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Issue: Keen Detective Funnies #8
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagCentaur
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Centaur Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 10 (8 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color cover; color interior
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
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
Indicia on this Page
 
 
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
?
?
Subject Matter
adventure, mystery
The Clock [Brian O'Brien] (inset); Wood Police (inset); Broken Skull (inset); Rocky Baird (inset); Cap'n Jim (inset)
Reprinting
FlagFunny Picture Stories v1 #5 published March 1937panel detail
 
Miscellaneous
1
The story from which this illustration was reprinted does not appear in this issue.

Art credits verified by Fox in an interview with Jim Amash in Alter-Ego #12.
Alias the Clock

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
Subject Matter
mystery
The Clock (introduction ?); Bill Hunt; Officer Sam
- - - An all I know is I was cracked on th' head...
The Clock captures a night-watchman who was in on a jewel heist.
Reprinting
FlagFunny Picture Stories v1 #1 published November 1936
was Alias the Clock [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
7
Bayfront Cowboy

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
Subject Matter
mystery
Reprinting
FlagDetective Picture Stories #3 published February 1937
was Bayfront Cowboy [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
7
Terror of the Timber

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
Subject Matter
Billy Gordon
Officer Billy Gordon disguises himself as a lumberjack to track down a gang of log smugglers.
Reprinting
FlagFunny Picture Stories v1 #5 published March 1937
was Terror of the Timber [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
7
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Subject Matter
humorous
Gag Way!
I loost a penny here...
Gag cartoons.
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
Weapons of the West

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
typeset
Subject Matter
Plain talk from a straight-shooter.
Reprinting
FlagWestern Picture Stories #1 published February 1937
was Weapons of the West [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
2
Captain Jim and the Chinese Pirates

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
Subject Matter
adventure
Reprinting
from Funny Picture Stories (Comics Magazine Company, 1936 series) #v1#5 ?
Miscellaneous
7
Funny Picture Stories v1#5 is the only known prior instance of this feature, and the page count matches, but this has not been confirmed.
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
Subject Matter
adventure
James J. "Rocky" Baird ; Lieutenant Stonely
In the Himalaya Mountains...
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.
Reprinting
FlagFunny Picture Stories v1 #4 published February 1937
was [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
8
The Case of the Broken Skull

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
Subject Matter
The Spinner (introduction); Sue; Bruce Berry; Celia Chambers' Mr. Clabber
Look, Spinner! We found a horse's skull
The Spinner weaves an exciting mystery around romance in the hill cave regions. A real thriller.
Reprinting
FlagFunny Picture Stories v1 #1 published November 1936
was The Case of the Broken Skull [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
8
Weapons Of The West

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
typeset
Subject Matter
Plain talk from a straight-shooter.
Reprinting
FlagWestern Picture Stories #1 published February 1937
was Weapons of the West [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
2

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