Additional Information |
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Publication | March 1938 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
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Content | Genre: Anthropomorphic-funny Animals |
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Foreword/Afterword | Hello Boys and Girls (1 page) |
Synopsis | Editorial introducing "Uncle Joe" as the new editor of Funny Pages, Funny Picture Stories, Star Comics, and Star Ranger Comics. Includes a questionnaire for readers to fill out and send in to win cash and/or be named as "assistant editor." |
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Foreword/Afterword | Highfalutin'! (1 page) |
Synopsis | Editorial indicating Funny Picture Stories will be changing and improving. |
Featuring | Between Ourselves |
Credits | Letters: typeset |
Notes | Cartoon art in masthead and an illustration on the right-hand side of the page. |
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Credits | Letters: typeset |
Notes | A line drawing of a man and a woman is seen behind the printed table of contents.
Also includes answers to "Who's Zoo" puzzle and publisher's indicia at bottom of page. |
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Featuring | Laughing At Life |
Content | Genre: Humor |
Notes | 3 one-panel gag cartoons.
Signed in last panel with a little monogram symbol.
All Gustavson credits verified and courtesy of Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson. |
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Cartoon | Ann Shirley (1 page) |
Featuring | Hollywood |
Content | Genre: Non-fiction | Characters: Ann Shirley |
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Featuring | Brain Teasers |
Content | Genre: Humor |
Notes | Signed in panel 3.
Four panels barely concealing the names of famous persons and one magazine. |
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Synopsis | Jack and Diana escape from the realm of the under-Earth people, but are followed and the under-Earthers menace the town of Rankin. |
Featuring | Jack Strand |
Content | Genre: Science Fiction | Characters: Jack Strand; Diana |
Notes | Frollo signs in the final panel. |
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Featuring | Sweet Revenge |
Content | Genre: Anthropomorphic-funny Animals |
Notes | Ryan signs n the final panel. |
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Cartoon | Lou Gehrig (1 page) |
Featuring | Sporting Facts |
Content | Genre: Non-fiction | Characters: Lou Gehrig |
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Comic Story | At the Barber Shop (1 page) |
Featuring | Dinky Pup |
Content | Genre: Humor |
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Featuring | Wilbur |
Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Wilbur; Looe the laundryman |
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Comic Story | Abraham Lincoln (1 page) |
Content | Genre: Biography | Characters: Abraham Lincoln |
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Featuring | Third Class Male |
Content | Genre: Humor |
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Featuring | Phony Crimes |
Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Mr. Gold Bags |
Notes | All Gustavson credits verified and courtesy of Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson. |
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Featuring | Insurance Ike |
Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Ike |
Notes | Signed, as 'Cole', in the last panel. |
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Featuring | Dusty |
Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Dusty; Mammy |
Notes | Signed in the first panel with a little cartoon that looks like a wolf's head. |
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Featuring | Rough House Annie |
Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Rough House Annie |
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Comic Story | Sir Isaac Newton (2 pages) |
Featuring | He Who Serves Progress Serves the World |
Content | Genre: Biography |
Notes | Previous indexer credited writing and art to Jack Cole, but I doubt it is. |
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Featuring | Who's Zoo |
Content | Genre: Anthropomorphic-funny Animals |
Notes | A two page spread. |
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Text Story | Get Your Man (8 pages) |
Credits | Script: Harold S. Martin | Letters: typeset |
Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Mounted Patrolman Paul Glennon; Sergeant Randall; Captain Blake; Luis Ortiba |
Notes | A poster on the wall in one illustration has : "Read Star Comics". |
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Featuring | Joe Dokes |
Content | Genre: Humor |
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Content | Genre: Anthropomorphic-funny Animals |
Notes | Six unrelated gag panels illustrating platitudes. |
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Synopsis | Schultz is possibly the most incompetant detective on the force. |
Featuring | Detective Schultz |
Content | Genre: Humor; Detective-mystery | Characters: Detective Schultz; Riordan |
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Featuring | Good Mornin' Judge |
Content | Genre: Humor |
Notes | Six otherwise unrelated gag panels featuring defendants brought before a judge. |
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Synopsis | The Kingdom of Kaspiana comes under attack from a foreign government formenting revolt. One act of terrorism involves blowing up a train carrying the young king, and as he lays wounded in bed, Chancellor Hagert vows to find the people responsible. |
Featuring | His Highness |
Content | Genre: Drama | Characters: King Louis; Chancellor Eric Hagert; Captain Kris Lopez; Jon Ritzomann |
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Featuring | Are You Handicapped? |
Content | Genre: Biography |
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Synopsis | Stage actress Alice is shot by her understudy, for the chance of a big break. |
Featuring | Backstage Mystery |
Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Alice; Dick; Raglin; Maloney |
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Comic Story | The Picket (1 page) |
Featuring | Joe Ticket |
Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Joe Picket |
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Featuring | Nothing But the Truth |
Content | Genre: Humor |
Notes | Four one-panel gag cartoons in which the protagonist speaks the truth
All Gustavson credits verified and courtesy of Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson. |
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Cartoon | Ages of Animals and Birds (1 page) |
Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
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