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Issue: Amazing Mystery Funnies #20 Public Domain
Publication Date: May 1940
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Issues: #20 of 24 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagCentaur
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Centaur Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 03/07/1940
Volume: none
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 13 (11 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
Disclose Notes: "Space Patrol" is listed on the cover as a feature you will see inside, but there is no "Space Patrol" story inside.

Story order, additional story sequences and details for this issue from Bud Plant, December 2007.

On sale date from the publication date found at the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, New Series, Volume 35, 1940, Number 2. Second class permit. Copyright number 451771.
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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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Some/all of Issue reprinted as 2 Content Items in other Issues:
FlagContinuum #7 published January 2009 as Sans titre [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagContinuum #7 published January 2009 as Sans titre [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Fantom of the Fair
First Line: The gang's intended victims tucked safely under each arm...
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Pages: 1
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Fantom of the Fair; Professor Whitley; Alice Whitley; Bender (villain); Windy; Lefty
First Line: Since the closing of the World's Fair in September 1939...
Synopsis: Professor Whitley has invented a destructive device and is kidnapped by the notorious Bender gang for the secret of its power. The Fantom saves the professor and his daughter from death and pursues the gang to their hideout, where he destroys the device in the interest of humanity.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: In 1940, the Fantom strip was written by George Kapitan as well as Paul Gustavson and Frank Thomas. No extant evidence exists that is known as to who wrote this particular story.

Same applies to the artist of the story. Besides Gustavson, other known artists include Al Anders and Will Roland.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Kern'l Kilgore
Character(s): Kern'l Kilgore
First Line: Kern'l Kilgore, a free-lance veteran...
Synopsis: International soldier of fortune Kilgore finds himself in the Balkans, where he becomes inadvertently embroiled in a plot to overthrow the repressive government. Resisting arrest, he escapes and is contacted by an agent of The Phantom Princess, who warns him to lie low, but he ignores the advice and is captured and taken to the city gates.
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Pages: 6
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The Story of Fantastic Fiction

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, espionage
Character(s): George Selkirk; John Henry
First Line: We leftt George Selkirk in Angcok...
Synopsis: Selkirk observes first-hand the repressive practices of a group of racketeers who fire on fishing vessels refusing to pay for 'protection'. He telegraphs John Henry, a fellow member of the Inner Circle who is waiting for him so they can return to the States together, to ready a scheme to protect the innocent fishermen of Angcok.
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Pages: 7
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Murder Goes to College

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, drama, sports
Character(s): Larry Kane; Nelson; Curt Dawson; Henrich Luger; Ralph Lewis; Police Chief Thorndyke
First Line: The call to sport...
Synopsis: While attending a football game at his old alma mater, Kane is as shocked as the whole crowd when one of the star players is killed by a poison dart. He unveils the cuprit as the demented ex-coach Luger, though not before a second poison dart murder has occurred.
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Pages: 5
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Circle of Vicious Gold...

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Feature(s): Steve Raymond, Space-Adventurer
Character(s): Steve Raymond; Inspector Scott; Nick; The Vulture (villain)
First Line: In the sun-beaten, dusty sands of far-away Mars...
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Illustrated text story.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Bill Bilson; Davey; Jamaica Jones
First Line: Hey Bill, wake up!
Synopsis: Bill and Davey have been shanghaied by Jamaica Jones, and wake up aboard a vessel at sea. Jones tries to persuade them to help him, but a giant squid grabs Bill and pulls him under the water. Bill is victorious, but the trio find themselves stranded on a remote island with little hope of rescue.
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Pages: 8
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Chapter 4

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, fantasy
Character(s): Tippy Taylor
First Line: What a menagerie!
Synopsis: Tippy Taylor, on Fantasy Isle, completes the quest set by the wizard in order to activate his robot army, but has no idea how to return to the subterranean castle.
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Pages: 4
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Tiger

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, jungle
Character(s): Jim; Bill; Mary
Synopsis: Jim visits his old friends Bill and Mary at their jungle plantation, only to learn that a rogue tiger is terrorizing the region. The three go on a safari to kill the animal.
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Pages: 5
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Jon Linton; Lisa Kane; Professor Kane; Satan Rex
First Line: It is the year 2009 A.D.!
Synopsis: Jon and his team work constantly in an attempt to complete the rocket which should assure victory over the plans of Satan Rex to destroy the Earth.
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Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Story originally indexed with feature as "Lieutenant Lank": corrected by Bud Plant, December 2007. Credits from Jerry Bails's Who's Who.
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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: In Speed's cave on Nob Nose Mountain...
Synopsis: Speed and Reel investigate five bodies found smashed to pieces on a mountainside, and uncover a people smuggling operation.
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Pages: 9
Disclose Notes: Kildale signs in the final panel.
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Amazing Events of May

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: non-fiction
Character(s): Walter Hagen; Napoleon Bonaparte
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Pages: 1

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