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Publication | June 1940 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
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Featuring | Fantom of the Fair |
Content | Genre: Superhero |
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Statement of Ownership | Statement of the Ownership, Management, Circulation, etc. |
Synopsis | October 31, 1939 ownership statement for "Comic Pages" |
Credits | Script: Joseph J. Hardie | Letters: typeset |
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 |
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Publisher advertisement | Read the Centaur Group |
Credits | Script: Lloyd Jacquet? |
Notes | House ad for Amazing Mystery Funnies, Keen Detective Funnies, and Funny Pages. All three are monthly. |
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Synopsis | As the Fair gets ready for the opening of its second season, multiple catastrophes occur. |
Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Fantom; Mr. Farlan; Finnegan; Relmar |
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. |
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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. |
Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Fantom (introduction); Andy (a painter); Collins (a Policeman); Russel (a Policeman); Johnson (a contractor); Occo (villain, a contractor); Marco (villain |
Notes | Script and lettering credits by Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson. |
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Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Fantom of the Fair |
Notes | Script and lettering credits by Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson. |
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Featuring | Dirk the Demon |
Content | Genre: Science Fiction |
Notes | Everett signs - as "Bill Everett" - on both the first and last pages. |
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Featuring | Skyrocket Steele |
Content | Genre: Science Fiction |
Notes | Everett signs - as "Bill Everett " - on both first and last pages. |
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Text Story | Flying Bluff (2 pages) |
Credits | Letters: typeset |
Content | Genre: Aviation | Characters: Lt. Powell Branson of the Chinese Flying Corps |
Notes | Described in the heading as "A short short story". |
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Synopsis | Speed races the train, to pick up a serum that might save a young boy's life. |
Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Speed Silvers; Elsie Muldoon; Mike Muldoon; Dr. Milan; Dr. Landin; Chuck; Dr. Lowe |
Notes | Tagline for this feature is "A Fast-Moving Streamline Train Story" |
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Featuring | Captain Curry |
Content | Genre: Adventure |
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Comic Story | The Hooded Cult (4 pages) |
Featuring | Stoney Dawson |
Content | Genre: Science Fiction | Characters: Stoney Dawson |
Notes | Signed on last page of story. |
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Comic Story | Part 1 - The Professors Enemy! (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. |
Featuring | Air-Sub 'D X' |
Content | Genre: Science Fiction | Characters: Professor Gray; Tim; Rita; Curley (villain); Kirk (villain) |
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Content | Genre: Superhero |
Notes | Story signed on 2nd page. |
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Publisher advertisement | "Read the complete story" |
Credits | Script: Lloyd Jacquet? |
Notes | Tiny reproductions of two pages from the May issue of Amazing Man. |
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Featuring | Fantastic Projects! |
Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
Notes | One page illustrated look at rail transportation of the past, present and future. |
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