Price: 0.10 USD
Pages: 68
On-sale Date: 1936-08-15
Editing: Harold A. Moore (editor); Stephen Douglas (editor)

[no title indexed]

cover / 1 page


  • Genre:humor
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Better go home, boy...
Characters:
Joe Palooka

Issue Data

Indexer Notes

Almost all of the content of this comic consists of 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.

The Raccoons

This Curious World / comic story / 0.5 page


  • Genre:non-fiction; animal
Reprints (0)

Indexer Notes

Inside front cover.

[no title indexed]

Freckles and His Friends / comic story / 0.5 page

Script:
Fred Fox (credited as Blosser)
Pencils:
Merrill Blosser (credited as Blosser) (signed as Blosser)
Inks:
Merrill Blosser (credited as Blosser) (signed as Blosser)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?

  • Genre:humor; children
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:My name is Dolores Fisk -
Characters:
Freckles McGoosey; Dolores Fisk
Reprints (0)

Indexer Notes

Inside front cover.

[no title indexed]

Goofie Gags / cartoon / 1 page


  • Genre:humor
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:If you need any help, I'll bring you a glass of water!

Indexer Notes

Four unrelated gag panels.

[no title indexed]

Fisher's History of Boxing / comic story / 0.2 page


  • Genre:sports; non-fiction; biography; history
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:With a bad left arm, Gene Tunney was forced to fight for money for medical attention...
Characters:
Gene Tunney
Reprints (0)

Indexer Notes

The top tier of the "Joe Palooka" Sunday page, by the same creators.

[no title indexed]

Joe Palooka / comic story / 0.8 page


  • Genre:adventure; sports
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:What ho! Welcome
Characters:
Joe Palooka; Knobby Walsh; Marmaduke
Reprints (0)

Indexer Notes

The top tier is "Fisher's History of Boxing", by the same creators.

[no title indexed]

Alec and Itchy / comic story / 0.5 page

Script:
Jimmy George (credited as George)
Pencils:
Merle Mulholland (credited as Mulholland) (signed as Mulholland)
Inks:
Merle Mulholland (credited as Mulholland) (signed as Mulholland)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?

  • Genre:humor; children
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Pop's gonna get a heater put in our car
Characters:
Alec; Itchy
Reprints (0)

[no title indexed]

Otto Honk / comic story / 0.3 page


  • Genre:humor
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Lookit - Palm trees...
Characters:
Otto Honk
Reprints (0)

Indexer Notes

The top tier of the "Out Our Way" Sunday page.

[no title indexed]

Out Our Way / comic story / 0.7 page

Script:
J. R. Williams (credited as Williams) (signed)
Pencils:
J. R. Williams (credited as Williams) (signed)
Inks:
J. R. Williams (credited as Williams) (signed)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?

  • Genre:humor
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Gosh! This is slippery1
Characters:
Junior Willet; Pa Willet; Ma Willet
Reprints (0)

Indexer Notes

The top tier is "Otto Honk".

Script and art was previously credited to Neg Cochrane [really Cochran], but although he was an assistant to Williams he did not take over the strip until the death of the latter in 1957.

Above the Crowd / comic story / 1 page


  • Genre:non-fiction; aviation; biography
Characters:
Captain Ernst Lehmann (captain of the Hindenburg zeppelin)

Indexer Notes

This issue was on the stands 9 months before the famous crash. Lehmann was on board only as an observer; he wasn't the captain on the fatal flight.

To Marry Wogga Zazula!

Captain Easy, Soldier of Fortune / comic story / 2 pages

Script:
Roy Crane (credited, signed)
Pencils:
Roy Crane (credited, signed)
Inks:
Roy Crane (credited, signed)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?

  • Genre:adventure
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Easy is hailed by savages...
Characters:
Captain Easy; Pippy; Wogga Zazula
Reprints (0)

[no title indexed]

Napoleon / comic story / 1 page

Script:
Clifford McBride (credited) (signed as McBride)
Pencils:
Clifford McBride (credited) (signed as McBride)
Inks:
Clifford McBride (credited) (signed as McBride)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?

