Famous Funnies comic books issue 5

Tenth comic book ever published. First comic book Christmas cover by Victor E. Pazmiño. Contains comic strip reprints, activity pages, and text stories. In order of appearance: "Simp O' Dill" and "The Nebbs" by Sol Hess and Wallace A. Carlson; "Goofie Gags" by Victor E. Pazmiño; "Hairbreadth Harry" and "High-Gear Homer" by F. O. Alexander; "Connie" and "The Wet Blanket" by Frank Godwin; "Fisher's True Life Dramas" and "Joe Palooka" by Al Capp (as Ham Fisher); "Buck Rogers" by Philip Francis Nowlan and Rick Yager (as Dick Calkins); "Somebody's Stenog" and "The Back-Seat Driver" by A. E. Hayward; "Strange as it Seems" by John Hix; "Napoleon" by Clifford McBride; "Dip and Duck" by M. E. Brady; "S'matter Pop?" and "Honeybunch's Hubby" by Charles M. Payne; "Good Deed Dotty" and "Dixie Dugan" by J. P. McEvoy and J. H. Striebel; "Flying to Fame or Slim and Tubby" by John Welch and Russell Ross; "Fisher's Children's Corner" by Al Capp (as Ham Fisher); "Nipper" and "Footprints on the Sands of Time" by Clare Victor Dwiggins; "Little Brother" and "The Bungle Family" by Harry J. Tuthill; "Lena Pry" and "Jane Arden" by Monte Barrett and Jack W. McGuire; "Jolly Geography" and "High Lights of History" by J. Carroll Mansfield; "Holly of Hollywood" and "Keeping Up With The Joneses" by Pop Mormand; "Vignettes of Life" by J. Norman Lynd; "Fisher's Dizzy Dramas" by Al Capp (as Ham Fisher); "The Frog Pond Ferry" and "Buttons and Fatty" by M. E. Brady; "Ned Brant at Carter" by Bob Zuppke and Bill W. Depew; "Alec and Itchy" by Jimmy George and Merle Mulholland; "The Adventures of Jabby" by Tom Carlisle; and "Fisher's Looney Legends" by Al Capp (as Ham Fisher). "When I'm a Man" page by Ida Miller. "Tim McKee and the Golden Goddess" text story by Ralph Daigh. Activity pages by A. W. Nugent. 68 pages. Full color. Cover price $0.10.

Bill Everett cover. Contains three original features accompanied by comic strip reprints, activity pages, and a text story. In order of appearance: "Hydroman" by Bill Everett; "Reg'lar Fellers" by Gene Byrnes; "Flyin' Jenny" by Russell Keaton; "Star Flashes" by Charles Bruno; "The Purple Zombie" by Tarpe Mills; "Sergeant Stoney Craig" by Frank Rentfrow and Don Dickson; "Dinky Dinkerton" by Art Huhta (as Jim Wallace); "Don Dixon and the Hidden Empire" by Bob Moore and Carl Pfeufer; "Idioddities" by Jack Romer; "Mann of India" by Tarpe Mills; "Bill and Davey" by James P. McCague; "Dare-devils of Destiny" by Frank Rentfrow and Don Dickson; "Gordon Fife and the Boy King" by Bob Moore and Jim Hales; "Amaze A Minute" by Arnold; "Tad of the Tanbark" by Bob Moore and Carl Pfeufer; and "Kitty Moran and her Hound" by Jack Romer. "Death in a Box" text story by E. Albert Willard, illustrated by Everett. Indicia states "Reg'lar Fellers Heroic Comics". 68 pages. Full color. Cover price $0.10.

Story by Rick Yager and Russell Keaton. Art by Rick Yager (credited as Dick Calkins) and Russell Keaton. Reprints of the early comic strip that defined "science fiction" for an entire generation. Collects the Buck Rogers Sunday strips (with a different storyline than the daily strip) from Feb. 12, 1939 to Sept. 17, 1939, following the adventures of Buddy Deering, younger brother of Buck's compadre Wilma Deering. Black Barney joins forces with Buddy and Alura to prevent the Martian invasion of Earth, but the man they thought was Buck Rogers is actually a Martian Tigerman in disguise. Also, airborne adventure with the aviation strip Skyroads, from 1937. Buck Rogers; Skyroads. 68 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Frank Frazetta. Art by Al Williamson and Roy Krenkel. Adventure tales featuring Hollywood legend Buster Crabbe, star of Flash Gordon, Buck Rogers and Tarzan serials. Buster goes to Mars and meets an alien woman, in a story with art by comics legends Al Williamson and Roy Krenkel. Classic Western tales featuring Buster and sidekick Whiskers. A vintage ad to join the Buster Crabbe Western Club. Fun alien-wrestling cover with art by fantasy and comics legend Frank Frazetta. Backfire; Buster Crabbe and the Maid of Mars; Gold in the Mouth of the Creek; Showdown; Whiskers the Indian Fighter; Homer on the Range; The Round Up. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.