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| Publication | January 1940 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
| Notes | All Gustavson credits from Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson. |
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| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Arrow [Ralph Payne] |
| Notes | All Gustavson credits from Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| Statement of Ownership | Statement of Ownership |
| Credits | Script: Joseph J. Hardie | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | 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?]
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. |
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| 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 |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Mantoka (introduction; origin); Mantoka's father; |
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| Synopsis | Egbert gets a sled ride from Pinky. |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Egbert; Pinky |
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| Synopsis | The Arrow captures some murdering racketeers. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Arrow [Ralph Payne] |
| Notes | All Gustavson credits verified and courtesy of Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson. |
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| Featuring | The Circus and Sue |
| Content | Genre: Drama | Characters: Sue; Margo; Renee; Andre; Jacques; the Maestro |
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| Synopsis | When Blarsted, the most powerful man in Mesquite, drives out the Sherrif, the Phantom Rider comes to his aid. |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | 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). |
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| Featuring | Magic Made Easy |
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| Featuring | Uncle Joe's Joke Page |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | Text jokes, two with illustrations. |
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| 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 |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Mad Ming [Wu Chang] (introduction); Gene (introduction); Jinny (introduction); Stubs (introduction); Lee (introduction); Sergeant Stone (introduction) |
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| 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. |
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| Activity | Lesson #13 (1 page) |
| Featuring | Cartooning The Perfect Hobby! |
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| 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 |
| 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]. |
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| 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 a kidnapping gang to Zeb's farm and the Owl runs their car off a cliff. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Owl [Jack]; 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).
The Owl's first name was Jack, but his last name was never revealed. |
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| 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. |
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| Featuring | Remington Noiseless Deluxe Portable Typewriter |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | inside back cover |
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| Synopsis | Numerous small advertisements for goods from Johnson Smith & Co. |
| Featuring | Johnson Smith & Co. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Back cover |
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