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The Funnies comic books issue 28

  • Issue #28
    Famous Funnies (1934) 28
    • Paper: Off white to white
    • Label #4393916001
    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.
    • Cover coming loose at one staple. 1" Cumulative spine split.
    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

    Contains comic strip reprints, activity pages, and a text story. In order of appearance: "Joe Palooka" by Al Capp (as Ham Fisher); "War on Crime" by Rex Collier and Hammon; "Napoleon" by Clifford McBride; "Dumb-Bells" by Charles J. Dunn (as Gar); "Scorchy Smith" by Noel Sickles; "Strange as it Seems" by John Hix; "Butty and Fatty" by M. E. Brady; "Hairbreadth Harry" by F. O. Alexander; "Buck Rogers" by Philip Francis Nowlan and Rick Yager (as Dick Calkins); "The Adventures of Jabby" by Tom Carlisle; "Dickie Dare" by Milton Caniff; "Jolly Geography" and "High Lights of History" by J. Carroll Mansfield; "Goofie Gags" by Victor E. Pazmiño; "Nippie" and "Mickey Finn" by Frank E. Leonard (as Lank Leonard); "Beau Geste" by P. C. Wren and Bill W. Depew; "Mescal Ike" by S. L. Huntley and Art Huhta; "Above the Crowd" by Benjamin D. Allen (as Stookie Allen); "Dixie Dugan" by J. P. McEvoy and J. H. Striebel; "Queenie" by S. M. Iger (as Bob Bliss); "S'matter Pop?" by Charles M. Payne; "Screen Oddities" by Captain Roscoe Fawcett and Bruno Thompson; "Amaze A Minute" by Arnold; "Ned Brant of Carter" by Bob Zuppke and Bill W. Depew; "Toddy" by George Marcoux; "Flight" by W. D. Tipton and J. H. Mason; "Olly of the Movies" by Julian Ollendorff; "Oaky Doaks" by Ralph Briggs Fuller; "Somebody's Stenog" and "The Back-Seat Driver" by A. E. Hayward; "Bobby" by S. M. Iger; "Lena Pry" and "Jane Arden" by Monte Barrett and Jack W. McGuire; "Seaweed Sam" by Victor E. Pazmiño; "Babe Bunting" by Roy L. Williams; "The Frog Pond Ferry" by M. E. Brady; "Homer Hoopee" by Fred Locher; "The Bungle Family" by Harry J. Tuthill; and "Alec and Itchy" by Jimmy George and Merle Mulholland. "Hoodoo Ranch" text story by F. S. Saunders. Activity pages by A. W. Nugent. 68 pages. Full color Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #28
    Heroic Comics (1940 Famous Funnies) 28
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    Painted cover by Harvey K. Fuller. Stories and art by Frank Wead, Russell Keaton and Stephen Douglas. Superhero comics from Famous Funnies, featuring some of the stranger heroes of the Golden Age. The final appearance of heat-activated hero Man o' Metal; Flyin' Jenny test-flies a WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilots) plane; Music Master tackles The Mad Fiddler. Music Master and Man o' Metal were listed in Jon Morris's 2015 book The League of Regrettable Superheroes. True Stories of War Heroes; Hydroman; The Music Master; In the Face of Fire; Man O' Metal; The Alchemist's Curse; Flyin' Jenny. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #28
    Vintage Funnies (1973 Newspaper Reprints) 28

    Dynapubs comic strip reprints from 1912-1945, complete stories in serial format, 11-in x 17 1/2-in, 16 Pages, B&W. Cover price $0.50.

  • Issue #28
    Funnies Paper (1983 Fanzine) 28

    Issue 28, May 1987 issue - Comic Strip Fanzine. 24 pages, B&W.