Amazing Mystery Funnies #v1#3[a]

(November 1938)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 1)

advertisement / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

?

Inks

?

Letters

?; most typeset

Editing

Joe Hardie

Indexer Notes

Found on the inside front cover.

Numerous illustrated advertisements from various companies, plus plugs for current Centaur titles by Editor "Uncle" Joe, plus a subsciption coupons for the Centaur magazines being published.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 2)

Skyrocket Steele / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

Bill Everett ?

Pencils

Bill Everett (signed)

Inks

Bill Everett (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

Bill Everett ?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

An armed party under the direction of King Kurt...

Genre

science fiction

Characters

Skyrocket Steele Dodge; Sari Marston; King Kurt; Invex, the Invisible Man (villain, introduction); Vance Roy (villain)

Synopsis

Steele and King Kurt arrive in the Guard Halls of Mannin, discovering utter destruction and an invisible man who overpowers them both. Suddenly, a masked stranger appears, tells both of his captives that he has captured Sari, then fires a self-propelled bomb at the two.

Reprints

• in The Bill Everett Archives (Fantagraphics, 2011 series) #1 - Amazing Mysteries (December 2011)

Indexer Notes

Also signed - as "Bill Everett" - in the final panel.

Adventures of Newsreel Cameramen (Table of Contents: 3)

The Newsreel Man / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

Frank Frollo ?

Pencils

Frank Frollo (signed)

Inks

Frank Frollo (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Rodman I'm sending you and your friend...

Genre

adventure

Characters

Tom Norton (cameraman); Bill Rodman (cameraman); cameramen's boss; Captain Johnson (of "The Sea Wolf", death); General Fong (Chinese soldier); other Chinese soldiers; ship's crew members [Red; Joe; others un-named] (villains, some die)

Synopsis

Tom and Bill's boss sends them out on a story aboard a ship to shoot some war films, unaware that many of the crew members are planning a mutiny. After the mutiny and death of the Captain, the pair are set adrift and picked up by Chinese troops who take them where the war action is.

Reprints

• from Funny Picture Stories (Comics Magazine Company, 1936 series) #v1#6 (April 1937)

Keywords

Hong Kong; Sea Wolf (a ship)

Indexer Notes

There is no "A" in the masthead.

Story is billed as "A gripping adventure story of two roving reelers --complete".

Oddity: Norton is called "Bill" in panel 5 on page 2.

The Lama of Kadak (Table of Contents: 4)

Joe Brailey / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

Victor Dowling

Pencils

Victor Dowling

Inks

Victor Dowling

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Far in the Himalayan Mountains...

Genre

adventure

Characters

Joe Brailey [aka Briley]; Maudie; Kang; Mon-Yan-Sen (young child named the new Lama)

Synopsis

Joe has set up camp in Tibet while on his quest to find snow leopards, and makes his way with Maudie to the monastary at Kadak, where Maudie playfully plays with the Lama's hat, and is nearly killed for it until a young child puts it on. Later, the duo get to see the ceremony during which the new Lama of Kadak will be chosen.

Reprints

• from Funny Picture Stories (Comics Magazine Company, 1936 series) #v1#5 (March 1937)

Keywords

Himalayan Mountains; Tibet

Indexer Notes

The letterer transposes the letter "I" in place of the letter "A" in many places and just plain leaves the "A" put of Joe's name.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 5)

Dirk the Demon, 24th Century Archaeologist / comic story / 3 pages (report information)

Script

Bill Everett

Pencils

Bill Everett

Inks

Bill Everett

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

We find Dirk in his own private den in the castle...

Genre

adventure

Characters

Dirk the Demon [Dirk Cay] (introduction); Baron Cay (introduction, Dirk's father); Laddie; Teddy; Reggad; un-named old man (gold prospector, death)

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!

Reprints

• in Amazing Adventure Funnies (Centaur, 1940 series) #1 (June 1940)
• in The Bill Everett Archives (Fantagraphics, 2011 series) #1 - Amazing Mysteries (December 2011)

Indexer Notes

The strip is fully titled "Dirk the Demon, 24th Century Archaeologist".
Also signed - as "Bill Everett" - in the final panel.

How Terry Kilgison Flew Around The World In A Day (Table of Contents: 6)

Terry Kilgison / text story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

Lloyd Jacquet (credited as Lloyd Dyoll)

Pencils

Terry Gilkison (signed as TG) (3 spot illustrations)

Inks

Terry Gilkison (signed as TG) (3 spot illustrations)

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

The amazing inside story...

