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Famous Funnies
Date | Number: 52 | Lang: English (en)
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PublicationNovember 1938 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly
NotesThe cover character is "Samuel Smithers" from the "Somebody's Stenog" comic strip drawn by A.E. Hayward. However, the Famous Funnies covers were often drawn by artists other than the original creator of the characters depicted.
 
ContentGenre: Humor | Characters: Sam Smithers
NotesThe cover character is "Samuel Smithers" from the "Somebody's Stenog" comic strip drawn by A.E. Hayward. However, the Famous Funnies covers were often drawn by artists other than the original creator of the characters depicted.
 
ContentGenre: Humor; Western-frontier | Characters: Mescal Ike; Pa Piffle; Young 'Un
NotesThis is just a drawing of Young 'Un on a horse astride a canyon, as Pa Piffle and Mescal Ike look on. There is no story or even a gag. A number of "Famous Funnies" issues have these character "pin-ups" in this position in the comic.
 
SynopsisTwo daily strips: Jitter sees a rattlesnake in the zoo and is later spooked by toothpaste coming out of a tube as a child plays with a rattle. Jitter has the family dog lick the dinner dishes clean.
ContentGenre: Humor; Animal | Characters: Jitter (chimp)
Notespantomime; wordless comic The bottom half of the page is an advertisement, encouraging children to sell "Xmas packs" and win prizes.
 
ContentGenre: Humor
NotesFour one-panel gag cartoons, two about football and two about Thanksgiving.
 
ContentGenre: Humor | Characters: Alvin
NotesTwo unrelated daily gag cartoons.
 
CreditsScript: Paul Powell (credited)
ContentGenre: Adventure; Teen | Characters: Roy Powers; Uncle Bob; Tommy Glover
 
FeaturingLet's Get Into a Huddle
CreditsLetters: typeset
NotesEditorial page with various comments about the comic book. Two illustrations by Stephen Douglas [who was "the effective day-to-day editor" of Famous Funnies, according to Ron Goulart, Comic Book Culture: An Illustrated History. Collector's Press, Inc. 2000. pp. 11-12.]
 
ContentGenre: Science Fiction | Characters: Anthony "Buck" Rogers; Killer Kane; Princess Ardala; Dr. Elias Huer
 
SynopsisGoofy says he wasn't blowing a hockey player a "razzberry" (aka Bronx Cheer), he just has a cold and was blowing his nose.
FeaturingSuch is Life
ContentGenre: Humor | Characters: Goofy Saunders
 
FeaturingDumb-Bells
ContentGenre: Humor
NotesTwo daily gag panels.
 
SynopsisA woman breaks a 5,000 year old vase at a museum and tells the guard "you're lucky it wuzn't bran' new."
FeaturingDizzy Dramas
ContentGenre: Humor
NotesThere are three separate comic features on this page. The last 0.25 of the page is a black-and-white ad for the "Erectorscope."
 
SynopsisBull and Hurricane chase the kidnapper, Silky Sims, while Jerry and Gilly talk about airplanes.
ContentGenre: Adventure; Aviation | Characters: Bull Benham; Hurricane Hawk; The Pima Kid; Silky Sims; Puma; Little Jerry; Gilly
 
SynopsisMarooned on an island with crocodiles.
ContentGenre: Adventure; Humor | Characters: Harry Hollingsworth; Belinda Blinks
NotesThe bottom tier is "High-Gear Homer", by the same creator.
 
ContentGenre: Humor | Characters: High-Gear Homer
NotesThe bottom tier of the "Hairbreadth Harry" Sunday page, by the same creator.
 
ContentGenre: Humor
NotesSix unrelated daily gag panels.
 
FeaturingWar on Crime
ContentGenre: Crime | Characters: Agent Baker; Dr. S. M. Hibbard; Agent Applegate; Agent Suhay
Notes"Jimmy Thompson" tentative art ID from this site: http://strippersguide.blogspot.com/search?q=war+on+crime
 
ContentGenre: Humor; Animal | Characters: Jitter
NotesFour dailies on one comic book page. pantomime; wordless comic
 
ContentGenre: Humor | Characters: Big Chief Wahoo; Pigtails; Mrs. Upsnoot
 
SynopsisDan and Dickie sail back to America and are sent by Dickie's father out to New Mexico to track down a new mystery.
ContentGenre: Adventure; Children | Characters: Dickie Dare; Dan Flynn; Wags (dog); John Barrington; Richard Dare; Mrs. Dare; Smutty
 
ContentGenre: Adventure; Children | Characters: Patsy Cardigan; Miss Ginny; Uncle Phil Cardigan; Thimble
 
Comic StoryTheodora--Her Girlhood
ContentGenre: Biography; History | Characters: Empress Theodora
NotesThe Sunday page is completed by two single tiers - "Boys and Girls the World Over" and "Would You Believe It---?
 
SynopsisInformation on Guatemala.
FeaturingBoys and Girls the World Over
ContentGenre: Non-fiction
NotesThe third tier of the "Highights of History" Sunday page, by the same creator.
 
