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| 20 issues in, famous funnies is mostly a fun read i really like jabber / joe palooka /alley oop / napolean /somebody's stenog |
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| Publication | March 1936 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
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| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Featuring | Butty and Fatty |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Butty; Fatty; Grandpappy |
| Notes | inside front cover
The strip was discontined on 1934-06-06. |
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| Featuring | Goofie Gags |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | Four unrelated gag panels. |
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| Content | Genre: Sports | Characters: Luis Angel Firpo |
| Notes | The top tier of the “Joe Palooka” Sunday page, by the same creators. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Sports | Characters: Joe Palooka; Knobby Walsh; Mr. Machamer |
| Notes | The top tier is “Fisher’s History of Boxing”, by the same creators. |
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| Featuring | The Adventures of Jabby |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Animal |
| Notes | pantomime; wordless comic |
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| Featuring | Let's Get Into a Huddle! |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | synopses of some of the contents |
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| Featuring | Otto Honk |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Otto Honk |
| Notes | The top tier of the "Out Our Way" Sunday page. The strip was discontinued in 1936. |
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| Comic Story | The Willets |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | The top tier is "Otto Honk". |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Alley Oop; Foozy; The Queen; King Guzzle |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Nipper Tucker; Mrs. Tucker; Ruff Bumps; Butch |
| 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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| Featuring | Captain Easy, Soldier of Fortune |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Captain Easy; Pippy |
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| Featuring | Herky |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Hercules; his mother; Mrs. Moosemug |
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| Featuring | Seaweed Sam the Rhyming Rover |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Seaweed Sam; Chris Columbus |
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| Featuring | Magic Made Easy |
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| Featuring | The Frog Pond Ferry |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Anthropomorphic-funny Animals | Characters: The Skipper; Carmichael |
| Notes | The strip was discontined on 1934-06-06. |
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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; Mr. Fungus |
| Notes | The bottom tier of the "Hairbreadth Harry" Sunday page, by the same creator. |
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| Content | Genre: Science Fiction | Characters: Buddy Deering; Princess Alura |
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| Comic Story | Meet The World's Laziest Man |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: John “Junior” Nebb; Popcorn; Pappy |
| Notes | The Sunday page is shared equally between "The Nebbs" and "Simp O'Dill". |
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| Comic Story | Simp's Got A Lot To Learn About Banks |
| 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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| Featuring | Boots |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Boots Ruggles; Rod Ruggles; Davey Ruggles; Clara Budd; Dudley Budd; Cora Tutt; Steve Tutt; Pug High; Mrs. Horner; Harvey Horner |
| 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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| Comic Story | Clive Settles The Score (1 page) |
| Content | Genre: Historical |
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| Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure; Children | Characters: Dorothy "Babe" Bunting; Mrs. Crumpet; Miss Grimshore; Roger Weston |
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| Featuring | Butty and Fatty |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Butty; Fatty |
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| Content | Genre: Drama | Characters: Mary Worth [Apple Mary]; Bill Biff; Miss Hetty; Dennie; Mr. Craftee |
| Notes | First comic-book appearance of Mary Worth aka Apple Mary. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Animal | Characters: Napoleon |
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| Comic Story | The Great Balloon Mystery. |
| Featuring | S'matter Pop? |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Pop Wimpus; Ambrose |
| Notes | The Sunday page is shared equally between "S’matter, Pop?" and "Honeybunch's Hubby", by the same creator. |
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| Featuring | Honeybunch's Hubby |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Honeybunch; her hubby |
| Notes | The Sunday page is shared equally between "S’matter, Pop?" and "Honeybunch's Hubby", by the same creator. |
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| Featuring | The Nut Bros. |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Ches Nut; Wal Nut |
| Notes | The top tier of the "Our Boarding House" Sunday page, by the same creator. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Uncle Amos; Alvin; Clyde |
| Notes | The top tier is "The Nut Brothers", by the same creator. |
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| Featuring | This Curious World |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
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| Featuring | Freckles and His Friends |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Freckles McGoosey |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Sam Smithers; Cam O’Flage; Mary; 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 | Flying To Fame |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Aviation | Characters: Slim; Tubby; O'Brien; Parker |
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| Notes | puzzle-page |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Western-frontier | Characters: Mescal Ike; Miss Sally; Pa Piffle |
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| Content | Genre: Drama | Characters: Olive Lane; Abe "A.G." Ginsberg; Jimmy Bangem; Pete |
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| Featuring | The Frog Pond Ferry |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Anthropomorphic-funny Animals | Characters: The Skipper; Henrietta |
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| Featuring | Flight |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
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| Featuring | Ned Brant of Carter |
| Content | Genre: Sports | Characters: Ned Brant; Coach Dave Meecham; Fay Chambers; Jack Perrin; Specs |
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| Featuring | Flapper Fanny |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Fanny; Betty |
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| Featuring | Salesman Sam |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Sam Duffy |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Holly |
| Notes | The top tier of the “Keeping Up With the Joneses” Sunday page, by the same creator. |
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| Comic Story | Retribution, or The Worm Turns |
| Featuring | Keeping Up With the Joneses |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Bowers; Elmore |
| Notes | The top tier is “Holly of Hollywood”, by the same creator. |
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| Featuring | Strange As It Seems |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
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| Featuring | The John Hix Scrapbook |
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| Featuring | Happy Daze |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Happy Daze |
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| Featuring | Pee Wee |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Pee Wee Myers; his father; Curly |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Animal | Characters: Napoleon; Uncle Elby |
| Notes | pantomime; wordless comic |
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| Featuring | Such Is Life |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | Two daily gag panels. |
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| Featuring | Dumb-Bells |
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| Comic Story | Hep! Hep! Hep! |
| Featuring | Dizzy Dramas |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Featuring | Jane Arden / Lena Pry |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Humor | Characters: Jane Arden; Duke Victor; Lena Pry |
| Notes | Four 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), all by the same creators. |
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| Text Story | King Joko Comes Clean (2 pages) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Ted Mikels; Grandfather Mikels; Bill Murdock |
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| Featuring | Dan Dunn, Secret Operative 48 |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Dan Dunn; Babs; Ivan Eviloff; Skarge |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Little Brother |
| Notes | The top tier of "The Bungle Family" Sunday page, by the same creator. |
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| Comic Story | The Annual Scare |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: George Bungle; Jo Bungle; Uncle Sam |
| Notes | The top tier is "Little Brother", by the same creator. |
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| Featuring | Screen Oddities |
| Credits | Pencils: Thompson? | Inks: Thompson? |
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| Featuring | "Good Deed" Dotty |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: "Good Deed" Dotty |
| Notes | The top tier of the "Dixie Dugan" Sunday page, by the same creators. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Dixie Dugan |
| Notes | The top tier is ""Good Deed" Dotty", by the same creators. |
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| Featuring | Amaze-A-Minute |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
| Notes | inside back cover |
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