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Issue: Funny Picture Stories #1 Public Domain
Publication Date: November 1936
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Issues: #1 of 7 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagComics Magazine Company
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Comics Magazine Company Inc.
On Sale Date: 09/18/1936
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 11 (9 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): William Cook ?
Disclose Notes: Funny PICTURE STORIES is published monthly by Comics Magazine Company, Inc., 420 DeSoto Avenue, St. Louis, Mo. Editorial Office, 12 West 42nd Street, New York, N. Y. Application for second class entry pending at post office, St. Louis, Mo., under the Act of March 3rd, 1879. Subscription price: One (1) year, 12 issues, in the United States and its Possessions, and Canada, $1.00. Single copies, 10 cents.

Order of stories, synopses and credits added from scan of credit page, actual contents and page lengths of stories need to be verified from actual copy.

On sale date from the publication date as submitted to the U.S. Copyright Office found in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1936, New Series, Volume 31, Number 4. Class B periodical. Copyright registration number B 313517.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color cover; black and white and color interior
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US
Paper Stock: paper cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
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Alias The Clock

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): George Brenner
Inker(s): George Brenner ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Feature(s): The Clock
Character(s): The Clock
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagSupermen! The First Wave of Comic Book Heroes 1936-1941 #[nn] published February 2009
as [untitled] [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Contents

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): Typeset
Subject Matter
Synopsis: Short synopses and credits for each of the stories in the issue.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Alias The Clock

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): George Brenner
Penciller(s): George Brenner
Inker(s): George Brenner
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Feature(s): The Clock
Character(s): The Clock (introduction ?)
Synopsis: The Clock captures a night-watchman who was in on a jewel heist.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagKeen Detective Funnies v1 #8 published July 1938
as Alias the Clock [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagSuper-Dooper Comics #1 published January 1946
as Alias the Clock [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: The Clock also appears in Funny Pages V1 #6 which has the same cover date. The Clock's civilian name of Brian O'Brien is not given until the character's later run in Feature Funnies.
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The Border War

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Ed Moore [as E. McD. Moore, Jr.]
Penciller(s): Ed Moore [as E. McD. Moore, Jr.]
Inker(s): Ed Moore [as E. McD. Moore, Jr.]
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Tom Campbell
Character(s): Tom Campbell
Synopsis: "Tom Campbell, Yank soldier of fortune, takes a fling along the banana border." (synopsis from table of contents).
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagAmazing Mystery Funnies v1 #1 published August 1938
as The Border War [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagSuper-Dooper Comics #1 published January 1946
as The Border War [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
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Red Dolan

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Joe Campbell [as Joe Campbell, Jr.]
Penciller(s): Joe Campbell [as Joe Campbell, Jr.]
Inker(s): Joe Campbell [as Joe Campbell, Jr.]
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Feature(s): Red Dolan
Character(s): Red Dolan
Synopsis: "Young Dolan knew his pal was not guilty - but he had to take a big chance to prove it." (synopsis from table of contents).
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
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The Floating City

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Arthur Pinajian (credited)
Penciller(s): Arthur Pinajian (credited)
Inker(s): Arthur Pinajian (credited)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Dick Kent
Character(s): Dick Kent
Synopsis: "The whole world goes topsy-turvy and Dick Kent is trapped by wierd (sic) men above the clouds." (synopsis from the table of contents).
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagAmazing Mystery Funnies v1 #3[b] published December 1938
as The Floating City [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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Mountain Murder

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Joe E. Buresch (credited)
Penciller(s): Joe E. Buresch (credited)
Inker(s): Joe E. Buresch (credited)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Jim Tyson
Synopsis: "Blood-red feud haunted the hills of Tennessee and Jim Tyson trailed his enemy to showdown under the moon." (synopsis from table of contents).
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagFunny Picture Stories v3 #1 published January 1939
as Mountain Murder [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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Shanghaied

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): John Patterson [as J. A. Patterson]
Penciller(s): John Patterson [as J. A. Patterson]
Inker(s): John Patterson [as J. A. Patterson]
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Rat Larson
Synopsis: "A rough, tough and salty gent was Rat Larson, skipper of the Morgelon. But a smuggler meets a weasel. Keno!" (synopsis from table of contents)
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagAmazing Mystery Funnies v2 #1 published January 1939
as Shanghaied [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
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Wild Horse

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Buck Ringoe (credited)
Penciller(s): Bill Allison [as W. M. Allison]
Inker(s): Bill Allison [as W. M. Allison]
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Synopsis: "A short, short Western yarn of a range beauty and the puncher who threatened to brand him for keeps." (synopsis from table of contents)
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In Content Item: FlagFunny Pages v2 #12 published December 1938
as Wild Horse [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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The Case of the Broken Skull

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bert Christman (credited)
Penciller(s): Bert Christman (credited)
Inker(s): Bert Christman (credited)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): The Spinner
Character(s): The Spinner (introduction)
Synopsis: "The Spinner weaves an exciting mystery around romance in the hill cave regions. A real thriller." (synopsis from table of contents).
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagKeen Detective Funnies v1 #8 published July 1938
as The Case of the Broken Skull [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagSuper-Dooper Comics #1 published January 1946
as The Case of the Broken Skull [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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The Sacred White Elephant

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Victor Dowling (credited)
Penciller(s): Victor Dowling (credited)
Inker(s): Victor Dowling (credited)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle
Feature(s): Brailey of the Tropics
Character(s): Joe Brailey; Chola; Stark; Dorothy; Korni; Rambai (elephant)
Synopsis: Thieves angle to take a baby white elephant from Brailey.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagAmazing Mystery Funnies v1 #2 published September 1938
as The Sacred White Elephant [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7

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