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Issue: Amazing Adventure Funnies #1
Publication Date: June 1940
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Issues: #1 of 2 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagCentaur
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Centaur Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 04/14/1940
Volume: none
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 16 (12 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Lloyd Jacquet
Disclose Notes: On sale date from the fanzine, Fantasy News, dated April 14, 1940 (on page 3). The comic was scheduled for release during the week of April 14-20, 1940. Information shared by Bart Bush through the Comics History Exchange page on Facebook (4 October 2016).
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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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Colorist(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
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Pages: 1
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Statement of the Ownership, Management, Circulation, etc.

Statement of Ownership  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Joseph J. Hardie
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Synopsis: October 31, 1939 ownership statement for "Comic Pages"
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Pages: 0.17
Disclose Notes: information for Comic Pages, dated October 31, 1939; Publisher: Joseph J. Hardie, Editor: Lloyd Jacquet, Business Manager: Raymond J. Kelly. Published by Centaur Publications, Inc., Co-owners: Raymond J. Kelly, S. J. Fried, Joseph J. Hardie, E. L. Angel
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Read the Centaur Group

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Lloyd Jacquet ?
Letterer(s): ?
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Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: House ad for Amazing Mystery Funnies, Keen Detective Funnies, and Funny Pages. All three are monthly.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Fantom; Mr. Farlan; Finnegan; Relmar
First Line: Deep under the fair grounds of a giant World's Fair...
Synopsis: As the Fair gets ready for the opening of its second season, multiple catastrophes occur.
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Pages: 9
Disclose Notes: An earlier art identifier thought the work was by Paul Gustavson, missing seeing "Bugg" written over the door of the plane in the last page. Bob Bugg is known to have been the artist who took over Fantom in 1940.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Fantom (introduction); Andy (a painter); Collins (a Policeman); Russel (a Policeman); Johnson (a contractor); Occo (villain, a contractor); Marco (villain
First Line: From the top of one of the towering buildings...
Synopsis: The Fantom, mentioned in a book written in Icelandic thousands of years ago, appears on the scene at the World's Fair to stop a crooked contractor who is attempting to fraudulently prevent another contractor from fulfilling his contracts.
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From Content Item: FlagAmazing Mystery Funnies v2 #7 published July 1939
was [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Script and lettering credits by Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Fantom of the Fair; Professor Carter; Sir Conway (big game hunter and explorer, death?); Sergeant Collins (policeman); Ticonda (villain, an ape, introduction, death)
First Line: Up from unknown caverns...
Synopsis: Professor Carter warns Sir Conway to return the giant white ape back to the Arctic regions where he discovered him before the ape breaks out of his enclosure and wrecks the Fair. Unfortunately, the drugs given to weaken the beast wear off too soon and the ape breaks out of the Fair's zoo and causes havoc until the Fantom steps into the picture.
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From Content Item: FlagAmazing Mystery Funnies v2 #8 published August 1939
was [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Script and lettering credits by Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson.
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Dirk the Demon, 24th Century Archaeologist

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Dirk the Demon [Dirk Cay] (introduction); Baron Cay (introduction, Dirk's father); Laddie; Teddy; Reggad; un-named old man (gold prospector, death)
First Line: We find Dirk in his own private den in the castle...
Synopsis: Dirk and his friends steal his father's hydroplane and stumble across a handgun dated 1937. Even more mysterious is the fact that he and his friends discover an air-sealed tight room loaded with gold, guarded by an old prospector, who has been trapped in the room since the 1930's!
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Pages: 3
Disclose Notes: Everett signs - as "Bill Everett" - on both the first and last pages.
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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Skyrocket Steele Dodge (introduction); Sari Marston; Peter Muhr; King Kurt; Minister Craid; Tal (villain, Lieutenant in command of Mannin); Vance Roy (villain)
First Line: It is the year "X" (about 2500 A.D.) and our three friends.......
Synopsis: Steele heads to the planet out-post Mannin at the request of King Kurt to investigate the mysterious bat raids that supposedly have been occuring.
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From Content Item: FlagAmazing Mystery Funnies v1 #2 published September 1938
was [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: Everett signs - as "Bill Everett " - on both first and last pages.
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Flying Bluff

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: aviation
Character(s): Lt. Powell Branson of the Chinese Flying Corps
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Described in the heading as "A short short story".
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Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Speed Silvers; Elsie Muldoon; Mike Muldoon; Dr. Milan; Dr. Landin; Chuck; Dr. Lowe
First Line: Speed Silvers is racing to New York.
Synopsis: Speed races the train, to pick up a serum that might save a young boy's life.
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Tagline for this feature is "A Fast-Moving Streamline Train Story"
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Captain Curry
First Line: Since the beginning of Man there have been wars.
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Pages: 7
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The Hooded Cult

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Feature(s): Stoney Dawson
Character(s): Stoney Dawson
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From Content Item: FlagKeen Detective Funnies v2 #2 published February 1939
was The Hooded Cult [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: Signed on last page of story.
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Part 1 - The Professors Enemy!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Professor Gray; Tim; Rita; Curley (villain); Kirk (villain)
Synopsis: On their way home after the "Air-Sub" has undergone a series of tests, Professor Gray and the crew fly over Curley's land, who immediately issues orders to bring the DX down, but not to destroy it.
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Pages: 5
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Arrow [Ralph Payne]; Dutch Kelly; Elaine Parker; Butts; Morley
First Line: In Dutch Kelly's night-club 'The Castle'...
Synopsis: The Arrow rescues the kidnapped grown children of a millionaire from a gang of gamblers who are using their debts to force them to commit crimes.
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Story signed on 2nd page.
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"Read the complete story"

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Lloyd Jacquet ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
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Pages: 0.66
Disclose Notes: Tiny reproductions of two pages from the May issue of Amazing Man.
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Fantastic Projects!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
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Genres: non-fiction
First Line: in the Past!
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: One page illustrated look at rail transportation of the past, present and future.

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