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Issue: Funny Picture Stories #7 Public Domain
Publication Date: June 1937
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Issues: #7 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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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, humorous
Feature(s): Professor Joshwink
Character(s): Professor Joshwink
First Line: Back home we calls dis a recepshun party!
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: The cover uses the second panel of page five from the lead story, but in reverse.
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Quest For the Zozosaurus

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, humorous
Feature(s): Professor Joshwink
Character(s): Professor Joshwink; Ichabod
Synopsis: Professor Joshwink sends his incompetant assistant Ichabod to Africa in order to capture the elusive zozosaurus.
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In Content Item: FlagComic Pages v3 #4 published July 1939
as In Quest of the Zozosaurus [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: The second panel of page five is used as the cover, but with image reversed.

Koscik signs on the final page.
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The Kid Comes Through

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: drama, sports
Feature(s): Pete "Kid" Calahan
Character(s): Pete "Kid" Calahan; Honey; Gabby J. Gooch
First Line: Gee Pete, wasn't that a thrilling movie
Synopsis: Pete punches a man who winks at Honey, and he turns out to be a fight manager who wants to sign Pete up. In hhis first few fights he goes down at the first punch, but in the next reverses the situation, because his pants were falling down!
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Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: The story is in black and white
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Yo-Ho-Ho and a Bottle of Poison

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Tom Dawson
First Line: All right, son...
Synopsis: Tom and two others sign on as seamen aboard the old "Southern Cross". They quickly realise that something is wrong upon discovering only a week's rations for a three month trip and a supposed load of coal even though she sits high on the water.
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Pages: 7
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Raiders From Space

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Dr. Bob Steele; Arula; Princess Arata
First Line: ---But your highness---
Synopsis: On a distant planet, Bob Steele is captured and accused of being an alien aggressor. When the ruler's daughter is captured by the winged Valkyrmen, he persuades her father that he can rescue her using a ship brought from Earth which is loaded with explosives.
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Pages: 7
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The Photographer's Dilemma

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
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Pages: 2
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Gold of Destiny

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Rocky Baird; Brute Bransom
First Line: Say, pardner...
Synopsis: Brute Bransom offers to take Rocky Baird to an island where a pirate treasure is buried, and to split the loot with him. When they arrive, Bransom attacks Rocky and sends him hurtling into the sea under the castle. But he finds an undersea entrance to a cavern where the treasure is located, so under cover of darkness he loads it aboard his boat and sails away.
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In Content Item: FlagKeen Detective Funnies v1 #11 published December 1938
as Gold of Destiny [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Lauretta signs on the final page.
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Terror of the Snows

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Joe Brailey; Maudie; Kang
First Line: Across the frozen steppes of Mongolia...
Synopsis: Joe, Maudie and Kang are in Mongolia, when her pet tiger Whiskers runs away. She and Joe follow but are attacked by a pack of wolves. Things look hopeless until Whiskers arrives and chases them off.
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Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: The story is in black and white.
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Hillbilly

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Penciller(s): ? (illustration)
Inker(s): ? (illustration)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, sports
Character(s): Lige Hallowell; Jim Rigsby; Bransom; Master Dixon
First Line: Rockridge enters a "Dark Horse"...
Synopsis: Laconic hillbilly Lige Hallowell becomes Rockridge's entry in the annual canoe race.
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Pages: 2
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Concerning Neutrality

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, espionage, war
Feature(s): Lance Darrow
Character(s): Lance Darrow
First Line: Just got general orders this morning...
Synopsis: Lance Darrow is a U.S. agent in Spain during the Spanish Civil War. He learns that a shipment of arms is on the way to the "Loyalists" and this would violate U.S. neutrality. Darrow impersonates a Spanish soldier, travels to a port in the north, destroys the shipment, and escapes.
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Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: The story is in black and white. The "Loyalists" are clearly the Spanish Republicans, and use the term "comrade" among themselves, a link to the supposed "communist" nature of those forces.
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Doomed Mine

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Bob Colby; Mr. Wells; Elsie
First Line: Brrr - it's cold...
Synopsis: Bob Colby is on the bum, and overhears a plan to blow up the car belonging to the manager of the local mine. He prevents the explosion and is offered a job.
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Pages: 7
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Taxicab Ted
Character(s): Taxicab Ted
First Line: I'm very rich...
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