FeaturingWould You Believe It?
ContentGenre: Non-fiction
NotesThe fourth tier of the "Highights of History" Sunday page, by the same creator.
 
SynopsisSeven different panels, each with an activity or puzzle.
FeaturingFunland
 
ContentGenre: Humor; Animal | Characters: Napoleon; Uncle Elby; Joe Ballot
 
FeaturingAnimals in the News
ContentGenre: Humor; Anthropomorphic-funny Animals
 
FeaturingFrog Pond Ferry
ContentGenre: Humor; Anthropomorphic-funny Animals | Characters: The Skipper; Gink Goat
 
ContentGenre: Humor; Animal | Characters: Napoleon; Uncle Elby
 
Comic StoryCat O' 9 Lives
ContentGenre: Humor; Anthropomorphic-funny Animals
 
FeaturingFrog Pond Ferry
ContentGenre: Humor; Anthropomorphic-funny Animals | Characters: The Skipper; Barkley
 
SynopsisSergei Shadows makes his living haunting castles. Then Oaky is summoned back to Maple Island to fight a giant.
ContentGenre: Adventure; Humor; Historical | Characters: Sir Oaky Doaks; King Cedric; Sergei Shadows; The Giant
 
ContentGenre: Humor | Characters: Seaweed Sam; Jibsail Jerry
 
ContentGenre: Humor | Characters: Big Chief Wahoo; Pigtails; Mrs. Upsnoot
 
SynopsisTwo schemers try to convince Olly they've kidnapped Buddy.
ContentGenre: Adventure | Characters: Olive Lane; Buddy Lane; Jum; Bill
 
SynopsisThe adventure over, Scorchy takes his reward money and goes to buy his own plane.
ContentGenre: Adventure; Aviation | Characters: Scorchy Smith; Jay; Tanta Armara; Randolph; General Armara; Himmelstoff; Mr. Treling; Schmidt
 
ContentGenre: Humor | Characters: Sam Smithers; Cam O’Flage
NotesThe bottom tier is “The Back-Seat Driver”, by the same creator.
 
Synopsisfrom Somebody's Stenog Sunday (The Ledger Syndicate)
ContentGenre: Humor | Characters: John Smith; Mrs. Smith [both unnamed here]
NotesThe bottom tier of the "Somebody's Stenog" Sunday page, by the same creator.
 
SynopsisBiography of 19th century photographer W.H. Jackson.
ContentGenre: Non-fiction | Characters: W.H. Jackson
 
ContentGenre: Humor; Western-frontier | Characters: Mescal Ike; Pa Piffle; Miss Sally; Young Bates
NotesFive daily strips on a single comic book page.
 
ActivityMagic Made Easy (1 page)
CreditsPencils: Stephen Douglas? | Inks: Stephen Douglas? | Letters: typeset
 
ContentGenre: Humor; Animal | Characters: Napoleon; Willie
 
ContentGenre: Humor; Non-fiction
 
SynopsisMrs. Bunting gets a job on a showbozt.
ContentGenre: Drama; Children | Characters: Dorothy "Babe" Bunting; Mrs. Bunting; Captain Lucifer Mulberry; Benjy
 
CreditsScript: Fred Balk (signed) | Pencils: Fred Balk (signed) | Inks: Fred Balk (signed)
ContentGenre: Humor; Children
NotesFour daily gag panels.
 
ContentGenre: Humor | Characters: Connie Kurridge; Mr. Kurridge; Johnny
NotesThe bottom tier is “The Wet Blanket”, by the same creator.
 
ContentGenre: Humor | Characters: Ted
NotesThe bottom tier of the "Connie" Sunday page, by the same creator.
 
ContentGenre: Humor
NotesSix daily gag panels.
 
FeaturingQueenie
ContentGenre: Humor; Children | Characters: Queenie; Aunt Prunella; Jitters
 
Text StoryThe Ghost of Devil Key (2 pages)
CreditsScript: Connye M. Hyatt (credited) | Colors:? (2 spot illustrations) | Letters: typeset
ContentGenre: Adventure | Characters: Janey; Anne
NotesThe "Let's Get Into a Huddle" page says Connye Hyatt is the wife of Robert M. Hyatt who "has been writing stories for you for the past four years."
 
SynopsisHomer is searching for buried treasure - but only under duress.
ContentGenre: Adventure | Characters: Homer Hoopee; Pasquale; Obregado
 
FeaturingArtistic Artie
ContentGenre: Humor | Characters: Artistic Artie
 
FeaturingButty and Fatty
ContentGenre: Humor; Children | Characters: Butty; Fatty; Spunky Dory
 
ContentGenre: Humor; Animal | Characters: Napoleon; Uncle Elby
Notespantomime; wordless comic
 
ContentGenre: Humor; Animal | Characters: Jitter
NotesThree daily strips on a single comic book page. The bottom third of the page is an ad urging "Boys 12 to 15!" to sell magazine subscriptions and win a bike or other prizes.
 
SynopsisList of pen pals for readers to correspond with.
FeaturingPen Pal Page
CreditsLetters: typeset
NotesMasthead illustration.
 
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