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| I'm not sure how you reg'lar fellers determine volume numbers, but shouldn't this run of THE FUNNIES be considered as Vol. 2 given Dell had an earlier run of THE FUNNIES before this one? |
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| There was a short series, 'The Comics' from 1937-39 which this series started before and lasted years after. |
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| Publication | October 1936 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
| Notes | Gene Ahern, writer and illustrator of "Our Boarding House"--featuring Major Hoople, drew the cover. |
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| Synopsis | Major Hoople has run over Mutt. |
| Credits | Letters:?; typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Major Hoople; Martha Hoople; Mutt |
| Notes | Gene Ahern, writer and illustrator of "Our Boarding House"--featuring Major Hoople, drew the cover. |
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| Credits | Colors:? (red tones) |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Children |
| Notes | On inside front cover. Actually four single panel gags titled: "Seconding the Motion," "The Rub-Off," "Oh, That's Different," and "Heroes Are Made - Not Born." |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure; Spy | Characters: Dan Dunn, Secret Operative 48; Shanghai (crook); Babs; Jug (crook) |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Mutt; Jeff |
| Notes | The footer to the Sunday page is Cicero's Cat, by the same creator. |
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| Comic Story | Baby - Angel or Devil? |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | This is the footer to the Mutt & Jeff Sunday page, by the same creator. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Pinhead Duffy |
| Notes | This strip shared a Sunday page with Daisybelle, by the same creator. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Daisybelle |
| Notes | This strip shared a Sunday page with Reg'lar Fellers, by the same creator.Daisybelle |
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| Comic Story | The Great Ant-Eater & The Skunk (1 page) |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction; Animal |
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| Featuring | Home Magic |
| Credits | Letters:?; typeset |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Boots; Jimmy; Topsy; Ferdy; Tip |
| Notes | Although widely distributed as Boots and Her Buddies, some newspapers continued to use the Boots title, as here.
Four Sunday pages, the first in red, blue and black only, the baance in full color. |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure; Aviation | Characters: Tailspin Tommy Tomkins; Taggart; Betty Lou; Koroloff; Crandall |
| Notes | The footer to the Sunday page is Tailspin Tommy Flying Club, by the same creators. with instructional data on flying planes. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Flapper Fanny; Betty |
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| Comic Story | Practice Makes Perfect |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Salesman Sam; Duzz |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Ches Nut; Wal Nut |
| Notes | This is one of two toppers to the Sunday Our Boarding House with Major Hoople page, by the same creator. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Mr. Blotto |
| Notes | This is one of two toppers to the Sunday Our Boarding House with Major Hoople page, by the same creator.
A one panel gag. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Alvin; Uncle Amos |
| Notes | The toppers to this page are The Nut Bros and Mr. Blotto, by the same creator. |
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| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Bronc Peeler; Coyote Pete; Shorty; "Pappy" Peters |
| Notes | The bottom half of the Sunday page is On the Range, by the same creator.
The newspaper strip ran between 1934-10-07 and 1938. |
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| Content | Genre: Western-frontier |
| Notes | The top half of the Sunday page is Bronc Peeler, by the same creator.
The newspaper strip ran between 1934-10-07 and 1938. |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure; Drama | Characters: Myra North; Jack Lane; Major Hyster; Lew Wen; Emperor Hiro Matilo; Doctor Devries |
| Notes | first tier of panels is a recap, using art from earlier episodes.
The daily strip made its debut on 1936-02-10. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Pinhead Duffy |
| Notes | This strip shared a Sunday page with Daisybelle, by the same creator. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Daisybelle; Evangeline |
| Notes | This strip shared a Sunday page with Reg'lar Fellers, by the same creator. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Wal Nut; Ches Nut |
| Notes | This is one of two toppers to the Sunday Our Boarding House with Major Hoople page, by the same creator. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Mr. Blotto |
| Notes | This is one of two toppers to the Sunday Our Boarding House with Major Hoople page, by the same creator.
A one panel gag. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Major Hoople; Uncle Amos; Alvin |
| Notes | The toppers to this page are The Nut Bros and Mr. Blotto, by the same creator. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Otto Honk |
| Notes | This is the topper to the Out Our Way Sunday page. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Lil |
| Notes | The topper to this Sunday page is Otto Honk.
Printed in red, blue and black. |
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| Featuring | The Tiny Mites |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Coppy; Duncy; Scouty |
| Notes | Illustrations in black & white with instruction to "Read the story, then color the pictures." Heading printed in red and yellow. Second page appears between the second Stranger Than Fiction page and the first Herky page.