  • Genre:humor; animal
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:It's Wong's day off, Napoleon...
Characters:
Napoleon; Uncle Elby
Reprints (0)

[no title indexed]

Nipper / comic story / 0.8 page


  • Genre:humor; children
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Baw-w-w! That big bully took my apple away from me
Characters:
Nipper Tucker; Muriel; Jimmy; Algy Bray
Reprints (0)

[no title indexed]

Dickie Dare / comic story / 2 pages


  • Genre:adventure; children
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:I have every ounce of our gold cargo aboard here!
Characters:
Dickie Dare; Dan Flynn; Mister Gus; The Captain
Reprints (0)

[no title indexed]

Boots / comic story / 2 pages


  • Genre:adventure
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Will ya tell me where we're goin', n' when we'll get there?
Characters:
Boots Ruggles; Billy; Gwendolyn
Reprints (0)

Indexer Notes

The actual name of the strip was “Boots and Her Buddies”, but some newspapers presented the strip under the shortened title “Boots”, as here. The final panel on each Sunday page is one of fashion, named "Boots cut outs".

[no title indexed]

Hairbreadth Harry / comic story / 0.8 page


  • Genre:adventure; drama; humor
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Hooray! I know where these counterfeit notes are being made!!
Characters:
Harry Hollingsworth; Rudolph Rassendale (villain); Belinda Blinks
Reprints (0)

[no title indexed]

Buck Rogers / comic story / 3 pages


  • Genre:science fiction; adventure
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:With Dattro, a captain of the Neptunian sea patrol...
Reprints (0)

[no title indexed]

Magic Made Easy / activity / 1 page

[no title indexed]

Such Is Life / cartoon / 0.4 page

Script:
Walt Munson (credited, signed)
Pencils:
Walt Munson (credited, signed)
Inks:
Walt Munson (credited, signed)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?

  • Genre:humor
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Ah yes...Dough!
Reprints (0)

Indexer Notes

Single daily gag panel.

[no title indexed]

Dumb-Bells / cartoon / 0.2 page


  • Genre:humor
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:These notes are accidentals!
Reprints (0)

Indexer Notes

Charles J. Dunn has generally been credited as the creator, but evidence elsewhere suggests it may have been Gar Schmitt.

[no title indexed]

Flying To Fame / comic story / 2 pages

Script:
John Welch (credited)
Pencils:
Russell Ross (credited)
Inks:
Russell Ross (credited)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?

  • Genre:adventure; aviation
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:O'Brien's injured arm...
Characters:
Slim; O'Brien; Miguel; Tubby; Peg; Michael "Beau" Geste; John Geste; Digby Geste; Claudia; Isobel; Aunt Patricia
Reprints (0)

Indexer Notes

In a bizarre twist, the fourth daily reproduced on page two segues into the "Beau Geste" strip, with the existing cast of characters assuming new roles: Pat is now Michael “Beau” Geste, Slim is Digby Geste, Peg is Claudia, Tubby is John Geste, Peg is Isobel.

[no title indexed]

Scorchy Smith / comic story / 2 pages


  • Genre:adventure; aviation
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Early next morning, Scorchy heads south...
Characters:
Scorchy Smith; Tex; Colonel Patterson
Reprints (0)

[no title indexed]

Butty and Fatty / comic story / 1 page

Script:
M. E. Brady (signed as MEB)
Pencils:
M. E. Brady (signed as MEB)
Inks:
M. E. Brady (signed as MEB)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?

  • Genre:humor; children
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Fatty - You'll have to do the carving!
Characters:
Butty; Fatty
Reprints (0)

Indexer Notes

The strip was discontinued on 1934-06-06.

[no title indexed]

Mescal Ike / comic story / 1 page


  • Genre:humor; western-frontier
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:I'll learn yuh to chuck rocks at me!
Characters:
Pa Piffle; Miss Sally; Mescal Ike
Reprints (0)

Indexer Notes

Five dailes on a single page.

[no title indexed]

Dan Dunn / comic story / 3 pages

Script:
Norman Marsh (credited) (signed as Marsh)
Pencils:
Norman Marsh (credited) (signed as Marsh)
Inks:
Norman Marsh (credited) (signed as Marsh)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?

  • Genre:detective-mystery
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:I'm sure Slure was at the bottom of the murder of Bell --
Characters:
Dan Dunn; Irwin; Miss Fields; Minkso
Reprints (0)

Indexer Notes

The last Dan Dunn page says Continued Next Month. Well this was the last appearance of Dan Dunn in Famous Funnies. The Strip would next appear in a different comics and a different company. Dan Dunn would next appear in the first issue of The Funnies for Dell Comics. Their first Sunday that they would reprinted was dated 1936-03-08.

[no title indexed]

Herky / comic story / 1 page

Script:
Clyde Lewis (credited)
Pencils:
Clyde Lewis (credited)
Inks:
Clyde Lewis (credited)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?

