The Funnies comic books issue 27

First comic book photo cover. First true crime stories printed in a comic book. Contains comic strip reprints, activity pages, and a text story. In order of appearance: "The Adventures of Jabby" by Tom Carlisle; "War on Crime" by Rex Collier and Hammon; "Napoleon" by Clifford McBride; "Dumb-Bells" by Charles J. Dunn (as Gar); "Nipper" by Clare Victor Dwiggins; "Scorchy Smith" by Noel Sickles; "Strange as it Seems" by John Hix; "Butty and Fatty" by M. E. Brady; "Hairbreadth Harry" and "High-Gear Homer" by F. O. Alexander; "Buck Rogers" by Philip Francis Nowlan and Rick Yager (as Dick Calkins); "Keeping Up With The Joneses" by Pop Momand; "Dickie Dare" by Milton Caniff; "Jolly Geography" and "High Lights of History" by J. Carroll Mansfield; "Connie" and "The Wet Blanket" by Frank Godwin; "The Frog Pond Ferry" by M. E. Brady; "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); "Queenie" by S. M. Iger (as Bob Bliss); "Simp O' Dill" and "The Nebbs" by Sol Hess and Wallace A. Carlson; "Joe Palooka" by Al Capp (as Ham Fisher); "Screen Oddities" by Captain Roscoe Fawcett and Bruno Thompson; "S'matter Pop?" by Charles M. Payne; "Ned Brant of Carter" by Bob Zuppke and Bill W. Depew; "Toddy" by George Marcoux; "Flight" by W. D. Tipton and J. H. Mason; "Such Is Life" by Walt Munson; "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; "Homer Hoopee" by Fred Locher; "Little Brother" and "The Bungle Family" by Harry J. Tuthill; "Amaze A Minute" by Arnold; and "Alec and Itchy" by Jimmy George and Merle Mulholland. "The Killer Car" text story by Robert M. Hyatt. Activity pages by A. W. Nugent. 68 pages. Full color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Alfonso Greene, Ed Murphy, Frank Wead, Russell Keaton and Stephen Douglas. Superhero comics from Famous Funnies, featuring some of the stranger heroes of the Golden Age. Man o' Metal investigates trouble in Oil Country; Hydroman advocates saving paper, in a PSA for wartime scrap drives; Flyin' Jenny competes with Spinner to win a Navy contract. Man o' Metal was listed in Jon Morris's 2015 book The League of Regrettable Superheroes. True Stories of War Heroes; Hydroman; Waste Paper Goes to War!; Man O' Metal; I'm Sorry I Invented the Pocket!; Flyin' Jenny. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Contains comic strip reprints, text articles, activity pages, and a text story. In order of appearance: "Alley Oop" by V. T. Hamlin; "The Worry Wart" by J. R. Williams; "Captain Easy, Soldier of Fortune" by Roy Crane; "The Comic Zoo" by George Scarbo; "Four Aces" by Hal Forrest; "Our Boarding House" by Gene Ahern; "Hold Everything" by Clyde Lewis; "Cicero's Cat" by Bud Fisher; "Home Magic" by A. W. Nugent; "Stranger than Fiction" by Richard W. Thomas and Walter Galli; "Bronc Peeler" by Fred Harman; "Out Our Way" by J. R. Williams; "Reg'lar Fellers" by Gene Byrnes; "Ben Webster's Page" by Jay Jerome Williams (as Edwin Alger); "Scribbly" by Sheldon Mayer; "The Crime Busters" by Alden McWilliams; "Everybody's Playmate" by A. W. Nugent; "Wonderland of Oz" by Walt Spouse; "Curious Facts about Stamps" by I. S. Klein; "Bob Baker: The Last Stand" film adaptation; and "Be a Champ" by Ed Cronin. "Coast Guard Pinch-Hitter Part Two" text story by H. T. Sperry. 68 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Roy Crane, Fred Harman, Win Smith, Al McWilliams, Bill Connor, William Treadwell, Frank Thomas, Hal Bittner, Frank V. Martinek, Leon A. Beroth, Bob Bugg and Clyde Lewis. Crackajack Funnies presented original stories and reprints of classic comic strips, including Roy Crane's influential Wash Tubbs & Captain Easy. Nick Terry manages to keep his fiancée, reporter Belle, from suspecting that he's the Batman-like crimefighter The Owl. But when Belle is kidnapped, he leaps into his plane and soars into action. Red Ryder disguises himself as a masked bandit to fool the stagecoach robber known as Yaqui Joe. Plus a Tarzan prose story. In This Corner; Ellery Queen; Bob and Bill; Red Ryder; The Owl; Wash Tubbs; Penguin Pete and His Pal Pudgie; Gabby Scoops; The Crusoes; Stratosphere Jim; Don Winslow of the Navy; Tarzan; Herky. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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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.

Add to cart Very Good $4.00

Issue 27, March 1987 issue - Comic Strip Fanzine. 24 pages, B&W.

16 pages, partial color Cover price $0.05.