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Issue: Crackajack Funnies #23 Public Domain
Publication Date: May 1940
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Issues: #23 of 43 Issues (44 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagWestern
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Whitman Publishing Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: 03/26/1940
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 18 (16 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Oskar Lebeck
Disclose Notes: copyright 1938, 1939 by NEA Service, Inc.; 1928 by Bell Syndicate, Inc.; 1938, 1939 by Publishers Syndicate, Inc.; 1940 by R. S. Callender; 1940 by Ellery Queen; 1940 by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc.; 1940 by Famous Artists Syndicate. Distributed by American News Company.

The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1940, New Series, Vol. 35, No. 3.
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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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A Scoop!

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Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
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Pages: 1
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Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: full page inside front cover promo for Super Comics in red & black
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The Adventure of The Coffin Clue

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Character(s): Ellery Queen (first appearance)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 10
Disclose Notes: copyright 1940 by Ellery Queen
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: western
First Line: Red Ryder and Little Beaver have returned...
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Reprint Notes: from Red Ryder (Newspaper Enterprise Association) ? - ?
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: copyright 1939 by NEA Service, Inc.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
First Line: Clyde is now in his second week of ...
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Reprint Notes: from Clyde Beatty (Famous Artists Syndicate) ? - ?
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: copyright 1940 by Famous Artists Syndicate, Inc.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, humorous
First Line: If someone is out to get Mr. Jerome...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: This is the final appearance of the "Freckles and His Friends" feature in Crackajack Funnies. The feature will move to Red Ryder Comics (Hawley, 1940 Series) starting with #4 (October 1941).
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
First Line: It's a chance of your lifetime...
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Reprint Notes: from Out Our Way (Newspaper Enterprise Association) ?
Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: copyright 1939 by NEA Service, Inc.

This is the final appearance of the "Out Our Way" feature in Crackajack Funnies. "Out Our Way" also makes its final appearance in Popular Comics (Dell, 1936 Series) this month, and stopped appearing in The Funnies (Dell, 1936 Series) in March 1940. The feature appears next in Red Ryder Comics (Hawley, 1940 Series) #4 (October 1941).
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: adventure
First Line: Months have elapsed during which time...
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Pages: 5
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, war
First Line: Have spies been sending messages...
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Reprint Notes: from Don Winslow of the Navy (Bell Syndicate) ? - ?
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: copyright 1938 by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
First Line: The Crusoe family is shipwrecked on an island...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: copyright 1940 by R. S. Callender
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Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Penciller(s): ? (illustrations)
Inker(s): ? (illustrations)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle
Feature(s): Tarzan
First Line: James Hunter Blake, the young American explorer...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
Disclose Notes: copyright 1940 by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
First Line: I'm glad to get my machine fixed...
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Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: copyright 1940 by R. S. Callender
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
First Line: Dan and Irwin are shadowing Mona...
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Reprint Notes: from Dan Dunn Daily (Publishers Syndicate) 1938-10-27 (Panel 4) - 1938-11-09
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
First Line: Wash Tubbs has tricked Frankie Slaughter into...
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Reprint Notes: from Wash Tubbs (Newspaper Enterprise Association) ? - ?
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: copyright 1938 by NEA Service, Inc.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
First Line: My book 'How to Hypnotize People'...
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Reprint Notes: from Our Boarding House (Newspaper Enterprise Association) ?
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: copyright 1938 by NEA Service, Inc.

This is the final appearance of the "Our Boarding House" feature in Crackajack Funnies. "Our Boarding House" made its final appearance in Popular Comics (Dell, 1936 Series) last month. The feature appears next in Major Hoople Comics (Pines, 1942 Series) #1.
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Starlings

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: informational, nature, non-fiction
Reprinting
Reprint Notes: from This Curious World (Newspaper Enterprise Association) ?
Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: copyright 1938 by NEA Service, Inc.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
First Line: Myra has arrived at Glamour Studio...
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Reprint Notes: from Myra North, Special Nurse (Newspaper Enterprise Association) ? - ?
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: copyright 1938 by NEA Service, Inc.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: drama
First Line: Bill and Dennie have been captured by...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4

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