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| i like dan dunn but i wish that they wouldn't skip every other week with it sigh am i alone in thinking hairsbreadth harry kinda sucks ?? |
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| I think what's going on is that they're only printing the Sunday pages. Milton Caniff said that he wrote Sundays for the kids and dailies for the adults. Adults read the daily paper, so the dailies stressed character and plot. Kids read the Sunday paper, so Sundays stressed action.
But the majority of newspapers didn't print Sunday editions. For their benefit, whatever happened in the Sunday strip was summed up in a Monday caption. Creators tried several ways to be fair to both six-day and seven-day readers. Some made Sunday's events tangential to the story line. If someone's paper carried only the dailies, they'd never know they missed anything. Some had two different story lines running simultaneously, one during the week and the other on Sundays.( This practice proved confusing and most strips dumped it.)
Dann Dunn seems to use Sunday as a teaser to set up the next week's events. Since all the action happens in the dailies, the only thing we see in Famous Funnies is people discussing what happened "between the pages."
PS: You're right about Hairbreadth Harry. The strip had been around since 1907!! By this time it was hopelessly antiquated. It was finally permitted to die in 1940. |
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| Additional Information |
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| Publication | September 1936 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Joe Palooka |
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| Comic Story | The Raccoons |
| Featuring | This Curious World |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction; Animal |
| Notes | Inside front cover. |
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| Featuring | Freckles and His Friends |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Freckles McGoosey; Dolores Fisk |
| Notes | Inside front cover. |
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| Featuring | Goofie Gags |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | Four unrelated gag panels. |
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| Content | Genre: Sports | Characters: Gene Tunney |
| Notes | The top tier of the "Joe Palooka" Sunday page, by the same creators. |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure; Sports | Characters: Joe Palooka; Knobby Walsh; Marmaduke |
| Notes | The top tier is "Fisher's History of Boxing", by the same creators. |
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| Featuring | Alec and Itchy |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Alec; Itchy |
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| Featuring | Otto Honk |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Otto Honk |
| Notes | The top tier of the "Out Our Way" Sunday page. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Junior Willet; Pa Willet; Ma Willet |
| Notes | The top tier is "Otto Honk".
Script and art was previously credited to Neg Cochrane [really Cochran], but although he was an assistant to Williams he did not take over the strip until the death of the latter in 1957. |
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| Comic Story | Skipper (1 page) |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction; Aviation; Biography | Characters: Captain Ernst Lehmann (captain of the Hindenburg zeppelin) |
| Notes | This issue was on the stands 9 months before the famous crash. Lehmann was on board only as an observer; he wasn't the captain on the fatal flight. |
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| Comic Story | To Marry Wogga Zazula! (2 pages) |
| Featuring | Captain Easy, Soldier of Fortune |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Captain Easy; Pippy; Wogga Zazula |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Animal | Characters: Napoleon; Uncle Elby |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Nipper Tucker; Muriel; Jimmy; Algy Bray |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure; Children | Characters: Dickie Dare; Dan Flynn; Mister Gus; The Captain |
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| Featuring | Boots |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Boots Ruggles; Billy; Gwendolyn |
| Notes | The actual name of the strip was “Boots and Her Buddies”, but some newspapers presented the strip under the shortened title “Boots”, as here. The final panel on each Sunday page is one of fashion, named "Boots cut outs". |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Harry Hollingsworth; Rudolph Rassendale (villain); Belinda Blinks |
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| Content | Genre: Science Fiction |
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| Featuring | Magic Made Easy |
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| Featuring | Such Is Life |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | Single daily gag panel. |
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| Featuring | Dumb-Bells |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | Charles J. Dunn has generally been credited as the creator, but evidence elsewhere suggests it may have been Gar Schmitt. |
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| Featuring | Flying To Fame |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Aviation | Characters: Slim; O'Brien; Miguel; Tubby; Peg; Michael "Beau" Geste; John Geste; Digby Geste; Claudia; Isobel; Aunt Patricia |
| Notes | In a bizarre twist, the fourth daily reproduced on page two segues into the "Beau Geste" strip, with the existing cast of characters assuming new roles: Pat is now Michael “Beau” Geste, Slim is Digby Geste, Peg is Claudia, Tubby is John Geste, Peg is Isobel. |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure; Aviation | Characters: Scorchy Smith; Tex; Colonel Patterson |
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| Featuring | Butty and Fatty |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Butty; Fatty |
