LIFE Magazine Prices and Price Guide
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Publication Dates: 1936 - 1972 (WEEKLY); 1973-1984 (SPECIALS & MONTHLY)
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Key Issues:
Initial publication 11/23/36 - Fort Peck Dam
7/11/38 Shirley Temple
5/1/39 Joe DiMaggio
2/3/41 Joseph Goebbels and Hermann Goring
12/15/41 Bombing of Pearl Harbor
3/29/43 Joseph Stalin
7/12/43 Roy Rogers and Trigger
12/11/44 Judy Garland
4/9/45 Iwo Jima
7/16/45 Audie Murphy
9/16/46 West Point's Glen Davis and Felix Blanchard
7/21/47 Harley Dav idson Motorcycle
5/31/48 Birth of Israel
8/1/49 Joe DiMaggio
8/8/49 Straw Hats in Fashion; Jackson Pollock article with prints
10/10/49 J. Robert Oppenheimer
5/8/50 Jackie Robinson
8/13/51 Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis
4/7/52 Marilyn Monroe
9/1/52 Ernest Hemingway
4/6/53 Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, and Children
5/25/53 Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell
7/13/53 Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay
7/20/53 Senator John F. Kennedy
3/7/55 James Dean
6/25/56 Mickey Mantle
8/18/61 Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris
4/13/62 Elizabeth Taylor & Richard Burton; Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris baseball cards
8/17/62 Marilyn Monroe
3/6/64 Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali)
8/28/64 The Beatles