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Issue Details

Issue #1
Published April 1939
Cover Price 0.10usd
Pages 68
Editing C. Elbert
Notes airbrushed and inked over movie photo stills

Cover Details - "Gunga Din"

Characters Sgt. Cutter (Cary Grant); Mac Chesny (Victor McLaughlin); (Ballantine) Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
Genre adventure
Pencils Jack Adler (airbrushed corrections); Emery Gondor (airbrushed corrections)
Inks Jack Adler; Emery Gondor
Colors Jack Adler; Emery Gondor
Notes airbrushed and inked over movie photo stills

1 page Now Showing foreword, introduction, preface, afterword

Script C. Elbert
Colors Jack Adler
Letters typeset

11 page story "Gunga Din"

Characters Sgt Cutter (Cary Grant); Mac Chesny (Victor McLaglen); Ballantine (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.); Gunga Din (Sam Jaffee); Emmy Stebbins (Joan Fontaine); Col. Weeks (Monatgue Love); Higginbotham (Robert Coote)
Genre adventure
Script Rudyard Kipling (original poem)
Pencils Jack Adler (corrections); Emery Gondor (corrections)
Inks Jack Adler (corrections); Emery Gondor (corrections)
Colors Jack Adler (airbrushed); Emery Gondor (airbrushed)
Notes airbrushed and lettered over movie photo stills

8 page story "Fisherman's Wharf"

Characters Tony (Booby Breen); Carlo (Leo Carillo); Beppo (Henry Armetta); Stella (Lee Patrick); Angelina (Rosina Galu); Rudolph (Tommy Bupp)
Genre drama
Pencils Jack Adler (corrections); Emery Gondor (corrections)
Inks Jack Adler (corrections); Emery Gondor (corrections)
Colors Jack Adler (airbrushed); Emery Gondor (airbrushed)

6 page story "Scouts to the Rescue"

Characters Bruce Scott (Jackie Cooper); Rip Rawson (Dave Durand); Skeets Scanlon (Bill Cody Jr); Mary Scanlon (Vondell Darr)
Genre adventure
Script Irving Crump; Wyndham Gittens; George Plympton; Basil Dickey; Joseph Poland
Pencils Jack Adler (corrections); Emery Gondor (corrections)
Inks Jack Adler (corrections); Emery Gondor (corrections)
Colors Jack Adler (airbrushed); Emery Gondor (airbrushed)
Notes continued next issue

1 page activity "Scouting Trail"

2 page text story "Killer on Location"

Script Loring Dowst
Letters typeset

1 page text article "Movie Makeup"

Characters Boris Karloff; Bela Lugosi
Genre fact
Pencils Jack Adler (corrections); Emery Gondor (corrections)
Inks Jack Adler (corrections); Emery Gondor (corrections)
Colors Jack Adler (airbrushed); Emery Gondor (airbrushed)
Letters typeset

3 page Screen Scoops character profile

Characters John Barrymore; Jackie Cooper; Peter Holden; Henry Armetta; Virginia Weidler; Cary Grant; Victor McLaglen; Leo Carrillo; Bobby Breen; Douglas Fairbanks Jr.; Bela Lugosi; Lionel Atwill; Josephine Hutchinson; Boris Karloff; Basil Rathbone; Donnie Dunagan
Genre bio
Script Walter Galli (signed)
Pencils Walter Galli
Inks Walter Galli
Colors Jack Adler; Emery Gondor

9 page story "The Great Man Votes"

Characters Gregory Vance (John Barrymore); Donald Vance (Peter Holden); Joan Vance (Viginia Weilder)
Genre drama
Script Gordon Hillman (original story); John Twist (original screenplay)
Pencils Jack Adler (corrections); Emery Gondor (corrections)
Inks Jack Adler (corrections); Emery Gondor (corrections)
Colors Jack Adler (airbrushed); Emery Gondor (airbrushed)

1 page Adventures of Phoozy story

Characters Phoozy
Genre children
Pencils Jack Adler (corrections); Emery Gondor (corrections)
Inks Jack Adler (corrections); Emery Gondor (corrections)
Colors Jack Adler (airbrushed); Emery Gondor (airbrushed)
Notes photo strip

1 page Action Camera filler

Genre humor
Script Smitty (signed)
Pencils Smitty (signed)
Inks Smitty (signed)

8 page Minute Movies story "Terrors of the Tomb"

Genre adventure
Script Ed Wheelan
Pencils Ed Wheelan
Inks Ed Wheelan
Letters Ed Wheelan
Reprinted from Minute Movies (George Matthew Adams Service) 1920s

3 page Movie Town story "Horace Hope"

Characters Horace Hope
Genre humor
Script Harry Lampert
Pencils Harry Lampert
Inks Harry Lampert
Notes continued

8 page story "Son of Frankenstein"

Characters The Monster (Boris Karloff); Ygor (Bela Lugosi); Wolf von Frankenstein (Basil Rathbone); Krogh (Lionel Atwill); Elsa (Josephine Hutchinson); Peter (Donnie Dunagan); Amelia (Emma Dunn); Benson (Edgar Norton)
Genre horror
Script Willie Cooper (screenplay)
Pencils Jack Adler (corrections); Emery Gondor (corrections)
Inks Jack Adler (corrections); Emery Gondor (corrections)
Colors Jack Adler (airbrushed); Emery Gondor (airbrushed)

1 page promo (ad from the publisher) "All American Comics #1"

Characters Scribbly; Mutt and Jeff; Toonerville Folks; Tippie; Skippy
Pencils Sheldon Mayer
Inks Sheldon Mayer
Letters typeset