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Issue: Funny Picture Stories #2

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Publication Date: December 1936

Issue v1 #2
- v1 #1
- ✔ v1 #2
- v1 #3
- v1 #4
- v1 #5
- v1 #6
- v1 #7
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- Funny Picture Stories

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Issues: #2 of 7 Issues

Title:

Variant: unnamed

Rating:

Publisher: Flag

Comics Magazine Company

Brand: none

Indicia Publisher: Comics Magazine Company Inc.

On Sale Date: (not set)

Volume: 1

Pages: 68

ISBN: none

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $0.10 USD

Indicia Frequency:

Content Items: 13 (9 stories, 1 cover)

Editor(s): William Cook ?

Notes: Funny PICTURE STORIES is published monthly by Comics Magazine Company, Inc., 420 DeSoto Avenue, St. Louis, Mo. Editorial Office, 11 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.

All subscriptions and correspondence should be addressed to this magazine at 11 West 42nd Street, New York, N. Y. The Publishers accept no responsibility for unsolicited drawings or manuscripts, but will exercise due care in handling same. Drawings and manuscripts to receive consideration must be accompanied by postage sufficient to ensure their return to owner. This magazine printed in U. S. A. and entire contents copyrighted 1936 by Comics Magazine Company, Inc. For advertising rates address William J. Delaney, Eastern Representative, 420 Lexington Avenue, New York, N. Y. or T. W. Farrell, Western Representative, 180 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Ill.

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Format

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:

Reprinted In5

1 Content Item
- The Spinner Talks [Illustration on Cover, Front]0

reprinted as/ in another Issue.

3 Content Items

reprinted 4 times as Content Items in other Issues.

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Content Items (13 total)

The Spinner Talks

Illustration on Cover, Front

Credits

Colorist(s): ?

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Subject Matter

Genres: mystery

Reprinting

In Issue:

Action! Mystery! Thrills! Comic Book Covers of the Golden Age: 1933-45 #[nn] published December 2011

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: Despite the fact that the cover mentions the Spinner, the image is unrelated to either the Spinner himself or the story he tells in this issue.

Contents (all Stories Complete)

Credits on Interior Page(s)

Credits

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Subject Matter

Synopsis: Quoted synopses for the various features in this index are all taken from this page.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: The "Funny Picture Stories" banner at the top of this page includes drawings of six characters, although it is not clear if they are specific characters from anywhere in the book.

Hare and Hound (A Story in Which the Clock Has Two Faces.)

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

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Subject Matter

Genres: mystery, superhero

Character(s): The Clock; Heintz; J. Perry Getmore; O'Malley; Cohen; Claymore; Brend

First Line: You men know as much as I do...

Synopsis: "The Clock again! A sinister figure of mystery. The police want to know his name." (from contents page)

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In Content Item: Flag

Keen Detective Funnies v1 #9 published September 1938
as Hare and Hound [Story on Interior Page(s)]

In Content Item: Flag

Super-Dooper Comics #3 published January 1946
as Hare and Hound [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 7

Notes: This issue has the same cover month as Funny Pages v1#7 but the plot in this story is unrelated to the continuing storyline in that series.
Much of this story is copied and reused in The Clock story in Feature Funnies #7 (April 1938). The main difference is that target of the police operation is that of a villain named The Owl.

Daughter of the Apes

Story on Interior Page(s)

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Subject Matter

Genres: adventure, jungle

Character(s): Joe Brailey; Banda; Zuni (mandrill); Chakka (mandrill); Betty

First Line: Far in the north of the Congo jungle...

Synopsis: Brailey encounters a girl raised by baboons and reunites her with her father.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 7

Smuggled Toys

Story on Interior Page(s)

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Subject Matter

Genres: mystery

Character(s): Inspector Scott Ware; Rat Larson

First Line: Number 310.

Synopsis: "Inspector Scott took the trail in Chinatown and it lead to the stamping ground of Rat Larson, hoodlum of the high seas and China coast." (from contents page)

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 7

Notes: While there is no "Rat Larson" feature logo, stories featuring Rat Larson appear in multiple issues of this book. Pages 1-2 are color; 3-4, 7 black, red and white; 5-6 black and white.

