Amazing Mystery Funnies V2#9 Billy Wright pedigree (Centaur, 1939) CGC VF/NM 9.0 Off-white to white pages....

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Amazing Mystery Funnies #9 Values

Publisher: Centaur, 1939

About Amazing Mystery Funnies #9

Paul Gustavson story, cover, and art. Tarpe Mills and Carl Burgos art.

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COVER DETAILS

Title: Dive of Death

Characters: Fantom of the Fair (also inset); Speed Centaur (inset)

Pencils: Paul Gustavson (signed)

Inks: Paul Gustavson (signed)

Letters: Paul Gustavson

Notes: Story title taken from actual story upon which the cover is based. Letterer credit courtesy of Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson.

STORY DETAILS

(8 Stories)

Title: Dive of Death!..

Characters: Fantom of the Fair; Mr. Adams (Fair show owner); Jane Adams (Adam's daughter); Tony (Adam's employee); Marcos (villain, Fair show owner, death); Marcos' henchman (villain, death)

Synopsis: A struggling Fair show owner has words and more with a fellow competitor who seems to be stealing every idea that he has had. The rival goes so far as to rig a death dive trap for the girl, and might have succeeded if not for the intervention of the Fantom.

Pages: 8.000

Script: Paul Gustavson (signed)

Pencils: Paul Gustavson (signed)

Inks: Paul Gustavson (signed)

Letters: Paul Gustavson

Reprints: Fantoman (Centaur, 1940 series) #2 (August 1940)

Notes: Script and letterer credits courtesy of Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson.

Characters: Captain Tim; Professor Gray; Dr. Ralon (death); Nelson (Ralon's assistant); un-named girl (villain, Ralon's first created human, death); girl's men (villains, all die)

Synopsis: Dr. Ralon confirms to Professor Gray that he has succeeded in bringing to life, through his evolutionizing machine, human beings from animals, when a girl and some men enter his lab and kill him. Tom and Gray soon learn that the girl was the first of Dr. Ralon's creations and that she had gone mad, killing the doctor.

Pages: 6.000

Script: Carl Burgos (signed)

Pencils: Carl Burgos (signed)

Inks: Carl Burgos (signed)

Characters: The Inner Circle [Major Paul Ramsay; John Bain (Canadian engineer); Kirby; un-named pilots]; radium thieves (villains)

Synopsis: Ramsay and Bain head up to Great Bear Lake to meet with agent Kirby in regards to several hijackings of planes loaded with radium.

Pages: 5.000

Pencils: Lochlan Field [as L. Field] (signed)

Inks: Lochland Field [as L. Field] (signed)

Notes: Inker credit by Craig Delich. Continued next issue.

Title: Don Dixon and the Hidden Empire Part 2

Characters: Don Dixon; Dr. Lugoff; Princess Wanda; Dagmar (villain); Taal (villain, Dagmar's cousin)

Synopsis: Dagmar threatens to kill Wanda and Dr. Lugoff unless Don consents to become co-ruler of her kingdom. But the Queen's jilted suitor, Taal, has other plans.

Pages: 6.000

Script: Bob Moore (signed)

Pencils: Carl Pfeufer (signed)

Inks: Carl Pfeufer (signed)

Notes: Pfeufer signed his name in the 2nd panel on page one and panel 5 on page four. Story concluded in Volume 2 #11.

Title: Rocketship Race

Characters: Thomas Piper; Mac (Piper's mechanic); Riginald Saunders

Synopsis: Tom was determined to win the Rocketship Derby Race, even though his competitor, Regie Saunders, was known for not sticking to the rules!

Pages: 2.000

Script: Lloyd Jacquet [as Lloyd Victor] (credited)

Pencils: George A. Fish [as G. A. F.] (signed) (spot illustration)

Inks: George A. Fish [as G. A. F.] (signed) (spot illustration)

Letters: typeset

Characters: Speed Centaur; Reel McCoy; Jack Pott gang [Jack Pott (leader); Jim "Droopy" Raws; rest un-named] (villains)

Synopsis: To try and catch up with the Jack Pott gang, Speed assumes the disguise of a true horse and he and Reel follow one of the gang's torpedo's into town. Speed then uses his voice to convince the thug that he is a talking horse, and the thug buys the horse from Reel and takes it and Reel to the gang's hideout.

Pages: 8.000

Pencils: Malcolm Kildale (signed)

Inks: Malcolm Kildale (signed)

Characters: Barry Finn; Joan Hart; Professor Walton (scientist, death); Sulla (villain, Zaroff's assistant); Dr. Zaroff (villain); Dacia Zaroff (villain, Zaroff's daughter); Joseph Stalin (villain, cameo); Adolf Hitler (villain, cameo); Benito Mussolini (villain, cameo)

Synopsis: Zaroff visits an English scientist who has invented a process for enlarging any insect to any size that he wishes. Seizing upon the opportunity, Zaroff kills the scientist, seizes the machine for his own purposes, and meets with leaders from the major warring powers, offering (for a price) the use of this invention. Then, accompanied by Dacia, Zaroff sails to New York, planning to release a horde of the giant insects upon the United States, bringing disease, plague and death.

Pages: 6.000

Pencils: Tarpe Mills (signed)

Inks: Tarpe Mills (signed)

Notes: Script revision from Mills to ? by Craig Delich.

Title: Knuckle Down!

Characters: Pat Mullen (a baseball pitcher); Mr. Mullen (Pat's father); Mrs. Mullen (Pat's mother, cameo); Champ (villain, a boxer); Champ's manager (villain)

Synopsis: Concerned because his name and bout is being pushed out the sports section of the newspaper by the Union school, Champ and his manager conspire to get the team's star pitcher to throw the game in the Junior Baseball Championships.

Pages: 7.000

Script: Martin Filchock ?

Pencils: Martin Filchock [also as Filchock] (signed)

Inks: Martin Filchock [also as Filchock] (signed)

Notes: Data from Jerry Bails index cards and Howard Keltners Golden Age index.

Data Courtesy of Grand Comics Database under Creative Commons license

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CGC Census Report*

Grade	NG	PG	CVR	0.5	1.0	1.5	1.8	2.0	2.5	3.0	3.5	4.0	4.5	5.0	5.5	6.0	6.5	7.0	7.5	8.0	8.5	9.0	9.2	9.4	9.6	9.8	9.9	10.0	Total
Universal	0	0	0	1	0	1	1	1	1	1	2	2	1	1	3	2	1	6	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	26
Qualified	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Signature Series	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
CGCxJSA	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Restored	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Total	0	0	0	1	0	1	1	1	2	1	2	2	1	1	3	2	1	6	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	27

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