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Pages: 36
Editing: Lloyd Jacquet ?; Bill Everett (art director)
Cover Thumbnail for Motion Picture Funnies Weekly (First Funnies, Inc., 1939 series) #1 Edit Cover
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[no title indexed]
(Table of Contents)

cover / 1 page

Script:
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:humor
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Don't worry! -- I'll bring it right back again!

Indexer Notes

The mustachioed cowboy on the "now playing" posters and (to a lesser degree) the surprise lines coming from the fellow on top of the ladder's head are dead giveaways for Schwab, who per Who's Who also wrote his own gag cartoons such as this one (art spotting by Henry Andrews). Overstreet apparently also credits Schwab.

Issue Data

Indexer Notes

Indicia (transcription courtesy of Frank Motler):
Motion Picture FUNNIES WEEKLY—No. 1 Published weekly by First Funnies Inc. 45 West 45th Street, NEW YORK N. Y. Title and entire contents copyright 1939 by First Funnies Inc. Distributed exclusively by First Funnies Inc. 45 West 45th Street, New York N. Y.

Inside front and inside back covers are completely blank. Indicia is printed at the bottom of the first interior page.

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

blank page(s) / 1 page

Indexer Notes

Inside front cover is entirely blank.

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

Namor the Sub-Mariner / comic story / 8 pages

Script:
Bill Everett (signed)
Pencils:
Bill Everett (signed)
Inks:
Bill Everett (signed)
Letters:
  • Genre:superhero
Characters:
Anderson; Nelson (death); Carley (death); Karal
Synopsis:
Prince Namor, having learned of what the race of white men once did to his undersea kingdom, vows, and is encouraged, to make war on the surface dwellers.
Reprints (3)

Indexer Notes

Signed in both the first and the final panel. The indicia for this issue is at the bottom of the first page of this story, which is the first interior page of the issue. The box at the end of the last page (blanked out in the Marvel Comics version) reads "CONTINUED NEXT WEEK".

[no title indexed]
(Table of Contents: 3)

Fun-o-graphs / activity / 1 page

Script:
Pencils:
Vernon Miller (signed)
Inks:
Vernon Miller (signed)
Letters:
  • Genre:children
Synopsis:
Three illustrated items: cartoon cut-out activity; optical illusion; word game
Reprints (1)

Indexer Notes

As per scan at http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/preview/index.php?did=16991&page=52

[no title indexed]
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Kar Toon and His Copy Cat / comic story / 4 pages

Script:
Pencils:
Inks:
Letters:
  • Genre:anthropomorphic-funny animals
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Not a bad looking cat
Reprints (1)

Indexer Notes

Filchock wrote most of his own scripts, and early on most Funnies, Inc. staffers did their own lettering.

[no title indexed]
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Jolly the Newsie / comic story / 6 pages

Script:
Pencils:
George Peter (signed)
Inks:
George Peter (signed)
Letters:
?

Indexer Notes

Also signed "G. Peter" in the last panel.

Spy Ring
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The Wasp / comic story / 6 pages

Script:
Pencils:
Art Pinajian (signed)
Inks:
Art Pinajian (signed)
Letters:
?
  • Genre:spy; superhero
Reprints (1)

[Origin of the American Ace]
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American Ace / comic story / 7 pages

Script:
?
Pencils:
Paul Lauretta (signed)
Inks:
Paul Lauretta (signed)
Letters:
?
  • Genre:aviation
Reprints (1)

Indexer Notes

Signed with the artist's full name (although I cannot make out his middle name) on the final panel.

The seventh page was not reprinted directly, although the first six panels of the story in Marvel Mystery Comics #3 relate roughly the same events.

[no title indexed]
(Table of Contents: 8)

blank page(s) / 1 page

Indexer Notes

Inside back cover is entirely blank.

100% Drawing Power
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promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page

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Table of Contents ToC
    Table of Contents
  1. ["Don't worry! -- I'll bring it right back again!"]
  2. [no title indexed]
  3. ["Here is the Sub-Mariner!"]
    Namor the Sub-Mariner
  4. [no title indexed]
    Fun-o-graphs
  5. ["Not a bad looking cat"]
    Kar Toon and His Copy Cat
  6. [no title indexed]
    Jolly the Newsie
  7. Spy Ring
    The Wasp
  8. [Origin of the American Ace]
    American Ace
  9. [no title indexed]
  10. 100% Drawing Power
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  • Ray Bottorff Jr
  • John Censullo
  • Frank Lovece
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  • Olivier Ray
  • Tony R. Rose
  • Jim Van Dore
  • Mike White
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