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| Publication | August 1940 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
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| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Advertisement | Buck Rogers Solar Scouts (1 page) |
| Content | Genre: Science Fiction | Characters: Anthony "Buck" Rogers |
| Notes | On inside front cover. |
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| Cartoon | Board of Strategy |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | A single daily gag panel. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | Four unrelated gag panels. |
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| Featuring | Butty and Fatty |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Butty; Fatty; Grandpop |
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| Credits | Script: Paul Powell (credited) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Teen | Characters: Roy Powers; Chunky; Captain Conway; Sir George; Olim Bhey; Ben Ali |
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| Featuring | Let's Get Into a Huddle |
| Credits | Script: Stephen Douglas | Pencils: Stephen Douglas (signed) | Inks: Stephen Douglas | Letters: typeset |
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| Comic Story | South American Liberators (1 page) |
| Content | Genre: History | Characters: Oliver Cromwell; King Charles I |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure; Aviation | Characters: Speed McLoud; Swarthout; Jones; Tommy Hill; Tommy Hughes; Mr. Lovejoy |
| Notes | Script previously credited to Russell Keaton. |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Harry Hollingsworth; Rudolph Rassendale (villain); Belinda Blinks |
| Notes | The bottom tier is "High-Gear Homer", by the same creator. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: High-Gear Homer |
| Notes | The bottom tier of the "Hairbreadth Harry" Sunday page, by the same creator. |
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| Content | Genre: Science Fiction | Characters: Buddy Deering; Princess Alura; Black Barney |
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| Comic Story | Roller Coaster Ride (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Jitter falls out of a roller coaster and lands between a couple. |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Jitter |
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| Content | Genre: Science Fiction | Characters: Speed Spaulding; Ann Pendon; Professor Pendon; Spider; Torpedo; General Wilson; Mr. President; Lt. Rex Dean |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure; Children | Characters: Dickie Dare; Dan Flynn |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure; Children | Characters: Patsy Cardigan; Uncle Phil Cardigan; Georgia; Roscoe Snerts |
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| Synopsis | Gophers and Napoleon interfere with Uncle Elby's lawn maintenance. |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Animal | Characters: Uncle Elby; Napoleon |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Big Chief Wahoo |
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| Featuring | Penpal Page |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Animal | Characters: Uncle Elby; Napoleon |
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| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure; Historical | Characters: Sir Oaky Doaks; Osha; The Caliph; King Cedric |
| Notes | Script previously credited to Ralph Briggs Fuller, but William McCleery was the author from its beginning in 1935 to 1961. |
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| Featuring | Seaweed Sam the Rhyming Rover |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Seaweed Sam; Prince Tiny |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Big Chief Wahoo; The Great Gusto; Princess Minnie-Ha-Cha; Grace |
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| Content | Genre: Drama | Characters: Olive Lane; Abe "A.G." Ginsberg; Irma Hunkatin |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure; Aviation | Characters: Scorchy Smith; Himmelstoss; Mickey Lafarge |
| Notes | Bert Christman took over the strip from Sickles on 1936-11-23, so these reprints fall before that date. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Cam O'Flage; Mame Doodle |
| Notes | The bottom tier is “The Back-Seat Driver”, by the same creator. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: John Smith; Mary Smith |
| Notes | The bottom tier of the "Somebody's Stenog" Sunday page, by the same creator. |
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| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: The Lone Rider [Jim Larrimore]; John Prescott; Miss Prescott |
| Notes | Inker credit by Craig Delich. These pages are not reprints, but new material drawn specifically for "Famous Funnies".
Letters credit identified by Greg Theakston and later Harry Mendryk on the Jack Kirby Museum web page http://kirbymuseum.org/blogs/simonandkirby/archives/2369, 31 October 2008 (retrieved 15 December 2014). |
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| Content | Genre: Non-fiction | Characters: Mrs. Ethel Asselta |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Animal | Characters: Uncle Elby; Napoleon |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Big Chief Wahoo |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure; Children | Characters: Dorothy "Babe" Bunting; Miss Tosy; Grandma Rakestraw |
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| Comic Story | Hi-Ho, Hi-Ho, It's Off to Work - ZZZZZ - (1 page) |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Western-frontier | Characters: Mescal Ike; Miss Sally; Pa Piffle |
| Notes | Four daily strips:
#1 - Hi-Ho, Hi-Ho, It's Off to Work - ZZZZZ -
#2 - Pa's Reputation is at Stake!
#3 - What a Shock!
#4 - Guilty or Not - That is the Question! |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Connie Kurridge; Mrs. Kurridge |
| Notes | The bottom tier is “The Wet Blanket”, by the same creator. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | The bottom tier of the "Connie" Sunday page, by the same creator. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | Six unrelated daily gag panels. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Animal | Characters: Jitter |
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| Text Story | Fighting Sabotage (2 pages) |
| Credits | Pencils:? (2 spot illustrations) | Inks:? (2 spot illustrations) | Colors:? (2 spot illustrations) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Captain Bill Wallace, Naval Intelligence; Mason; Lt. Gray |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Homer Hoopee; Helen Hoopee; Mr. Hoopee |
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| Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Animal | Characters: Napoleon; Uncle Elby |
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| Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Animal | Characters: Jitter |
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| Publisher advertisement | Look for the name! (1 page) |
| Featuring | Reg'lar Fellers Heroic Comics |
| Content | Characters: Hydroman |
| Notes | House ad for Heroic Comics #2 |
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