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Issue: Funny Picture Stories #1 Public Domain
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Publisher: FlagUltem
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Ultem Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 2
Pages: ?
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
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Content Items: 21 (17 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Harry A Chesler
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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 series
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Cover, Front
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Title Page
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Subject Matter
humorous
Let me pet him mummy.
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Rustlers From Sawtooth

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
western
Tim Walsh; Breen; Ned Warbucks
Hey, you, Walsh!
Ned Warbucks asks Tim Walsh to look into the disappearance of several of his ranch hands and rustled cattle. Signing on at the Warbucks ranch, Tim overhears the foreman Breen telling one of his men that they will take more cattle the following night. He follows the rustlers and observes them rebranding the steers, but is captured and about to be branded when Warbucks arrives with his men and saves him.
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FlagKeen Detective Funnies v2 #4 published April 1939
as Rustlers from Sawtooth [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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humorous
Tim and Tom
Tim; Tom
What did you do with that old counterfeit 10 dollar bill...
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Racial stereotyping.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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fantasy, science fiction
Jack Strand; Diana; Homer Carlin (dies); Psyk (villain)
Diana, I'm dying and I've left much unfinished!
When Diana's uncle dies he leaves her a pin that he claims comes from another world, a world of mental powers where a man Psyk, will stop at nothing to get the pin back.
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FlagAmazing Mystery Funnies v2 #7 published July 1939
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
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Frollo signs in the final panel.
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Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
non-fiction
Makers of History
Guglielmo Marconi; George Meade; Winfield Schley; Arthur Wellesley
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The Case of the Shore Club Window

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
mystery
The Master Mind; J. Wellington Wayne
Thru the serenity of midnight...
At a raucous party in his home, J. Wellington Wayne is shot and killed by someone outside the house. Famed sleuth the Master Mind is brought in on the case and uncovers the culprit.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
anthropomorphic
What's going on to-nite!
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Ryan signs in the final panel.
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anthropomorphic
See how you like it
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A two-page spread.
Top-Guy

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typeset
Subject Matter
crime, drama
Johnny O'Hara; Scarcheek Joe Bender (villain); Connie; Mack
The wheels of the heavy truck...
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Jig Saw Trail

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
western
Bill; Ann; Bragg
I made another jig-saw puzzle fer you, Ann!
Bill makes jig-saw puzzles to amuse his friend Ann. When she is kidnapped and held for ransom, she leaves a trail of jig-saw pieces for Bill and the posse to follow.
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FlagFunny Picture Stories v3 #3 published May 1939
as Jig Saw Trail [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
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Wood signs in the final panel.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
humorous
Rough House Annie
Rough House Annie!
The judge points out that it's no crime to throw her husband's pants out of a 10th floor window, but Annie's husband had been in them!
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1
credits by Jerry Bails
A Slight Error

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
mystery
Neil "Lucky" Coyne; Mike McDune; Killer Sloane; Dr. Samuel Brown
A fine way to look for a bunch o'murders!
Detectives Coyle and McDune are searching for escaped murderer Killer Sloan. They stop off to visit their friend Dr. Samuel Brown. While there, two thugs knock on the door and force the Doc to come with them to treat a pal. Brown insists he cannot help, but Sloan threatens to kill him otherwise. Leaving two vicious dogs to watch him, Sloan shoots at the two detectives. The dogs recognise Brown as the veterinarian who treated them some time earlier, and he orders them to attack Soan.
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FlagKeen Detective Funnies v2 #6 published June 1939
as A Slight Error [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
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credits from Jerry Bails.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
humorous
Dormitory Daze
Waddaya mean--wearin' my only coat?
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Cop Killer

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
crime
Frenchy; Detective Higgins; Sergeant Ryan
Boy, this sure is a pipe!
The police believe that Frenchy has reformed, but he robs and kills with impunity and scoffs at the gullible police. But when Sergeant Ryan greets him with a hearty slap on the back, it opens a gunshot wound he had sustained in killing Detective Higgins, and he confesses.
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FlagLittle Giant Comics #1 published July 1938
as Cop Killer [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
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Previously credited to Creig Flessel, but Binder signs on the sixth panel of page one.
Pot o' Gold

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
western
Hi thar, stranger. Enjoyin' yerself?
A stranger in town is offered a share in a gold mine for $5,000. He works and works but comes to the conclusion the mine has dried up. Weeks later the seller arrives, thinking the sucker will have cleared out by now, but they fight, and a bullet uncovers a vein of gold overhead.
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FlagStar Ranger Funnies v2 #4 published August 1939
as Pot o' Gold [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
3
Rafael Astarita credit from Ken Quattro (23 June 2019). Original indexer for original story credited Dick Dyer [as D. Dyer].
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Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
anthropomorphic
I think I'll have a swim!
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1
Six unrelated gag panels.
Fangs of the Cougar

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
western
Ross Westley; Madge Fenwick; Pete the Mad Hunter
I'd like to run into the madhunter today [sic].
Ross Westley wants to find the Mad Hunter who raids his traps. In one of them he find a young woman trapped by the ankle. He takes her back to his cabin, where he hears how her guide made off with the animals. When the guide fails to find any money, he comes to the cabin intending to rob her, but is attacked by Westley's pet cougar. Mad Hunter and guide are one and the same.
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FlagAmazing Mystery Funnies v2 #5 published May 1939
as Fangs of the Cougar [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
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Chambers signs in the final panel.

Art credits noted by Jim Vadeboncoeur via error report.
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Miscellaneous
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[untitled]

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Miscellaneous
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