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Issue: Funny Picture Stories #6 Public Domain
Publication Date: April 1937
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Issues: #6 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: 12 (10 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
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Guns for General Sing

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Tom Campbell
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: The cover is taken from page one of the first story, with captions deleted on main panel, and replaced by internal creator credits on smaller panel.

Credit is given on the contents page.
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Guns For General Sing

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Tom Campbell; General Sing
First Line: Atop the walls of a West China city...
Synopsis: Tom Campbell is fighting in the service of General Sing, who orders him to make his way through enemy lines and head for Bai-pan, where he will buy guns and ammunition. He eventually comes upon a supply train carrying ordnance, hijacks it and brings it back to Sing.
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In Content Item: FlagAmazing Mystery Funnies v2 #1 published January 1939
as Guns For General Sing [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: The first page is also used as the cover, with the captions removed.

Moore signs on the final page.
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The Fighting Spirit

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: sports
Feature(s): Tod Perry
Character(s): Tod Perry; Dinky Blake; Greg Earls; Scotty; Kaye; Doris; Millie; Tubby
First Line: Tod Perry runs his greatest race against nature, time and death
Synopsis: Tod Perry is a first rate athelete, but runs for the fun of it, rather than for the glory of his school.
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Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: The story is in black and white.
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Darts of Death

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Dick Kent; Professor Benton; Redding; Dr. Roberts
First Line: Well, Prof., here we are on the island of Berbi...
Synopsis: Kent, Benton and Redding arrive on the island of Berbi to look for the missing Dr. Roberts. They quickly discover him in the company of some natives, and learn that when he became stranded there he was adopted as their medicine man. Now they feel he has betrayed the tribe and the chief sentences all four outsiders to death. During the native ritual dance the quartet escape and fight their way to the ocean and a waiting canoe.
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Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Pinajian signs the final panel (as "Pinajian"). The story is in black and white.
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Dangerous Documents

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: espionage
Character(s): Terry Taylor; Doc (villain)
First Line: The S.S. Eastern Empress is making her way..
Synopsis: Terry Taylor has been entrusted with delivering secret documents to Shanghai. He is met by men claiing to be from the embassy, but is robbed and thrown from the car. He later tracks them down, but they escape and take off in an airplane. Taylor follows in a two-man plane, shoots them down, and reclaims the papers.
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In Content Item: FlagKeen Detective Funnies v1 #11 published December 1938
as Dangerous Documents [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: The previous indexer misread the credits and gave Bob Wood as both penciller and inker.

On the contents page credits are given as 'R.L. Wood & L. Riley'
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The Castaway

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: drama
Character(s): A castaway on a sea shore peers out to sea hoping for a rescue.
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: A two-page spread with no caption beyond the title of the image and the name of the artist.
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Blazes a Trail Between Two Planets

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, science fiction
Character(s): Bob Steele; Prof. Kraft; Gail; Master of Satoon
First Line: -----And medical authorities state...
Synopsis: Bob Steele and his sweetheart Gail rocket to the planet Satoon in order to find a cure for a rapidly spreading disease. Bob is attacked by a ferocious feline and mamages to stab it to death, only to be captured by locals who consider the animal sacred. After many trials, the couple are able to fly back to Earth with their precious cargo of antidote.
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Pages: 7
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Lucky Wings

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Tom; Bill; Wong Fu
First Line: This idea of a vacation's being restful is all bunk
Synopsis: Newsreel cameramen Tom and Bill are assigned to cover a new reactionary group uprising in China. Before they can leave they are abducted by members of that group and taken to the headquarters of leader Wong Fu, who demands they film the forts of his enemies. They hijack the plane used for filming and fly homewards.
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In Content Item: FlagAmazing Mystery Funnies v1 #3[a] published November 1938
as Adventures of Newsreel Cameramen [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: The story is in black and white.

For this story only, the Feature Logo is "The Further Adventures of the Newsreel Men".
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Battling Beau Brummel

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: sports
Character(s): Wabash Warner [Bob Brummel]; Helen Beresford; Papa Beresford; Mister Toxey; Battling Bannock; Carvington Sheldon Letheridge; Victor Sanchez; Ace Martin; Ruth Potter
First Line: Bout followed bout...
Synopsis: As he enters the ring the fighter Wabash Warner is recognised as Bob Brummel by old friends.
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Pages: 2
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The Isle of Mystery

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Dr. Held; Elkin; Dr. McFee
First Line: Dr. Held, the wellknown [sic] scientist...
Synopsis: Dr. Held travels to the West Indies to help a friend and colleague, Dr. McFee, solve two murders and several robberies. Held tracks down the culprit, an escaped convict using a cave accessed only by diving into the sea.
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Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: The story is in black and white.
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The Trapline Mystery

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Bob Colby; Brick; Pierre
First Line: M'sieu! There is a devil on my trapline!
Synopsis: In the far north, Bob Colby helps Pierre solve the problem of his empty traps. Prints of mink lead up to the traps, but the animals are gone.
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Pages: 7
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: childrens, humorous
Feature(s): Oscar
Character(s): Oscar
First Line: Yep! It's here!
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Pages: 1

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