The Funnies #40 (1940) for Sale - Where to Buy

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Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	-	cover	1		John Carter
1	Don Winslow of the Navy	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	pencils: Leon A. Beroth; inks: Leon A. Beroth
2	-	comic story	8	script: Edgar Rice Burroughs; pencils: John Coleman Burroughs; inks: John Coleman Burroughs	John Carter, Kantos Kan
3	-	comic story	6
4	-	comic story	6
5	-	comic story	0.5	script: Clyde Lewis; pencils: Clyde Lewis; inks: Clyde Lewis
7	You Are a Submarine Commander	comic story	3	script: Louis Wolfe; pencils: Tom Hickey; inks: Tom Hickey
8	-	comic story	4	script: V. T. Hamlin; pencils: V. T. Hamlin; inks: V. T. Hamlin
9	-	comic story	4
10	-	comic story	5
11	-	cartoon	0.85	script: Clyde Lewis; pencils: Clyde Lewis; inks: Clyde Lewis
12	Winners of The Funnies October Contest	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.15	letters: typeset
13	-	comic story	7	script: Bob Gaylord; pencils: Bob Gaylord; inks: Bob Gaylord
14	-	comic story	7
15	-	activity	0.33
17	-	comic story	1	script: Hugh Harman; pencils: Rudolf Ising; inks: Rudolf Ising
18	-	comic story	4	script: L. Frank Baum, Walt Spouse; pencils: Walt Spouse; inks: Walt Spouse
19	My Valentine Contest	activity	1
20	-	comic story	5	script: Roy Crane; pencils: Roy Crane; inks: Roy Crane	Wash Tubbs; Captain Easy
21	New - Exciting! Martan the Marvel Man	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	colors: ? (red tones)

Plus 2.17 pages of advertisements and other matter across 3 sequences, as published.

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