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Issue Details

Issue V1#1
Published November 1936
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 68
Editing William Cook ?
Notes Funny PICTURE STORIES is published monthly by Comics Magazine Company, Inc., 420 DeSoto Avenue, St. Louis, Mo. Editorial Office, 12 West 42nd Street, New York, N. Y. Application for second class entry pending at post office, St. Louis, Mo., under the Act of March 3rd, 1879. Subscription price: One (1) year, 12 issues, in the United States and its Possessions, and Canada, $1.00. Single copies, 10 cents. Order of stories, synopses and credits added from scan of credit page, actual contents and page lengths of stories need to be verified from actual copy.

Cover Details - "Alias The Clock"

Characters The Clock
Genre Mystery
Pencils George Brenner
Inks George Brenner ?
Reprinted in Supermen! The First Wave of Comic Book Heroes 1936-1941 (Fantagraphics, 2009 series) #[nn]

1 page foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "Contents"

Synopsis Short synopses and credits for each of the stories in the issue.
Letters Typeset

7 page The Clock story "Alias The Clock"

Characters The Clock (introduction ?)
Synopsis The Clock captures a night-watchman who was in on a jewel heist.
Genre Mystery
Script George Brenner
Pencils George Brenner
Inks George Brenner
Notes The Clock also appears in Funny Pages V1 #6 which has the same cover date. The Clock's civilian name of Brian O'Brien is not given until the character's later run in Feature Funnies.
Reprinted in Keen Detective Funnies (Centaur, 1938 series) #v1#8; in Super-Dooper Comics (Harvey, 1946 series) #1

7 page Tom Campbell story "The Border War"

Characters Tom Campbell
Synopsis "Tom Campbell, Yank soldier of fortune, takes a fling along the banana border." (synopsis from table of contents).
Genre Adventure
Script Ed Moore [as E. McD. Moore, Jr.]
Pencils Ed Moore [as E. McD. Moore, Jr.]
Inks Ed Moore [as E. McD. Moore, Jr.]
Reprinted in Super-Dooper Comics (Harvey, 1946 series) #1

7 page Red Dolan story "Red Dolan"

Characters Red Dolan
Synopsis "Young Dolan knew his pal was not guilty - but he had to take a big chance to prove it." (synopsis from table of contents).
Genre Mystery
Script Joe Campbell [as Joe Campbell, Jr.]
Pencils Joe Campbell [as Joe Campbell, Jr.]
Inks Joe Campbell [as Joe Campbell, Jr.]

8 page Dick Kent story "The Floating City"

Characters Dick Kent
Synopsis "The whole world goes topsy-turvy and Dick Kent is trapped by wierd (sic) men above the clouds." (synopsis from the table of contents).
Genre Adventure
Script Arthur Pinajian (credited)
Pencils Arthur Pinajian (credited)
Inks Arthur Pinajian (credited)
Reprinted in Amazing Mystery Funnies (Centaur, 1938 series) #v1#3[b]

8 page story "Mountain Murder"

Characters Jim Tyson
Synopsis "Blood-red feud haunted the hills of Tennessee and Jim Tyson trailed his enemy to showdown under the moon." (synopsis from table of contents).
Genre Adventure
Script Joe E. Buresch (credited)
Pencils Joe E. Buresch (credited)
Inks Joe E. Buresch (credited)
Notes Reprint info according to Keltner index.
Reprinted in Funny Picture Stories (Centaur, 1936 series) #V3#1.

7 page story "Shanghaied"

Characters Rat Larson
Synopsis "A rough, tough and salty gent was Rat Larson, skipper of the Morgelon. But a smuggler meets a weasel. Keno!" (synopsis from table of contents)
Genre Adventure
Script John Patterson [as J. A. Patterson]
Pencils John Patterson [as J. A. Patterson]
Inks John Patterson [as J. A. Patterson]
Reprinted in Amazing Mystery Funnies (Centaur, 1938 series) #v2#1

2 page story "Wild Horse"

Synopsis "A short, short Western yarn of a range beauty and the puncher who threatened to brand him for keeps." (synopsis from table of contents)
Genre Western
Script Buck Ringoe (credited)
Pencils Bill Allison [as W. M. Allison]
Inks Bill Allison [as W. M. Allison]

8 page The Spinner story "The Case of the Broken Skull"

Characters The Spinner (introduction)
Synopsis "The Spinner weaves an exciting mystery around romance in the hill cave regions. A real thriller." (synopsis from table of contents).
Genre Adventure
Script Bert Christman (credited)
Pencils Bert Christman (credited)
Inks Bert Christman (credited)
Reprinted in Super-Dooper Comics (Harvey, 1946 series) #1

7 page Brailey of the Tropics story "The Sacred White Elephant"

Characters Joe Brailey
Synopsis "An animal man fights a plot for his life and a lovely girl in jungle wilds." (from introduction page).
Genre Jungle
Script Victor Dowling (credited)
Pencils Victor Dowling (credited)
Inks Victor Dowling (credited)