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Issue: Amazing Mystery Funnies #3 Public Domain
Publication Date: March 1939
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Issues: #3 of 24 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagCentaur
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Centaur Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 2
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 14 (10 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
Disclose Notes: Vol. 2, Number 3. March, 1939. AMAZING MYSTERY FUNNIES is published monthly by Centaur Publications, Inc., 420 De Soto Avenue, St. Louis, Missouri. Editorial and executive offices: 220 Fifth Avenue, New York, N. Y.
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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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There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted from anywhere.
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Title Page
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Skyrocket Steele Dodge
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In Content Item: FlagThe Bill Everett Archives #2 published September 2013
as Amazing Mystery Funnies #v2#3 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Hello Boys and Girls

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as Uncle Joe] (credited, see notes)
Letterer(s): typeset
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Top half of the page is a letter to readers of the magazine by Uncle Joe, talking about what lies in the future as far as life as we know it is concerned. The bottom half is an illustrated advertisement from Centaur Publications, Inc. for two separate instruction books on how to learn how to draw by Chuck Thorndike ("The Secrets of Cartooning" and "The Art of Cartooning"), and the book, "Turn Your Humor Into Money", by Sydney K. Margous, all covers reporduced.
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Part 1 - The Professors Enemy!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, science fiction
Character(s): Professor Gray; Tim; Rita; Curley (villain); Kirk (villain)
Synopsis: On their way home after the "Air-Sub" has undergone a series of tests, Professor Gray and the crew fly over Curley's land, who immediately issues orders to bring the DX down, but not to destroy it.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: Burgos also signed his last name only on the last panel, and next issues story is titled "Invasion".
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Dirk the Demon [Dirk Cay]; Princess Nemo; Prince Marcus
First Line: You can land just to the right of the main building...
Synopsis: Dirk and the Princess arrive for her wedding to Prince Marcus, but they find the place overtaken by men in strange masks. They're captured, but Dirk escapes and frees the royal couple.
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In Content Item: FlagSupermen! The First Wave of Comic Book Heroes 1936-1941 #[nn] published February 2009
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)]
In Content Item: FlagGolden-Age Greats Spotlight #13 published August 2013
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
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Vanishing Men

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Phantom of the Hills; Thunder (Phantom's horse); Pete (posse member); Lem (posse member); bank robbers [Joe; rest un-named] (villains, some die); un-named Sheriff (villain, bank robber's boss)
Synopsis: The Sheriff and his posse chase a group of bank robbers into the hills, where they disappear, which they seem to do every time they commit a crime! When the posse decides to pitch camp and await the outlaws to show themselves, the Sheriff decides to look around, and is spotted by the Phantom making his way to the lair of the bandits!
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In Content Item: FlagSuper Spy #1 published October 1940
as Vanishing Men [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
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Dictator's Mistakes

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Professor Gardner (super-scientist); Luaram (villain, Dictator of Almania, death); Almanian War Cabinet (villains)
Synopsis: Dictator Luaram is determined not to let a Professor's invention, an infra-atomic bomb, leave the nation, and, instead, be used by the mad fiend to rule the world! But the wily Professor has an ace up his sleeve to deal with the mad man.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
Disclose Notes: Rex Lawrence is a by-line used by a writer at Centaur on many of their text pieces.
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The Madhouse Murder Mystery

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, crime
Character(s): "Bull" O'Rourke (Chief of Detectives); Inspector Chic Farrel (Police ace investigator); Bruce Baron (actor, death); Mary Black (nurse); Dr. Raynard (hospital staff member); Hooded Black-Cloaked figure [Marstar; aka Dr. Delamorte] (villain, brain specialist); Quando (Hooded figure's assistant)
Synopsis: Inspector Farrel is ordered by the Chief to investigate the report of a suicide at the Hillcrest Sanitarium, and pauses to question the nurse on duty when she is suddenly seized by a mysterious hooded figure in black and taken to a dungeon in the sanitarium for an immediate brain transplant.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Some pages in red tones, others in black and white.

Ethel Felder Webster is the full name of this artist/writer for Centaur. It is a good bet that she wrote this story. She signed the last panel.

Delamorte's name is also spelled on the splash page as Delamort.
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Pay Off for Mr. Ghost

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Pat O'Day (detective); un-named Police Captain; Jerry Mays (reporter); Mr. Billings; Billing's wife; The Ghost [Billing's butler]; Jane (Billing's maid); Greta (Billing's cook)
Synopsis: The Captain ordered Pat to accompany a news reporter over to the Billings place to investigate spooky goings-on, and the pair believe one of Mr. Billing's servants is to blame. However, they discover that all three are in on the plan to scare the Billings' because they haven't been paid, and this investigation would result either in bad publicity for the Billings, or the servant's salaries getting paid.
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Reprint Notes: from Detective Picture Stories (Comics Magazine Company, 1936 series) #?.
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
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The Mysterious Poacher

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Captain Dale
Character(s): Captain Dale; un-named Corporal; Charlie Bigmoose (Indian tracker); Gus Lucas (poacher)
Synopsis: Captain Dale and his buddy scouted the area for missing animals, and discovered many of them beheaded or missing entirely, and suspect that a poacher was at work.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
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Fantastic Projects!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: non-fiction
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: One page illustrated look at rail transportation of the past, present and future.
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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; Invex (the Invisible Man); Sari Marston (Steele's girl); Paul Marston (Sari's brother, spy for the Red Men of Venus); Martin (castle guard); Vance Roy (villain, mention only)
First Line: Back on Earth, after their adventure on the planetoid Mannin...
Synopsis: Invex reports to Steele that his formula for his new creation, the "Invisa-Ray", has been stolen from the safe. Unknown to either, Steele's girl has taken the formula and uses it on herself in order to trail Vance Roy unawares and see what evil plans he has in store. And what she discovers is too horrible to contemplate: the Yellow Star Army has seized control of the entire planet.
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In Content Item: FlagGolden-Age Greats Spotlight #13 published August 2013
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Bill Everett Archives #2 published September 2013
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Concludes next issue.

Everett signs the last panel.

For this story only, the Feature Logo is "Skyrocket Steele in the Year X (about 2500 A.D.)".
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Eddie the Odd
Character(s): Eddie the Odd; Bill (a bird); Bert (a bird)
First Line: Flung from a meteor, which is spinning wildly...
Synopsis: Flung from a meteor and landing on Earth, Eddie is spotted by two large birds, one of whom wants to take Eddie for his kids to play with. But the bird gets tired and drops Eddie into a nudist camp.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Cecelia Munson was a house name at Fox Publications, often used by Munson as writer and artist.
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Thrilling Mystery and Adventure Stories

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? (ad copy)
Penciller(s): various
Inker(s): various
Letterer(s): typeset
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover.

Advertisement from Centaur Publications. Inc. to order Big Little Books with mystery and adventure themes.
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Wow! The Years Biggest Bargain!

Advertisement  on  Inside Back Cover (IBC)
Credits
Writer(s): ? (ad copy)
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Found on the back cover.

Illustrated advertisement from Johnson Smith and Company in Detroit for a variety of things readers could buy: a genuine portable typewriter (for 39 cents yet), a movie projector and five films (for 89 cents), glider skates (for 79 cents), a printing press (for $2.98), and many others.

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