Jump on our Yesteryear Listening Guide as we journey back to 1938. See and read the comic books on sale month by month, and find out the major news of the day.

January: The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, soon known as The March of Dimes, is founded by President Roosevelt.

February: The trial of Martin Niemöller, author of 'First they came ...' opens in Germany. He is charged with activities against the State.

March: Rudolf Nureyev, regarded by many as the greatest male ballet dancer of his generation is born, near Irkutsk, USSR.

April: Action Comics #1 appears on American newsstands. The iconic cover marks the first appearance of Superman, created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster.

May: Adolf Hitler begins a week-long state visit to Italy. He is greeted by Benito Mussolini amid great ceremony

June: Psychoanalysist Sigmund Freud, 82 and frail, arrives in London after fleeing persecution by the Nazis in his homeland of Austria.

July: Helen Wills Moody defeats fellow American Helen Hull Jacobs in the Ladies' Singles final for her eighth and last Wimbledon title.

August: New York City throws a ticker tape parade for Douglas 'Wrong Way' Corrigan. He also meets President Roosevelt

September: After meeting Hitler & Mussolini in Munich, Neville Chamberlain flys back to Britain to declare "peace for our time".

October: Eddie Cochran musician, is born in Albert Lea, Minnesota. He was one of the first rock-and-roll artists to write his own songs.

November: The gangster film 'Angels with Dirty Faces' starring James Cagney & Pat O'Brien, & directed by Michael Curtiz is released by Warner Brothers.

December: A strange fish is found on a fishing trawler in East London, South Africa. It will later be identified as a coelacanth, previously thought extinct.