Copyright 1936 by NEA [Newspaper Enterprises Association] Service, Inc. |
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| Comic Story | King Edward (1 page) |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Captain Easy |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Flapper Fanny; Betty |
| Notes | Gladys Parker's last strip was that of 1935-12-02, so this reprint is earlier than that date. |
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| Comic Story | Maybe They Better Take the Sign Down |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Sam Howdy; Duzz |
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| Comic Story | "Laugh, Clown, Laugh!" |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Mutt; Jeff |
| Notes | The footer to the Sunday page is Cicero's Cat, by the same creator. |
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| Comic Story | A Very Rainy Day |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Animal | Characters: Cicero's cat |
| Notes | This is the footer to the Mutt & Jeff Sunday page, by the same creator.
pantomime; wordless comic |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Alley Oop |
| Notes | Includes a "Dinny's Family Album" panel on each page. |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Freckles; Salty; Nutty |
| Notes | Four Sunday half pages. |
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| Comic Story | Herdaley Family (1 page) |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Herky; Mr. Morrill |
| Notes | Printed in red, blue and black. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Otto Honk |
| Notes | This is the topper to the Out Our Way Sunday page. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | The topper to this Sunday page is Otto Honk. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Anthropomorphic-funny Animals |
| Notes | Four single panel cartoons, three of which are titled: "The Freshly Varnished Floor," "Envying the Lucky Dog That 'Belongs' to the Butcher," and "The Tip-Off." |
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| Text Story | Concluding "Death Masquerade" (2 pages) |
| Featuring | From the Notes of Maj. Cosmo Strange, D.S.O. |
| Credits | Pencils:? (illustrations) | Inks:? (illustrations) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Ben Webster; Briar (a dog); Elmer Avery |
| Notes | Continued from Popular Comics (Dell, 1936 series) #8.
'Copyright 1935 by Jay Jerome Williams' (Birth name of Edwin Alger) |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Tad; Bozano; Larkin |
| Notes | This is the topper to the Don Dixon and the Hidden Empire Sunday page, by the same creators. |
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| Featuring | Scissor Sketches |
| Content | Genre: Animal |
| Notes | Circus animals to cut out and make into small standees. Feature shares top third of three pages with Tad of the Tanbark. |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure; Science Fiction | Characters: Don Dixon; Matt; Dr. Lugoff; Simbi; Milos, High King of Pharia; High Priest Azel |
| Notes | The topper of the Sunday page is Tad of the Tanbark, by the same creators. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Happy Mulligan; Dandelion; Shorty |
| Notes | Contains a racist depiction of an African-American. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: 'Sparagus; Chubby |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Herky; Pop |
| Notes | Printed in red, blue and black. |
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| Featuring | Everybody's Playmate |
| Notes | "Puzzles, Tricks & Games" |
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| Comic Story | Toucans & Water Buffalo (1 page) |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction; Animal; Nature |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Mutt; Jeff |
| Notes | The footer to the Sunday page is Cicero's Cat, by the same creator. |
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| Comic Story | Bubbles |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Animal | Characters: Cicero's Cat |
| Notes | This is the footer to the Mutt & Jeff Sunday page, by the same creator. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Pinhead Duffy |
| Notes | This strip shared a Sunday page with Daisybelle, by the same creator. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Daisybelle |
| Notes | This strip shared a Sunday page with Reg'lar Fellers, by the same creator. |
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| Comic Story | Ches Nut Clothes Pressing Co. |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Wal Nut; Ches Nut |
| Notes | This is one of two toppers to the Sunday Our Boarding House with Major Hoople page, by the same creator. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Mr. Blotto |
| Notes | The toppers to this page are The Nut Bros and Mr. Blotto, by the same creator.
A single gag panel. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Major Hoople; Uncle Amos; Alvin [unnamed here] |
| Notes | The toppers to this page are The Nut Bros and Mr. Blotto, by the same creator. |
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| Featuring | Stories in Stamps |
| Credits | Pencils:? (illustrations) | Inks:? (illustrations) | Letters:?; typeset |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
| Notes | The stories behind three stamps: "Ancient City - New Name." "The Great Marquis," and "The Flying Dutchman." |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Western-frontier | Characters: Bronc Peeler; Coyote Pete |
| Notes | The newspaper strip ran between 1934-10-07 and 1938. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Western-frontier | Characters: Uncle Bill; Martha |
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| Credits | Letters: typeset |
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| Credits | Letters: typeset |
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| Comic Story | Smoke Gets in Your Nose |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Salesman Sam; Duzz |
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| Credits | Letters: typeset |
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| Credits | Letters: typeset |
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| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Text house ad for Funnies and Popular Comics. |
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| Credits | Letters: typeset |
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| Notes | letter puzzle |
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| Publisher advertisement | Popular Comics Ad (1 page) |
| Credits | Pencils:? (various) | Inks:? (various) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | Inside back cover ad for next issue of Popular Comics, on sale September 25th. |
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| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | back cover |
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