| Issue | V4#1 |
| Published | January 1940 |
| Frequency | monthly |
| Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
| Pages | 52 |
| Editing | Lloyd Jacquet; Joseph J. Hardie (publisher) |
| Notes | Editor/Publisher credits from Statement of Ownership (see sequence #3). Indicia: January, 1940. Vol. 4, Number 1. FUNNY PAGES 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. Entered as second class matter at the Post Office at St. Louis, Mo. Single copies 10c. Yearly subscription $1.00 in the U.S.A. (other countries, $1.50). Copyright 1939 by Centaur Publications, Inc. Contents must not be reproduced without permission. No actual person is named or delineated in this fiction magazine. Printed in the U.S.A. |
| Characters | The Arrow |
| Genre | superhero |
| Pencils | Paul Gustavson? |
| Inks | Paul Gustavson? |
| Notes | Editor/Publisher credits from Statement of Ownership (see sequence #3). Indicia: January, 1940. Vol. 4, Number 1. FUNNY PAGES 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. Entered as second class matter at the Post Office at St. Louis, Mo. Single copies 10c. Yearly subscription $1.00 in the U.S.A. (other countries, $1.50). Copyright 1939 by Centaur Publications, Inc. Contents must not be reproduced without permission. No actual person is named or delineated in this fiction magazine. Printed in the U.S.A. |
| Script | Millard F. P. Hopper? |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | Indexed copy is missing upper corner- the first word of the title may actually be "How" or something similar. Text claims to be by Hopper, who wrote the book that is being advertised. Ad is on the upper half of the inside front cover. |
| Characters | Amazing-Man |
| Pencils | ? [as G.P.] (signed) |
| Inks | ? [as G.P.] (signed) |
| Notes | Amazing Man is in his pre-costume incarnation. Lower left of inside front cover. |
| Synopsis | 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?] |
| Script | Joseph J. Hardie |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | 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. |
| Characters | Mantoka (introduction; origin); Mantoka's father; |
| Synopsis | Mantoka's father, the tribe shaman, passes his powers on to Mantoka. When the hunters of the tribe start to go missing, Mantoka finds that they have been captured by a white man who is forcing them to work in his mines. |
| Genre | occult |
| Script | Jack Cole [as Richard Bruce] (signed) |
| Pencils | Jack Cole [as Richard Bruce] (signed) |
| Inks | Jack Cole [as Richard Bruce] (signed) |
| Characters | Egbert; Pinky |
| Synopsis | Egbert gets a sled ride from Pinky. |
| Genre | humor |
| Script | Art Pinajian |
| Pencils | Art Pinajian |
| Inks | Art Pinajian |
| Characters | The Arrow |
| Synopsis | The Arrow captures some murdering racketeers. |
| Genre | superhero |
| Script | Paul Gustavson (signed) |
| Pencils | Paul Gustavson (signed) |
| Inks | Paul Gustavson (signed) |
| Characters | Sue; Margo; Renee; Andre; Jacques; the Maestro |
| Genre | soap opera |
| Script | Claire S. Moe (signed) |
| Pencils | Claire S. Moe (signed) |
| Inks | Claire S. Moe (signed) |
| 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. |
| Genre | western |
| Script | Jack Cole ? |
| Notes | 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). |
| Pencils | Martin Filchock (signed) |
| Inks | Martin Filchock (signed) |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | Text jokes, two with illustrations. |
| Characters | Mad Ming [Wu Chang] (introduction); Gene (introduction); Jinny (introduction); Stubs (introduction); Lee (introduction); Sergeant Stone (introduction) |
| Synopsis | G-Man Gene is called in when Stubs finds a body he thinks is a federal man. Jinny insists on going with him, and they discover an opium smuggling operation. After tracing it to Wu Chang, Jinny steals his papers for evidence. Furious, Wu Chang kidnaps her, but Gene calls in Sgt. Stone and rescues her during a raid. |
| Genre | adventure |
| Pencils | Harold DeLay (signed) |
| Inks | Harold DeLay (signed) |
| Synopsis | Numerous drawings sent in by readers. |
| 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 |
| Notes | Readers are invited to send their drawings to Ed Wood, Centaur Publ. Co. 220 Fifth Ave., New York City. |
| 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. |
| Genre | adventure |
| Script | Tarpe Mills (signed) |
| Pencils | Tarpe Mills (signed) |
| Inks | Tarpe Mills (signed) |
| Notes | From a movie produced by Allan Dorne, directed by Lee Barton and starring Diana Deane as Ora [Joan Trevor]. |
| Characters | The Owl; 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 down a kidnapping gang to Zeb's farm and the Owl runs their car off a cliff. |
| Genre | superhero |
| Pencils | Martin Filchock (signed) |
| Inks | Martin Filchock (signed) |
| Notes | 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). |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | inside back cover |
| Synopsis | Numerous small advertisements for goods from Johnson Smith & Co. |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | Back cover |