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| Publication | July 1948 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
| Notes | Cover signed Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. |
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| Featuring | Funnyman |
| Credits | Pencils: Dick Ayers [as Joe Shuster] (signed) | Inks: Shuster shop |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Superhero | Characters: Funnyman [Larry Davis] |
| Notes | Cover signed Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. |
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| Publisher advertisement | A Killer-Diller! (1 page) |
| Synopsis | 1 page ad for Manhunt magazine, reprinting cover to issue 10 (July 1948). |
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| Comic Story | Wanted: One Corpse! (15 pages) |
| Synopsis | After 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. |
| Featuring | Funnyman |
| Credits | Script: Jerry Siegel (signed) | Pencils: John Sikela [as Joe Shuster] (signed) | Inks: Shuster shop |
| Content | Genre: 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) |
| Notes | Logo for Funnyman includes Siegel and Shuster's names. |
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| Comic Story | The Downfall of Noodnick Nogoodnick (10 pages) |
| Synopsis | Funnyman 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. |
| Featuring | Funnyman |
| Credits | Script: Jerry Siegel (signed) | Pencils: John Sikela [as Joe Shuster] (signed) | Inks: Shuster shop |
| Content | Genre: 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) |
| Notes | Logo for Funnyman includes Siegel and Shuster's names.
Pencil credit formerly assigned to Joe Shuster. |
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| Comic Story | The Peculiar Pacifier (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Having 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. |
| Featuring | Funnyman |
| Credits | Script: Jerry Siegel (signed) | Pencils: John Sikela [as Joe Shuster] (signed) | Inks: Shuster shop |
| Content | Genre: 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) |
| Notes | Logo for Funnyman includes Siegel and Shuster's names. |
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