Life Magazine – November, 1936 (# 2620) – Last issue of LIFE

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Cover : Ambulance waiting outside football stadium, attendants reading newspapers, art by Perry Barlow.

– This is the LAST ISSUE published of the first Life magazine. The name was then sold to become the classic LIFE.
– Full page color Ethyl gas ad featuring the Hickory Bluff Store.
– Another full page color Mount Vernon whiskey ad with square bottle.
– Letters to the editors from Stephen Szalewicg, Ira B. Cross, Neil McDade, Norb F. Skelley, Margery Blankenship and others.
– Cute little photo of 4-year-old Vance Kent dressed up as the Life angel.
– Full page color cartoon by Gregor Duncan, Alice in Wonderland theme, Humpty Dumpty.
– Uncle Humpty Dumpty, by Arthur L. Lippmann.
– Cartoons by Richard Decker, Barbara Shermund, Robert Day, Ned Hilton, Geo Price, Alain, Dorothy McKay, Whitney Darrow Jr., Perry Barlow, Thurston Gentry, Charles Dana Gibson, Barney Tobey.
– Infantile Paralysis, poem by Berton Braley.
– The man who met himself, by William Walden.
– Why card cards, by Scott Corbett.
– Full page color Listerine toothpaste ad with five models from the Powers Agency.
– A two page farewell to Life by Edward Sandford Martin, first editor of Life.
– Notice to subscribers, unexpired subscriptions will be fulfilled by the magazine Judge.
– Full page Red Cross ad with art by Walter Reach Humphrey.
– Odd building! – The Big Chief near Kansas City, Kansas.
– Four pages of fine type listings of contributors to Life’s Fresh Air fund (camps for poor city children).
– Full page color Camel cigarettes ad with Lee Gehlback, test pilot.
– Issued with : two page spread “Announcement : Life ends with this issue.  Life Reincarnate (about new LIFE) : Notice to subscribers.”  A copy of this announcement is included.
–  Each original Life magazine has MUCH more excellent historic and fun 1936 content than is listed here – 2Neat!!