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Funnyman
Date | Number: 5 | Lang: English (en)
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PublicationJuly 1948 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly
NotesCover signed Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster.
 
FeaturingFunnyman
CreditsPencils: Dick Ayers [as Joe Shuster] (signed) | Inks: Shuster shop
ContentGenre: Humor; Superhero | Characters: Funnyman [Larry Davis]
NotesCover signed Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster.
 
Publisher advertisementA Killer-Diller! (1 page)
Synopsis1 page ad for Manhunt magazine, reprinting cover to issue 10 (July 1948).
 
Comic StoryWanted: One Corpse! (15 pages)
SynopsisAfter stealing millions of dollars, Louie bemoans his current fate to his gang members. The Police are hot on his trail, but he devises a plan to have the features of a stoolie altered to look like Louie, then murder him. Lola makes the mistake of nabbing Funnyman to have his features altered, but the whole plan backfires, and the gang is rounded up by Sgt. Harrigan.
FeaturingFunnyman
CreditsScript: Jerry Siegel (signed) | Pencils: John Sikela [as Joe Shuster] (signed) | Inks: Shuster shop
ContentGenre: Humor; Superhero | Characters: Funnyman [Larry Davis]; Sgt. Harrigan; Louie the Louse (villain, introduction); Louie's gang [Lola; Peanut; Thimblebrain] (villains, introduction for all); Doctor Hacksaw (villain, plastic surgeon, introduction)
NotesLogo for Funnyman includes Siegel and Shuster's names.
 
Comic StoryThe Downfall of Noodnick Nogoodnick (10 pages)
SynopsisFunnyman spots the evil Noodnik Nogodnik preparing to steal money from an orphaned shoeshine boy, and leaps from a window to rescue the boy and his dog. The Comic Crimefighter succeeds, then learns the boy originally came from a wealthy family years ago, and returns the child to his grateful mother.
FeaturingFunnyman
CreditsScript: Jerry Siegel (signed) | Pencils: John Sikela [as Joe Shuster] (signed) | Inks: Shuster shop
ContentGenre: Humor; Superhero | Characters: Funnyman [Larry Davis]; June Farrel; Happy; Little Jimmy Zitto (orphaned shoeshine boy, introduction); Ragsy (Zitto's pet dog, introduction); Jimmy's mother (introduction); Noodnik Nogodnik (villain, introduction)
NotesLogo for Funnyman includes Siegel and Shuster's names. Pencil credit formerly assigned to Joe Shuster.
 
Comic StoryThe Peculiar Pacifier (7 pages)
SynopsisHaving created the "peculiar pacifier", Doc Gimmick sends Torgo out to lure a cop to his laboratory, and when the Policeman arrives, the doc uses his creation on him, whose gas makes anyone who smells it conciliatory or peaceable. When the doc proves that it works, he feels safe on using it anywhere and on anyone so that he can commit his robberies. Meanwhile, the artist on the famed Louie the Lout strip, is told by his editor to achieve a new epitome of loathsomeness for his comic character, which causes newspapers across the land to cancel the strip.
FeaturingFunnyman
CreditsScript: Jerry Siegel (signed) | Pencils: John Sikela [as Joe Shuster] (signed) | Inks: Shuster shop
ContentGenre: Humor; Superhero | Characters: Funnyman [Larry Davis]; unnamed Policeman; June Farrell; B. Beane (newspasper editor, introduction); Karl Borisloff (cartoonist, introduction); Doc Gimmick (villain); Torgo (villain, the doc's assistant)
NotesLogo for Funnyman includes Siegel and Shuster's names.
 
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