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Issue: Funny Picture Stories #1 Public Domain
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Title:
Variant: unnamed
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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):  
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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There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted from anywhere.
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Alias the Clock

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
?
?
Subject Matter
mystery
The Clock
Reprinting
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)]
 
Miscellaneous
1
Contents

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
?
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typeset
Subject Matter
Short synopses and credits for each of the stories in the issue.
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
A header features six generic characters. The artist signature is inconclusive, but may be 'WRC'.
Alias the Clock

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
Subject Matter
mystery
The Clock (introduction ?); Bill Hunt; Officer Sam
- - - An all I know is I was cracked on th' Head...
The Clock captures a night-watchman who was in on a jewel heist.
Reprinting
FlagKeen Detective Funnies v1 #8 published July 1938
as Alias the Clock [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagSuper-Dooper Comics #1 published January 1946
as Alias the Clock [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
7
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.
The Border War

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
Subject Matter
adventure
Tom Campbell
Hard-faced professional soldiers...
"Tom Campbell, Yank soldier of fortune, takes a fling along the banana border." (synopsis from table of contents).
Reprinting
FlagAmazing Mystery Funnies v1 #1 published August 1938
as The Border War [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagSuper-Dooper Comics #1 published January 1946
as The Border War [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
7
Red Dolan

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
Subject Matter
mystery
Red Dolan; Slim Wilson
I didn't do it!
"Young Dolan knew his pal was not guilty - but he had to take a big chance to prove it." (synopsis from table of contents).
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
7
Pages 1 and 2 are in full color. 3 and 4 are in black and white. 5 and 6 are in black and red. 7 is in black and white.

For this story only, the Feature Logo is "Red Dolan the Young News Hawk".
The Floating City

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
Subject Matter
adventure
Dick Kent; Professor James B. Benton
Extra - Extra! Read all about it!
"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
FlagAmazing Mystery Funnies v1 #3[b] published December 1938
as The Floating City [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
8
Pages 1 and 2 are in full color. 3 and 4 are in black and white. 5 and 6 are in black and red. 7 and 8 are in black and white.
Mountain Murder

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
Subject Matter
adventure
Jim Tyson; Ma Tyson; Pa Tyson; Jane Barclay; Jed Barclay
Among the hills in the volunteer state of Tennessee,,E
"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
FlagFunny Picture Stories v3 #1 published January 1939
as Mountain Murder [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
8
Pages 1 and 2 are in full color. 3 and 4 are in black and white. 5 and 6 are in black and red. 7 and 8 are in black and white.
Shanghaied

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
Subject Matter
adventure
Rat Larson
Ugh! Blazes, what hit me? Ugh!
"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
FlagAmazing Mystery Funnies v2 #1 published January 1939
as Shanghaied [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
7
Pages 1 and 2 are in full color. 3 and 4 are in black and white. 5 and 6 are in black and red. 7 is in black and white.
Wild Horse

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
Subject Matter
western
I'm gonna own that horse...
"A short, short Western yarn of a range beauty and the puncher who threatened to brand him for keeps." (synopsis from table of contents)
Reprinting
FlagFunny Pages v2 #12 published December 1938
as Wild Horse [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
2
The Case of the Broken Skull

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
Subject Matter
adventure
The Spinner (introduction); Sue; Bruce Berry; Celia Chambers' Mr. Clabber
Look, Spinner! We found a horse's skull
"The Spinner weaves an exciting mystery around romance in the hill cave regions. A real thriller." (synopsis from table of contents).
Reprinting
FlagKeen Detective Funnies v1 #8 published July 1938
as The Case of the Broken Skull [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagSuper-Dooper Comics #1 published January 1946
as The Case of the Broken Skull [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
8
The Sacred White Elephant

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
Subject Matter
jungle
Joe Brailey; Chola; Stark; Dorothy; Korni; Rambai (elephant)
Night broods down over the Siamese jungle...
Thieves angle to take a baby white elephant from Brailey.
Reprinting
FlagAmazing Mystery Funnies v1 #2 published September 1938
as The Sacred White Elephant [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
7

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