Jump on our Yesteryear Listening Guide as we journey back to 1937. See and read the comic books on sale month by month, and find out the major news of the day.

January: Alan Turing publishes paper 'On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungs Problem' presenting the concept of a Universal Turing Machine.

February: The John Steinbeck novella Of Mice and Men is published.

March: American weird fiction author H. P. Lovecraft dies of intestinal cancer aged, 46.

April: Frank Whittle ground-tests the world's first jet engine designed to power an aircraft, at Rugby, England.

May: The Golden Gate Bridge opens to the public in San Francisco. It is ahead of schedule and under budget.

June: Sylvan Goldman introduces an invention of his called a 'Shopping Cart' at the Humpty Dumpty supermarket he ownes in Oklahoma City.

July: Hunter S. Thompson, journalist and author, founder of the gonzo journalism movement, is born in Louisville, Kentucky.

August: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio opens its doors. Characters created will include Tom and Jerry, Droopy, and Barney Bear.

September: Austrian born actress of Jewish descent, Hedy Lamarr arrives in New York City fleeing from her husband Friedrich Mandl who made arms agreements with the Nazis, & to begin her Hollywood career.

October: The Ernest Hemingway novel To Have and Have Not is published by Scribner's. The work gets a mixed critical reception.

November: British statesman Ramsay MacDonald dies aged 71. He was the United Kingdom's first Labour Party Prime Minister.

December: Disney's first animated feature film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs premiers at the Carthay Circle Theatre in Los Angeles, California.