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Issue: Funny Picture Stories #4 Public Domain
Publication Date: February 1937
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Issues: #4 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: (not set)
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 ?
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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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The Brothers Three

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagAction! Mystery! Thrills! Comic Book Covers of the Golden Age: 1933-45 #[nn] published December 2011
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): The Brothers 3
Character(s): Captain Smith; Baron Carl von Kirchoven; Fatts Dugan; J.M. Thormick
First Line: In the office of the French Foreign Legion in French Morrocco - a prominent merchant pleads...
Synopsis: In Morrocco, businessman J.M. Thornick has a shipment of rare herbs held up twenty five miles north. Mid-way between is the bandit Ben Ali plans to intercept the caravan and hold the cargo for ransom. The Brothers 3 are brought in and formulate a plan. Smith captures Ben Ali and flies off with him. Ali's men give pursuit, even though the caravan is in the opposite direction. While the trio hold off the Arabs, the caravan reaches Morrocco in safty.
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagWill Eisner: Edge of Genius #[nn] published January 2007
In Content Item: FlagAmazing Mystery Funnies v1 #2 published September 1938
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): James J. "Rocky" Baird ; Lieutenant Stonely
First Line: In the Himalaya mountains...
Synopsis: Adventurer "Rocky" Baird rescues Lieutenant Stoneley from a band of tribesmen in northern India and they fly to Stoneley's fort, where they find the entire garrison massacred.
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In Content Item: FlagKeen Detective Funnies v1 #8 published July 1938
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Lauretta signs on panel four of teye final page.
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The Swamp Rat

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): The Swamp Rat (villain, death)
First Line: There's a swell way to welcome a guy.
Synopsis: An escaped convict known as The Swamp Rat is waylaying travelers in the swamp, but is eventually sucked under in a pool of quicksand.
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In Content Item: FlagKeen Detective Funnies v2 #1 published January 1939
as The Swamp Rat [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Page one is in full color, pages four and five in black and red, and the balance in black and white.
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Poachers

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Rip Burns; Bill Fike (crook)
First Line: Oh! Oh! The phone!
Synopsis: Forest ranger Rip Burns is instructed to search for poachers. He comes across a gang using a truck and a bright spotlight in order to 'freeze' the deer while being shot. Burns is knocked unconscious, but discovers the name of the culprit at a way station.
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In Content Item: FlagFunny Picture Stories v3 #1 published January 1939
as Poachers [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Pages one and two are in full color, five and six in black and red, and the balance in black and white.
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Silver Speed

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: sports
Synopsis: Ice hockey action.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: A double page spread.
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Battling Beau Brummel

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ? [as SPB] (signed)
Inker(s): ? [as SPB] (signed)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: sports
Character(s): Bob "Beau" Brummel; Scally Crandon; Helen; Carvington Sheldon Letheridge; Ruth Potter; Lefty Marlow
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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Camera of Crime, or, Double Exposure Murder

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Character(s): Paul Barton; Jasper Miggs; Sergeant Mulchahey; Duke Arche
First Line: Is this a - a - holdup?
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In Content Item: FlagKeen Detective Funnies v2 #1 published January 1939
as Camera of Crime [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: Pages one and two are printed in black and red, three and four in black and white, and five in full color.
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The 7-11 Gang

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Character(s): Henry Powell; Detective George Poe; Officer Rielly; Wilkerson
First Line: Now stay that way...
Synopsis: With the aid of civilian Henry Powell, an eye witness to a bank robbery, detectives chase the so-called 7-11 Gang to a cabin deep in the north woods.
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In Content Item: FlagKeen Detective Funnies v2 #1 published January 1939
as The 7-11 Gang [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Page one is in full color, pages four and five in black and red, and the balance in black and white.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Tom Dawson Sea Scout
First Line: Tom Dawson looks on...
Reprinting
Reprint Notes: in Amazing Mystery Funnies (1938 series) #v1#1 (August 1938)
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: For this story only, the Feature Logo is "Tom Dawson Sea Scout".
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The Yellow Terror

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
First Line: Good bye Dr. Froz...
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagAmazing Mystery Funnies v1 #1 published August 1938
as The Yellow Terror [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes: in Amazing Mystery Funnies (1938 series) #v1#1 (August 1938)
Miscellaneous
Pages: 9

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