

March 3, 1945

Lawson Wood Chimps cover. WWII Escape Story, FDR's Health, Seeing Smells, Berlin: City of Fear

Not Available

NA

March 10, 1945

Woman & Siberian Huskie photo cover. Ski Boom, Stalin’s Plans for Germany, Weather Out of a Box, Our Second Chance for Peace, We Lived to Tell, Life Begins in a Test Tube, Puppet Opera – Chicago’s Kungsholm

Not Available

NA

March 17, 1945

Milking a Cow by Vernon Grant. US Naval Academy at 100, Warsaw Tragedy, Combat Mission Over Germany, Sullivans of Sullivan’s Hollow, We Lived to Tell, Bob Kurland – All-America Center, Navy TBM & Jap Betty Duel, Businessman Frank Kenna

Not Available

NA

March 24, 1945

Female Soldier cover. Escape from the Nazis, Maurice Evans, Liberation at Amiens, Flying Farmers in Oklahoma, England and the Boys by Archbishop Spellman, Clothes by Chemists

G/VG

$25.00

March 31, 1945

Kids Playing Fortune Teller photo cover. I Meet the Front-Line Russians by Lillian Helman, Curling (color photos), Men and Guns at Iwo Jima, Alaska, US Army Railroading in Bengal, Battle of the Airports

Good

$25.00

April 7, 1945

Soldier, Wife & Family at Easter Service by Elmore Brown. Repelled at Miami Beachhead (Real-Estate), Great Britain’s Economy & Exports, Europe’s Survivors, Nature’s Fishermen, Burning of Manila, Folk Songs, Controlled Heating, Mrs. Leggett’s Dirt

G/VG

$25.00

April 14, 1945

Soldier Pedicure by Vernon Grant. New England Get-Together, Iwo Jima – 2 articles, GI Dog, USS Saratoga, Mothers Without Fathers, Licia Albanese, M69 – Tokyo Calling Cards

Good

$35.00

April 28, 1945

Admiral Halsey photo cover. Inflation, A Plan For Japan by Halsey, Rohm & Haas Insect Zoo, Louise Allbritton, Postwar Opportunity, Liberated France by Archbishop Spellman, Regal Hats, Mayor La Guardia on the Radio

Good, cover tear

$20.00

May 5, 1945

Soldier & Snake Charmer. There Is No Labor Movement by John L Lewis, Big Jump Into Germany, Robert Shaw (Conductor), Know Your Money Campaign, New Orleans Food

Good, cover edge chip

$17.50

May 19, 1945

Young Girl in Brother’s Military Cap photo cover. Injustice in the Courtroom, Natives of Guan, Picking a Lock, Why You Don’t Get Meat part 2, Gene Kelly, What Happens to a Ship When It Sinks, How to Get Married for Wartime Brides & Grooms

Not Available

NA

May 26, 1945

Woman with V-Mail by Bomar. Suicide Creek – Cape Gloucester Battle, Anything Goes on Okinawa, “We Were Never Nazis” Germans Claim by Martha Gellhorn, “Carousel” by Rodgers & Hammerstein, Bobby-Soxers and the Sawdust Trail, Jumping Frog Jubilee, Planning Hikes

Not Available

NA

June 2, 1945

War Bonds Letter & Woman with Piggy Bank by Seymour Thompson. GI Bill of Complaints, Memo to the Living by Norman Corwin, Biggest Bill Collector, Suicide Creek Part 2, Alaska’s Prehistoric Monsters Found in Ice, Play Suits, Bretton Woods or WWIII?

