Volume: #4, Issue: #1
Published: January 1940, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 52, Editing: Lloyd Jacquet; Joseph J. Hardie (publisher)
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Golden Age US Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Notes: Editor/Publisher credits from Statement of Ownership (see sequence #3).
Indicia:
January, 1940. Vol. 4, Number 1. FUNNY PAGES is published monthly by Centaur Publications, Inc., 420 De Soto Avenue, St. Louis, Missouri. Editorial and executive offices: 215 Fourth Avenue, New York, N. Y. Entered as second class matter at the Post Office at St. Louis, Mo. Single copies 10c. Yearly subscription $1.00 in the U.S.A. (other countries, $1.50). Copyright 1939 by Centaur Publications, Inc. Contents must not be reproduced without permission. No actual person is named or delineated in this fiction magazine. Printed in the U.S.A.
On sale date from the publication date found at the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, New Series, Volume 35, January-December 1940, Numbers 1-4. Class B periodical. Copyright number B 441346.
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| Advertisement (1 page) |
Learn to Play Checkers! |
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How to Win at Checkers |
| Credits: |
Script: Millard F. P. Hopper? | Letters: typeset |
| Promo (ad From The Publisher) (0 pages) |
Hey Fellas! Here's the Amazing Man! |
| Featuring: |
Amazing-Man Comics |
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Pencils: ? [as G. P.] (signed) | Inks: ? [as G. P.] (signed) |
| Characters: |
Amazing-Man |
| Statement Of Ownership (0 pages) |
Statement of Ownership |
| Credits: |
Script: Joseph J. Hardie | Letters: typeset |
| Comic Story (6 pages) |
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| Featuring: |
Mantoka |
| Synopsis: |
Mantoka's father, the tribe shaman, passes his powers on to Mantoka. When the hunters of the tribe start to go missing, Mantoka finds that they have been captured by a white man who is forcing them to work in his mines. |
| Genre: |
Superhero |
| Characters: |
Mantoka (introduction Origin) Mantoka's Father; |
| Comic Story (1 page) |
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| Featuring: |
Egbert |
| Synopsis: |
Egbert gets a sled ride from Pinky. |
| Genre: |
Humor |
| Characters: |
Egbert Pinky |
| Activity (2 pages) |
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| Featuring: |
Magic Made Easy |
| Text Article (1 page) |
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| Featuring: |
Uncle Joe's Joke Page |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Martin Filchock (signed) | Inks: Martin Filchock (signed) | Letters: typeset |
| Genre: |
Humor |
| Activity (2 pages) |
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| Featuring: |
Your Page |
| Synopsis: |
Numerous drawings sent in by readers. |
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Pencils: ?; Rose Marie Imes; Claude Cook; John Choffey; Roland Santurri Cranston; Thomas Harris; Ethel Arnold; Larry McVay; Thomas Main; Carolton Burchet; Harry Powell; Raymond Fielding; Edwin Jones; Stephen Eugene Piles; Morty Rothenburg; Armstead Hudnell; Meyer Roiter; Jack Grau; Teresa Bilotta; Lenore Hutchings; H. Lasseter; Ann Oustod; Emile Hamel; Jack Malott; Uphouse Tatarunis; Tommy Tomlinson; Joe Miller |
| Activity (1 page) |
Lesson #13 |
| Featuring: |
Cartooning The Perfect Hobby! |
| Comic Story (4 pages) |
White Goddess [conclusion] |
| Featuring: |
Diana Deane in Hollywood |
| Synopsis: |
Zuma shoots and kills Briny Bill from a hiding place, cutting short his reunion with Ora. However he falls from his perch and is killed by a gorilla. Gary begins to take Ora, now Joan Trever once more, back to England as Bill wished. But the two have fallen in love, and Joan agrees to go with Gary to America as his bride. |
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Adventure |
| Characters: |
Ora [Joan Trevor] Briny Bill (death) Gary Hale Zuma (villain Death) |
| Comic Story (6 pages) |
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| Synopsis: |
The fastidious librarian in a large southern city is secretly The Owl, who lives with his father in the nearby swamp. The Owl's father lost his legs because of a racketeer and spent his life designing the Owl's flying suit. They track a kidnapping gang to Zeb's farm and the Owl runs their car off a cliff. |
| Genre: |
Superhero |
| Characters: |
The Owl [Jack] The Owl's Father Zeb Hale (death) |
| Text Story (1 page) |
Uncle Joe's Joke Page |
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This is a text page filler with two spot illos. The text consists of eight joke dialogues. |
| Advertisement (1 page) |
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| Featuring: |
Remington Noiseless Deluxe Portable Typewriter |
| Credits: |
Letters: typeset |
| Advertisement (1 page) |
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| Featuring: |
Johnson Smith & Co. |
| Synopsis: |
Numerous small advertisements for goods from Johnson Smith & Co. |
| Credits: |
Letters: typeset |
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