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| Date | | Number: 5 | Lang: English (en) | |||
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| Name | Funnyman 5 | Published |
| Publication | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 36 | Frequency: monthly |
| Notes | On-sale date from the publication date reported to the United States Copyright Office found in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series. Part 2: Periodicals Jan-Dec 1948: Vol. 2 No. 1-2. Copyright registration number B138400. |
| Cover | 1 page |
| Synopsis | High above a circus, Funnyman rides a unicycle on a tightrope while throwing juggling pins at a man assaulting a woman. |
| Genre | Humor; Superhero |
| Pencils | Dick Ayers |
| Inks | Siegel and Shuster Studio |
| Publisher advertisement | A Killer-Diller! (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Promotional advertisement for Manhunt (Magazine Enterprises, 1947 series) #10. Contains an image of that issue's cover. |
| Feature | Manhunt |
| Pencils | Ogden Whitney (signed) |
| First Line | Get it at your favorite newsstand now! |
| Notes | Inside front cover. |
| Comic Story | Wanted: One Corpse! / Funnyman (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. |
| Genre | Humor; Superhero |
| Characters | Louie the Louse (villain, introduction); Louie's gang [Lola; Peanut; Thimblebrain] (villains, introduction for all) |
| Script | Jerry Siegel (signed) |
| Pencils | John Sikela |
| Inks | Siegel and Shuster Studio |
| First Line | Everyone likes to be considered desirable. It's only natural. We all like to feel we're wanted -- and that someone, somewhere, wants us for their own. |
| Comic Story | The Downfall of Noodnick Nogoodnick / Funnyman (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. |
| Genre | Humor; Superhero |
| Characters | Noodnik Nogodnik (villain, introduction); Ragsy (Zitto's pet dog, introduction); Little Jimmy Zitto (orphaned shoeshine boy, introduction); Jimmy's parents (introduction) |
| Script | Jerry Siegel |
| Pencils | John Sikela |
| Inks | Siegel and Shuster Studio |
| First Line | While June Farrell and "Happy" wrack their brains for a novel twist to pep up Larry Davis' comedy routine, the ace comedian amuses himself... |
| Comic Story | The Peculiar Pacifier / Funnyman (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. |
| Genre | Humor; Superhero |
| Characters | B. Beane (newspasper editor, introduction); Karl Borisloff (cartoonist, introduction); Mark Sade |
| Script | Jerry Siegel |
| Pencils | John Sikela |
| Inks | Siegel and Shuster Studio |
| First Line | Take a pinch of Doc Gimmick's weirdest crime discovery -- add a spoonful of "Louie the Lout," America's most gruesome comic strip... |
| Advertisement | Bad Skin? / Viderm Skin Products (1 page) |
| Letters | typeset |
| First Line | Stop worrying about pimples, blackheads and other externally caused skin troubles |
| Notes | Sold by New York Skin Laboratory. Inside back cover. |
| Advertisement | New Swiss Chalet Electric Whirling Clock / Swiss Chalet Electric Whirling Clock (1 page) |
| Letters | typeset |
| First Line | New! Different! Sensational! Here's beauty! Here's action! Here's the perfect timepiece! |
| Notes | Sold by Illinois Merchandise Mart. Back cover. |
| The data in the additional content section is courtesy of the Grand Comics Database under a Creative Commons Attribution License. More details about this comic may be available in their page here | |

