Volume: #2, Issue: #2
Published: October 1937, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 68, Editing: Harry "A" Chesler (Editor); George Nagle (Managing Editor)
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Golden Age US Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing
Notes: From indicia on inside front cover:
FUNNY PAGES is published monthly at 404 N. Wesley Ave., Mount Morris, Ill., for Comics Magazine Company, Inc., 1213 W. 3rd St., Cleveland, Ohio. EDITORIAL OFFICE, 11 W. 42nd St., New York, N. Y. From indicia on contents page: FUNNY PAGES is published monthly by Ultem Publications, Inc., Mount Morris, Illinois. EDITORIAL OFFICE, 276 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK, N. Y.
Incorrectly listed as v2#3 in indicia on inside front cover; correct numbering on contents page. Index created from a scan from http://goldenagecomics.co.uk/. Scan missing 8 center pages, which would fall between sequences 18 & 19, and include at least one page of the text story. Keltner's guide lists many more features than could fit in the missing pages.
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| Cover (1 page) |
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| Featuring: |
Missing Links |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Dick Ryan | Inks: Dick Ryan |
| Advertisement (1 page) |
Our Sensational New 1937 Catalog Now Ready! |
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Letters: typeset |
| Cartoon (1 page) |
I got a kid home two years old who can do that!" |
| Featuring: |
Laughs |
| Genre: |
Humor |
| Advertisement (0 pages) |
Nix on Parties...I'm Through! |
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Letters: ?; typeset |
| Comic Story (1 page) |
Contents |
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Pencils: ? (illustration) | Inks: ? (illustration) | Letters: typeset |
| Cartoon (1 page) |
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| Featuring: |
Laughing at Life |
| Genre: |
Humor |
| Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword (1 page) |
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| Featuring: |
Jest a Minute |
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Pencils: ? (illustration) | Inks: ? (illustration) | Letters: typeset |
| Comic Story (1 page) |
Salute to Our Firemen |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Fred Guardineer (signed) | Inks: Fred Guardineer (signed) |
| Comic Story (2 pages) |
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| Featuring: |
The Great Boodini |
| Credits: |
Script: Fred Schwab | Pencils: Fred Schwab | Inks: Fred Schawb |
| Characters: |
Boodini |
| Comic Story (1 page) |
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| Featuring: |
Toots |
| Credits: |
Script: Charles Biro | Pencils: Charles Biro | Inks: Charles Biro |
| Comic Story (1 page) |
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| Featuring: |
Jungle Town |
| Credits: |
Script: Dick Ryan | Pencils: Dick Ryan | Inks: Dick Ryan |
| Comic Story (5 pages) |
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| Featuring: |
His Highness |
| Synopsis: |
Chancellor Von Strumen, regent for the boy king, over taxes the workers and threatens them with violence. Kris Lopez starts a revolt and kidnaps the king. |
| Credits: |
Pencils: John Lindermayer (signed) | Inks: John Lindermayer (signed) |
| Characters: |
King Louis Captain Eric Hagert Chancellor Von Strumen Kris Lopez |
| Comic Story (1 page) |
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| Featuring: |
School Daze |
| Credits: |
Script: Dick Ryan | Pencils: Dick Ryan | Inks: Dick Ryan |
| Comic Story (1 page) |
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| Featuring: |
Slippery Sam |
| Credits: |
Script: Bob Wood | Pencils: Bob Wood | Inks: Bob Wood |
| Comic Story (1 page) |
Thomas A. Edison |
| Featuring: |
Empire Builders |
| Credits: |
Script: Richard Speed | Pencils: Richard Speed | Inks: Richard Speed |
| Genre: |
Non-fiction Biography |
| Comic Story (3 pages) |
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| Featuring: |
Block and Fall |
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Script: Bob Wood [as BW] (signed) | Pencils: Bob Wood [as BW] (signed) | Inks: Bob Wood [as BW] (signed) |
| Genre: |
Humor |
| Characters: |
Block Fall |
| Text Article (1 page) |
Why does the opossum go into a trance..." |
| Featuring: |
Do You Know Why? |
| Credits: |
Script: Richard Speed | Pencils: Richard Speed | Inks: Richard Speed |
| Genre: |
Non-fiction Nature |
| Comic Story (2 pages) |
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| Featuring: |
Speed-a-Way |
| Credits: |
Script: John Lindermayer [as Linder Mayr] (signed) | Pencils: John Lindermayer [as Linder Mayr] (signed) | Inks: John Lindermayer [as Linder Mayr] (signed) |
| Comic Story (2 pages) |
Detective Shultz's Overcoat |
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Pencils: Rafael Astarita | Inks: Rafael Astarita |
| Comic Story (2 pages) |
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| Featuring: |
Penny Aunty |
| Credits: |
Script: John Lindermayer [as Linder Mayr] (signed) | Pencils: John Lindermayer [as Linder Mayr] (signed) | Inks: John Lindermayer [as Linder Mayr] (signed) |
| Comic Story (1 page) |
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| Featuring: |
Runt and Tuffy |
| Credits: |
Script: Dick Ryan | Pencils: Dick Ryan | Inks: Dick Ryan |
| Cartoon (1 page) |
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| Featuring: |
Turning Point in History |
| Genre: |
Non-fiction |
| Comic Story (1 page) |
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| Featuring: |
The Third Alarm |
| Text Story (6 pages) |
Loot of the Bengal Sea [Part 1] |
| Featuring: |
Dave Dean |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Fred Guardineer (illustrations, signed) [as FBG] | Inks: Fred Guardineer (illustrations, signed) [as FBG] | Letters: typeset |
| Characters: |
Dave Dean Shorty |
| Comic Story (8 pages) |
Dangerous Seas |
| Featuring: |
Dave Dean |
| Synopsis: |
A Russian charters Dave's schooner for a shady mission. |
| Credits: |
Script: Norman Daniels (signed) | Pencils: Fred Guardineer (signed) | Inks: Fred Guardineer (signed) |
| Characters: |
Dave Dean Shorty |
| Comic Story (5 pages) |
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| Featuring: |
Missing Links |
| Credits: |
Script: Dick Ryan | Pencils: Dick Ryan | Inks: Dick Ryan |
| Comic Story (5 pages) |
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| Featuring: |
Circus Days |
| Synopsis: |
Pierrot the clown is jealous of Jacques' success, so he cuts the trapeze rope. Jane sees him and takes her father's place to save his life. |
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Script: Claire S. Moe (signed) | Pencils: Claire S. Moe (signed) | Inks: Claire S. Moe (signed) |
| Genre: |
Adventure |
| Characters: |
Jacques Jaritza Pierrot Mr. Stokes Jane |
| Comic Story (3 pages) |
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| Featuring: |
Smart Alec |
| Credits: |
Script: Charles Biro | Pencils: Charles Biro | Inks: Charles Biro |
| Text Article (1 page) |
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| Featuring: |
Great Work of the Ancients |
| Credits: |
Script: Richard Speed | Pencils: Richard Speed | Inks: Richard Speed |
| Genre: |
Non-fiction |
| Cartoon (1 page) |
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| Featuring: |
In Case You Didn't Know |
| Genre: |
Humor |
| Cartoon (1 page) |
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| Featuring: |
What a Life |
| Genre: |
Humor |
| Advertisement (1 page) |
Greatest Bargain |
| Credits: |
Letters: typeset |
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