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| Publication | November 1938 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
| Notes | The cover character is "Samuel Smithers" from the "Somebody's Stenog" comic strip drawn by A.E. Hayward. However, the Famous Funnies covers were often drawn by artists other than the original creator of the characters depicted. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Sam Smithers |
| Notes | The cover character is "Samuel Smithers" from the "Somebody's Stenog" comic strip drawn by A.E. Hayward. However, the Famous Funnies covers were often drawn by artists other than the original creator of the characters depicted. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Western-frontier | Characters: Mescal Ike; Pa Piffle; Young 'Un |
| Notes | This is just a drawing of Young 'Un on a horse astride a canyon, as Pa Piffle and Mescal Ike look on. There is no story or even a gag. A number of "Famous Funnies" issues have these character "pin-ups" in this position in the comic. |
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| Synopsis | Two daily strips:
Jitter sees a rattlesnake in the zoo and is later spooked by toothpaste coming out of a tube as a child plays with a rattle.
Jitter has the family dog lick the dinner dishes clean. |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Animal | Characters: Jitter (chimp) |
| Notes | pantomime; wordless comic
The bottom half of the page is an advertisement, encouraging children to sell "Xmas packs" and win prizes. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | Four one-panel gag cartoons, two about football and two about Thanksgiving. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Alvin |
| Notes | Two unrelated daily gag cartoons. |
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| Credits | Script: Paul Powell (credited) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Teen | Characters: Roy Powers; Uncle Bob; Tommy Glover |
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| Featuring | Let's Get Into a Huddle |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Editorial page with various comments about the comic book. Two illustrations by Stephen Douglas [who was "the effective day-to-day editor" of Famous Funnies, according to Ron Goulart, Comic Book Culture: An Illustrated History. Collector's Press, Inc. 2000. pp. 11-12.] |
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| Content | Genre: Science Fiction | Characters: Anthony "Buck" Rogers; Killer Kane; Princess Ardala; Dr. Elias Huer |
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| Synopsis | Goofy says he wasn't blowing a hockey player a "razzberry" (aka Bronx Cheer), he just has a cold and was blowing his nose. |
| Featuring | Such is Life |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Goofy Saunders |
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| Featuring | Dumb-Bells |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | Two daily gag panels. |
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| Synopsis | A woman breaks a 5,000 year old vase at a museum and tells the guard "you're lucky it wuzn't bran' new." |
| Featuring | Dizzy Dramas |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | There are three separate comic features on this page. The last 0.25 of the page is a black-and-white ad for the "Erectorscope." |
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| Synopsis | Bull and Hurricane chase the kidnapper, Silky Sims, while Jerry and Gilly talk about airplanes. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Aviation | Characters: Bull Benham; Hurricane Hawk; The Pima Kid; Silky Sims; Puma; Little Jerry; Gilly |
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| Synopsis | Marooned on an island with crocodiles. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Humor | Characters: Harry Hollingsworth; 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 |
| Notes | The bottom tier of the "Hairbreadth Harry" Sunday page, by the same creator. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | Six unrelated daily gag panels. |
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| Featuring | War on Crime |
| Content | Genre: Crime | Characters: Agent Baker; Dr. S. M. Hibbard; Agent Applegate; Agent Suhay |
| Notes | "Jimmy Thompson" tentative art ID from this site: http://strippersguide.blogspot.com/search?q=war+on+crime |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Animal | Characters: Jitter |
| Notes | Four dailies on one comic book page.