Genre

aviation; science fiction

Characters

Terry Kilgison (American ace); Tom Norb (reporter); un-identified narrator (reporter); "The Guy"

Synopsis

The amazing inside story of how the American Ace broke all records in flying around the world and how he won the million dollar flying race against his will.

Keywords

New York Planet; Osaka; Wings Club

Indexer Notes

Pages 3 and 4 are found after sequence 7.

Note that 'Dyoll' is 'Lloyd' spelt backwards, and that 'Kilgison' is a barely-concealed anagram of 'Gilkison'. It seems possible that the third spot illustration, captioned 'When...in walks Terry Kilgison!' features a caricature of the artist at right.

[The Arrival of the Weekly Rocket-Ship Excursion on Mars] (Table of Contents: 7)

2038 A. D. / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

A. S. Van Eerde (signed)

Pencils

A. S. Van Eerde (signed)

Inks

A. S. Van Eerde (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

A. S. Van Eerde ?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Well - Here we are again...

Genre

humor; science fiction

Indexer Notes

Humorous look at Earth tourists visiting Mars.
A two page spread.

Tracks in the Snow (Table of Contents: 8)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

Howard L. Hastings (credited as H. L. Hastings)

Pencils

Howard L. Hastings (credited as H. L. Hastings)

Inks

Howard L. Hastings (credited as H. L. Hastings)

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Trapper Joe Mearns battled thru...

Genre

adventure

Characters

Joe Mearns (trapper); Charlie Big-Moose (full-blooded Indian and runner for the Hudson Bay Company); un-named half-breed

Synopsis

Joe muses in his lonely, isolated cabin in the wintery wilderness over the fact that two motherless children have staked him to trap furs for the money and he has little to show for it.

Reprints

• from Western Picture Stories (Comics Magazine Company, 1937 series) #1 (February 1937)

Keywords

Hudson Bay Company

Indexer Notes

Bails has Hastings as writer of his own stories.

Fishermen's Luck (Table of Contents: 9)

Bob Colby / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

Martin Filchock (credited) (signed as Filchock)

Pencils

Martin Filchock (credited) (signed as Filchock)

Inks

Martin Filchock (credited) (signed as Filchock)

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Bob Colby took his chances...

Genre

adventure

Characters

Bob Colby (adventurer); un-named boat's Captain; Mary Ann (Captain's daughter); un-named Sheriff; four bandits [Goose (a hijacker); rest un-named] (villains)

Synopsis

Bob runs across a boat's Captain who has just sprained his ankle and helps him home, where he confides to Bob that some newspaper reporters have hired his boat to go fishing, and now he can't take them. Knowing the man needs the money desperately for he and his daughter, Bob agrees to take the men out to fish.

Reprints

• from Funny Picture Stories (Comics Magazine Company, 1936 series) #v1#3 (January 1937)

Keywords

Mary Ann (a boat); The Wren (a boat)

Man-Hunt (Table of Contents: 10)

'Wild Tex' Martin / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

Will Eisner (credited as William E. Eisner)

Pencils

Will Eisner (credited as William E. Eisner)

Inks

Will Eisner (credited as William E. Eisner)

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Reach!! Ya ol' buzzard...

Genre

western-frontier

Characters

Sheriff "Wild Tex" Martin; Rufe (land owner); Ned (Martin's Deputy); 'Breed' Crow (villain)

Synopsis

Old Rufe refuses to tell 'Breed' Crow the location of his land charter to one of the richest gold fields in the world, and is shot. Tex comes to Rufe's aid and he and his deputy track Crow to Rufe's cabin in the gold fields.

Reprints

• from Western Picture Stories (Comics Magazine Company, 1937 series) #3 (April 1937)

Keywords

Split Canyon

Good Books (Table of Contents: 11)

advertisement / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

?

Inks

?

Letters

typeset

Characters

Lone Ranger [John Reid]

Indexer Notes

Found on the inside back cover.

Illustrated advertisement from Centaur Publications, Incorporated, for a few different series of books the company is making available to readers. Some of the titles include: Nancy Drew Mysteries, Home-Run series, Picture Story books, X-Bar-X-Boys, Judy Bolton Mystery, and Don Sturdy books.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 12)

advertisement / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

?

Inks

?

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

Indexer Notes

Found on the back cover.

Illustrated advertisement from Johnson Smith and Company in Detroit, offering such items as an electric baseball game, an electric football game, a giant flying plane, a live turtle, a blank catridge pistol and much more.