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Funny Picture Stories
Date | Number: v1 6 | Lang: English (en)
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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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NameFunny Picture Stories v1 6 | Published
PublicationPrice: 0.10 USD | Pages: 68 | Editing: William Cook?
 
CoverGuns for General Sing / 1 page
GenreAdventure
CharactersTom Campbell
PencilsEd Moore
InksEd Moore
NotesThe 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.
 
Comic StoryGuns For General Sing / Tom Campbell (7 pages)
SynopsisTom 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.
GenreAdventure
CharactersTom Campbell; General Sing
Script (signed)
PencilsEd Moore (signed)
InksEd Moore
First LineAtop the walls of a West China city...
NotesThe first page is also used as the cover, with the captions removed.

Moore signs on the final page.
 
Comic StoryThe Fighting Spirit (7 pages)
SynopsisTod Perry is a first rate athelete, but runs for the fun of it, rather than for the glory of his school.
FeatureTod Perry
GenreSports
CharactersTod Perry; Dinky Blake; Greg Earls; Scotty; Kaye; Doris; Millie; Tubby
Script
PencilsVictor Dowling
InksVictor Dowling
First LineTod Perry runs his greatest race against nature, time and death
NotesThe story is in black and white.
 
Comic StoryDarts of Death / Dick Kent (7 pages)
SynopsisKent, 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.
GenreAdventure
CharactersDick Kent; Professor Benton; Redding; Dr. Roberts
Script (signed)
PencilsArt Pinajian (signed)
InksArt Pinajian (signed)
First LineWell, Prof., here we are on the island of Berbi...
NotesPinajian signs the final panel (as "Pinajian"). The story is in black and white.
 
Comic StoryDangerous Documents / Terry Taylor (7 pages)
SynopsisTerry 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.
GenreSpy
CharactersTerry Taylor; Doc (villain)
Script
PencilsLarry Riley
InksLarry Riley
First LineThe S.S. Eastern Empress is making her way..
NotesThe 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'
 
IllustrationThe Castaway (2 pages)
GenreDrama
CharactersA castaway on a sea shore peers out to sea hoping for a rescue.
PencilsRodney Thomson (signed)
InksRodney Thomson (signed)
NotesA two-page spread with no caption beyond the title of the image and the name of the artist.
 
Comic StoryBlazes a Trail Between Two Planets / Bob Steele, MD (7 pages)
SynopsisBob 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.
GenreFantasy; Science Fiction
CharactersBob Steele; Prof. Kraft; Gail; Master of Satoon
Script
PencilsGeorge Brenner
InksGeorge Brenner
First Line-----And medical authorities state...
 
Comic StoryLucky Wings / Bill Rodman (7 pages)
SynopsisNewsreel 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.
GenreAdventure
CharactersTom; Bill; Wong Fu
Script
PencilsFrank Frollo
InksFrank Frollo
First LineThis idea of a vacation's being restful is all bunk
NotesThe story is in black and white.

For this story only, the Feature Logo is "The Further Adventures of the Newsreel Men".
 
Text StoryBattling Beau Brummel (2 pages)
SynopsisAs he enters the ring the fighter Wabash Warner is recognised as Bob Brummel by old friends.
Letterstypeset
GenreSports
CharactersWabash Warner [Bob Brummel]; Helen Beresford; Papa Beresford; Mister Toxey; Battling Bannock; Carvington Sheldon Letheridge; Victor Sanchez; Ace Martin; Ruth Potter
Script
PencilsRay Burley (spot illustration) (signed)
InksRay Burley (spot illustration) (signed)
First LineBout followed bout...
 
Comic StoryThe Isle of Mystery (7 pages)
SynopsisDr. 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.
GenreAdventure
CharactersDr. Held; Elkin; Dr. McFee
Script
First LineDr. Held, the wellknown [sic] scientist...
NotesThe story is in black and white.
 
Comic StoryThe Trapline Mystery / Bob Colby (7 pages)
SynopsisIn 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.
GenreAdventure
CharactersBob Colby; Brick; Pierre
Script (signed)
PencilsMartin Filchock (signed)
InksMartin Filchock (signed)
First LineM'sieu! There is a devil on my trapline!
 
Comic StoryNo Title (1 page)
FeatureOscar
GenreHumor; Children
CharactersOscar
Script
PencilsJoe Buresch
InksJoe Buresch
First LineYep! It's here!
 
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