- Script
- Joseph J. Hardie
- Letters
- typeset
Publisher, Joseph J. Hardie, 220 Fifth Ave., New York, N.Y.;
Editor, Lloyd Jacquet, 220 Fifth Ave., New York, N.Y.;
Managing Editor, None;
Business Manager, Raymond J. Kelly, 220 Fifth Ave., New York, N.Y.
Owner: Centaur Publications, Inc., 220 Fifth Ave., New York, N.Y.;
Raymond J. Kelly, 220 Fifth Ave., New York, N.Y.;
S. J. Fried, 291 Broadway, New York, N. Y.;
Joseph J. Hardie, 220 Fifth Ave., New York, N. Y.;
E. L. Angel, 220 Fifth Ave., New York, N. Y.
Signed by:
Joseph J. Hardie, Publisher.
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 29th day of September, 1939.
Berta M. Holcepl, Notary Public
Kings County Clerk's No. 337, Register's No. 1009? [smudged]
New York County Clerk's No. 15, Register's No. 1H11? [smudged]
Commission expires March 30, 1939
[smudged, but the "3" is clear enough even though that would put the expiration earlier than the date of this document! Perhaps a typo?]
Lower right of inside front cover. Per Frank Motler, E L. Angel is Evangeline Angel, wife of Warren Angel who was the head of Kable News. Therefore Centaur was likely distributed by Kable at this point.
- Script
- Paul Gustavson (signed)
- Pencils
- Paul Gustavson (signed)
- Inks
- Paul Gustavson (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Paul Gustavson (signed)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Hello Hans!!
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Arrow [Ralph Payne]
- Synopsis
- The Arrow captures some murdering racketeers.
All Gustavson credits verified and courtesy of Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson.
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- Jack Cole ?
- Pencils
- ?
- Inks
- ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The boss says to git some of you boys and go out to the buryin' with him...
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Phantom Rider; Sherrif Warder; Blarsted
- Synopsis
- When Blarsted, the most powerful man in Mesquite, drives out the Sherrif, the Phantom Rider comes to his aid.
Art previously attributed to Martin Filchock, but Jim Amash of the Timely-Atlas list spoke with Filchock and confirmed that he never worked on the Phantom Rider nor with Jack Cole. This arguably calls into question the Cole credit as well, which was from the same source (Henry Andrews 2009-03-16).
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Martin Filchock (signed as Filchock)
- Inks
- Martin Filchock (signed as Filchock)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Changed
- Genre
- humor
Text jokes, two with illustrations.
- Script
- ?
- 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
- Inks
- ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- This is your page- so use it!
- Synopsis
- Numerous drawings sent in by readers.
Readers are invited to send their drawings to Ed Wood, Centaur Publ. Co. 220 Fifth Ave., New York City.
- Script
- Tarpé Mills (signed)
- Pencils
- Tarpé Mills (signed)
- Inks
- Tarpé Mills (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- adventure
- Characters
- Ora [Joan Trevor]; Briny Bill (death); Gary Hale; Zuma (villain; death)
- 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.
From a movie produced by Allan Dorne, directed by Lee Barton and starring Diana Deane as Ora [Joan Trevor].
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Martin Filchock (signed)
- Inks
- Martin Filchock (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- When crime breaks out, The Owl prowls...
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Owl [Jack]; The Owl's father; Zeb Hale (death)
- 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.
Neither the Owl nor his father are named in the story. While Filchock generally wrote the stories he illustrated, Jerry Bails' Who's Who specifically lists him as only the artist here (Henry Andrews 2009-03-10).
The Owl's first name was Jack, but his last name was never revealed.