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Issue: Comic Pages #6
Publication Date: December 1939
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Issues: #6 of 3 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagCentaur
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Centaur Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 10/17/1939
Volume: 3
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 22 (16 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. Class B periodical. Copyright number B 435458.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age U. S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
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Bob Burns

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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: biography, informational, non-fiction
Feature(s): Brief Biographies of Radio Stars
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Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: Top of inside front cover, indicia at bottom of the page.
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Disclose Notes: Bottom left side of inside front cover.

Four black and white small advertisements. A free catalog and coupon for fireworks from Spencer Fireworks Company of Polk, Ohio, a film roll development service from Club Photo Service of LaCrosse, Wisconsin, 300 different stamps for nine cents from Tatham Stamp Co. from Springfield, Massachusetts, and United States Stamp Album from Centaur Publications, Inc. of New York, New York.
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Don't Miss the Next Issue of...Amazing Mystery Funnies

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Character(s): Fantom of the Fair; Speed Centaur; Barry Finn; Jon Linton
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Pages: 0.35
Disclose Notes: Bottom right of inside front cover.

Promotional house advertisement for Amazing Mystery Funnies.
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Subject Matter
Genres: jungle
Character(s): Sergeant Heath; Lucifer; Rong; Jean Moorehead; Sanford; Lah; Chief Zolora
First Line: Hot day - eh - Sarge?
Synopsis: Jean, who knew Lucifer as Frank 15 years ago, asks him to find her fiancé, Ralph, in the interior of the island of Zanzibar. Rong, a native, seems to know something about where Ralph disappeared but when Lucifer and Lah capture him he escapes and takes both Jean and their canoe.
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Disclose Notes: Part 1 (of a multi-part story that was never continued).
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Genres: historical
First Line: After Chancellor Von Strumen places Eric under arrest
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Genres: humorous
First Line: I've come for the payments on the piano!
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Genres: anthropomorphic, humorous
First Line: Nice lil' doggie
Synopsis: There is no work to be had for the dogs in town, until capitalist Wolfhound comes along to hire everyone to build him a factory. The workers discover that the factory is for hot dogs. They complete it, get their pay, then tear down the building before they get turned into produce.
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Genres: humorous
First Line: Hey - what kind of service is this - anyway?
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Genres: adventure, historical
First Line: If you're not Michael Fury
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Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: First page was in black and red. Rest of the pages are in black and white.
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Genres: humorous
First Line: Good bye, Toots
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Genres: humorous
First Line: Limber up your saw-bone, mate
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Jest Jokes
First Line: Watchdog, Officer: You say the clock was stolen...
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Genres: humorous, mystery
First Line: Yeh, This is one shot Hogan
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Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: All Gustavson credits verified and courtesy of Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson.

The initials of G and P interlocking to look like a hammer, can be found on the next to last panel of the story.
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Go A-Huntin'

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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): The Dopey Kits
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Pages: 4
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Genres: western
First Line: Shore looks like I'm done fer, Keno.
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Genres: humorous
First Line: Now, Dinky was a playful pup
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Genres: adventure
First Line: I don't think I ever saw you in anything but your clown suit, Bamby
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Raising Tropical Fish

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: informational, non-fiction
Feature(s): Your Hobby
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Thrilling Mystery and Adventure Stories

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Penciller(s): various
Inker(s): various
Letterer(s): typeset
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Disclose Notes: Inside back cover.

Advertisement from Centaur Publications. Inc. to order Big Little Books with mystery and adventure themes.
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Talk Over These Telephones

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Disclose Notes: Back cover.

Illustrated advertisement from Johnson Smith and Company of Detroit, Michigan for various novelties.

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