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| The Phantom Magician (first superhero in comics) is in Adventures of Patsy. |
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| Publication | January 1938 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Sir Oaky Doaks; King Cedric; Sam Smithers |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Dickie Dare |
| Notes | The inside-front cover. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Animal | Characters: Napoleon; Uncle Elby |
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| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | Four unrelated gag panels. |
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| Featuring | Dizzy Dramas |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Famous Funnies Inc. 50 Church ST, New York, NY
Editor Harold A. Moore
Bus Mgr. George G. Janosik
Owners: Eastern Color Printing 61 Leavenworth St, Waterbury, Ct
American-Republican Inc. 61 Leavenworth St, Waterbury, CT
E. Robert Stevenson, Eric Pape, James H. Darcey, B. H. Dupuy, Wm. B. Pape, George G. Janosik |
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| Featuring | Such Is Life |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Goofy Saunders |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure; Teen | Characters: Roy Powers; Rocky Jones; Chunky |
| Notes | Page begins with strip #B45 |
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| Letters Page | A Happy New Year (1 page) |
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| Featuring | Nipper |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Nipper Tucker; Ruff Bumps; Mr. Barron |
| Notes | The bottom tier is “Footprints on the Sands of Time”, by the same creator. |
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| Featuring | Footprints on the Sands of Time |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Bill |
| Notes | The bottom tier of the “Nipper” Sunday page, by the same creator. |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure; Aviation | Characters: Hurricane Hawk; Jerry; Been Potts [sic]; Billy Hill |
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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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| Synopsis | Buck and Huer are captured by the Ordlans after failing to put Mars back in its orbit. |
| Content | Genre: Science Fiction | Characters: Doctor Elias Huer; an Ordlan leader |
| Notes | Relettered from the original with fewer words. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | Six unrelated gag panels. |
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| Synopsis | George Weyerhaeuser and the police on the trail of Mahan, the man who kidnapped him. |
| Featuring | War on Crime |
| Content | Genre: Crime | Characters: Harmon Waley; Margaret Waley; Bill Mahan (villain); Ed Fliss [aka Red Lane] (villain) |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Dickie Dare; Dan Flynn; Wags |
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| Synopsis | After rescuing the Queen, Patsy asks the Phantom Magician to take her home to her own world. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Fantasy | Characters: Patsy; The Phantom Magician [Phil Cardigan]; Queen Silvia; King Goof |
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| Featuring | Sam Snake |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Anthropomorphic-funny Animals | Characters: Sam Snake |
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| Featuring | Butty and Fatty |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Butty; Fatty; Grandpa; Spunky Dory |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Animal | Characters: Napoleon; Uncle Elby |
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| Comic Story | A Black Eye for The Joneses (1 page) |
| Featuring | Keeping up with The Joneses |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Domestic |
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| Comic Story | The Spotlighter (1 page) |
| Featuring | Above the Crowd |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction; Sports | Characters: Con Colleano |
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| Featuring | Animals in the News |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Anthropomorphic-funny Animals |
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| Featuring | The Frog Pond Ferry |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Anthropomorphic-funny Animals | Characters: The Skipper |
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| Synopsis | Oaky and King Cedric return home only to find there's been a revolution in their absence. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Humor; Historical | Characters: Sir Oaky Doaks; his father; King Cedric; Lady Cameo; President Cadwell Morgan; Lord Howlingstone |
| 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; The Genie of the Lamp |
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| Comic Story | Cleopatra (1 page) |
| Content | Genre: Historical | Characters: Cleopatra |
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| Content | Genre: Drama | Characters: Olive Lane; Abe "A.G." Ginsberg; Brad Nelson; Lona'; Skip Allen |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure; Aviation | Characters: Scorchy Smith; Pudge; Spike; Knucks Maddox; Armara |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Sam Smithers; Cam O'Flage; Mame |
| Notes | The bottom tier is “The Back-Seat Driver”, by the same creator. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: John Smith; Mrs. Smith [both unnamed here] |
| Notes | The bottom tier of the "Somebody's Stenog" Sunday page, by the same creator. |
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| Featuring | Bobby |
| Content | Genre: Drama; Children | Characters: Bobby |
| Notes | copyright Eisner-Iger |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Western-frontier | Characters: Mescal Ike; Miss Sally; Pa Piffle; Mrs. Buckstopple |
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| Activity | Color Spots (1 page) |
| Featuring | Magic Made Easy |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Animal |
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| Cartoon | Shoe Tree in Pedestria |
| Featuring | Woozy World Tours |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Featuring | Butty and Fatty |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Butty; Fatty |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure; Children | Characters: Dorothy "Babe" Bunting; Zenas; Detective Keen; Miss Young; Irene Rakestraw; Gladys Rakestraw; Grandma Rakestraw; Mary Mole; Mrs. Mole |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Punky |
| Notes | Four daily gag panels. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Connie Kurridge; her father |
| Notes | The bottom tier is “The Wet Blanket”, by the same creator. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Dr. Yates |
| Notes | The bottom tier of the "Connie" Sunday page, by the same creator. |
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| Cartoon | Beehive, Montana (1 page) |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | Five gag panels based on unusual town names. |
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| Featuring | Queenie |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Queenie; Aunt Prunella; Jitters |
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| Text Story | The Strange Deception (2 pages) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Guy Winthrop; Mindar Zhal |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure; Humor | Characters: Homer Hoopee; The Doctor |
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| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Comic Story | The Frog (1 page) |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Animal | Characters: Napoleon |
| Notes | pantomime; wordless comic |
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| Featuring | Animals in the News |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Anthropomorphic-funny Animals | Characters: Wilbur |
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| Featuring | The Frog Pond Ferry |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Anthropomorphic-funny Animals | Characters: The Skipper; Katie Cow; Gorgonzola Mouse |
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| Featuring | Amaze-a-Minute |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction; Math & Science |
| Notes | The inside-back cover. |
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