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Issue: Amazing Adventure Funnies #1
Publication Date: June 1940
 
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Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagCentaur
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Centaur Publications, Inc.
On Sale Date: 04/14/1940
Volume: none
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 16 (12 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Lloyd Jacquet
Disclose 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).
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color
Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U. S.
Paper Stock: Glossy cover; Newsprint interior
Binding: Saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Format Notes:  
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
Indicia on this Page
 
 
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
?
?
Subject Matter
superhero
Fantom of the Fair
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Miscellaneous
1
Statement of the Ownership, Management, Circulation, etc.

Statement of Ownership  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Joseph J. Hardie
typeset
Subject Matter
October 31, 1939 ownership statement for "Comic Pages"
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Miscellaneous
0.17
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
Read the Centaur Group

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Lloyd Jacquet ?
?
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Miscellaneous
0.5
House ad for Amazing Mystery Funnies, Keen Detective Funnies, and Funny Pages. All three are monthly.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
?
Subject Matter
superhero
Fantom of the Fair
Fantom; Mr. Farlan; Finnegan; Relmar
Deep under the fair grounds of a giant World's Fair...
As the Fair gets ready for the opening of its second season, multiple catastrophes occur.
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Miscellaneous
9
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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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Paul Gustavson (signed)
Paul Gustavson (signed)
Paul Gustavson (signed)
?
Paul Gustavson
Subject Matter
superhero
Fantom of the Fair
Fantom (introduction); Andy (a painter); Collins (a Policeman); Russel (a Policeman); Johnson (a contractor); Occo (villain, a contractor); Marco (villain
From the top of one of the towering buildings...
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.
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FlagAmazing Mystery Funnies v2 #7 published July 1939
was [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
8
Script and lettering credits by Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Paul Gustavson (signed)
Paul Gustavson (signed)
Paul Gustavson (signed)
?
Paul Gustavson
Subject Matter
superhero
Fantom of the Fair
The Fantom of the Fair
Up from unknown caverns...
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FlagAmazing Mystery Funnies v2 #8 published August 1939
was [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
8
Script and lettering credits by Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson.
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
Subject Matter
science fiction
Dirk the Demon
We find Dirk in his own private den...
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Miscellaneous
3
Everett signs - as "Bill Everett" - on both the first and last pages.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
Subject Matter
science fiction
Skyrocket Steele
It is the year 'X' (about 2500 A.D.)...
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FlagAmazing Mystery Funnies v1 #2 published September 1938
was [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
5
Everett signs - as "Bill Everett " - on both first and last pages.
Flying Bluff

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
typeset
Subject Matter
aviation
Lt. Powell Branson of the Chinese Flying Corps
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Miscellaneous
2
Described in the heading as "A short short story".
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Paul Gustavson (signed)
Paul Gustavson (signed)
Paul Gustavson (signed)
?
Paul Gustavson
Subject Matter
adventure
Speed Silvers
Speed Silvers; Elsie Muldoon; Mike Muldoon; Dr. Milan; Dr. Landin; Chuck; Dr. Lowe
Speed Silvers is racing to New York.
Speed races the train, to pick up a serum that might save a young boy's life.
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Miscellaneous
6
Tagline for this feature is "A Fast-Moving Streamline Train Story"
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Lew Glanzman [as Lew Glanz] (signed)
Lew Glanzman [as Lew Glanz] (signed)
Lew Glanzman [as Lew Glanz] (signed)
?
?
Subject Matter
adventure
Captain Curry
Since the beginning of Man there have been wars.
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Miscellaneous
7
The Hooded Cult

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
Subject Matter
science fiction
Stoney Dawson
Stoney Dawson
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FlagKeen Detective Funnies v2 #2 published February 1939
was The Hooded Cult [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
4
Signed on last page of story.
Part 1 - The Professors Enemy!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
Subject Matter
science fiction
Air-Sub 'D X'
Professor Gray; Tim; Rita; Curley (villain); Kirk (villain)
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.
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Miscellaneous
5
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
Subject Matter
superhero
The Arrow
In Dutch Kelly's night-club 'The Castle'...
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Miscellaneous
6
Story signed on 2nd page.
"Read the complete story"

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Lloyd Jacquet ?
?
?
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Miscellaneous
0.66
Tiny reproductions of two pages from the May issue of Amazing Man.
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Terry Gilkison
Terry Gilkison
?
Subject Matter
non-fiction
Fantastic Projects!
in the Past!
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Miscellaneous
1
One page illustrated look at rail transportation of the past, present and future.

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