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Issue Details

Issue #5
Published March 1941
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 68
Editing ?
Notes Additional sequences and the proper order for all sequences provided by Gary Watson, February 2008. There are 12 additional (unindexed) pages of contests, puzzles, and games featuring the Reg'lar Fellers at the center of the item.

Cover Details

Characters Hydroman
Genre superhero; patriotic
Pencils Bill Everett (signed)
Inks Bill Everett (signed)
Notes Additional sequences and the proper order for all sequences provided by Gary Watson, February 2008. There are 12 additional (unindexed) pages of contests, puzzles, and games featuring the Reg'lar Fellers at the center of the item.

1 page promo (ad from the publisher)

Notes Ad for Famous Funnies #79. On inside front cover.

6 page Hydroman story "Well, what now, Bobbie?"

Characters Hydroman; Barbara Stearns
Genre superhero; patriotic
Pencils Bill Everett
Inks Bill Everett

Half page Reg'lar Fellers filler

Genre movie scenes; humor
Pencils Gene Byrnes
Inks Gene Byrnes
Notes Shares page with half-page ad for gas model plane.

4 page Flyin' Jenny story

Genre adventure; aviation; war
Script Russell Keaton
Pencils Russell Keaton
Inks Russell Keaton

1 page Star Flashes text article

Characters Tyrone Power; Judy Canova; Tom Keene; Larry Crabbe
Script Charles Bruno
Pencils Charles Bruno
Inks Charles Bruno

4 page Purple Zombie, The story "Seeing the skeleton in his path,..."

Characters The Purple Zombie; Chico
Genre superhero
Pencils Tarpe Mills
Inks Tarpe Mills

4 page Sergeant Stony Craig and His U. S. Marines story

Script Frank Rentfrow
Pencils Don Dickson

1 page Reg'lar Fellers filler

Genre movie scenes; humor
Pencils Gene Byrnes
Inks Gene Byrnes

4 page Dinky Dinkerton story

Genre humor
Pencils Art Huhta [as Jim Wallace]
Inks Art Huhta [as Jim Wallace]

4 page Don Dixon story "Disguised in the hood and gown of his captured enemy,..."

Genre adventure; science fiction
Pencils Carl Pfeufer
Inks Carl Pfeufer

1 page Idioddities text article

Characters Eddie Cantor
Script Jack Romer
Pencils Jack Romer
Inks Jack Romer

4 page Mann of India story

Characters Chick Mann; Indira; Edyth
Genre adventure
Pencils Tarpe Mills
Inks Tarpe Mills

4 page Bill & Davey story

Script James McCague (signed)
Pencils James McCague (signed)
Inks James McCague (signed)

1 page Daredevils of Destiny story

Script Frank Rentfrow
Pencils Don Dickson
Inks Don Dickson

4 page Gordon Fife and the Boy King story

Script Bob Moore
Pencils Carl Pfeufer
Inks Carl Pfeufer

1 page Reg'lar Fellers filler

Genre movie scenes; humor
Pencils Gene Byrnes
Inks Gene Byrnes

2 page text story "Death in a Box"

Script E. Albert Willard
Pencils Bill Everett (illoes)
Inks Bill Everett (illoes)

1 page Amaze a Minute text article

2 page Tad of the Tanbark! story

Genre adventure
Pencils Carl Pfeufer

1 page Kitty Moran & Her Hound story

Genre humor
Pencils Jack Romer

1 page Reg'lar Fellers filler

Genre movie scenes; humor
Pencils Gene Byrnes
Inks Gene Byrnes

1 page Daredevils of Destiny story

Script Frank Rentfrow
Pencils Don Dickson
Inks Don Dickson

1 page filler

Notes Names of the winners of the contest in #2. On inside back cover.

1 page Daisy Red Ryder Rifle advertisement