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Issue: Amazing Mystery Funnies #18 Public Domain
Publication Date: March 1940
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Issues: #18 of 24 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagCentaur
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Centaur Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 01/06/1940
Volume: none
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 12 (11 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
Disclose Notes: On sale date from the publication date found at the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, New Series, Volume 35, January-December 1940, Numbers 1-4. Second class permit. Copyright number 445033.
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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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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Speed Centaur [Jerry R. McCoy]
First Line: The Speed dashed the charging stallion to the ground...
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In Content Item: FlagThe Bill Everett Archives #2 published September 2013
as Amazing Mystery Funnies #18 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: The artist signs 'Everett 39'.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Speed Centaur [Jerry R. McCoy]; Reel McCoy
First Line: U.S. refuses to sell horses to nations at war.
Synopsis: There is a shortage of horses for the armed forces. Speed and Reel fly to wild horse country, where Speed fights and defeats the leader of a herd of wild horses. In an attempt to capture a group of enemy agents, Reel goes into town and brags loudly about the valley he has found teeming with a thousand wild steeds.
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Pages: 9
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): George Selkirk; Major Ramsey
First Line: November--1938.
Synopsis: A shipment of gold, worth $50,000, is loaded onto a ship, but three days out it is stolen by men using a submarine. Selkirk and Ramsey attempt to capture the thieves by planting false stories of upcoming gold shipments.
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Pages: 7
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Jon Linton; Satan Rex; Burke; Lisa Kane
First Line: In the year 2000 A.D....
Synopsis: In 2000 A.D. Satan Rex plans to destroy the Earth by plunging it into the path of the sun. Linton appears to willingly join forces with him, but is secretly working towards his downfall.
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Pages: 8
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Feature(s): Fantastic Projects
Synopsis: Scientific possibilities of today and tomorrow.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Two 0.5 page panels.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Bill Bilson; Davy; Jane Trew; Dreary; Jamaica Jones
First Line: Well, Miss Trew...
Synopsis: Bill and Davy are aboard the 'Lady May' owned by Jane Trew. Bill begins to fall for the young girl, but is too insecure to tell her. Eventually he plucks up enough courage to ask for her hand in marriage, but she turns him down. On the wharf they encounter Jamaica Jones, who drugs their drink and shanghais them.
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Pages: 6
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Jungle Mad

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, jungle
Character(s): Martin Vernon
First Line: Deep into the wilderness went young Vernon...
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Pages: 2
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Fantasy Isle: Chapter 2

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, fantasy
Character(s): Tippy Taylor; Katrina; Alphonzo
Synopsis: Tippy Taylor is on Fantasy Isle, where he is ten times larger than its inhabitants. One faction tries to enlist his aid in an effort to conquer another faction, but Tippy's sense of fair play allows him to bring about an armistice.
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Loomis was previously credited with the script, but Bails' Who's Who only gives him as penciller and inker at Centaur.
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The Fiend of Halwith Hall

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: drama
Character(s): John Degen; Doctor Sloane; The Fiend (villain)
First Line: The wife and children of a famous scientist die...
Synopsis: A man known as The Fiend escapes from a lunatic asylum and begins a systematic attack on doctors. Detective John Degen is called onto the case and tracks the villain down, only to be captured and left to die by an explosive device.
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Pages: 5
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The Ghost of Kirkwood

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Larry Kane; Mrs. Harriman Randolph; Betty Randolph
First Line: Gosh, this monotony is getting me down...
Synopsis: Adventurer Larry Kane finds himself in England, bored by the monotony of life. He meets Mrs. Randolph and her daughter on the street and they tell him of weird doings at Kirkwood Castle. He goes to investigate, and finds that the strange occurrences are caused by a gang of robbers who are using the place as a hideout.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: espionage
Feature(s): Spy A-5
Character(s): Dr. Karl Jordan; King Storm; Elsa Jordan; Spy A-5 [Harry Jackson]; Demarr (villain)
First Line: On a small secluded estate...
Synopsis: Dr. Jordan and King have just completed a new stratosphere plane, which they are about to unveil to the U.S. government. A group of foreign agents first try to buy the plans, then attempt to steal them, but King is too quick witted for them.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Fantom of the Fair; Dr. Tin Loy (villain); Morris Green (villain)
First Line: One stormy night, as the heavens seem to split...
Synopsis: Dr. Tin Loy creates brutish monsters in his laboratory and sends them forth to spread fear and cause disruption. The Fantom of the Fair engages them in battle, and discovers that they can be disintegrated with jet streams of simple water.
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In Content Item: FlagFantoman #4 published December 1940
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In Content Item: FlagContinuum #6 published October 2008
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Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Script and letterer credits courtesy of Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson.

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