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Motion Picture Funnies Weekly was found by the same person who "found" (printed) the counterfeit Eerie # 1 (has a smudge on page 18). Five copies of MPFW were "found" and Bob Overstreet who prints the Overstreet Price Guide (for comics) bought an incomplete one for $2000, a fortune in those days and naturally enough has pushed it as genuine ever since. The MPFW turned up just after Bill Everett (who drew the Sub-Mariner story and never, ever mentioned MPFW) died, the one person who could have said if it was fake or real. MPFW was a giveaway by a shoe store so obviously they are not going to spend a fortune on such a thing which needed very expensive underwater effects for it's colouring. The original strip was 8 pages but Goodman (Marvel Comics) could have asked Everett to add another 4 pages as Marvel Comics # 1 was running short. The ending of page 8 of the first story made it evident that there was a lot more to come, the beginning of Namor's fight against the Human Race, not the sort of thing you'd find in a one issue giveaway.