Volume: #1, Issue: #1
Published: November 1936, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 68, Editing: William Cook
Color: Color Cover; Black & White And Color Interior Dimensions: Standard Golden Age US Paper Stock: Paper Cover; Newsprint Interior Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Notes: Funny PICTURE STORIES is published monthly by Comics Magazine Company, Inc., 420 DeSoto Avenue, St. Louis, Mo. Editorial Office, 12 West 42nd Street, New York, N. Y. Application for second class entry pending at post office, St. Louis, Mo., under the Act of March 3rd, 1879. Subscription price: One (1) year, 12 issues, in the United States and its Possessions, and Canada, $1.00. Single copies, 10 cents.
Order of stories, synopses and credits added from scan of credit page, actual contents and page lengths of stories need to be verified from actual copy.
On sale date from the publication date as submitted to the U.S. Copyright Office found in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1936, New Series, Volume 31, Number 4. Class B periodical. Copyright registration number B 313517.
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| Cover (1 page) |
Alias The Clock |
| Featuring: |
The Clock |
| Credits: |
Pencils: George Brenner | Inks: George Brenner ? |
| Genre: |
Detective-mystery |
| Characters: |
The Clock |
| Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword (1 page) |
Contents |
| Synopsis: |
Short synopses and credits for each of the stories in the issue. |
| Credits: |
Letters: Typeset |
| Comic Story (7 pages) |
Alias The Clock |
| Featuring: |
The Clock |
| Synopsis: |
The Clock captures a night-watchman who was in on a jewel heist. |
| Credits: |
Script: George Brenner | Pencils: George Brenner | Inks: George Brenner |
| Genre: |
Detective-mystery |
| Characters: |
The Clock (introduction ?) |
| Comic Story (7 pages) |
The Border War |
| Featuring: |
Tom Campbell |
| Synopsis: |
"Tom Campbell, Yank soldier of fortune, takes a fling along the banana border." (synopsis from table of contents). |
| Credits: |
Script: Ed Moore [as E. McD. Moore, Jr.] | Pencils: Ed Moore [as E. McD. Moore, Jr.] | Inks: Ed Moore [as E. McD. Moore, Jr.] |
| Genre: |
Adventure |
| Characters: |
Tom Campbell |
| Comic Story (7 pages) |
Red Dolan |
| Featuring: |
Red Dolan |
| Synopsis: |
"Young Dolan knew his pal was not guilty - but he had to take a big chance to prove it." (synopsis from table of contents). |
| Credits: |
Script: Joe Campbell [as Joe Campbell, Jr.] | Pencils: Joe Campbell [as Joe Campbell, Jr.] | Inks: Joe Campbell [as Joe Campbell, Jr.] |
| Genre: |
Detective-mystery |
| Characters: |
Red Dolan |
| Comic Story (8 pages) |
The Floating City |
| Featuring: |
Dick Kent |
| Synopsis: |
"The whole world goes topsy-turvy and Dick Kent is trapped by wierd (sic) men above the clouds." (synopsis from the table of contents). |
| Credits: |
Script: Arthur Pinajian (credited) | Pencils: Arthur Pinajian (credited) | Inks: Arthur Pinajian (credited) |
| Genre: |
Adventure |
| Characters: |
Dick Kent |
| Comic Story (8 pages) |
Mountain Murder |
| Synopsis: |
"Blood-red feud haunted the hills of Tennessee and Jim Tyson trailed his enemy to showdown under the moon." (synopsis from table of contents). |
| Credits: |
Script: Joe E. Buresch (credited) | Pencils: Joe E. Buresch (credited) | Inks: Joe E. Buresch (credited) |
| Genre: |
Adventure |
| Characters: |
Jim Tyson |
| Comic Story (7 pages) |
Shanghaied |
| Synopsis: |
"A rough, tough and salty gent was Rat Larson, skipper of the Morgelon. But a smuggler meets a weasel. Keno!" (synopsis from table of contents) |
| Credits: |
Script: John Patterson [as J. A. Patterson] | Pencils: John Patterson [as J. A. Patterson] | Inks: John Patterson [as J. A. Patterson] |
| Genre: |
Adventure |
| Characters: |
Rat Larson |
| Comic Story (2 pages) |
Wild Horse |
| Synopsis: |
"A short, short Western yarn of a range beauty and the puncher who threatened to brand him for keeps." (synopsis from table of contents) |
| Credits: |
Script: Buck Ringoe (credited) | Pencils: Bill Allison [as W. M. Allison] | Inks: Bill Allison [as W. M. Allison] |
| Genre: |
Western-frontier |
| Comic Story (8 pages) |
The Case of the Broken Skull |
| Featuring: |
The Spinner |
| Synopsis: |
"The Spinner weaves an exciting mystery around romance in the hill cave regions. A real thriller." (synopsis from table of contents). |
| Credits: |
Script: Bert Christman (credited) | Pencils: Bert Christman (credited) | Inks: Bert Christman (credited) |
| Genre: |
Adventure |
| Characters: |
The Spinner (introduction) |
| Comic Story (7 pages) |
The Sacred White Elephant |
| Featuring: |
Brailey of the Tropics |
| Synopsis: |
Thieves angle to take a baby white elephant from Brailey. |
| Credits: |
Script: Victor Dowling (credited) | Pencils: Victor Dowling (credited) | Inks: Victor Dowling (credited) |
| Genre: |
Jungle |
| Characters: |
Joe Brailey Chola Stark Dorothy Korni Rambai (elephant) |
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