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| Publication | June 1940 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
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| Content | Genre: Superhero |
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| Statement of Ownership | Statement of the Ownership, Management, Circulation, etc. |
| Synopsis | October 31, 1939 ownership statement for "Comic Pages" |
| Credits | Script: Joseph J. Hardie | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | information for Comic Pages, dated October 31, 1939; Publisher: Joseph J. Hardie, Editor: Lloyd Jacquet, Business Manager: Raymond J. Kelly. Published by Centaur Publications, Inc., Co-owners: Raymond J. Kelly, S. J. Fried, Joseph J. Hardie, E. L. Angel |
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| Publisher advertisement | Read the Centaur Group |
| Credits | Script: Lloyd Jacquet? |
| Notes | House ad for Amazing Mystery Funnies, Keen Detective Funnies, and Funny Pages. All three are monthly. |
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| Synopsis | As the Fair gets ready for the opening of its second season, multiple catastrophes occur. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Fantom; Mr. Farlan; Finnegan; Relmar |
| Notes | An earlier art identifier thought the work was by Paul Gustavson, missing seeing "Bugg" written over the door of the plane in the last page. Bob Bugg is known to have been the artist who took over Fantom in 1940. |
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| Synopsis | The Fantom, mentioned in a book written in Icelandic thousands of years ago, appears on the scene at the World's Fair to stop a crooked contractor who is attempting to fraudulently prevent another contractor from fulfilling his contracts. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Fantom (introduction); Andy (a painter); Collins (a Policeman); Russel (a Policeman); Johnson (a contractor); Occo (villain, a contractor); Marco (villain |
| Notes | Script and lettering credits by Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson. |
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| Synopsis | Professor Carter warns Sir Conway to return the giant white ape back to the Arctic regions where he discovered him before the ape breaks out of his enclosure and wrecks the Fair. Unfortunately, the drugs given to weaken the beast wear off too soon and the ape breaks out of the Fair's zoo and causes havoc until the Fantom steps into the picture. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Fantom of the Fair; Professor Carter; Sir Conway (big game hunter and explorer, death?); Sergeant Collins (policeman); Ticonda (villain, an ape, introduction, death) |
| Notes | Script and lettering credits by Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson. |
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| Comic Story | Dirk the Demon, 24th Century Archaeologist (3 pages) |
| Synopsis | Dirk and his friends steal his father's hydroplane and stumble across a handgun dated 1937. Even more mysterious is the fact that he and his friends discover an air-sealed tight room loaded with gold, guarded by an old prospector, who has been trapped in the room since the 1930's! |
| Content | Genre: Science Fiction | Characters: Dirk the Demon [Dirk Cay] (introduction); Baron Cay (introduction, Dirk's father); Laddie; Teddy; Reggad; un-named old man (gold prospector, death) |
| Notes | Everett signs - as "Bill Everett" - on both the first and last pages. |
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| Synopsis | Steele heads to the planet out-post Mannin at the request of King Kurt to investigate the mysterious bat raids that supposedly have been occuring. |
| Content | Genre: Science Fiction | Characters: Skyrocket Steele Dodge (introduction); Sari Marston; Peter Muhr; King Kurt; Minister Craid; Tal (villain, Lieutenant in command of Mannin); Vance Roy (villain) |
| Notes | Everett signs - as "Bill Everett " - on both first and last pages. |
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| Text Story | Flying Bluff (2 pages) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Aviation | Characters: Lt. Powell Branson of the Chinese Flying Corps |
| Notes | Described in the heading as "A short short story". |
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| Synopsis | Speed races the train, to pick up a serum that might save a young boy's life. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Speed Silvers; Elsie Muldoon; Mike Muldoon; Dr. Milan; Dr. Landin; Chuck; Dr. Lowe |
| Notes | Tagline for this feature is "A Fast-Moving Streamline Train Story" |
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| Featuring | Captain Curry |
| Content | Genre: Adventure |
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| Comic Story | The Hooded Cult (4 pages) |
| Featuring | Stoney Dawson |
| Content | Genre: Science Fiction | Characters: Stoney Dawson |
| Notes | Signed on last page of story. |
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| Comic Story | Part 1 - The Professors Enemy! (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | On their way home after the "Air-Sub" has undergone a series of tests, Professor Gray and the crew fly over Curley's land, who immediately issues orders to bring the DX down, but not to destroy it. |
| Content | Genre: Science Fiction | Characters: Professor Gray; Tim; Rita; Curley (villain); Kirk (villain) |
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| Synopsis | The Arrow rescues the kidnapped grown children of a millionaire from a gang of gamblers who are using their debts to force them to commit crimes. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Arrow [Ralph Payne]; Dutch Kelly; Elaine Parker; Butts; Morley |
| Notes | Story signed on 2nd page. |
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| Publisher advertisement | "Read the complete story" |
| Credits | Script: Lloyd Jacquet? |
| Notes | Tiny reproductions of two pages from the May issue of Amazing Man. |
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| Comic Story | Fantastic Projects! (1 page) |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
| Notes | One page illustrated look at rail transportation of the past, present and future. |
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