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| Name | Crackajack Funnies 1 | Published |
| Publication | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 68 | Frequency: monthly |
| Notes | Almost all features are strip reprints. Editor information from Ron Goulart's Over 50 Years of American Comic Books (Mallard Press) 1991. |
| Cover | 1 page |
| Story | Dan Dunn (5 pages) |
| Genre | Adventure; Spy |
| Characters | Dan Dunn; Irwin Higgs; The Chief; Officer Clancy |
| Script | Norman Marsh (signed) |
| Pencils | Norman Marsh (signed) |
| Inks | Norman Marsh (signed) |
| First Line | Certainly Irwin, take the camera along with you and try it out |
| Notes | The "Dan Dunn" feature formerly appeared in The Funnies (Dell, 1936 Series), but is now moving to Crackajack Funnies. |
| Story | Capt. Frank Hawks-- Air Ace (4 pages) |
| Genre | Adventure; Aviation |
| Characters | Captain Frank Hawks; Jack |
| Script | Irwin Myers |
| Pencils | Irwin Myers |
| Inks | Irwin Myers |
| First Line | The oil line's broken... we might catch fire |
| Notes | Adapted from Big Little Book (Whitman, 1932 series) #1144 [Captain Frank Hawks, Air Ace, and the League of Twelve] (1938). Copyright 1938 Stephen Schlesinger. |
| Story | Freckles and His Friends (4 pages) |
| Genre | Humor |
| Characters | Freckles; Oscar; Tag; Mr. Dunkelberger; Mrs. Pletzenbaum |
| Script | Merrill Blosser (signed) |
| Pencils | Merrill Blosser (signed) |
| Inks | Merrill Blosser (signed) |
| First Line | Boy, that's an important test we're gonna have tomorrow! |
| Notes | The "Freckles and His Friends" feature formerly appeared in The Funnies (Dell, 1936 Series), but is now moving to Crackajack Funnies. |
| Story | Myra North, Special Nurse (5 pages) |
| Genre | Drama |
| Characters | Myra North; D'Arle; Hans; Inspector Henley; Ada Craig; Rusel (crook) |
| Script | Ray Thompson |
| Pencils | Charles Coll |
| Inks | Charles Coll |
| First Line | Panic grips the audience... |
| Notes | The "Myra North, Special Nurse" feature formerly appeared in The Comics (Dell, 1937 Series), but is now moving to Crackajack Funnies. |
| Story | Columbus Goes West (3 pages) |
| Genre | Humor; Non-fiction |
| Characters | Christopher Columbus; Mario |
| Script | Dan Balkin |
| Pencils | Dan Balkin |
| Inks | Dan Balkin |
| First Line | Let us imagine ourselves living at the time of Christopher Columbus... |
| Story | Wash Tubbs (4 pages) |
| Genre | Adventure |
| Characters | Wash Tubbs; Captain Easy |
| Script | Roy Crane (signed) |
| Pencils | Roy Crane (signed) |
| Inks | Roy Crane (signed) |
| First Line | Oboy! This is th' life |
| Notes | The "Wash Tubbs" feature formerly appeared in The Comics (Dell, 1937 Series), but is now moving to Crackajack Funnies. |
| Story | Out Our Way (3 pages) |
| Genre | Humor |
| Script | J. R. Williams (signed) |
| Pencils | J. R. Williams (signed) |
| Inks | J. R. Williams (signed) |
| First Line | You can get a kinda idee of how nice they'd look, if they was mounted-- |
| Notes | The "Out Our Way" feature is currently appearing in The Funnies (Dell, 1936 Series) and Popular Comics (Dell, 1936 Series) and will now be appearing in Crackajack Funnies also. Four unrelated panels per comic book page. |
| Story | Apple Mary (4 pages) |
| Genre | Drama |
| Characters | Apple Mary; Peggy |
| Script | Martha Orr (signed) |
| Pencils | Martha Orr (signed) |
| Inks | Martha Orr (signed) |
| First Line | If I enter this house through the window many more times... |
| Notes | The "Apple Mary" feature formerly appeared in Popular Comics (Dell, 1936 Series), but is now moving to Crackajack Funnies. |
| Comic Story | Junior the Ventriloquist / The Nebbs (3 pages) |
| Genre | Humor |
| Characters | Junior Nebb; Sissy; Dynamo |
| Script | Sol Hess |
| Pencils | Wallace Carlson (signed) |
| Inks | Wallace Carlson (signed) |
