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Issue: Funny Pages #1 Public Domain
Publication Date: September 1937
 
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Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagUltem
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Ultem Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 2
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 35 (28 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Harry "A" Chesler (Editor); George Nagle (Managing Editor)
Disclose Notes: From indicia on inside front cover:
FUNNY PAGES is published monthly at 404 N. Wesley Ave., Mount Morris, Ill., for Comics Magazine Company, Inc., 1213 W. 3rd St., Cleveland, Ohio. EDITORIAL OFFICE, 11 W. 42nd St., New York, N. Y. From indicia on contents page: FUNNY PAGES is published monthly by Ultem Publications, Inc., Mount Morris, Illinois. EDITORIAL OFFICE, 276 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK, N. Y.

Incorrectly listed as v2#2 in indicia on inside front cover; correct numbering on contents page. Index created from a scan from http://goldenagecomics.co.uk/.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: Was ongoing
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reprinted 3 times as Content Items in other Issues.
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anthropomorphic
That's Echo. His father is keeper at the zoo!
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humorous
Stop! Have you forgotten anything???
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Five unrelated gag panels by different artists, including Dick Ryan (the center panel).
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Contents

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
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typeset
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Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Jest a Minute
Boy oh boy! Wasn't this a swell summer?
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anthropomorphic
I wonder what this is --
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Chicken Dinner

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
humorous
Simpy
Simpy
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Wordless strip.
This is the only appearance of this "Simpy" feature.
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humorous
Block; Fall; Dinny O'Rourke (crook)
I see deys a guy named 'Potshot' Hogan what escaped from jail...
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humorous
Peanut O'Hooligan
Peanut O'Hooligan; Suzie
That mugg tried to make a date with me, 'Peanut.'
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Pop; the ringmaster
Good-bye Nell. They let me go this morning...
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Baby quail, when hatched under a bantam hen...
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Compared with signed work in More Fun Comics #19.
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humorous
Dovey
You're home early tonight...
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Your [sic] two coconuts short in your pay...
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non-fiction
In the course of a season...
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Smart Alec
I'm leaving this town tomorrow...
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humorous
The Judge
Your neighbor charges you began to croon...
The Judge hears testimony from five different defendants.
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humorous
Penny Aunty
How about a picnic?
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Ah feels confidunt Ah'll ketch plenty o' fish t'day!"

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humorous
Black; Tan
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adventure, western
Dick the Detective
Dick the Detective
So you're a shore 'nuff detective now eh, Dick?
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Aaron Burr

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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biography, informational, non-fiction
Aaron Burr
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humorous
When my kid wants something he gets it.
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A two page spread.
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Jungle Getaway

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
adventure, jungle
Tad Martin; Sargus; Gomez; Harevson
Even when he heard the descending plane's roar...
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Devil of the Deep

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
adventure, occult
Dave Dean (introduction); Shorty (introduction)
What if them natives are right...
Dave Dean searches for pearls but finds a mysterious demon guarding the waters.
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FlagAmazing Mystery Funnies v1 #3[b] published December 1938
as Devil of the Deep [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagAmazing Mystery Funnies v2 #6 published June 1939
as Devil of the Deep [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagMystic Comics #1 published March 1940
as The Deep Sea Demon [Story on Interior Page(s)]re-colored, re-titled from "Devil of the Deep", with first panel redrawn and signature removed
 
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Guardineer signs in the final panel.

This story is rewritten and redrawn by Fred Guardineer in Fantastic Adventures (A.C.E. Comics, 1987 Series) #1 (July 1987).
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anthropomorphic
Runt (a dog); Tuffy (a dog)
O'kay. Let's hitchhike!
Runt and Tuffy decide to hitchike. Several cars pass them, but one stops and invites them to hop into the back. They run for their lives when they see it is the dog catcher.
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humorous
Granny
Granny! Hurry with that packing...
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humorous
Insurance Ike; Mrs. Jones; Junior
I've tramped all over town...
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Charles P. Steinmetz

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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informational, non-fiction
Charles P. Steinmetz
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humorous
Bingo; a waiter
- And top it off with a good cigar.
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childrens, humorous
Toots; her mother; Arthur
Mummy - why are the shades down in Mrs. Brown's house?
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Little Mary of the Circus

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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drama
Little Mary; Jim; Renar
Jim, why don't you let Mary play in public...
Violin virtuoso Little Mary is kidnapped and is believed to have died in a fire. Her father goes into deep mourning, until he reads that a young female prodigy is to give a violin concert. He gets his nurse to take him and father and daughter are tearfully reunited.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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anthropomorphic
Mama, can I have some writing paper and an envelope?
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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humorous, science and technology
Well, I'm almost finished!
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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humorous
Shanty O'Toole
Shanty O'Toole
Git up out'a that chair 'n go down to th' five and ten...
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humorous
Ann How
I'm telling you it's coffee...
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humorous
Behind the Scenes
...And I would strongly recommend...
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What a Man
Don't forget to call me Ma...
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