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Issue: Keen Detective Funnies #8
Publication Date: July 1938
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Issues: #8 of 24 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagCentaur
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Centaur Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 10 (8 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color cover; color interior
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, mystery
Character(s): The Clock [Brian O'Brien] (inset); Wood Police (inset); Broken Skull (inset); Rocky Baird (inset); Cap'n Jim (inset)
Reprinting
From Issue: FlagFunny Picture Stories v1 #5 published March 1937panel detail
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: The story from which this illustration was reprinted does not appear in this issue.

Art credits verified by Fox in an interview with Jim Amash in Alter-Ego #12.
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Alias the Clock

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Character(s): The Clock (introduction ?); Bill Hunt; Officer Sam
First Line: - - - An all I know is I was cracked on th' head...
Synopsis: The Clock captures a night-watchman who was in on a jewel heist.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagFunny Picture Stories v1 #1 published November 1936
was Alias the Clock [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
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Bayfront Cowboy

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagDetective Picture Stories #3 published February 1937
was Bayfront Cowboy [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
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Terror of the Timber

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Character(s): Billy Gordon
Synopsis: Officer Billy Gordon disguises himself as a lumberjack to track down a gang of log smugglers.
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From Content Item: FlagFunny Picture Stories v1 #5 published March 1937
was Terror of the Timber [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Gag Way!
First Line: I loost a penny here...
Synopsis: Gag cartoons.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Weapons of the West

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Synopsis: Plain talk from a straight-shooter.
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From Content Item: FlagWestern Picture Stories #1 published February 1937
was Weapons of the West [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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Captain Jim and the Chinese Pirates

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Reprinting
Reprint Notes: from Funny Picture Stories (Comics Magazine Company, 1936 series) #v1#5 ?
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Funny Picture Stories v1#5 is the only known prior instance of this feature, and the page count matches, but this has not been confirmed.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): James J. "Rocky" Baird ; Lieutenant Stonely
First Line: In the Himalaya Mountains...
Synopsis: Adventurer "Rocky" Baird rescues Lieutenant Stoneley from a band of tribesmen in northern India and they fly to Stoneley's fort, where they find the entire garrison massacred.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagFunny Picture Stories v1 #4 published February 1937
was [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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The Case of the Broken Skull

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Character(s): The Spinner (introduction); Sue; Bruce Berry; Celia Chambers' Mr. Clabber
First Line: Look, Spinner! We found a horse's skull
Synopsis: The Spinner weaves an exciting mystery around romance in the hill cave regions. A real thriller.
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From Content Item: FlagFunny Picture Stories v1 #1 published November 1936
was The Case of the Broken Skull [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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Weapons Of The West

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Synopsis: Plain talk from a straight-shooter.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagWestern Picture Stories #1 published February 1937
was Weapons of the West [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2

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