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Issue: Amazing Mystery Funnies #2 Public Domain
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Title:
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 (9 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Lloyd Jacquet
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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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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
Indicia on this Page
 
 
Assets0
 
[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Bill Everett (signed)
Bill Everett (signed)
?
?
Subject Matter
science fiction
Skyrocket Steele
Sari Marston; Vance Roy
Reprinting
FlagThe Bill Everett Archives #1 published December 2011
as Amazing Mystery Funnies #v1#2 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
1
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Bill Everett (signed)
Bill Everett (signed)
Bill Everett (signed)
?
?
Subject Matter
science fiction
Skyrocket Steele
Skyrocket Steele Dodge (introduction); Sari Marston; Peter Muhr; King Kurt; Minister Craid; Tal (villain, Lieutenant in command of Mannin); Vance Roy (villain)
It is the year "X" (about 2500 A.D.) and our three friends.......
Steele heads to the planet out-post Mannin at the request of King Kurt to investigate the mysterious bat raids that supposedly have been occuring.
Reprinting
FlagAmazing Adventure Funnies #1 published June 1940
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagThe Bill Everett Archives #1 published December 2011
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
5
This is the first Skyrocket Steele story, even though he was featured on the cover of the previous issue.
Bill Everett also signs in the final panel.
The Sacred White Elephant

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Victor Dowling [as Victor J. Dowling] (credited)
Victor Dowling [as Victor J. Dowling] (credited)
Victor Dowling [as Victor J. Dowling] (credited)
?
?
Subject Matter
Brailey of the Tropics
Joe Brailey
Reprinting
FlagFunny Picture Stories v1 #1 published November 1936
was The Sacred White Elephant [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
7
Diamond of Doom

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Phil Richards (signed)
J. M. Wilcox [as Milt Wilcox] (signed)
J. M. Wilcox [as Milt Wilcox] (signed)
?
?
Subject Matter
mystery
Speed Rush
Speed Rush; O. Fenton (diamond cutter); Machine-Gun Corson (villain); Rocks McCool (villain)
Reprinting
FlagDetective Picture Stories #2 published January 1937
was Diamonds of Doom [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
7
Rocks of Fate

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
?
?
?
Subject Matter
western
Reprinting
from ? (Comics Magazine Company, ? series) #?
Miscellaneous
4
It seems likely that this is a Comics Magazine Company reprint, but no match is currently known.

Story printed in black and red only.
An Excursion to Mars

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
A. S. Van Eerde (signed)
A. S. Van Eerde (signed)
A. S. Van Eerde (signed)
?
?
Subject Matter
2038 A. D.
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
2
1st appearance of strip. A two page spread.
Flying Bluff

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Lloyd Jacquet [as Lloyd] (credited)
Terry Gilkison [as Gilkison] (signed) (2 spot illustrations)
Terry Gilkison [as Gilkison] (signed) (2 spot illustrations)
?
typeset
Subject Matter
adventure, aviation
Lieutenant Powell Branson of the Chinese Flying Corps; Lieutenant Nakamura (Japanese pilot)
Branson and Nakamura are involved in a dog-fight over the Yangtsee River, and both survive.
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
2
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Will Eisner [as William Eisner] (signed)
Will Eisner [as William Eisner] (signed)
Will Eisner [as William Eisner] (signed)
?
?
Subject Matter
The Brothers 3
The Brothers 3 [Capt. Smith; Baron Carl von Kirchoven; Fatts Dugan]; J. M. Thormick; Commandant Phillippe; Ben Ali (leader of a desert tribe)
In the office of the French Foreign Legion in French Morrocco - a prominent merchant pleads...
Reprinting
FlagFunny Picture Stories v1 #4 published February 1937
was [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
7
Also signed, as "Eisner", on the final panel.
Treachery on the Trail

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
H. Muheim (signed)
H. Muheim (signed)
H. Muheim (signed)
?
?
Subject Matter
western
Tom Travis; Sal Travis; Onah the Chippewa
Reprinting
FlagWestern Picture Stories #1 published February 1937
was Treachery on the Trail [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
7
The Red Raider

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Ed Moore [as E. McD. Moore, Jr.] (signed)
Ed Moore [as E. McD. Moore, Jr.] (signed)
Ed Moore [as E. McD. Moore, Jr.] (signed)
?
?
Subject Matter
adventure
The Red Raider; Lt. Smoky Battle
Reprinting
FlagFunny Picture Stories v1 #2 published December 1936
was The Red Raider [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
7
Moore also signs - as Ed Moore - on the final page.

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