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| Date | | Number: 19 | Lang: English (en) | |||
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| Name | Amazing Mystery Funnies 19 | Published |
| Publication | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 68 |
| Notes | On sale date from the publication date found at the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, New Series, Volume 35, 1940, Number 2. Second class permit. Copyright number 448286. |
| Cover | 1 page |
| Genre | Adventure; Fantasy |
| Characters | Tippy Taylor |
| Pencils | Grieg Chapian (signed) |
| Inks | Grieg Chapian (signed) |
| First Line | Just as Tippy Taylor leaped across the mighty boulders... |
| Story | Fantom of the Fair (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | Professor Trepper has created a human automaton who will do his bidding in service of criminal activity. |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Characters | The Fantom of the Fair; Professor Trepper; Agar; Neal |
| First Line | With the closing of the World's Fair... |
| Notes | In 1940, the Fantom strip was written by George Kapitan as well as Paul Gustavson and Frank Thomas. No extant evidence exists that is known as to who wrote this particular story. Same applies to the artist of the story. Besides Gustavson, other known artists include Al Anders and Will Roland. The story is clearly dervied from the 1920 German expressionist film 'The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari', with Agar as the Cesare of the movie. |
| Story | Space Patrol (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | Nelson is ordered to Mercury to uncover a gang of space pirated. |
| Genre | Science Fiction |
| Characters | Nick Nelson; Kodi |
| Script | Basil Wolverton (signed) |
| Pencils | Basil Wolverton (signed) |
| Inks | Basil Wolverton (signed) |
| First Line | After running down many outlaws in the Venusian region... |
| Notes | Wolverton signs in the final panel. |
| Story | The Inner Circle (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Borden-White and his wife hire Selkirk to lead them over the mountains to the land of Ardak. |
| Genre | Adventure |
| Characters | George Selkirk; Borden-White; Mrs. Borden-White; Attoo |
| First Line | George Selkirk, of the "Inner-Circle"... |
| Comic Story | Chapter 3 / Fantasy Isle (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | Tippy Taylor is on Fantasy Isle, where he is charged by an underground wizard with undertaking the Quest of The Blackstone of Tinilonia. |
| Genre | Adventure; Fantasy |
| Characters | Tippy Taylor; the Colossus |
| Pencils | George Loomis |
| Inks | George Loomis |
| First Line | I think he said it was called "The Cave of Horrors". |
| Notes | Loomis was previously credited with the script, but Bails' Who's Who only gives him as penciller and inker at Centaur. |
| Story | Larry Kane (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | Larry receives news that his old friend Sir Wallace Newton has been murdered in Africa by a tribe of headhunters alledgedly led by a renegade white man. |
| Genre | Adventure |
| Characters | Larry Kane; Magu; Ronald Breighton; Jules Debree |
| Pencils | Steve Dahlman (signed) |
| Inks | Steve Dahlman (signed) |
| First Line | Larry Kane has received the tragic news... |
| Comic Story | No Title (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Amusing anecdotes concerning three famous sports figures. |
| Feature | Superior Men in Sports |
| Genre | Sports |
| Characters | Rube Waddell; Jack Dempsey; Roy Reigels |
| Script | Irwin Hasen (signed) |
| Pencils | Irwin Hasen (signed) |
| Inks | Irwin Hasen (signed) |
| Story | The Headless Horseman (9 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Headless Horseman, in reality a young woman named Betty, brings the murderers of a bank teller to justice. |
| Genre | Western-frontier |
| Characters | The Headless Horseman [Betty] (a Western heroine, introduction); Jim Dandee |
| Pencils | Martin Filchock (signed) |
| Inks | Martin Filchock (signed) |
| First Line | Many times you've heard of the legend... |
| Comic Story | No Title (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Short anecdotes on the life and career of boxer Ceferino Garcia. |
| Feature | Superior Men in Sports |
| Genre | Sports |
| Characters | Ceferino Garcia |
| Script | Irwin Hasen (signed) |
| Pencils | Irwin Hasen (signed) |
| Inks | Irwin Hasen (signed) |
| Text Story | The Other Fellow (2 pages) |
| Letters | typeset |
| Genre | Science Fiction |
| Characters | Dr. Raymond Vernon; Craig Stewart |
| Script | Bob Butts |
| Pencils | Bob Butts (signed) |
| Inks | Bob Butts (signed) |
| First Line | When the scientist and his young friend landed on the Moon... |
| Story | Jon Linton (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | Jon, Lisa and Burke have escaped from the stronghold of Satan Rex, who intends destroying the Earth. They return to Jon's Alaskan workshop, where a powerful rocketship is being developed. They hope to use the mighty power of this ship to decimate Satan's death-dealing machine. |
| Genre | Science Fiction |
| Characters | Jon Linton; Lisa Kane; Burke; Professor Kane |
| Script | Harry Campbell (signed) |
| Pencils | Harry Campbell (signed) |
| Inks | Harry Campbell (signed) |
| First Line | It is the year 2009 A.D.! |
| Story | Speed Centaur (9 pages) |
| Synopsis | Speed and Reel investigate a horse doping racket at the racetrack. Speed disguises himself as a racehorse and wins a race in record time. Unscrupulous gamblers try to put him out of commission, and continue even during the running of the race. |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Characters | Speed Centaur [Jerry R. McCoy]; Reel McCoy |
| Pencils | Malcolm Kildale |
| Inks | Malcolm Kildale |
| First Line | At Speed's cave above Nob Nose Mt. |
| Story | Adam the Atom-Smasher (1 page) |
| Genre | Humor |
| Characters | Adam [Smasher]; on-looker |
| Pencils | Fred Schwab ? |
| Inks | Fred Schwab ? |
| First Line | Darn it! That half-wit turned on his atom-smasher at full speed—and it made everybody disintegrate and dissolve into air! |
| Publisher advertisement | For 1940 It's the Centaur Group! |
| Feature | The Centaur Group |
| Pencils | George Peter (signed) |
| Inks | George Peter (signed) |
| Notes | Inside back cover. The Centaur Group books are Keen Detective Funnies (Centaur, 1938 series), Amazing Mystery Funnies (Centaur, 1938 series), Amazing Man Comics (Centaur, 1939 series), and Funny Pages (Centaur, 1938 series). |
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