(July 1939)

DC, 1939 Series
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Volume
1
Price
0.10 USD
Pages
68
Indicia Frequency
monthly
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Picture Publications Inc.
Editing
C. Elbert; Sheldon Mayer (assistant); M. C. Gaines (managing)

Issue Notes

MOVIE COMICS No. 414499—July, 1939—Volume 1, No. 4. Published monthly by PICTURE PUBLICATIONS, INC., 480 Lexington Avenue, New York, N. Y. M. C. Gaines, Managing Editor; C. Elbert, Editor; Sheldon Mayer, Assistant Editor. Entry as second class matter pending at the Post Office at New York, N. Y. Yearly subscriptions in the U. S. A. and Canada $1.50, elsewhere $2.20. U. S. A. Patent Office Trade Mark No. 414499 under the act of February 20, 1905. For advertising rates address: Combined Publications, Inc., 125 East 46th Street, New York City. Western Office: Harley L. Ward, Inc., 360 N. Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Ill. Entire contents copyrighted. Except those who have authorized use of their names, the stories, characters and incidents mentioned in this periodical, are entirely imaginary and fictitious, and no identification with actual persons, living or dead, is intended or should be inferred.

Captain Fury (Table of Contents)

cover / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
? (photo)
Inks
? (photo)
Colors
?
Letters
typeset

Genre
adventure
Characters
Brian Aherne as Captain Fury

Now Showing! (Table of Contents: 1)

table of contents / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Letters
typeset

Indexer Notes

Inside front cover.

Blue Montana Skies (Table of Contents: 2)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
photo
Inks
photo
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
western-frontier
Characters
Gene Autry; Smiley Burnette

Indexer Notes

Photo novel (fumetti).

Big Town Czar (Table of Contents: 3)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
photo
Inks
photo
Colors
?
Letters
?

Characters
Ed Sullivan

Indexer Notes

Photo novel (fumetti).

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 4)

Action Camera / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script
Smitty
Pencils
Smitty
Inks
Smitty
Colors
?
Letters
?

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Oboy! This is a swell scene...
Genre
humor

The Inkling Kid (Table of Contents: 5)

Minute Movies / comic story / 0.5 page (report information)

Script
Ed Wheelan
Pencils
Ed Wheelan
Inks
Ed Wheelan
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
adventure; humor

The New Cop (Table of Contents: 6)

Minute Movies / comic story / 0.5 page (report information)

Script
Ed Wheelan
Pencils
Ed Wheelan
Inks
Ed Wheelan
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
adventure; humor

Terrors of the Tomb, Final Episode (Table of Contents: 7)

Minute Movies / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script
Ed Wheelan
Pencils
Ed Wheelan
Inks
Ed Wheelan
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
adventure; humor

The Inkling Kid (Table of Contents: 8)

Minute Movies / comic story / 0.5 page (report information)

Script
Ed Wheelan
Pencils
Ed Wheelan
Inks
Ed Wheelan
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
adventure; humor

Sun and Sand [Episodes 1-5] (Table of Contents: 9)

Minute Movies / comic story / 5.5 pages (report information)

Script
Ed Wheelan
Pencils
Ed Wheelan
Inks
Ed Wheelan
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
adventure; humor

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 10)

Movietown / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script
Harry Lampert
Pencils
Harry Lampert
Inks
Harry Lampert
Colors
?
Letters
?

First Line of Dialogue or Text
While Horace Hope, who has been mistaken for the great director, Vom Hunger...
Genre
humor
Characters
Horace Hope

The Oregon Trail (Table of Contents: 11)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
photo
Inks
photo
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
western-frontier
Characters
John Mack Brown; Louise Stanley; Bill Cody Jr.

Indexer Notes

Photo novel (fumetti).

Captain Fury (Table of Contents: 12)

comic story / 13 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
photo
Inks
photo
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
adventure
Characters
Brain Aherne; Victor McLagen; June Lang; John Carradine; Paul Lukas; George Zucco; Douglas Dumbrille; Virginia Field

Indexer Notes

Photo novel (fumetti).

Booby Hatch Goes to Hollywood (Table of Contents: 13)

Booby Hatch / text story / 2.67 pages (report information)

Script
Ken L. Fitch
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
adventure

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 14) (Expand) /

advertisement / 0.33 page (report information)

Star Reporter (Table of Contents: 15)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
photo
Inks
photo
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
detective-mystery
Characters
Warren Hull; Wallis Clark; Marsha Hunt; Virginia Howell

Indexer Notes

Photo novel (fumetti).

A Teddy Bear for Shirley (Table of Contents: 16)

Star and Stamps / text article / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Letters
typeset

Genre
non-fiction
Keywords
hobby; stamps

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 17)

Screen Scoops / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script
Walter Galli
Pencils
Walter Galli
Inks
Walter Galli
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
non-fiction
Characters
Ed Sullivan; Tom Brown; Gene Autry; Barton MacLane; John Mack Brown

Streets of New York (Table of Contents: 18)

comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
photo
Inks
photo
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
adventure
Characters
Jackie Cooper; Martin Spellman

Indexer Notes

Photo novel (fumetti).

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 19)

Screen Scoops / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script
Walter Galli
Pencils
Walter Galli
Inks
Walter Galli
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
non-fiction
Characters
John Carradine; Martin Spellman; Brian Aherne; June Lang

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 20) (Expand) /

All-American Comics / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 21) (Expand) /

Johnson Smith & Co. / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. Captain Fury
  2. 1. Now Showing!
  3. 2. Blue Montana Skies
  4. 3. Big Town Czar
  5. 4. ["Oboy! This is a swell scene..."]
    Action Camera
  6. 5. The Inkling Kid
    Minute Movies
  7. 6. The New Cop
    Minute Movies
  8. 7. Terrors of the Tomb, Final Episode
    Minute Movies
  9. 8. The Inkling Kid
    Minute Movies
  10. 9. Sun and Sand [Episodes 1-5]
    Minute Movies
  11. 10. ["While Horace Hope, who has been mistaken for the great director, Vom Hunger..."]
    Movietown
  12. 11. The Oregon Trail
  13. 12. Captain Fury
  14. 13. Booby Hatch Goes to Hollywood
    Booby Hatch
  15. 14. [no title indexed]
  16. 15. Star Reporter
  17. 16. A Teddy Bear for Shirley
    Star and Stamps
  18. 17. [no title indexed]
    Screen Scoops
  19. 18. Streets of New York
  20. 19. [no title indexed]
    Screen Scoops
  21. 20. ["Thanks again, boys and girls of America..."]
    All-American Comics
  22. 21. [no title indexed]
    Johnson Smith & Co.
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Henry Andrews
  • Matthew Head
  • Donald Dale Milne
  • Javier Montano
  • Per Sandell
  • Daniel Thingvold
  • Jim Van Dore