pantomime; wordless comic |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Big Chief Wahoo; Pigtails; Mrs. Upsnoot |
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| Synopsis | Dan and Dickie sail back to America and are sent by Dickie's father out to New Mexico to track down a new mystery. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Children | Characters: Dickie Dare; Dan Flynn; Wags (dog); John Barrington; Richard Dare; Mrs. Dare; Smutty |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure; Children | Characters: Patsy Cardigan; Miss Ginny; Uncle Phil Cardigan; Thimble |
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| Comic Story | Theodora--Her Girlhood |
| Content | Genre: Biography; History | Characters: Empress Theodora |
| Notes | The Sunday page is completed by two single tiers - "Boys and Girls the World Over" and "Would You Believe It---? |
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| Synopsis | Information on Guatemala. |
| Featuring | Boys and Girls the World Over |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
| Notes | The third tier of the "Highights of History" Sunday page, by the same creator. |
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| Featuring | Would You Believe It? |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
| Notes | The fourth tier of the "Highights of History" Sunday page, by the same creator. |
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| Synopsis | Seven different panels, each with an activity or puzzle. |
| Featuring | Funland |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Animal | Characters: Napoleon; Uncle Elby; Joe Ballot |
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| Featuring | Animals in the News |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Anthropomorphic-funny Animals |
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| Featuring | Frog Pond Ferry |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Anthropomorphic-funny Animals | Characters: The Skipper; Gink Goat |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Animal | Characters: Napoleon; Uncle Elby |
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| Comic Story | Cat O' 9 Lives |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Anthropomorphic-funny Animals |
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| Featuring | Frog Pond Ferry |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Anthropomorphic-funny Animals | Characters: The Skipper; Barkley |
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| Synopsis | Sergei Shadows makes his living haunting castles. Then Oaky is summoned back to Maple Island to fight a giant. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Humor; Historical | Characters: Sir Oaky Doaks; King Cedric; Sergei Shadows; The Giant |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Seaweed Sam; Jibsail Jerry |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Big Chief Wahoo; Pigtails; Mrs. Upsnoot |
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| Synopsis | Two schemers try to convince Olly they've kidnapped Buddy. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Olive Lane; Buddy Lane; Jum; Bill |
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| Synopsis | The adventure over, Scorchy takes his reward money and goes to buy his own plane. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Aviation | Characters: Scorchy Smith; Jay; Tanta Armara; Randolph; General Armara; Himmelstoff; Mr. Treling; Schmidt |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Sam Smithers; Cam O’Flage |
| Notes | The bottom tier is “The Back-Seat Driver”, by the same creator. |
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| Synopsis | from Somebody's Stenog Sunday (The Ledger Syndicate) |
| 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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| Synopsis | Biography of 19th century photographer W.H. Jackson. |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction | Characters: W.H. Jackson |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Western-frontier | Characters: Mescal Ike; Pa Piffle; Miss Sally; Young Bates |
| Notes | Five daily strips on a single comic book page. |
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| Activity | Magic Made Easy (1 page) |
| Credits | Pencils: Stephen Douglas? | Inks: Stephen Douglas? | Letters: typeset |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Animal | Characters: Napoleon; Willie |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Non-fiction |
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| Synopsis | Mrs. Bunting gets a job on a showbozt. |
| Content | Genre: Drama; Children | Characters: Dorothy "Babe" Bunting; Mrs. Bunting; Captain Lucifer Mulberry; Benjy |
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| Credits | Script: Fred Balk (signed) | Pencils: Fred Balk (signed) | Inks: Fred Balk (signed) |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Children |
| Notes | Four daily gag panels. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Connie Kurridge; Mr. Kurridge; Johnny |
| Notes | The bottom tier is “The Wet Blanket”, by the same creator. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Ted |
| Notes | The bottom tier of the "Connie" Sunday page, by the same creator. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | Six daily gag panels. |
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| Featuring | Queenie |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Queenie; Aunt Prunella; Jitters |
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| Text Story | The Ghost of Devil Key (2 pages) |
| Credits | Script: Connye M. Hyatt (credited) | Colors:? (2 spot illustrations) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Janey; Anne |
| Notes | The "Let's Get Into a Huddle" page says Connye Hyatt is the wife of Robert M. Hyatt who "has been writing stories for you for the past four years." |
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| Synopsis | Homer is searching for buried treasure - but only under duress. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Homer Hoopee; Pasquale; Obregado |
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| Featuring | Artistic Artie |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Artistic Artie |
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| Featuring | Butty and Fatty |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Butty; Fatty; Spunky Dory |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Animal | Characters: Napoleon; Uncle Elby |
| Notes | pantomime; wordless comic |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Animal | Characters: Jitter |
| Notes | Three daily strips on a single comic book page.
The bottom third of the page is an ad urging "Boys 12 to 15!" to sell magazine subscriptions and win a bike or other prizes. |
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| Synopsis | List of pen pals for readers to correspond with. |
| Featuring | Pen Pal Page |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Masthead illustration. |
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