Price: 0.10 USD
Pages: 52
On-sale Date: 1948-11-16
Editing: ?
Cover Thumbnail for Famous Funnies (Eastern Color, 1934 series) #173 Edit Cover
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Napoleon / cover / 1 page

Pencils:
? (Buck Rogers insert)
Inks:
? (Buck Rogers insert)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:humor; animal
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:I'm glad Napoleon wanted skis.
Characters:
Uncle Elby (dressed as Santa Claus); Napoleon; Buck Rogers (vignette)

Issue Data

Indexer Notes

All content of this comic are newspaper strip reprints modified to fit comic book format. The dates of publication of these strips have, in practically all cases, been removed.

On sale date from the previous issue's “Let's Get into a Huddle” page.

[no title indexed]
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Buck Rogers / comic story / 6 pages

Script:
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:science fiction; adventure
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:He's plenty slow about it! Give 'im a prod, gorgeous!

[no title indexed]
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Steve Roper and Wahoo / comic story / 7 pages

Script:
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:adventure
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Here they come, Wahoo!
Characters:
Steve Roper; Chief Wahoo; Zircon (heroine)
Reprints (0)
  • From Steve Roper and Wahoo daily (Publishers Syndicate).

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Napoleon / comic story / 1 page

Script:
Clifford McBride (credited, signed)
Pencils:
Clifford McBride (credited, signed)
Inks:
Clifford McBride (credited, signed)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:humor; animal
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:"Ha ha!" Boy, what an expression!
Characters:
Uncle Elby; Napoleon; Willie
Synopsis:
Elby shows Willie an awful candid photo of Napoleon, telling him it might get used on the cover of a magazine. Napoleon steals and destroys it, but Elby has many other prints.
Reprints (0)
  • From Napoleon and Uncle Elby Sunday (Lafave Newspaper Features).

[no title indexed]
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Dickie Dare / comic story / 6 pages

Script:
Mabel Burwick Waugh [as Odin] (signed)
Pencils:
Mabel Burwick Waugh [as Odin] (signed)
Inks:
Mabel Burwick Waugh [as Odin] (signed)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:adventure; children
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:You wished to see me, Mr. Avery?
Characters:
Dickie Dare; Dan Flynn; Ah Chok; Mr. Avery
Reprints (0)
  • from Dickie Dare daily (AP Newsfeatures [Associated Press])

The Unexpected Handicap
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text story / 2 pages

Script:
F. E. Siple (credited)
Pencils:
? (illustrations)
Inks:
? (illustrations)
Colors:
?
Letters:
typeset
  • Genre:sports
Characters:
Ted Blake; Harold; Coach

Merry Christmas
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Let's Get into a Huddle / text article / 1 page

Script:
?
Letters:
typeset
  • Genre:non-fiction

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Bobby Sox / comic story / 6 pages

Script:
Jerry Bundsen
Pencils:
Marty Links (signed)
Inks:
Marty Links (signed)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:humor; teen
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:His letters make me feel as if he were here beside me...
Characters:
Bobby Sox
Reprints (0)
  • from Bobby Sox Sunday and daily (Consolidated News Features)

Indexer Notes

Two pages with four separate daily gag panels each, then four pages of individual standalone Sundays.

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Pen Pal Page / activity / 1 page

Script:
?
Letters:
typeset
  • Genre:non-fiction

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Scorchy Smith / comic story / 6 pages

Script:
?
Pencils:
Frank Robbins
Inks:
Frank Robbins
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:adventure; aviation
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Now to deliver the black market meat to the Dragon!
Characters:
Scorchy Smith; The Dragon (villain)
Reprints (0)
  • from Scorchy Smith daily (AP Newsfeatures [Associated Press])

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Oaky Doaks / comic story / 6 pages

Script:
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:adventure; historical; humor
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:And now, gentlemen...
Characters:
Sir Oaky Doaks; Fateemah (slave girl)
Reprints (0)
  • from Oaky Doaks daily (AP Newsfeatures [Associated Press]). The date 3-18 appears on page four, but the year is uncertain.
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Table of Contents ToC
    Table of Contents
  1. ["I'm glad Napoleon wanted skis."]
    Napoleon
  2. ["He's plenty slow about it! Give 'im a prod, gorgeous!"]
    Buck Rogers
  3. ["Here they come, Wahoo!"]
    Steve Roper and Wahoo
  4. [""Ha ha!" Boy, what an expression!"]
    Napoleon
  5. ["You wished to see me, Mr. Avery?"]
    Dickie Dare
  6. The Unexpected Handicap
  7. Merry Christmas
    Let's Get into a Huddle
  8. ["His letters make me feel as if he were here beside me..."]
    Bobby Sox
  9. [no title indexed]
    Pen Pal Page
  10. ["Now to deliver the black market meat to the Dragon!"]
    Scorchy Smith
  11. ["And now, gentlemen..."]
    Oaky Doaks
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  • Keith Chandler
  • Jim Stangas
  • Daniel Thingvold
  • Jim Van Dore
  • Len Wolinsky
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