[untitled]

Promotional Material (from Publisher) on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

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Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Feature(s): Funny Picture Stories

First Line: This is the Original Stories-in-Pictures Magazine

Synopsis: FUNNY PICTURE STORIES Magazine is not all humor by any means. This is the magazine that readers of the popular FUNNY PAGES have asked for. Magazine fans the world over have waited for this-- Stories Complete in Pictures. And now you can read and see the action, the drama, the thrilling clashes of the hero who fights his way to glory in the tropics, the frozen north, the great west.

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Pages: 1

Notes: Includes a small black-and-white reproduction of the cover to this issue. Offers a subscription for a dollar per year.

Easy Job

Story on Interior Page(s)

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Subject Matter

Genres: mystery

Character(s): "Free" Smith; Blackie; Jig

First Line: Yep! That's him...

Synopsis: "He said his name was "Free" Smith and he smoked his way into their confidence. A yarn about the Coast Guard--and revenue men." (from contents page)

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 8

Notes: Pages 1-2 color; 3-4, 7-8 black and white; 5-6 black, white and red.

Buckaroo Brand (A Complete Novelet)

Story on Interior Page(s)

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Subject Matter

Genres: western

Character(s): Indian Joe Foster; Pecos Madden; Brent; the Sheriff

First Line: You been 'round this range before, Indian...

Synopsis: "A puncher wins a spread and a herd with the turn of a card, and--it brings him and his partner face to face with Red River Brent of the rustler bunch." (from contents page)

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 8

Notes: Page 7 is a full-page splash panel (black and white). Pages 1-2 are color; 3-4, 7-8 black and white; 5-6 black, red and white.

The Monster Man

Story on Interior Page(s)

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Subject Matter

Genres: horror

Character(s): Dick Kent; Professor Buck; Ridder; Rafah

First Line: - - - And that's how it happened, Dick!

Synopsis: "A new Dick Kent yarn. Here Dick stacks his life against the death mania of a madman."

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 6

Notes: Page 5 is a full-page splash panel (duo-tone). Pages 1-2 are color; 3-4 black and white; 5-6 black, red and white.

Battling Beau Brummel

Text Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Penciller(s): ?

Inker(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: adventure

Character(s): Dynamite Devaney

First Line: Adventure crowded the life of Bob...

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Reprint Notes: in Keen Detective Funnies (Centaur, 1938 series) v1#9 ?

Miscellaneous

Pages: 2

Notes: Part one of a multi-part story.

The Christmas Kid (A Complete Novelet)

Story on Interior Page(s)

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Subject Matter

Genres: adventure

Character(s): Spinner; Pop Kingsley, Christmas Kid; Rose

First Line: Look, Spinner - I found a dolly outside in the snow...

Synopsis: "A great story of gold and snow and men gone "beasts" in Alaska, wherein the Kid swaps lead with a killer pack." (from contents page)

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In Content Item: Flag

Amazing Mystery Funnies v1 #3[b] published December 1938
as The Christmas Kid [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 10

Notes: The Spinner is an old man who tells stories to his grandchildren. Page 4 has a panel that covers about 5/6 of a page (all but the lower left-hand corner).

The Red Raider

Story on Interior Page(s)

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Subject Matter

Genres: adventure

Character(s): Lt. "Smokey" Battle; Rango Osef

First Line: An utterly exhausted hillman...

Synopsis: "Hill tribes swarm on the outpost like wolves to a slaughter, but Lieutenant "Smoky" Battle led his bullettieres with Yankee courage to dare the Rango chief." (from contents page)

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In Content Item: Flag

Amazing Mystery Funnies v1 #2 published September 1938
as The Red Raider [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 8

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Promotional Material (from Publisher) on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

First Line: Dead Men Tell No Tales

Synopsis: Ad for Detective Picture Stories v1#1 (December 1936, same cover date as this issue).

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: Inside back cover. Contains a small reproduction of the cover to Detective Picture Stories v1#1.