| Notes | The strip was discontinued on 1934-06-06. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Western-frontier | Characters: Pa Piffle; Miss Sally; Mescal Ike |
| Notes | Five dailes on a single page. |
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| Featuring | Dan Dunn, Secret Operative 48 |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Dan Dunn; Irwin; Miss Fields; Minkso |
| Notes | The last Dan Dunn page says Continued Next Month. Well this was the last appearance of Dan Dunn in Famous Funnies. The Strip would next appear in a different comics and a different company. Dan Dunn would next appear in the first issue of The Funnies for Dell Comics. Their first Sunday that they would reprinted was dated 1936-03-08. |
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| Featuring | Herky |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Herky |
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| Comic Story | The Story of the Phillipines- part VI |
| Content | Genre: History |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Sam Smithers; Cam O'Flage; Mame; Reggie Smithers |
| 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 | War On Crime |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction; Crime |
| Notes | Centerfold promotion for next issue's new strip, "War on Crime", endorsed by J. Edgar Hoover. Includes photos, plus a line drawing of Hoover's head. |
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| Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
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| Featuring | Adventures of Jabby |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Animal | Characters: Jabby |
| Notes | pantomime; wordless comic |
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| Featuring | Ned Brant of Carter |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Sports | Characters: Ned Brant; Shotgun Sheldon; Detective Sherman; Chief Edwards; Detctive Kennedy |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Homer Hoopee; Mr. Flip |
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| Featuring | Dumb-Bells |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Synopsis | Connie is now in college. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Connie Kurridge; Bob; Miss Pruyn |
| Notes | Date of newspaper strip from Jon Ingersoll's research. |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure; Humor; Historical | Characters: Oaky Doaks; The Black Knight; Sir Cadwell Morgan; King Cedric |
| Notes | Script previously credited to Ralph Briggs Fuller, but McCleery was the author for forty years. |
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| Text Story | You Die - at Dawn! (1.8 pages) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Aviation; War | Characters: Dennis O'Connor (aerial mapper); Padre Savalla; Manuelito; Juan Gregario; Billings |
| Notes | The final 0.2 of the page is an uncredited tier from "The Wet Blanket". |
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| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | This appears with title uncredited. |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure; Children | Characters: Dorothy "Babe" Bunting; Mrs. Crumpet; Miss Grimstone; Jasper Scrawn; Zenas |
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| Content | Genre: Drama | Characters: Olive Lane; Skip Allen; Wally; Jack |
| Notes | This strip ran between 1934-01-22 and 1938, so these reprints fall within that period. |
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| Featuring | Seaweed Sam the Rhyming Rover |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Seaweed Sam; Prof. A. Nutt, |
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| Featuring | Such Is Life |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | One daily gag panel. |
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| Featuring | Dumb-Bells |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | confirmed by Alan Holtz's The Stripper's Guide and American Newspaper Comics |
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| Featuring | Jane Arden / Lena Pry |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Jane Arden; Oscar Beal; Lena Pry |
| Notes | Three Sunday pages, each one featuring a sequential "Jane Arden" storyline (0.5), a self-contained "Lena Pry" story (0.33), and a fashion panel "Jane Arden's Wardrobe" (0.17). |
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| Featuring | Screen Oddities |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction | Characters: George Raft; Colleen Moore; Helen Hayes; Marlene Dietrich; Maude Eburne; Shirley Temple; John Mack Brown; Edward G. Robinson; Mary Carlisle |
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| Featuring | Bobby |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Bobby; Ted |
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| Featuring | Flight |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction; Aviation |
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| Featuring | Apple Mary |
| Content | Genre: Drama | Characters: Mary Worth; Dennie; Sonny; Bill |
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| Featuring | Butty and Fatty |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Butty; Fatty |
| Notes | The strip was discontinued on 1934-06-06. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Little Brother; Herman |
| Notes | The top tier of "The Bungle Family" Sunday page, by the same creator. |
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| Comic Story | A Draw |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: George Bungle; Jo Bungle |
| Notes | The top tier is "Little Brother", by the same creator. |
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| Comic Story | The Fish Are Biting Today |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Popcorn; Pappy |
| Notes | The Sunday page is shared equally between "The Nebbs" and "Simp O'Dell". |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Simp O'Dill |
| Notes | The Sunday page is shared equally between "The Nebbs" and "Simp O'Dill". |
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