Price: 0.10 USD
Pages: 52
On-sale Date: 1948-04-15
Editing: Stephen Douglas (editor)
Cover Thumbnail for Famous Funnies (Eastern Color, 1934 series) #166 Edit Cover
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Napoleon / cover / 1 page

Script:
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:humor; animal
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:I'm sure I had another flapjack!
Characters:
Uncle Elby; Napoleon

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.

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Steve Roper and Wahoo / comic story / 8 pages

Script:
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
  • Genre:adventure
  • Job Number:FF166 485
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Pardon my outburst, fair rescuer!
Characters:
Steve Roper; Big Chief Wahoo; Professor Gudge; Zircon; Captain Croke; Kasha Blanca
Reprints (0)
  • from Steve Roper and Wahoo daily (Publishers Syndicate) xxxx-xx-xx - xxxx-xx-xx

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Napoleon / cartoon / 1 page

Script:
Clifford McBride (credited)
Pencils:
Clifford McBride (credited)
Inks:
Clifford McBride (credited)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:humor; animal
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:No use tryin' to fish with this big mutt in th' boat...
Characters:
Uncle Elby; Napoleon
Reprints (0)
  • from Napoleon and Uncle Elby Sunday (Lafave Newspaper Features)

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Buck Rogers in the 25th Century / comic story / 6 pages

Script:
Pencils:
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Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:adventure; science fiction
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Get that, Baitress... we tried to murder Rogers! Ha ha ha ha...
Characters:
Anthony "Buck" Rogers
Reprints (0)
  • from Buck Rogers in the 25th Century Sunday (John F. Dille Co.)

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Napoleon / comic story / 1 page

Script:
Clifford McBride (credited)
Pencils:
Clifford McBride (credited)
Inks:
Clifford McBride (credited)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:humor; animal
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:I think Napoleon and I will scamper up top...
Characters:
Napoleon; Uncle Elby; Willie
Reprints (0)
  • from Napoleon and Uncle Elby Sunday (Lafave Newspaper Features)

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Invisible Scarlet O'Neil / comic story / 6 pages

Script:
Russell Stamm (credited)
Pencils:
Russell Stamm (credited)
Inks:
Russell Stamm (credited)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:adventure; superhero; detective-mystery
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Beauty contest twice postponed to be held tommorrow...
Characters:
nvisible Scarlet O'Neil; Judy Flowers; Hurley Hines
Reprints (0)
  • from Invisible Scarlet O'Neil daily (Chicago Times Syndicate)

The World's Ugliest Horse
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text story / 2 pages

Script:
Paul Norton (credited) (house name)
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
typeset
  • Genre:adventure
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Carl Sutter jumped back...
Characters:
Carl Sutter; Captain Ricky

Indexer Notes

In an interview (available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hw1eHySycO4) conducted for the 2004 documentary "Tales from the Crypt: From Comic Books to Television", Williamson claims that this is the first comic book work he ever produced.

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Dickie Dare / comic story / 6 pages

Script:
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:adventure; children
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:This is just act one!
Characters:
Dickie Dare; Dan Flynn
Reprints (0)
  • from Dickie Dare daily (AP Newsfeatures [Associated Press]) xxxx-xx-xx - xxxx-xx-xx

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Pen Pal Page / activity / 1 page

Letters:
typeset
Synopsis:
A list of names & addresses of kids sorted by age

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Famous Funnies Patterns / activity / 1 page

Script:
?
Pencils:
?
Inks:
?
Colors:
?
Letters:
typeset
Synopsis:
Dress patterns

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Bobby Sox / cartoon / 6 pages

Script:
Pencils:
Marty Links (signed)
Inks:
Marty Links (signed)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:humor; children; teen
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:You'll have to take the children to the playground
Characters:
Lavadna Mae; Alvin Applehead; Emmy Lou
Reprints (0)
  • from Bobby Sox Sunday and daily (Consolidated News Features) xxxx-xx-xx - xxxx-xx-xx

Indexer Notes

Four Sundays, plus two pages featuring four daily gag panels apiece.

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Napoleon / cartoon / 1 page

Script:
Clifford McBride (credited)
Pencils:
Clifford McBride (credited)
Inks:
Clifford McBride (credited)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:humor; animal
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Funny, Napoleon...
Characters:
Uncle Elby; Napoleon
Reprints (0)
  • from Napoleon and Uncle Elby Sunday (Lafave Newspaper Features)

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Let's Get into a Huddle! / letters page / 1 page

Script:
? [as the editors]
Letters:
typeset
Synopsis:
Club page; info on other comics, pen pals, etc

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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:Now--Defend yourself!
Characters:
Sir Oaky Doaks; Lady Lina; Buttercup Crunch (a maid); The Earl of Smellyham; Sir Slick; Duzz Loppemoff (the executioner); Violet
Synopsis:
Oaky and Buttercup save Lady Lina from the tortures of Sir Slick, but are thrown into the dungeon. The Earl reaizes that a mistake had been made and releases them. When Oaky refuses to marry Lady Lina, the Earl brings in his executioner.
Reprints (0)
  • from Oaky Doaks daily (AP Newsfeatures [Associated Press]) xxxx-xx-xx - xxxx-xx-xx

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Napoleon / cartoon / 1 page

Script:
Clifford McBride (credited)
Pencils:
Clifford McBride (credited)
Inks:
Clifford McBride (credited)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:humor; animal
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:There's that blasted dog on my lawn again!
Characters:
Uncle Elby; Napoleon; Mr. Cranky
Reprints (0)
  • from Napoleon and Uncle Elby Sunday (Lafave Newspaper Features)

"How a simple discovery made Billy a very Happy boy"
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Dale Shears School of Music / advertisement / 1 page

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advertisement / 1 page

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Table of Contents ToC
    Table of Contents
  1. ["I'm sure I had another flapjack!"]
    Napoleon
  2. ["Pardon my outburst, fair rescuer!"]
    Steve Roper and Wahoo
  3. ["No use tryin' to fish with this big mutt in th' boat..."]
    Napoleon
  4. ["Get that, Baitress... we tried to murder Rogers! Ha ha ha ha..."]
    Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
  5. ["I think Napoleon and I will scamper up top..."]
    Napoleon
  6. ["Beauty contest twice postponed to be held tommorrow..."]
    Invisible Scarlet O'Neil
  7. The World's Ugliest Horse
  8. ["This is just act one!"]
    Dickie Dare
  9. [no title indexed]
    Pen Pal Page
  10. [no title indexed]
    Famous Funnies Patterns
  11. ["You'll have to take the children to the playground"]
    Bobby Sox
  12. ["Funny, Napoleon..."]
    Napoleon
  13. [no title indexed]
    Let's Get into a Huddle!
  14. ["Now--Defend yourself!"]
    Oaky Doaks
  15. ["There's that blasted dog on my lawn again!"]
    Napoleon
  16. "How a simple discovery made Billy a very Happy boy"
    Dale Shears School of Music
  17. ["Play Bingo at Home"]
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Issue was modified by, among others
  • Nick Caputo
  • Keith Chandler
  • Bob Ford
  • Michael Hoskin
  • Bob Hughes
  • Tony R. Rose
  • Daniel Thingvold
  • Jim Van Dore
  • Len Wolinsky
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