Puzzle Fun Comics (1946) comic books 1944-1946

Stories, art and cover by George Carlson. A rare showcase for the work of beloved artist George Carlson, praised by Harlan Ellison as a "comic of the absurd." Alec enters an updated version of Wonderland, and helps the King recover the Royal Payroll from Jabberwock Jake. This series was the only appearance of Carlson's dream project, Alec in Fumbleland. Also featuring mazes, rebuses, hidden-picture puzzles and other brain-teasers in Carlson's whimsical style. Leap-Frog!; The Traveler Returns; The Old Town Pump; Tricky Railroads; An Animal Puzzle Sum; Alec in Fumbleland; Cross-Words on a Chinese Junk; A Pictorial Enigma; Midnight Oil; An Oriental Garden; The Puzzled Carpenter; The Man in the Moon; Mister Double-Face; Up in the Attic; Tom Thumb Is Lost!; The Old Person of Ware; Grandma's Nut Cake; The Tale of a Sale; Down on the Farm; A Trip to Saturn; The Mystic Carpet; The Problem of the Ladder; Answers. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories, art and cover by George Carlson. A rare showcase for the work of beloved artist George Carlson, praised by Harlan Ellison as a "comic of the absurd." Alec must figure out how to spend his reward money in Fumbleland, but Jabberwock Jake has his own plans for it. This series was the only appearance of Carlson's dream project, Alec in Fumbleland. Also featuring mazes, rebuses, hidden-picture puzzles and other brain-teasers in Carlson's whimsical style. A Juggling Act; Corner the Bug!; A Lot Of People; The Busy Sign Painter; A Days Fishing; On The Spanish Main; The Dinglesnoop Twins; Alec in Fumbleland; Crack-Shot Cross-Words; A Pictorial Enigma; The Tower of Twigs; The Mill in the Maze; The Mysterious Picture; The Bakers' Charade; A Comical Shadow; Cross-Words on the Old Tea-Pot; The Village Grocery; Stepping Stones; A Famous Battle; When a Bear Is an Ostrich; Butterflies and Cross-Words; Hidden Birds; What a Memory!; Swat That Fly!; Answers. Final issue of the series. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.