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Famous Funnies (1934) 19 PR 0.5

INCOMPLETE. Multiple pages missing (missing 4 story pages), interrupts art and story.

Contains comic strip reprints, activity pages, and a text story. In order of appearance: "Napoleon" by Clifford McBride; "Goofie Gags" by Victor E. Pazmiño; "Fisher's History of Boxing" and "Joe Palooka" by Al Capp (as Ham Fisher); "Connie" and "The Wet Blanket" by Frank Godwin; "Otto Honk" by Bela Zaboly; "Out Our Way" by J. R. Williams; "Alley Oop" by V. T. Hamlin; "Nipper" and "Footprints on the Sands of Time" by Clare Victor Dwiggins; "Captain Easy" by Roy Crane; "Good Deed Dotty" and "Dixie Dugan" by J. P. McEvoy and J. H. Striebel; "Seaweed Sam" by Victor E. Pazmiño; "Above the Crowd" by Benjamin D. Allen (as Stookie Allen); "Hairbreadth Harry" and "High-Gear Homer" by F. O. Alexander; "Buck Rogers" by Philip Francis Nowlan and Rick Yager (as Dick Calkins); "Boots" by Edgar Martin; "The Frog Pond Ferry" by M. E. Brady; "Jolly Geography" and "High Lights of History" by J. Carroll Mansfield; "Babe Bunting" by Roy L. Williams; "Butty and Fatty" by M. E. Brady; "Bobby" by S. M. Iger; "Flying to Fame" by John Welch and Russell Ross; "S'matter Pop?" and "Honeybunch's Hubby" by Charles M. Payne; "The Nut Brothers" and "Our Boarding House" by Gene Ahern; "This Curious World" by William Ferguson; "Freckles and his Friends" by Merrill Blosser; "Somebody's Stenog" and "The Back-Seat Driver" by A. E. Hayward; "The Adventures of Jabby" by Tom Carlisle; "Olly of the Movies" by Julian Ollendorff; "Strange as it Seems" by John Hix; "Flight" by W. D. Tipton and J. H. Mason; "Lena Pry" and "Jane Arden" by Monte Barrett and Jack W. McGuire; "Mescal Ike" by S. L. Huntley and Art Huhta; "Holly of Hollywood" and "Keeping Up With The Joneses" by Pop Momand; "Such Is Life" by Walt Munson; "Dumb-Bells" by Charles J. Dunn (as Gar); "Dizzy Dramas" by Joe Bowers; "Amaze A Minute" by Arnold; "Dan Dunn" by Norman Marsh; "Vignettes of Life" by J. Norman Lynd; "Ned Brant of Carter" by Bob Zuppke and Bill W. Depew; "Flapper Fanny" by Gladys Parker; "Salesman Sam" by C. D. Small; "Screen Oddities" by Captain Roscoe Fawcett and Bruno Thompson; and "Herky" by Clyde Lewis. "Mystery Mine of Chico Luna" text story by Robert M. Hyatt. Activity pages by A. W. Nugent. 68 pages. Full color. Cover price $0.10.

Famous Funnies (1934) 135 FN 6.0

Minor interior edge damage due to oxidation.

Contains comic strip reprints, activity pages, and a text story. In order of appearance: "Buck Rogers" by Philip Francis Nowlan and Rick Yager (as Dick Calkins); "Invisible Scarlet O'Neil" by Russell Stamm; "Chief Wahoo" by Allen Saunders and Elmer Woggon; "Napoleon" by Clifford McBride; "Jitter" by Arthur B. Poinier; "Dickie Dare" by Milton Caniff; "Scorchy Smith" by Noel Sickles; and "Oaky Doaks" by Ralph Briggs Fuller. "Rescue Race" text story by Claude Dunnagan. Activity pages by A. W. Nugent. 36 pages. Full color. Cover price $0.10.

Heroic Comics (1940 Famous Funnies) 17 CGC 8.5

Paper: Off white to white

Label #1163300005

Cover by R. Webster. Stories and art by Stephen Douglas, E. Demby, Alan Mandel, Dan Barry, Charles Bruno, Harry G. Peter, Ben Thompson and Bill Everett. Superhero comics from Famous Funnies, featuring some of the stranger heroes of the Golden Age. Hydroman and Rainbow Boy battle The Red Scorpion; A true war story featuring early art by future Flash Gordon artist Dan Barry; Man O' Metal investigates the murder of a millionaire. Also featuring a Rainbow Boy story promoting War Bonds, a WWII fundraising effort. Rainbow Boy, Music Master and Man o' Metal were all listed in Jon Morris's 2015 book The League of Regrettable Superheroes. Outstanding Hero of the War; Hydroman; The Music Master; Rainbow Boy; 18 Karat Heroes; Man O' Metal; He Learned It Well; Flyin' Jenny. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.