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Issue: Funny Picture Stories #1 Public Domain
Publication Date: January 1939
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Issues: #1 of 9 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagCentaur
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Centaur Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 3
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 10 (8 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Vol. 3, Number 1. January, 1939. FUNNY PICTURE STORIES is published monthly by Centaur Publications, Inc., 420 De Soto Avenue, St. Louis, Mo. Editorial and executive offices: 220 Fifth Ave., New York, N. Y.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age U. S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
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Adult Image
Title Page
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Assets1
Statement of Ownership
 
 
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Signature attributed to Ramsey by David Saunders, who showcases other examples of Ramsey‘s signed work at https://www.pulpartists.com/Ramsey.html.

The first R in Ramsey's RR intials are backwards.
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Episode 2: Michael Fury Walked Into a Murder Trap... And --

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Michael Fury of the Foreign Legion; Father Murro; Adjutant Michelet; Sergeant Duprez
First Line: He walked right into it!
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
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Trained Tiger

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Joe Brailey; Korni; Maudie; Fritz Kurt
First Line: Let me have that rifle, Korni...
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From Content Item: FlagFunny Picture Stories v1 #3 published January 1937
was Trained Tiger [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: The first two pages are in full color, followed by two in black and white, two in black and red, and the final page in black and white.
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Poachers

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ? (see notes)
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): "Rip" Burns; Butch; Bill Fike
First Line: Oh! Oh! The phone!
Synopsis: Forest ranger Rip Burns is instructed to search for poachers. He comes across a gang using a truck and a bright spotlight in order to 'freeze' the deer while being shot. Burns is knocked unconscious, but discovers the name of the culprit at a way station.
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From Content Item: FlagFunny Picture Stories v1 #4 published February 1937
was Poachers [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: The first two pages are in full color, followed by two in black and white, two in black and red, and the final page in black and white.
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The Amateur Murderer

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Character(s): Lilly Belle Swidge; Whitney D. Le Zard; Norman Rogers
First Line: Away out west in San Francisco, after a good deal of thought a young lady writes a letter...
Synopsis: Lilly Belle rejects Le Zard's proposal of marriage in favor of Norman Rogers. Le Zard murders Rogers, staging it to look like a suicide, but still has no luck gaining her affections. Eventually, proof of the murder takes Le Zard to the electric chair.
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From Content Item: FlagDetective Picture Stories #2 published January 1937
was The Amateur Murder [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
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Reynolds Comes Through

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ? (see notes)
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: sports
First Line: For three quarters Chelten had smeared the champion Dodge team
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From Content Item: FlagFunny Picture Stories v1 #5 published March 1937
was Reynolds Comes Through [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: The first two pages are red and black, followed by two pages in black and white, and three in full color.
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Canvas Dusters

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ? (see notes)
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Kid Dugan; Derby
First Line: The winner and champion - Kid Dugan --
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: Strip is bylined Irving Settel, who did write and illustrate the strip in 1939, but was just author here.

Paul Gustavson credit in bottom corner of first panel. Division of labor listed in index is a guess.

All Gustavson credits verified and courtesy of Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson.

Pages one, three and four are in black and red, with two and five in black and white.
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Silent Robbery

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
First Line: They sat around the table...
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Pages: 1.75
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Statement of the Ownership, Management, Circulation, Etc.

Statement of Ownership  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Berta M. Holcepl (notary public)
Letterer(s): typeset
Editor(s): S. J. Fried (owner); Harle Publications, Inc. (owner); Centaur Pubications, Inc. (owner)
Subject Matter
Synopsis: Statement of ownership for Funny Picture Stories for October 1, 1938.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.25
Disclose Notes: All persons and companies list 220 Fifth Ave., New York, N. Y. as their address, except S. J. Fried at 291 Broadway, New York, N. Y.
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Mountain Murder

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Jim Tyson; Ma Tyson; Pa Tyson; Jake Carson; Jed Barclay; Jane Barclay
First Line: Among the hills in the Volunteer State of Tennessee...
Synopsis: "Blood-red feud haunted the hills of Tennessee and Jim Tyson trailed his enemy to showdown under the moon." (Synopsis from table of contents in original.)
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From Content Item: FlagFunny Picture Stories v1 #1 published November 1936
was Mountain Murder [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: The first two pages are in full color, pages five and six in black and red, and the remainder in black and white.

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