Title: Amazing Adventure Funnies
Date: Jun 1940 | Number: 1 | Lang: English (en)
Additional Information
Publication June 1940 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly
Featuring Fantom of the Fair
Content Genre: Superhero
Statement of Ownership Statement of the Ownership, Management, Circulation, etc.
Synopsis October 31, 1939 ownership statement for "Comic Pages"
Credits Script: Joseph J. Hardie | Letters: typeset
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
Publisher advertisement Read the Centaur Group
Credits Script: Lloyd Jacquet?
Notes House ad for Amazing Mystery Funnies, Keen Detective Funnies, and Funny Pages. All three are monthly.
Synopsis As the Fair gets ready for the opening of its second season, multiple catastrophes occur.
Content Genre: Superhero | Characters: Fantom; Mr. Farlan; Finnegan; Relmar
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.
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.
Content Genre: Superhero | Characters: Fantom (introduction); Andy (a painter); Collins (a Policeman); Russel (a Policeman); Johnson (a contractor); Occo (villain, a contractor); Marco (villain
Notes Script and lettering credits by Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson.
Content Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Fantom of the Fair
Notes Script and lettering credits by Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson.
Featuring Dirk the Demon
Content Genre: Science Fiction
Notes Everett signs - as "Bill Everett" - on both the first and last pages.
Featuring Skyrocket Steele
Content Genre: Science Fiction
Notes Everett signs - as "Bill Everett " - on both first and last pages.
Text Story Flying Bluff (2 pages)
Credits Letters: typeset
Content Genre: Aviation | Characters: Lt. Powell Branson of the Chinese Flying Corps
Notes Described in the heading as "A short short story".
Synopsis Speed races the train, to pick up a serum that might save a young boy's life.
Content Genre: Adventure | Characters: Speed Silvers; Elsie Muldoon; Mike Muldoon; Dr. Milan; Dr. Landin; Chuck; Dr. Lowe
Notes Tagline for this feature is "A Fast-Moving Streamline Train Story"
Featuring Captain Curry
Content Genre: Adventure
Comic Story The Hooded Cult (4 pages)
Featuring Stoney Dawson
Content Genre: Science Fiction | Characters: Stoney Dawson
Notes Signed on last page of story.
Comic Story Part 1 - The Professors Enemy! (5 pages)
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.
Featuring Air-Sub 'D X'
Content Genre: Science Fiction | Characters: Professor Gray; Tim; Rita; Curley (villain); Kirk (villain)
Content Genre: Superhero
Notes Story signed on 2nd page.
Publisher advertisement "Read the complete story"
Credits Script: Lloyd Jacquet?
Notes Tiny reproductions of two pages from the May issue of Amazing Man.
Featuring Fantastic Projects!
Content Genre: Non-fiction
Notes One page illustrated look at rail transportation of the past, present and future.
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