Not Available

NA

June 16, 1945

General Somervell photo cover. Terror in Japan, Firsthand Observation of Germany’s Atrocity Camps, Charlie Bovey of Montana, Italian Partisans & New Italy, Kentucky Doctor, I Soloed in 76 Minutes, Sex Life of the Flowers, Bruce Evans, Fathers Day Gifts

Not Available

NA

June 23, 1945

Girl with Horse & Trophy photo. Navy Chaplain Courageous, Dachau Concentration Camp by Martha Gellhorn, Nazi Postage Stamps as Propaganda, Fortune Telling in D.C., Dorothy Thompson, Canadian Geese

Not Available

NA

June 30, 1945

President Harry S. Truman photo cover. Stalin and World Unity by Admiral Standley, Chaplain Courageous part 2, Senator Glenn H. Taylor of Idaho, Starlet School, Russian’s Invisible Wall, The Abalone

Not Available

NA

July 21, 1945

That They May Live – Pictorial Story of the Army Medical Corps – Maj. General Norman T. Kirk cover. The Jungle Is Beaten, General MacArthur, Dave Ferriss, Folies Bergere, Revolution in Cotton 

Good

$20.00

July 28, 1945

Clowns photo cover (Emmet Kelly, other). Heroes Rising from the Sea, Revolution Down South, Blood in Buenos Aires, Europe’s Hangover, Clowns School in Chicago, Esther Williams Swimming Lesson, No Tires Today

G/VG

$25.00

August 4, 1945

Navy Couple on Coney Island Backdrop photo cover. Damon Runyan Fiction, Communism in Cuba, Inside View of the British Embassy, Servicemen’s Wives & Babies & EMIC Program, Race Prejudice by Roark Bradford, Post-War Non-Private Conversations, Rodeo Ben, Heroes Rising From the Sea part 2, Man Who Wrote With His Elbows

Not Available

NA

August 25, 1945

Loose Ball of Yarn on Street by Vance Locke. Last Days of Berlin part 1, Flying Wounded by Air Transport Command, Boss Ed Kelly of Chicago, D-Day Japan, Mending Ballplayers, Liberation of Holland

Not Available

NA

September 8, 1945

Bobbysoxer & Soldier. Air Power Today & Tomorrow, Sugar Shortage, The Riviera & GIs, First Telechrome Radio-Transmission photo (in color) of the Big Three), Tomorrow's Navy, The Marine's, Fake Fur

G/VG

$25.00

September 15, 1945

General Omar N. Bradley. Coal or Chaos in Europe, Branch Rickey, Lights Out at God’s Lake, Great Nazi Gold Rush, Sex & Marriage College Course, Air Power Today & Tomorrow, Japanese Warrior’s Code, Fruit & Vegetable Menus

Good

$20.00

October 20, 1945

Secretary of State Byrnes photo cover. Reconversion in Our State Department, Asia Must Be Free, Ducks Migration, OSS part 3, Ex-GI by Bill Mauldin, Anne Revere, Army Surplus Goods, Mexican Bullfights & Matadors

Good

$20.00

 

Same

Good, spine edge splitting, fraying

$15.00

November 3, 1945

Halloween cover by Vernon Grant. Showdown on the St. Lawrence, Umpires, Puerto Rico, New Frontier With Russia, Hunting, Stork Club Chef, Mia Slavenska, Mind Reading

G/VG

$25.00

 

Same

Good

$20.00

November 10, 1945

Young Married Couple on Train by Leon Gregori. Argentina, Germany’s Chemical Trust, Should Greenland Be American?, The French Fight to Live (Paris), Creatures in the Jungle photos, Tropical Diseases, San Francisco Charter, Laurette Taylor – 2 copies

G/VG

$25.00

 

Same

Good, spine edge tears into cover

$15.00

December 15, 1945

Dressing Mirror & Brother & Sister by Dick Williams. All-America Football Team by Grantland Rice, Czechoslovakia, Japanese Surrender - double page painting, Juggling, Case Against Franco, Gregory Peck, Curing Drug Addictions, Crazy Over Jewelry – 2 copies

Good

$20.00

December 29, 1945

An on Earth – Peace (Returning WWII Soldier illus.) by J. Francis Chase. Christmas: Atomic Age (Poem by Norman Corwin), National Traffic Jam Ahead, Tuberculosis, Top Movie Actresses, Harry Gilmer of Alabama, Nazi Trails

Not Available

NA

 

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