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| Date | | Number: 1 | Lang: English (en) | |||
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| Name | Amazing Adventure Funnies 1 | Published |
| Publication | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 68 | Frequency: monthly |
| Notes | On sale date from the fanzine, Fantasy News, dated April 14, 1940 (on page 3). The comic was scheduled for release during the week of April 14-20, 1940. Information shared by Bart Bush through the Comics History Exchange page on Facebook (4 October 2016). |
| Cover | 1 page |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Pencils | Will Rowland (signed) |
| Inks | Will Rowland (signed) |
| Statement of Ownership | Statement of the Ownership, Management, Circulation, etc. |
| Synopsis | October 31, 1939 ownership statement for "Comic Pages" |
| Letters | typeset |
| Script | Joe Hardie |
| 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 |
| Publisher advertisement | Read the Centaur Group |
| Script | Lloyd Jacquet ? |
| Notes | House ad for Amazing Mystery Funnies, Keen Detective Funnies, and Funny Pages. All three are monthly. |
| Story | Fantom of the Fair (9 pages) |
| Synopsis | As the Fair gets ready for the opening of its second season, multiple catastrophes occur. |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Characters | Fantom; Mr. Farlan; Finnegan; Relmar |
| Pencils | Bob Bugg (signed) |
| Inks | Bob Bugg (signed) |
| First Line | Deep under the fair grounds of a giant World's Fair... |
| 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. |
| Story | Fantom of the Fair (8 pages) |
| 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. |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Characters | Fantom (introduction); Andy (a painter); Collins (a Policeman); Russel (a Policeman); Johnson (a contractor); Occo (villain, a contractor); Marco (villain |
| Script | Paul Gustavson (signed) |
| Pencils | Paul Gustavson (signed) |
| Inks | Paul Gustavson (signed) |
| Letters | Paul Gustavson (signed) |
| First Line | From the top of one of the towering buildings... |
| Notes | Script and lettering credits by Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson. |
| Story | Fantom of the Fair (8 pages) |
| 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. |
| 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) |
| Script | Paul Gustavson (signed) |
| Pencils | Paul Gustavson (signed) |
| Inks | Paul Gustavson (signed) |
| Letters | Paul Gustavson (signed) |
| First Line | Up from unknown caverns... |
| Notes | Script and lettering credits by Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson. |
| Comic Story | Dirk the Demon, 24th Century Archaeologist / Dirk the Demon (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! |
| 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) |
| Script | Bill Everett (signed) |
| Pencils | Bill Everett (signed) |
| Inks | Bill Everett (signed) |
| First Line | We find Dirk in his own private den in the castle... |
| Notes | Everett signs - as "Bill Everett" - on both the first and last pages. |
| Story | Skyrocket Steele (5 pages) |
| 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. |
| 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) |
| Script | Bill Everett (signed) |
| Pencils | Bill Everett (signed) |
| Inks | Bill Everett (signed) |
| First Line | It is the year "X" (about 2500 A.D.) and our three friends....... |
| Notes | Everett signs - as "Bill Everett " - on both first and last pages. |
| Text Story | Flying Bluff (2 pages) |
| Letters | typeset |
| Genre | Aviation |
| Characters | Lt. Powell Branson of the Chinese Flying Corps |
| Script | Lloyd Jacquet |
| Pencils | Terry Gilkison (signed) |
| Inks | Terry Gilkison (signed) |
| Notes | Described in the heading as "A short short story". |
| Story | Speed Silvers (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Speed races the train, to pick up a serum that might save a young boy's life. |
| Genre | Adventure |
| Characters | Speed Silvers; Elsie Muldoon; Mike Muldoon; Dr. Milan; Dr. Landin; Chuck; Dr. Lowe |
| Script | Paul Gustavson (signed) |
| Pencils | Paul Gustavson (signed) |
| Inks | Paul Gustavson (signed) |
| Letters | Paul Gustavson (signed) |
| First Line | Speed Silvers is racing to New York. |
| Notes | Tagline for this feature is "A Fast-Moving Streamline Train Story" |
| Comic Story | No Title (7 pages) |
| Feature | Captain Curry |
| Genre | Adventure |
| Script | Lew Glanzman (signed) |
| Pencils | Lew Glanzman (signed) |
| Inks | Lew Glanzman (signed) |
| First Line | Since the beginning of Man there have been wars. |
| Comic Story | The Hooded Cult (4 pages) |
| Feature | Stoney Dawson |
| Genre | Science Fiction |
| Characters | Stoney Dawson |
| Script | Carl Burgos (signed) |
| Pencils | Carl Burgos (signed) |
| Inks | Carl Burgos (signed) |
| Notes | Signed on last page of story. |
| Comic Story | Part 1 - The Professors Enemy! / Air-Sub DX (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. |
| Genre | Science Fiction |
| Characters | Professor Gray; Tim; Rita; Curley (villain); Kirk (villain) |
| Script | Carl Burgos (signed) |
| Pencils | Carl Burgos (signed) |
| Inks | Carl Burgos (signed) |
| Story | The Arrow (6 pages) |
| 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. |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Characters | The Arrow [Ralph Payne]; Dutch Kelly; Elaine Parker; Butts; Morley |
| Script | Paul Gustavson (signed) |
| Pencils | Paul Gustavson (signed) |
| Inks | Paul Gustavson (signed) |
| Letters | Paul Gustavson (signed) |
| First Line | In Dutch Kelly's night-club 'The Castle'... |
| Notes | Story signed on 2nd page. |
| Publisher advertisement | "Read the complete story" |
| Script | Lloyd Jacquet ? |
| Notes | Tiny reproductions of two pages from the May issue of Amazing Man. |
| Comic Story | Fantastic Projects! (1 page) |
| Genre | Non-fiction |
| Pencils | Terry Gilkison |
| Inks | Terry Gilkison |
| First Line | in the Past! |
| Notes | One page illustrated look at rail transportation of the past, present and future. |
| The data in the additional content section is courtesy of the Grand Comics Database under a Creative Commons Attribution License. More details about this comic may be available in their page here | |
