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Issue: Motion Picture Funnies Weekly #1

- Attribution History

Publication Date: January 1939

Issue #1

Detail

Issues: #1 of 1 Issue

Title:

Variant: unnamed

Rating:

Publisher: Flag

First Funnies, Inc.

Brand:

Indicia Publisher: First Funnies, Inc.

On Sale Date: (not set)

Volume: none

Pages: 36

ISBN: none

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $0.00 USD

Indicia Frequency:

Content Items: 10 (5 stories, 1 cover)

Editor(s):

Notes: Indicia (transcription courtesy of Frank Motler):
Motion Picture FUNNIES WEEKLY—No. 1 Published weekly by First Funnies Inc. 45 West 45th Street, NEW YORK N. Y. Title and entire contents copyright 1939 by First Funnies Inc. Distributed exclusively by First Funnies Inc. 45 West 45th Street, New York N. Y.

Inside front and inside back covers are completely blank. Indicia is printed at the bottom of the first interior page.

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: color

Dimensions: standard Golden Age US

Paper Stock: newsprint

Binding: saddle-stitched

Publishing Format: was ongoing series

Format Notes:

Reprinted In7

5 Content Items

reprinted 7 times as Content Items in other Issues.

Reprinted From0

There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted from anywhere.

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Cover, Front

Original Artwork

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Adult Image

Title Page

Indicia on this Page

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Indicia

Content Items (10 total)

[untitled]

Illustration on Cover, Front

Credits

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous

First Line: Don't worry! -- I'll bring it right back again!

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: Some sources credit Martin Filchock with this cover, but the mustachioed cowboy on the "now playing" posters and (to a lesser degree) the surprise lines coming from the fellow on top of the ladder's head are dead giveaways for Schwab, who per Who's Who also wrote his own gag cartoons such as this one. Overstreet apparently also credits Schwab.

[untitled]

Blank Page(s) on Interior Page(s)

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Pages: 1

Notes: Inside front cover is entirely blank.

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): The Sub-Mariner [Prince Namor] (introduction and origin); Anderson; Nelson (death); Carley (death); Princess Fen (also in flashback to 1920, introduction); Emperor Tha-Korr (introduction, unnamed); Karal; Leonard McKenzie (introduction, in narration flashback to 1920 only)

First Line: Here is the Sub-Mariner!

Synopsis: Prince Namor, having learned of what the race of white men once did to his undersea kingdom, vows, and is encouraged, to make war on the surface dwellers.

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In Content Item: Flag

Marvel Comics #1 [1st Printing] published October 1939
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]as the first 8 pages of that 12-page story; pages 1-8 only

In Content Item: Flag

The Invaders #20 [30¢ Cover Price] published September 1977
as Sub-Mariner [Story on Interior Page(s)]Reprinted with color added. The text in the box in the final panel has been altered from "CONTINUED NEXT WEEK" to "MORE NEXT ISSUE!"

In Content Item: Flag

Golden Age of Marvel #[nn] published October 1997
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 8

Notes: Signed in both the first and the final panel. The indicia for this issue is at the bottom of the first page of this story, which is the first interior page of the issue. The box at the end of the last page (blanked out in the Marvel Comics version) reads "CONTINUED NEXT WEEK".

[untitled]

Activity on Interior Page(s)

Subject Matter

Genres: childrens

Synopsis: Three illustrated items: cartoon cut-out activity; optical illusion; word game

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In Content Item: Flag

Green Giant Comics #1 published January 1940
as [untitled] [Activity on Interior Page(s)]

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Subject Matter

Genres: anthropomorphic

First Line: Not a bad looking cat

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In Content Item: Flag

Green Giant Comics #1 published January 1940
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 4

Notes: Filchock wrote most of his own scripts, and early on most Funnies, Inc. staffers did their own lettering.

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Letterer(s): ?

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 6

Notes: Also signed "G. Peter" in the last panel.

The Wasp

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: espionage, superhero

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In Content Item: Flag

Silver Streak Comics #1 published December 1939
as The Spy Ring Case [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 6

Origin of the American Ace

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: aviation

Reprinting

In Content Item: Flag

Marvel Mystery Comics #2 published December 1939
as Origin of the American Ace [Story on Interior Page(s)]pages 1-6

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 7

Notes: Signed with the artist's full name (although I cannot make out his middle name) on the final panel.

The seventh page was not reprinted directly, although the first six panels of the story in Marvel Mystery Comics #3 relate roughly the same events.

[untitled]

Blank Page(s) on Interior Page(s)

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Pages: 1

Notes: Inside back cover is entirely blank.

100% Drawing Power

Promotional Material (from Publisher) on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?; typeset

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Pages: 1

Notes: Ad touting the effectiveness of Motion Picture Funnies Weekly for drawing kids to theaters. Interested parties are directed to write "FUNNIES, Inc." (not First Funnies) at the 45 W. 45th St. address and "Ask for Mr. Mahon" (John F. Mahon, former Nicholson business manager and former partner, with fellow Nicholson alum William H. Cook, in the Comics Magazine Corporation, a predecessor of Centaur).