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Issue Details

Issue #v3#1
Published January 1940
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 68
Editing Lloyd Jacquet (listed in statement of ownership); Joe Hardie (actual)
Notes January, 1940. Vol. 3, Number 1. AMAZING MYSTERY FUNNIES 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.

Cover Details

Characters Fantom of the Fair
Genre superhero
Pencils Paul Gustavson (signed)
Inks Paul Gustavson (signed)
Notes Original indexer listed art credits as Robert Butts but is signed Gustavson.

8 page Fantom of the Fair story "No. Grimes!! I won't sell the coal mines"

Characters Fantom of the Fair
Genre superhero
Script Paul Gustavson
Pencils Paul Gustavson (signed)
Inks Paul Gustavson (signed)
Reprinted in Fantoman (Centaur, 1940 series) #4

6 page Daredevil Barry Finn story "H-mm--looks pretty bad"

Characters Barry Finn
Genre adventure
Script Tarpe Mills
Pencils Tarpe Mills (signed)
Inks Tarpe Mills
Letters Tarpe Mills?

7 page Inner Circle story "Podin' me guv'nor"

Genre adventure
Script Lochlan Field
Pencils Lochlan Field (signed)
Inks Lochlan Field
Letters Lochlan Field?

8 page Tippy Taylor on Fantasy Isle story "A fortune teller told me that I was going on a long trip soon"

Characters Tippy Taylor
Genre fantasy
Script George Loomis
Pencils George Loomis (signed)
Inks George Loomis
Letters George Loomis?

2 page text story "The False Mask"

Genre detective
Script Ray Gill (signed)
Pencils Sam Gilman (signed illo)
Inks Sam Gilman
Letters typeset

7 page Don Dixon and the Hidden Empire story "While waiting for Lugoff"

Characters Don Dixon
Genre fantasy
Script Bob Moore?
Pencils Carl Pfeufer?
Inks Carl Pfeufer?
Notes Art credits from features appearance in Dell's The Funnies

7 page The Bullet story "The story opens in Dr. Vernon's hanger, where a sleek, bullet-like ship rests"

Genre adventure
Script Ralph Butts

8 page Jon Linton story "You don't mean that 'Satan-Rex' and this Eric Von Hochwalt are the same man?"

Characters Jon Linton
Genre science fiction
Script Harry Campbell
Pencils Harry Campbell (signed)
Inks Harry Campbell
Letters Harry Campbell?

1 page Stranger than Fiction story "Sir Basil Zaharoff"

Genre fact
Script Walter Galli
Pencils Walter Galli (signed)
Inks Walter Galli
Letters Walter Galli?

9 page Speed Centaur story "Prince Albert - I have a plan that will regain your throne"

Characters Speed Centaur; Reel McCoy
Genre fantasy; superhero
Script Malcolm Kildale?
Pencils Malcolm Kildale (signed)
Inks Malcolm Kildale
Letters Malcolm Kildale

1 page Adam the Atom Smasher story "Wow!! Adam's gadget is causing the Earth to spin at terrific speed!!"

Genre humor