| First Line | I'm getting along so well with my ventriloquism.. |
| Notes | "The Nebbs" feature formerly appeared in Popular Comics (Dell, 1936 Series), but is now moving to Crackajack Funnies. Art was previously credited in error to Sol Hess. |
| Story | Our Boarding House (3 pages) |
| Genre | Humor |
| Characters | Major Hoople; Ludow |
| Script | Gene Ahern |
| Pencils | Gene Ahern |
| Inks | Gene Ahern |
| First Line | No men I can't tell you yet, what the great invention of mine is- |
| Notes | The "Our Boarding House" feature is currently appearing in The Funnies (Dell, 1936 Series) and will now be appearing in Crackajack Funnies also. |
| Story | Clyde Beatty (3 pages) |
| Genre | Adventure |
| Characters | Clyde Beatty; Brooder; Jimmy |
| Pencils | Al Lewin |
| Inks | Al Lewin |
| First Line | Hey you! Ain't I told you to keep outa here! |
| Notes | Adapted from the Better Little Book (Whitman, 1938 series) #1410 [Clyde Beaty, Daredevil Lion Tamer and Tiger Tamer] (1939). |
| Story | Don Winslow (4 pages) |
| Synopsis | Don and his crew are trying to rescue American civilians from the Spanish Civil War. |
| Genre | Adventure; Military |
| Characters | Don Winslow; Red; Jackson |
| Script | Frank V. Martinek |
| Pencils | Leon A. Beroth |
| Inks | Leon A. Beroth |
| First Line | Spanish gunboats and Spanish fortress bombard each other |
| Notes | The "Don Winslow" feature formerly appeared in Popular Comics (Dell, 1936 Series), but is now moving to Crackajack Funnies. |
| Comic Story | Fence War in Painted Valley [Part 1] / Tom Mix (4 pages) |
| Genre | Western-frontier |
| Characters | Tom Mix; Jeff Carter; Nan Cameron |
| Pencils | Al Lewin (signed) |
| Inks | Al Lewin (signed) |
| Notes | Copyright by Stephen Slesinger. Probably from an unidentified Big Little Book. The "Tom Mix" feature formerly appeared in The Comics (Dell, 1937 Series), but is now moving to Crackajack Funnies. |
| Comic Story | Safer Walking / Boots and Her Buddies (4 pages) |
| Genre | Humor; Teen |
| Characters | Boota; Stephen |
| Script | Abe Martin |
| Pencils | Abe Martin |
| Inks | Abe Martin |
| Notes | The "Boots and Her Buddies" feature formerly appeared in The Funnies (Dell, 1936 Series), but is now moving to Crackajack Funnies. Although widely distributed as Boots and Her Buddies, some newspapers continued to use the Boots title, as here. |
| Story | Tom Traylor, G-Man X-32 (4 pages) |
| Genre | Crime; Detective-mystery |
| Characters | Mrs. J.B. Green; Dawson; Marie; Tom Traylor, X32; Agent Flint |
| Pencils | Milt Youngren ? |
| Inks | Milt Youngren ? |
| First Line | Mrs J B Green the wife of a wealthy midwest manufacturer nervously awaits the arrival of her legal advisor |
| Story | Flapper Fanny (3 pages) |
| Genre | Humor |
| Characters | Fanny; Chuck |
| Script | Sylvia Sneidman |
| Pencils | Sylvia Sneidman |
| Inks | Sylvia Sneidman |
| First Line | Guess we'd better believe in Santa Claus this time, Chuck. We'll be too old next year |
| Notes | The "Flapper Fanny" feature formerly appeared in The Funnies (Dell, 1936 Series), but is now moving to Crackajack Funnies. Four daily panels per comic book page. |
| Comic Story | The Rock Creek Cattle War [Part 1] / Buck Jones (4 pages) |
| Genre | Western-frontier |
| Characters | Buck Jones; June Halpin; Rex Willard; Doc Bronson; Dave Fallon [The Two-gun Kid] |
| Pencils | Ken Ernst (signed) |
| Inks | Ken Ernst (signed) |
| Notes | Adapted from Big Little Book (Whitman, 1932 series) #1461 [Buck Jones and the Rock Creek Cattle War] (1938). |
| Story | Mickey Mouse (1 page) |
| Letters | typeset |
| Genre | Anthropomorphic-funny Animals |
| First Line | Hello Pals! |
| Notes | Subscription advertisement for Mickey Mouse Magazine (Western, 1935 series). |
| 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 | |

