| Additional Information |
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| Publication | November 1936 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
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| Credits | Letters:?; typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Jeff |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Worry Wart |
| Notes | Actually four single-panel cartoons. titled "The Scalplock," "The Running Mate," "The Height of Laziness," and "The Double Life."
On the inside front cover, printed in red and black. |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Captain Easy; Nikkatina; Gizzy; Nikky Escota (villain) |
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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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| Content | Genre: Humor; Animal | Characters: Cicero's Cat [Desdemona] |
| Notes | This is the footer to the Mutt and Jeff Sunday page, by the same creator. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Boots |
| Notes | Although widely distributed as Boots and Her Buddies, some newspapers continued to use the Boots title, as here. |
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| Comic Story | Bluffers! (1 page) |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction; Nature |
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| Featuring | Everybody's Playmate |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Pinhead Duffy |
| Notes | This strip shared a Sunday page with Daisybelle, by the same creator.
Printed in red, blue and black. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Daisybelle; Raymond |
| Notes | This strip shared a Sunday page with Reg'lar Fellers, by the same creator.
Printed in red, blue and black. |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Dan Dunn; Jug; Heinie; Babs; Sheila; Irwin |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Western-frontier | Characters: Bronc Peeler; Coyote Pete; Pappy |
| 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: Non-fiction; 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; Historical | Characters: Alley Oop; Hooto; Foozie; King Guzzle |
| Notes | Each Sunday page has a "Dinny's Family Album" panel in the upper right corner. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Boots; Ferdy |
| Notes | Although widely distributed as Boots and Her Buddies, some newspapers continued to use the Boots title, as here. |
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| Content | Genre: Drama | Characters: Myra North; Doctor Devries; Jack Lane; The Empoeror |
| Notes | Ten daily strips are printed here. The 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; Daisybelle's mother |
| 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. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Major Hoople |
| 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; Guzzenberry |
| Notes | This is the topper to the Out Our Way Sunday page.
Printed in red, blue and black. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | The topper to this Sunday page is Otto Honk. |
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| Featuring | The Tiny Mites |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Anthropomorphic-funny Animals; Children |
| Notes | Illustrations in black & white with instruction to "Read the story, then color the pictures." Second page appears between the second Stranger Than Fiction page and the Annibelle half-page. |
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| Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure; Aviation | Characters: Tailspin Tommy Tomkins; Betty Lou; Taggart; Koroloff; "Spider" |
| Notes | The footer to the Sunday page is Tailspin Tommy Flying Club, by the same creators, with instructional data on flying planes. This feature began in 1935. |
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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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| 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. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Major Hoople; Mrs. Hoople |
| 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: Mutt; Jeff |
| Notes | The footer to the Sunday page is Cicero's Cat, by the same creator. |
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| Comic Story | Piano-Walk |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Cicero's Cat [Desdemona] |
| Notes | This is the footer to the Mutt and Jeff Sunday page, by the same creator. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Flapper Fanny |
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| Comic Story | Something New in Wood! |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Sam Howdy; Duzz; Georgie |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Freckles |
| Notes | Four Sunday half pages. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: 'Sparagus; Chubby |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Boots |
| Notes | Although widely distributed as Boots and Her Buddies, some newspapers continued to use the Boots title, as here. |
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| Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Annibelle; Pierre |
| Notes | Printed in red, blue and black. |
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| Comic Story | Even So, It's Hard to Take! |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Sam Howdy |
| Notes | Printed in red, blue and black. |
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| Comic Story | Scribbly Gets a Fan (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Ving Parker learns the address of Scribbly's home, and sends him an anonymous package containing a drawing table. |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Teen | Characters: Scribbly Jibbet; Mrs. Jibbet; Dinky Jibbet; Ving Parker; Mr. Parsons (introduction, candy store owner) |
| Notes | Feature continues from Popular Comics (1936 series) #9.
This story establishes that Scribbly lives at No. 6 Pine Street. |
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| Comic Story | Scribbly Gets an Inspiration-! (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Scribbly tries to work on a cartoon, but his little brother keeps disturbing him. This gives Scribbly an idea for a new comic strip: "Why Big Brothers Leave Home!". |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Teen | Characters: Scribbly Jibbet; Mrs. Jibbet; Dinky Jibbet |
| Notes | Sheldon Mayer adds an additional Scribbly strip called "Why Big Brothers Leave Home!" beginning in The Funnies #4. |
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| Text Story | Beginning "Goldfish Are Dangerous" an Exciting Story of Scientific Detection (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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| Comic Story | Ben's Disguise (1 page) |
| Content | Genre: Drama | Characters: Ben Webster; Elmer Avery; Briar (dog); Little Skyeyes |
| Notes | First of three Sunday pages. Each one has a separate title based on previous strip's "Next" at bottom of last panel. The title of this particular strip was found in issue #1 of The Funnies.
Story continues from issue #1
The creator's birth name is Jay Jerome Williams - - viz the credit here 'Copyright 1935 by Jay Jerome Williams' |
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| Comic Story | The Meeting! (1 page) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Ben Webster; Bruce Bryan [Little Skyeyes] |
| Notes | Sunday page 2 of 3 in this issue. Title obtained from "Next" in last panel of the previous strip. |
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| Comic Story | The Double Reunion! (1 page) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Ben Webster; Bruce Ryan (Little Skyeyes); Elmer Avery |
| Notes | Sunday page 3 of 3 in this issue. Title obtained from "Next" in last panel of previous strip. The title of the next strip (not in this issue) is shown as "The Development!".
Copyright 1935 by Jay Jerome Williams. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Boots; Ferdy |
| Notes | Although widely distributed as Boots and Her Buddies, some newspapers continued to use the Boots title, as here. |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Tad; Patty; Slim; The Great Bozano; Larkin |
| Notes | This is the topper to the Don Dixon and the Hidden Empire Sunday page, by the same creators.
Three complete Sunday pages. |
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| Featuring | Scissor Sketches |
| 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 | Characters: Don Dixon; Matt; Azel; Doctor Lugoff; Princess Wanda |
| Notes | The topper of the Sunday page is Tad of the Tanbark, by the same creators.
Three complete Sunday pages. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Herky; Mom |
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| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Herky; Albert; the butcher |
| Notes | Printed in red, blue and black. |
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| Featuring | Home Magic |
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| Comic Story | The English Sparrow (1 page) |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction; Nature |
| Notes | The English Sparrow and the Giant Tortoise. |
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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 | How to Help the Needy |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Cicero's Cat [Desdemona] |
| Notes | This is the footer to the Mutt and Jeff Sunday page, by the same creator. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Western-frontier | Characters: Coyote Pete; Pappy |
| Notes | The bottom half of the Sunday page is On the Range, by the same creator. |
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| Content | Genre: Western-frontier |
| Notes | The top half of the Sunday page is Bronc Peeler, by the same creator. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Annibelle |
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| Comic Story | Sam Has a Great Pull |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Sam Howdy; Professor Pietro |
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| Synopsis | The stories behind three stamps: "Latest Royal Exile," "The Ugly Duckling," and "Treasure Island." |
| Featuring | Stories in Stamps |
| Credits | Pencils:? (illustrations) | Inks:? (illustrations) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
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| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Activity | Word Puzzle |
| Notes | Shares bottom tier of page with two small ads. |
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| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Two pages of ads for various products by Johnson Smith & Company. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Major Hoople; Waldo |
| Notes | On the back cover. Shares the page with an ad for Popular Comics. |
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