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Famous Funnies comic books issue 79

  • Issue #79
    Famous Funnies (1934) 79

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    Bill Everett art accompanies text story. Contains comic strip reprints, activity pages, and a text story. In order of appearance: "Butty and Fatty" by M. E. Brady; "The Gay Thirties" by Hank Barrow; "Goofie Gags" by Victor E. Pazmiño; "Spunky Dory" by M. E. Brady; "Roy Powers, Eagle Scout" by Paul Powell; "High Lights of History" by J. Carroll Mansfield; "Skyroads" by Dick Calkins and Russell Keaton; "Hairbreadth Harry" and "High-Gear Homer" by F. O. Alexander; "Buck Rogers" by Philip Francis Nowlan and Rick Yager (as Dick Calkins); "Jitter" by Arthur B. Poinier; "Speed Spaulding" by Edwin Balmer, Philip Wylie, and Marvin Bradley; "Dickie Dare" by Milton Caniff; "Adventures of Patsy" by Mel Graff; "Napoleon" by Clifford McBride; "Big Chief Wahoo" by Allen Saunders and Elmer Woggon; "The Frog Pond Ferry" by M. E. Brady; "Oaky Doaks" by Ralph Briggs Fuller; "Seaweed Sam" by Victor E. Pazmiño; "Olly of the Movies" by Julian Ollendorff; "Scorchy Smith" by Noel Sickles; "Somebody's Stenog" and "The Back-Seat Driver" by A. E. Hayward; "Lightnin' and the Lone Rider" by Jack Kirby (as Lance Kirby); "Above the Crowd" by Benjamin D. Allen (as Stookie Allen); "Babe Bunting" by Roy L. Williams; "Mescal Ike" by S. L. Huntley and Art Huhta; "Connie" and "The Wet Blanket" by Frank Godwin; "Life's Like That" by Fred Neher; and "Homer Hoopee" by Fred Locher. "Drama on the Airways" text story by E. Albert Willard. Activity pages by A. W. Nugent. 68 pages. Full color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #79
    Heroic Comics (1940 Famous Funnies) 79

    Painted cover by Henry Kiefer. Stories and art by Sam Glanzman, Sid Couchey and Fran Matera. Non-fiction comics featuring true tales of heroism from everyday people and courage on the battlefield. A passerby rescues children from a house fire; A truck driver rescues car crash victims on two separate occasions; A teen babysitter and a heroic dog save a young girl from a tornado. The Battle; In Spite of His Wounds; Into the Valley of Death; Hero of the Highway; Smoke Eating Truckman; Never Say Die; When Seconds Count; Stop That Tank!; No Time to Lose; Fireman Save My Child; The Cyclone and the Baby Sitter; So That They May Live to Fight Again; Alert Driver; Flames Attack Hero. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.