  • Genre:humor; children
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:How are you this fine day, Herky?
Characters:
Herky
Reprints (0)

The Story of the Phillipines- part VI

Script:
J. Carroll Mansfield (credited, signed)
Pencils:
J. Carroll Mansfield (credited, signed)
Inks:
J. Carroll Mansfield (credited, signed)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?

  • Genre:history; non-fiction
Reprints (0)

[no title indexed]

Somebody's Stenog / comic story / 0.8 page

Script:
A. E. Hayward (credited, signed)
Pencils:
A. E. Hayward (credited, signed)
Inks:
A. E. Hayward (credited, signed)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?

  • Genre:humor; drama
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Waste! Waste! - It will ruin my business!
Characters:
Sam Smithers; Cam O'Flage; Mame; Reggie Smithers
Reprints (0)

Indexer Notes

The bottom tier is "The Back-Seat Driver", by the same creator.

[no title indexed]

The Back-Seat Driver / comic story / 0.2 page

Script:
A. E. Hayward (credited, signed)
Pencils:
A. E. Hayward (credited, signed)
Inks:
A. E. Hayward (credited, signed)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?

  • Genre:humor
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:The material for my new dress was only $95...
Characters:
John Smith; Mrs. Smith [both unnamed here]
Reprints (0)

Indexer Notes

The bottom tier of the "Somebody's Stenog" Sunday page, by the same creator.

[no title indexed]

War On Crime / promo (ad from the publisher) / 2 pages

[no title indexed]

Strange as It Seems / comic story / 1 page


  • Genre:non-fiction
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Betrayed by their god!

[no title indexed]

Adventures of Jabby / comic story / 0.5 page


  • Genre:humor; animal
Characters:
Jabby
Reprints (0)

Indexer Notes

pantomime; wordless comic

[no title indexed]

Ned Brant of Carter / comic story / 2 pages


  • Genre:adventure; sports
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:When's Shotgun coming back?
Characters:
Ned Brant; Shotgun Sheldon; Detective Sherman; Chief Edwards; Detctive Kennedy
Reprints (0)

[no title indexed]

Homer Hoopee / comic story / 2 pages


  • Genre:humor; adventure
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Now here are my disguises...
Characters:
Homer Hoopee; Mr. Flip
Reprints (0)

[no title indexed]

Funland / activity / 1 page


  • Genre:non-fiction

[no title indexed]

Dumb-Bells / cartoon / 0.1 page


  • Genre:humor
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Why did you buy a return ticket when...
Reprints (0)

[no title indexed]

Connie / comic story / 0.8 page

Script:
Frank Godwin (credited, signed)
Pencils:
Frank Godwin (credited, signed)
Inks:
Frank Godwin (credited, signed)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?

  • Genre:adventure
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Are you going to take Political Economy, Bob?
Characters:
Connie Kurridge; Bob; Miss Pruyn
Synopsis:
Connie is now in college.
Reprints (0)

Indexer Notes

Date of newspaper strip from Jon Ingersoll's research.

[no title indexed]

Oaky Doaks / comic story / 2 pages


  • Genre:adventure; humor; historical
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:You will find The Black Knight a mighty fighter!
Characters:
Oaky Doaks; The Black Knight; Sir Cadwell Morgan; King Cedric
Reprints (0)

Indexer Notes

Script previously credited to Ralph Briggs Fuller, but McCleery was the author for forty years.

You Die - at Dawn!

text story / 1.8 pages


  • Genre:aviation; war
Characters:
Dennis O'Connor (aerial mapper); Padre Savalla; Manuelito; Juan Gregario; Billings

Indexer Notes

The final 0.2 of the page is an uncredited tier from "The Wet Blanket".

[no title indexed]

The Wet Blanket / comic story / 0.2 page


  • Genre:humor; domestic
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:What did you say that other artist said about your face?
Reprints (0)

Indexer Notes

This appears with title uncredited.

[no title indexed]

Babe Bunting / comic story / 2 pages

Script:
Roy L. Williams (credited) (signed as Williams)
Pencils:
Roy L. Williams (credited) (signed as Williams)
Inks:
Roy L. Williams (credited) (signed as Williams)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?

  • Genre:adventure; children; drama
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:What about Mrs. Bunting...
Characters:
Dorothy "Babe" Bunting; Mrs. Crumpet; Miss Grimstone; Jasper Scrawn; Zenas
Reprints (0)

[no title indexed]

Olly of the Movies / comic story / 2 pages

Script:
Julian Ollendorff (credited) (signed as Ollendorff)
Pencils:
Julian Ollendorff (credited) (signed as Ollendorff)
Inks:
Julian Ollendorff (credited) (signed as Ollendorff)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?

