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Funny Pages v4 #1 EDIT
| Description | |
| With edits by ALV910 | |
| Additional Information | |
| Publication | January 1940 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 52 | Frequency: monthly | Editing: Lloyd Jacquet; Joseph J. Hardie (publisher) |
| Notes | Editor/Publisher credits from Statement of Ownership (see sequence #3). Indicia: January, 1940. Vol. 4, Number 1. FUNNY PAGES is published monthly by Centaur Publications, Inc., 420 De Soto Avenue, St. Louis, Missouri. Editorial and executive offices: 215 Fourth Avenue, New York, N. Y. Entered as second class matter at the Post Office at St. Louis, Mo. Single copies 10c. Yearly subscription $1.00 in the U.S.A. (other countries, $1.50). Copyright 1939 by Centaur Publications, Inc. Contents must not be reproduced without permission. No actual person is named or delineated in this fiction magazine. Printed in the U.S.A. |
| Featuring | The Arrow |
| Credits | Pencils: Paul Gustavson? | Inks: Paul Gustavson? |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Arrow |
| Advertisement | Learn to Play Checkers! |
| Featuring | How to Win at Checkers |
| Credits | Script: Millard F. P. Hopper? | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Indexed copy is missing upper corner- the first word of the title may actually be "How" or something similar. Text claims to be by Hopper, who wrote the book that is being advertised. Ad is on the upper half of the inside front cover. |
| Publisher advertisement | Hey Fellas! Here's the Amazing Man! |
| Featuring | Amazing-Man Comics |
| Credits | Pencils:? [as G.P.] (signed) | Inks:? [as G.P.] (signed) |
| Content | Characters: Amazing-Man |
| Notes | Amazing Man is in his pre-costume incarnation. Lower left of inside front cover. |
| Statement of Ownership | Statement of Ownership |
| Synopsis | Publisher, Joseph J. Hardie, 220 Fifth Ave., New York, N.Y.; Editor, Lloyd Jacquet, 220 Fifth Ave., New York, N.Y.; Managing Editor, None; Business Manager, Raymond J. Kelly, 220 Fifth Ave., New York, N.Y. Owner: Centaur Publications, Inc., 220 Fifth Ave., New York, N.Y.; Raymond J. Kelly, 220 Fifth Ave., New York, N.Y.; S. J. Fried, 291 Broadway, New York, N. Y.; Joseph J. Hardie, 220 Fifth Ave., New York, N. Y.; E. L. Angel, 220 Fifth Ave., New York, N. Y. Signed by: Joseph J. Hardie, Publisher. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 29th day of September, 1939. Berta M. Holcepl, Notary Public Kings County Clerk's No. 337, Register's No. 1009? [smudged] New York County Clerk's No. 15, Register's No. 1H11? [smudged] Commission expires March 30, 1939 [smudged, but the "3" is clear enough even though that would put the expiration earlier than the date of this document! Perhaps a typo?] |
| Credits | Script: Joseph J. Hardie | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Lower right of inside front cover. Per Frank Motler, E L. Angel is Evangeline Angel, wife of Warren Angel who was the head of Kable News. Therefore Centaur was likely distributed by Kable at this point. |
| Comic Story | "My son, the time has come for your young body to replace this ancient one's!" (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Mantoka's father, the tribe shaman, passes his powers on to Mantoka. When the hunters of the tribe start to go missing, Mantoka finds that they have been captured by a white man who is forcing them to work in his mines. |
| Featuring | Mantoka |
| Credits | Script: Jack Cole [as Richard Bruce] (signed) | Pencils: Jack Cole [as Richard Bruce] (signed) | Inks: Jack Cole [as Richard Bruce] (signed) |
| Content | Genre: Occult | Characters: Mantoka (introduction; origin); Mantoka's father; |
| Comic Story | "Hey Pinky- How about a ride, huh?" (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Egbert gets a sled ride from Pinky. |
| Featuring | Egbert |
| Credits | Script: Art Pinajian | Pencils: Art Pinajian | Inks: Art Pinajian |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Egbert; Pinky |
| Comic Story | "Hello Hans!!" (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Arrow captures some murdering racketeers. |
| Featuring | The Arrow |
| Credits | Script: Paul Gustavson (signed) | Pencils: Paul Gustavson (signed) | Inks: Paul Gustavson (signed) |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Arrow [Ralph Payne] |
| Comic Story | "Margo has come to Renee again..." (5 pages) |
| Featuring | The Circus and Sue |
| Credits | Script: Claire S. Moe (signed) | Pencils: Claire S. Moe (signed) | Inks: Claire S. Moe (signed) |
| Content | Genre: Drama | Characters: Sue; Margo; Renee; Andre; Jacques; the Maestro |
