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| Another great super-early comic magazine. Impressive how they not only named the artists but put their names on a table of contents page.
The war-mayhem cover art is an incongruous match for the title "Funny Picture Stories." |
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| Publication | April 1937 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 |
| Notes | The cover is taken from page one of the first story, with captions deleted on main panel, and replaced by internal creator credits on smaller panel.
Credit is given on the contents page. |
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| Cover | Guns For General Sing. |
| Featuring | Tom Campbell |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Tom Campbell |
| Notes | The cover is taken from page one of the first story, with captions deleted on main panel, and replaced by internal creator credits on smaller panel.
Credit is given on the contents page. |
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| Comic Story | Guns For General Sing (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Tom Campbell is fighting in the service of General Sing, who orders him to make his way through enemy lines and head for Bai-pan, where he will buy guns and ammunition. He eventually comes upon a supply train carrying ordnance, hijacks it and brings it back to Sing. |
| Featuring | Tom Campbell |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Tom Campbell; General Sing |
| Notes | The first page is also used as the cover, with the captions removed.
Moore signs on the final page. |
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| Comic Story | The Fighting Spirit (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Tod Perry is a first rate athelete, but runs for the fun of it, rather than for the glory of his school. |
| Featuring | Tod Perry |
| Content | Genre: Sports | Characters: Tod Perry; Dinky Blake; Greg Earls; Scotty; Kaye; Doris; Millie; Tubby |
| Notes | The story is in black and white. |
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| Comic Story | Darts of Death (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Kent, Benton and Redding arrive on the island of Berbi to look for the missing Dr. Roberts. They quickly discover him in the company of some natives, and learn that when he became stranded there he was adopted as their medicine man. Now they feel he has betrayed the tribe and the chief sentences all four outsiders to death. During the native ritual dance the quartet escape and fight their way to the ocean and a waiting canoe. |
| Featuring | Dick Kent |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Dick Kent; Professor Benton; Redding; Dr. Roberts |
| Notes | Pinajian signs the final panel (as "Pinajian"). The story is in black and white. |
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| Comic Story | Dangerous Documents (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Terry Taylor has been entrusted with delivering secret documents to Shanghai. He is met by men claiing to be from the embassy, but is robbed and thrown from the car. He later tracks them down, but they escape and take off in an airplane. Taylor follows in a two-man plane, shoots them down, and reclaims the papers. |
| Featuring | Terry Taylor |
| Content | Genre: Spy | Characters: Terry Taylor; Doc (villain) |
| Notes | The previous indexer misread the credits and gave Bob Wood as both penciller and inker.
On the contents page credits are given as 'R.L. Wood & L. Riley' |
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| Illustration | The Castaway (2 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Drama | Characters: A castaway on a sea shore peers out to sea hoping for a rescue. |
| Notes | A two-page spread with no caption beyond the title of the image and the name of the artist. |
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| Comic Story | Blazes a Trail Between Two Planets (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Bob Steele and his sweetheart Gail rocket to the planet Satoon in order to find a cure for a rapidly spreading disease. Bob is attacked by a ferocious feline and mamages to stab it to death, only to be captured by locals who consider the animal sacred. After many trials, the couple are able to fly back to Earth with their precious cargo of antidote. |
| Featuring | Bob Steele, MD. |
| Content | Genre: Fantasy; Science Fiction | Characters: Bob Steele; Prof. Kraft; Gail; Master of Satoon |
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| Comic Story | Lucky Wings (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Newsreel cameramen Tom and Bill are assigned to cover a new reactionary group uprising in China. Before they can leave they are abducted by members of that group and taken to the headquarters of leader Wong Fu, who demands they film the forts of his enemies. They hijack the plane used for filming and fly homewards. |
| Featuring | The Further Adventures of the Newsreel Men |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Tom; Bill; Wong Fu |
| Notes | The story is in black and white. |
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| Text Story | Battling Beau Brummel (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | As he enters the ring the fighter Wabash Warner is recognised as Bob Brummel by old friends. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Sports | Characters: Wabash Warner [Bob Brummel]; Helen Beresford; Papa Beresford; Mister Toxey; Battling Bannock; Carvington Sheldon Letheridge; Victor Sanchez; Ace Martin; Ruth Potter |
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| Comic Story | The Isle of Mystery (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Dr. Held travels to the West Indies to help a friend and colleague, Dr. McFee, solve two murders and several robberies. Held tracks down the culprit, an escaped convict using a cave accessed only by diving into the sea. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Dr. Held; Elkin; Dr. McFee |
| Notes | The story is in black and white. |
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| Comic Story | The Trapline Mystery (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | In the far north, Bob Colby helps Pierre solve the problem of his empty traps. Prints of mink lead up to the traps, but the animals are gone. |
| Featuring | Bob Colby |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Bob Colby; Brick; Pierre |
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| Featuring | Oscar |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Oscar |
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