  • Genre:drama; humor
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Commodore Street has ordered this would-be actor to help you...
Characters:
Olive Lane; Skip Allen; Wally; Jack
Reprints (0)

Indexer Notes

This strip ran between 1934-01-22 and 1938, so these reprints fall within that period.

[no title indexed]

Seaweed Sam the Rhyming Rover / comic story / 1 page


  • Genre:humor
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Prof. A. Nutt, noted Egyptologist...
Characters:
Seaweed Sam; Prof. A. Nutt,

[no title indexed]

Such Is Life / cartoon / 0.4 page

Script:
Walt Munson (credited, signed)
Pencils:
Walt Munson (credited, signed)
Inks:
Walt Munson (credited, signed)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?

  • Genre:humor
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:And the next one who calls the referee a cock-eyed old walrus...
Reprints (0)

Indexer Notes

One daily gag panel.

[no title indexed]

Dumb-Bells / cartoon / 0.2 page


  • Genre:humor

Indexer Notes

confirmed by Alan Holtz's The Stripper's Guide and American Newspaper Comics

[no title indexed]

Jane Arden / Lena Pry / comic story / 3 pages

Script:
Monte Barrett (credited)
Pencils:
Russell Ross (credited as Russell E. Ross) (signed as Ross)
Inks:
Russell Ross (credited as Russell E. Ross) (signed as Ross)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?

  • Genre:adventure
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:At the office of the real Oscar Beal...
Characters:
Jane Arden; Oscar Beal; Lena Pry
Reprints (0)

Indexer Notes

Three Sunday pages, each one featuring a sequential "Jane Arden" storyline (0.5), a self-contained "Lena Pry" story (0.33), and a fashion panel "Jane Arden's Wardrobe" (0.17).

[no title indexed]

Screen Oddities / cartoon / 1 page


  • Genre:non-fiction
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:George Raft lived in a small apartment...
Characters:
George Raft; Colleen Moore; Helen Hayes; Marlene Dietrich; Maude Eburne; Shirley Temple; John Mack Brown; Edward G. Robinson; Mary Carlisle

[no title indexed]

Bobby / comic story / 1 page

Script:
S. M. Iger (credited, signed)
Pencils:
S. M. Iger (credited, signed)
Inks:
S. M. Iger (credited, signed)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?

  • Genre:humor; children
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Do you want to go down to Bailey's store with me, Ted?
Characters:
Bobby; Ted

[no title indexed]

Flight / comic story / 1 page


  • Genre:non-fiction; aviation
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Testing the airplane's strength

[no title indexed]

Apple Mary / comic story / 3 pages

Script:
Martha Orr (credited, signed)
Pencils:
Martha Orr (credited, signed)
Inks:
Martha Orr (credited, signed)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?

  • Genre:drama
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:I have an important errand today...
Characters:
Mary Worth; Dennie; Sonny; Bill
Reprints (0)

[no title indexed]

Butty and Fatty / comic story / 1 page

Script:
M. E. Brady (signed as MEB)
Pencils:
M. E. Brady (signed as MEB)
Inks:
M. E. Brady (signed as MEB)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?

  • Genre:humor; children
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:I did a good deed today - yes indeedy!
Characters:
Butty; Fatty
Reprints (0)

Indexer Notes

The strip was discontinued on 1934-06-06.

[no title indexed]

Little Brother / comic story / 0.2 page


  • Genre:humor; children
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Herman, are you afraid of ghosts?
Characters:
Little Brother; Herman
Reprints (0)

Indexer Notes

The top tier of "The Bungle Family" Sunday page, by the same creator.

The Bungle Family / comic story / 0.8 page

Script:
H. J. Tuthill (credited) (signed as Tuthill)
Pencils:
H. J. Tuthill (credited) (signed as Tuthill)
Inks:
H. J. Tuthill (credited) (signed as Tuthill)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?

  • Genre:humor; domestic
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Hear the little woman dashing in...
Characters:
George Bungle; Jo Bungle
Reprints (0)

Indexer Notes

The top tier is "Little Brother", by the same creator.

The Fish Are Biting Today

The Nebbs / comic story / 0.5 page


  • Genre:humor; domestic
Characters:
Popcorn; Pappy
Reprints (0)

Indexer Notes

The Sunday page is shared equally between "The Nebbs" and "Simp O'Dell".

