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Issue: Amazing Mystery Funnies #11 Public Domain
Publication Date: November 1939
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Issues: #11 of 24 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagCentaur
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Centaur Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 10/05/1939
Volume: 2
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 9 (7 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
Disclose Notes: On sale date from the publication date found in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, New Series, Volume 34, 1939, Number 4. Second class periodical. Copyright number 433553.
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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 2 times as Content Items in other Issues.
Some/all of Issue reprinted as a Content Item in another Issue:
FlagCollection Fantôme #[52] published January 1946 as Le Fantôme à l'exposition [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
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Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Fantom of the Fair; Mike (a Policeman); The Thunderbolt (villain, robot, death?); "The Brain of the Robot" (villain)
First Line: Catastrophe strikes at the electrical utilities area of the World's Fair.
Synopsis: In the Electric Utilities area of the World's Fair, a giant electro-robot goes on a rampage, turned loose by some unknown person, threatening the lives of Fair goers with a million volts of electricity at its fingertips. The Fantom battles the metal menace until he discovers the brains behind the controls, then deals with him.
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In Content Item: FlagFantoman #3 published October 1940
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagContinuum #3 published December 2007
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]excerpts
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Barry Finn; Joan Hart; Frogga; Dr. Allan West; Dorian West (Allan's daughter); Colonel Blake; Dacia Zaroff (villain); Sulla (villain, Dacia's assistant); Dr. Zaroff (villain, Dacia's father)
First Line: Hurry, Joan, we haven't much time --
Synopsis: Barry and Joan receive an invitation to a Grand Ball in Washington, but Zaroff's daughter also receives one, and she has her sights set on some plans for a new invention being carried by a Colonel Blake.
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Pages: 6
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Character(s): The Inner Circle [Major Paul Ramsay; George Selkirk]; Sir Edmonton (Secretary of the Exchequer); The Blue Robins [Mr. Breton (leader); Doc; Monk; Murphy] (villains)
First Line: London. In the early morning...
Synopsis: Major Ramsay and George Selkirk infiltrate the nefarious Blue Robins in order to get information as to the group's activities and to stop their bombings of important British districts, and to prevent the kidnapping of Sir Edmonton.
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Pages: 7
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The Hidden Empire (Part 3)

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, science fiction
Character(s): Don Dixon; Dr. Lugoff; Wanda; Queen Tania; Oreg; dragon creature (villain, death); Queen Dagmar (villain); Prince Taal (villain, restored to good)
First Line: Taal attempts to save the Bogvetch.
Synopsis: Don and his friends succeed in capturing a stone, a talisman of youth, whose blazing rays return Tania to her rightful state, but reduces the Queen to that of an ugly hag.
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Reprint Notes: from Don Dixon and the Hidden Empire Sunday (Watkins Syndicate) 1937-12-xx - 1938-01-xx
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Next issue begins "The War of the Marshland".
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Runaway Rocketship

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Speed; Mike Reilly (Speed's assistant)
Synopsis: Speed and Mike act quickly to stop a runaway freight rocket train carrying three bombs from causing a major catastrophe.
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Pages: 2
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, aviation, science fiction
Character(s): Jon Linton (scientist); Dr. Kane (Don's teacher); Lisa Kane; Timothy Burke (head of International Secret Service); Tarmak (villain, death); Satan Rex (villain)
First Line: It is the year 2009 A.D....
Synopsis: Jon and Dr. Kane feverishly work in the bowels of a dead volcano, attempting to perfect a new space ship. Unfortunately, a visit from Mr. Burke has led nefarious individuals to the secret lab site, one of which carries a mysterious tattoo on his forehead.
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Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Actually, it's the year 2013, but let's not quibble.

Continued next issue.
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The Strange Creature Half-Man Half-Horse!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Speed Centaur; Reel McCoy; Slug Fest (villain); Dickie the Dunce (villain); Pier Sicx (villain); Hophead Hogan (villain); Charlie "Horse" Schmidt (villain); Slug (villain); Butch (villain)
Synopsis: Five different gangs in the city are organizing themselves to attack Speed and Reel.
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Pages: 9
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Advertisement  on  Cover, Back
Credits
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Illustrated advertisement from Johnson Smith and Company, offering readers over 7000 different novelties, such as a vestpocket folding camera for 39 cents, a midget racer for 25 cents, a 30-shot BB pistol for 25 cents and much more.

Found on the back cover.

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