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Issue: Amazing Mystery Funnies #1 Public Domain
Publication Date: August 1938
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Issues: #1 of 24 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
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: 8 (7 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Joe Hardie
Disclose Notes: Skyrocket Steele cover only, feature begins in issue #2
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color cover; color interior
Dimensions: standard Golden Age U. S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
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reprinted as a Content Item in another Issue.
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Tyrant's Gold

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Skyrocket Steele Dodge; Sari Marston
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagThe Bill Everett Archives #1 published December 2011
as Amazing Mystery Funnies #v1#1 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: While featured on the cover, there is no Skyrocket Steele story in this issue.
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Tyrant's Gold

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, jungle
Character(s): Dick Kent; Prof. Benton; Prof. Redding; Tom Benton; Panchez (native guide)
First Line: Gentlemen - According to this map we should now be in Tizan - but here we are in this valley - I must confess I'm about to give up hope!
Synopsis: Dick Kent and his party are trapped in the Lost City of Tizan.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagFunny Picture Stories v1 #3 published January 1937
was Tyrant's Gold [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Pinajian signs both first and last panels.
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The Master Mind

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Character(s): Master Mind [Warren]; Mrs. Gould; Larson (the butler)
First Line: Aint that the guy they call the 'Master Mind'?
Synopsis: The Master Mind solves the murder of banker Gould in his library. The butler did it.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Only one earlier story of this feature is known, although at least one other has been reprinted (in Keen Detective Funnies) so the other early indexes are probably incomplete or mis-labeled.
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Dragon Pass

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Character(s): The Phantom of the Hills (masked hero); Blacky Mallon (gang leader); Sheriff
First Line: Keep yore hand 'way from thet gun, deputy!
Synopsis: The Phantom warns the stagecoach carrying a gold shipment that Blacky Mallon and his gang are waiting at Dragon Pass. With the Shriff's help he sets a trap which brings them to justice.
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From Content Item: FlagWestern Picture Stories #3 published April 1937
was Dragon Pass [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Pinajian also signs the final panel.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Tom Dawson
First Line: Tom Dawson looks on...
Synopsis: Seascout Tom Dawson comes aboard an old schooner to examine the workings of the ship, and discovers that she is running contraband armaments. He is locked in the hold while the ship gets underway, then released once well out to sea. He manages to send a message in Morse Code to a nearby steamship, which results in the ship being taken when reaching its South American destination.
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Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: For this story only, the Feature Logo is "Tom Dawson Sea Scout".
A great deal is made of explaining archaic nautical terms.
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Sapphire Seas

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Capt. C. W. Scott (credited)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Character(s): Captain Eggers; Second Officer George Harley
First Line: Creeping along through the dense sea fog the Steamship Clybourne plowed her way toward New York.
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Pages: 2
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The Border War

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, aviation
Character(s): Tom Campbell, American Soldier of Fortune; Pflueger
First Line: Border dispute brings war!
Synopsis: Nakovia and Batamia go to war over a border dispute. soldiers of fortune rush to the scene of conflict to offer their services. Tom Campbell receives a captain's commission in the Nakovian Army, and is placed in charge of the country's air force, which consists of three planes only. Shot down over enemy territory he is placed in prison, but escapes under cover of night, and blows up the munitions dump.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagFunny Picture Stories v1 #1 published November 1936
was The Border War [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
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The Yellow Terror

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Dr. Eddy; Dr. Froz; Mrs. Eddy; Sunny Eddy; Lotus; Monk; Brown
First Line: Good bye Dr. Froz one day, I hope to see you in America, too
Synopsis: Noted scientist Dr. Eddy and his family are preparing to return to the States after a stint working in China. Sunny, his daughter, is attacked by agents but escapes by diving into the river. There she finds Brown, an American who had been sent to buy Eddy's new formula, tied up in a boat and robbed. They free themselves, and while the Eddys are being threatened by Oriental agents, Sunny swims across the river and brings back the harbor patrol boat.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagFunny Picture Stories v1 #4 published February 1937
was The Yellow Terror [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 9

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