[no title indexed]

Simp O'Dill / comic story / 0.5 page


  • Genre:humor
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:A plumber left his blow torch here...
Characters:
Simp O'Dill
Reprints (0)

Indexer Notes

The Sunday page is shared equally between "The Nebbs" and "Simp O'Dill".

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Table of Contents ToC
    Table of Contents
  1. ["Better go home, boy..."]
  2. The Raccoons
    This Curious World
  3. ["My name is Dolores Fisk -"]
    Freckles and His Friends
  4. ["If you need any help, I'll bring you a glass of water!"]
    Goofie Gags
  5. ["With a bad left arm, Gene Tunney was forced to fight for money for medical attention..."]
    Fisher's History of Boxing
  6. ["What ho! Welcome"]
    Joe Palooka
  7. ["Pop's gonna get a heater put in our car"]
    Alec and Itchy
  8. ["Lookit - Palm trees..."]
    Otto Honk
  9. ["Gosh! This is slippery1"]
    Out Our Way
  10. Skipper
    Above the Crowd
  11. To Marry Wogga Zazula!
    Captain Easy, Soldier of Fortune
  12. ["It's Wong's day off, Napoleon..."]
    Napoleon
  13. ["Baw-w-w! That big bully took my apple away from me"]
    Nipper
  14. ["I have every ounce of our gold cargo aboard here!"]
    Dickie Dare
  15. ["Will ya tell me where we're goin', n' when we'll get there?"]
    Boots
  16. ["Hooray! I know where these counterfeit notes are being made!!"]
    Hairbreadth Harry
  17. ["With Dattro, a captain of the Neptunian sea patrol..."]
    Buck Rogers
  18. [no title indexed]
    Magic Made Easy
  19. ["Ah yes...Dough!"]
    Such Is Life
  20. ["These notes are accidentals!"]
    Dumb-Bells
  21. ["O'Brien's injured arm..."]
    Flying To Fame
  22. ["Early next morning, Scorchy heads south..."]
    Scorchy Smith
  23. ["Fatty - You'll have to do the carving!"]
    Butty and Fatty
  24. ["I'll learn yuh to chuck rocks at me!"]
    Mescal Ike
  25. ["I'm sure Slure was at the bottom of the murder of Bell --"]
    Dan Dunn
  26. ["How are you this fine day, Herky?"]
    Herky
  27. The Story of the Phillipines- part VI
    High Lights of History / Highlights of History
  28. ["Waste! Waste! - It will ruin my business!"]
    Somebody's Stenog
  29. ["The material for my new dress was only $95..."]
    The Back-Seat Driver
  30. [no title indexed]
    War On Crime
  31. ["Betrayed by their god!"]
    Strange as It Seems
  32. [no title indexed]
    Adventures of Jabby
  33. ["When's Shotgun coming back?"]
    Ned Brant of Carter
  34. ["Now here are my disguises..."]
    Homer Hoopee
  35. [no title indexed]
    Funland
  36. ["Why did you buy a return ticket when..."]
    Dumb-Bells
  37. ["Are you going to take Political Economy, Bob?"]
    Connie
  38. ["You will find The Black Knight a mighty fighter!"]
    Oaky Doaks
  39. You Die - at Dawn!
  40. ["What did you say that other artist said about your face?"]
    The Wet Blanket
  41. ["What about Mrs. Bunting..."]
    Babe Bunting
  42. ["Commodore Street has ordered this would-be actor to help you..."]
    Olly of the Movies
  43. ["Prof. A. Nutt, noted Egyptologist..."]
    Seaweed Sam the Rhyming Rover
  44. ["And the next one who calls the referee a cock-eyed old walrus..."]
    Such Is Life
  45. [no title indexed]
    Dumb-Bells
  46. ["At the office of the real Oscar Beal..."]
    Jane Arden / Lena Pry
  47. ["George Raft lived in a small apartment..."]
    Screen Oddities
  48. ["Do you want to go down to Bailey's store with me, Ted?"]
    Bobby
  49. ["Testing the airplane's strength"]
    Flight
  50. ["I have an important errand today..."]
    Apple Mary
  51. ["I did a good deed today - yes indeedy!"]
    Butty and Fatty
  52. ["Herman, are you afraid of ghosts?"]
    Little Brother
  53. A Draw
    The Bungle Family
  54. The Fish Are Biting Today
    The Nebbs
  55. ["A plumber left his blow torch here..."]
    Simp O'Dill
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