| Comic Story | "The boss says to git some of you boys and go out to the buryin' with him..." (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | When Blarsted, the most powerful man in Mesquite, drives out the Sherrif, the Phantom Rider comes to his aid. |
| Featuring | Phantom Rider |
| Credits | Script: Jack Cole? |
| Content | Genre: Western | Characters: Phantom Rider; Sherrif Warder; Blarsted |
| Notes | Art previously attributed to Martin Filchock, but Jim Amash of the Timely-Atlas list spoke with Filchock and confirmed that he never worked on the Phantom Rider nor with Jack Cole. This arguably calls into question the Cole credit as well, which was from the same source (Henry Andrews 2009-03-16). |
| Activity | "Make magic your hobby!" (2 pages) |
| Featuring | Magic Made Easy |
| Filler | "Changed" (1 page) |
| Featuring | Uncle Joe's Joke Page |
| Credits | Pencils: Martin Filchock (signed) | Inks: Martin Filchock (signed) | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Text jokes, two with illustrations. |
| Comic Story | "G-Man Gene matches wits with Wu Chang, the Mad Ming" (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | G-Man Gene is called in when Stubs finds a body he thinks is a federal man. Jinny insists on going with him, and they discover an opium smuggling operation. After tracing it to Wu Chang, Jinny steals his papers for evidence. Furious, Wu Chang kidnaps her, but Gene calls in Sgt. Stone and rescues her during a raid. |
| Featuring | Mad Ming |
| Credits | Pencils: Harold DeLay (signed) | Inks: Harold DeLay (signed) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Mad Ming [Wu Chang] (introduction); Gene (introduction); Jinny (introduction); Stubs (introduction); Lee (introduction); Sergeant Stone (introduction) |
| Activity | "This is your page- so use it!" (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | Numerous drawings sent in by readers. |
| Featuring | Your Page |
| Credits | Pencils:?; Rose Marie Imes; Claude Cook; John Choffey; Roland Santurri Cranston; Thomas Harris; Ethel Arnold; Larry McVay; Thomas Main; Carolton Burchet; Harry Powell; Raymond Fielding; Edwin Jones; Stephen Eugene Piles; Morty Rothenburg; Armstead Hudnell; Meyer Roiter; Jack Grau; Teresa Bilotta; Lenore Hutchings; H. Lasseter; Ann Oustod; Emile Hamel; Jack Malott; Uphouse Tatarunis; Tommy Tomlinson; Joe Miller |
| Notes | Readers are invited to send their drawings to Ed Wood, Centaur Publ. Co. 220 Fifth Ave., New York City. |
| Activity | Lesson #13 (1 page) |
| Featuring | Cartooning The Perfect Hobby! |
| Comic Story | White Goddess [conclusion] (4 pages) |
| Synopsis | Zuma shoots and kills Briny Bill from a hiding place, cutting short his reunion with Ora. However he falls from his perch and is killed by a gorilla. Gary begins to take Ora, now Joan Trever once more, back to England as Bill wished. But the two have fallen in love, and Joan agrees to go with Gary to America as his bride. |
| Featuring | Diana Deane in Hollywood |
| Credits | Script: Tarpe Mills (signed) | Pencils: Tarpe Mills (signed) | Inks: Tarpe Mills (signed) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Ora [Joan Trevor]; Briny Bill (death); Gary Hale; Zuma (villain; death) |
| Notes | From a movie produced by Allan Dorne, directed by Lee Barton and starring Diana Deane as Ora [Joan Trevor]. |
| Comic Story | "When crime breaks out, The Owl prowls..." (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | The fastidious librarian in a large southern city is secretly The Owl, who lives with his father in the nearby swamp. The Owl's father lost his legs because of a racketeer, and spent his life designing the Owl's flying suit. They track down a kidnapping gang to Zeb's farm and the Owl runs their car off a cliff. |
| Featuring | The Owl |
| Credits | Pencils: Martin Filchock (signed) | Inks: Martin Filchock (signed) |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Owl; The Owl's father; Zeb Hale (death) |
| Notes | Neither the Owl nor his father are named in the story. While Filchock generally wrote the stories he illustrated, Jerry Bails' Who's Who specifically lists him as only the artist here (Henry Andrews 2009-03-10). |
| Text Story | Uncle Joe's Joke Page (1 page) |
| Synopsis | This is a text page filler with two spot illos. The text consists of eight joke dialogues. |
| Advertisement | "This beautiful desk for only $1.00" (1 page) |
| Featuring | Remington Noiseless Deluxe Portable Typewriter |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | inside back cover |
| Advertisement | "Boys, Girls! Select new & unusual gifts..." (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Numerous small advertisements for goods from Johnson Smith & Co. |
| Featuring | Johnson Smith & Co. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Back cover |
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