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Issue: Amazing Mystery Funnies #2 Public Domain
Publication Date: September 1938
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Issues: #2 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: 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:  
Disclose Reprinted In3
Disclose Reprinted From5
Disclose Images1
Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Sari Marston; Vance Roy
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagThe Bill Everett Archives #1 published December 2011
as Amazing Mystery Funnies #v1#2 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Skyrocket Steele Dodge (introduction); Sari Marston; Peter Muhr; King Kurt; Minister Craid; Tal (villain, Lieutenant in command of Mannin); Vance Roy (villain)
First Line: It is the year "X" (about 2500 A.D.) and our three friends.......
Synopsis: 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
In Content Item: FlagAmazing Adventure Funnies #1 published June 1940
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Bill Everett Archives #1 published December 2011
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: 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.
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The Sacred White Elephant

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle
Character(s): Joe Brailey; Chola; Stark; Dorothy; Korni; Rambai (elephant)
First Line: Night broods down over the Siamese jungle...
Synopsis: Thieves angle to take a baby white elephant from Brailey.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagFunny Picture Stories v1 #1 published November 1936
was The Sacred White Elephant [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
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Diamond of Doom

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Character(s): Speed Rush; O. Fenton (diamond cutter); Machine-Gun Corson (villain); Rocks McCool (villain)
First Line: We're going to be murdered, Detective Rush!
Synopsis: Speed Rush, "hard-boiled Ace of the private detectives", is called in by Fenton, who is charged by the Rajah of Dewar to cut the famous Dewar Diamond, worth half a million dollars. International diamond thief Rocks McCool steals the gem at gunpoint, and takes Rush and Fenton aboard a ship, intending to encase them in cement and drop them overboard. But Rush disarms one of the crooks and holds the others at gunpoint until the arrival of the Coast Guard.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagDetective Picture Stories #2 published January 1937
was Diamond of Doom [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
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Rocks of Fate

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Character(s): Baldy; Blackie; Joe
First Line: Wal - H'ya, Baldy...
Reprinting
Reprint Notes: from ? (Comics Magazine Company, ? series) #?
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: It seems likely that this is a Comics Magazine Company reprint, but no match is currently known.

All pages are printed in black and red, except page two, which is in black and white.
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An Excursion to Mars

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: 1st appearance of strip. A two page spread.
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Flying Bluff

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, aviation
Character(s): Lieutenant Powell Branson of the Chinese Flying Corps; Lieutenant Nakamura (Japanese pilot)
First Line: Even though there was a war ging on...
Synopsis: Branson and Nakamura are involved in a dog-fight over the Yangtsee River, and both survive.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): The Brothers 3
Character(s): The Brothers 3 [Capt. Smith; Baron Carl von Kirchoven; Fatts Dugan]; J. M. Thormick; Commandant Phillippe; Ben Ali (leader of a desert tribe)
First Line: In the office of the French Foreign Legion in French Morrocco - a prominent merchant pleads...
Synopsis: In Morrocco, businessman J.M. Thornick has a shipment of rare herbs held up twenty five miles north. Mid-way between is the bandit Ben Ali plans to intercept the caravan and hold the cargo for ransom. The Brothers 3 are brought in and formulate a plan. Smith captures Ben Ali and flies off with him. Ali's men give pursuit, even though the caravan is in the opposite direction. While the trio hold off the Arabs, the caravan reaches Morrocco in safty.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagFunny Picture Stories v1 #4 published February 1937
was [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Also signed, as "Eisner", in the final panel.
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Treachery on the Trail

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, western
Character(s): Tom Travis; Sal Travis; Onah the Chippewa
First Line: Into the setting sun...
Synopsis: A white renegade plotted trouble.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagWestern Picture Stories #1 published February 1937
was Treachery on the Trail [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
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The Red Raider

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): The Red Raider; Lt. Smoky Battle
First Line: An utterly exhausted hillman...
Synopsis: "Hill tribes swarm on the outpost like wolves to a slaughter, but Lieutenant "Smoky" Battle led his bullettieres with Yankee courage to dare the Rango chief." (from contents page of original printing)
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagFunny Picture Stories v1 #2 published December 1936
was The Red Raider [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Moore also signs - as Ed Moore - on the final page.

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