The Funnies comic books issue 1

Rare. First comic book made available for public purchase via newsstand distribution. Jon Mayes cover. Contains comic strip reprints, activity pages, and a text story. In order of appearance: "Toonerville Folks" and "Little Stanley" by Fontaine Fox; "Amaze A Minute Scientifacts" by Arnold; "Little Brother" and "The Bungle Family" by Harry J. Tuthill; "Tailspin Tommy" by Glenn Chaffin and Hal Forrest; "Somebody's Stenog" and "The Back-Seat Driver" by A. E. Hayward; "Hairbreadth Harry" and "High-Gear Homer" by F. O. Alexander; "Good Deed Dotty" and "Dixie Dugan" by J. P. McEvoy and J. H. Striebel; "Mutt and Jeff" by Al Smith (as Bud Fisher); "Pam" and "Donald Dare, the Demon Reporter" by A. W. Brewerton; "Simp O' Dill" and "The Nebbs" by Sol Hess and Wallace A. Carlson; "S'matter Pop?" and "Honeybunch's Hubby" by Charles M. Payne; "Nipper" and "Footprints on the Sands of Time" by Clare Victor Dwiggins; "Connie" and "The Wet Blanket" by Frank and Harold Godwin; "Jolly Geography" and "High Lights of History" by J. Carroll Mansfield; and "Ben Webster's Page" by Jay Jerome Williams (as Edwin Alger). "Dick Whittington Went to London" text story by Jane Corby. Activity pages by A. W. Nugent. 68 pages. Full color. Cover price $0.10.

(W/A) Sergio Aragones Matt Groening proudly presents an all-new monthly series by the world's most famous and most honored cartoonist, Sergio Aragonés! Each issue offers an assortment of autobiographical anecdotes, perplexing puzzles, slap-happy short stories, as well as Sergio's unique and hilarious pantomimes and gags. With this new series, the world's most beloved cartoonist continues to prove that humor is truly a universal language! Cover price $3.50.

First appearances of Hydroman (art by Bill Everett), the Purple Zombie (by Tarpe Mills), and Mann of India (by Mills). Newspaper strip reprints: Reg'lar Fellers, Flyin' Jenny, Sergeant Stony Craig, Dinky Dinkerton, Don Dixon and the Hidden Empire, Bill & Davey, Daredevils of Destiny, Gordon Fife and the Boy King, and Tad of the Tanbark. Everett cover. Cover price $0.10.

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*18+ Mature Readers Only* 1st printing. Jay Lynch cover. Art by Lynch, Skip Williamson, Jay Kinney, and Robert Crumb. MATURE READERS. *18+ Mature Readers Only* Cover price $0.50.

Add to cart VG/FN 5.0 $37.00 View scans Cover oxidation.

Add to cart CGC 8.5 $76.00 View scans Paper: White Slab: Scuffing to inner well of case Second Printing Label #0625777010 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.

*18+ Mature Readers Only* 2nd printing. Jay Lynch cover. Art by Lynch, Skip Williamson, Jay Kinney, and Robert Crumb. MATURE READERS. *18+ Mature Readers Only* Cover price $0.50.

Add to cart GD+ 2.5 $27.00 View scans 1.25" Cumulative spine split.

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Wrap-around cover features Bugs and Santa Claus. 132 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.25.

Wrap-around cover. Issue features Bugs Bunny in "The Cat People" and in an untitled story, Porky Pig in "The Great Exasperations," Sylvester, Henery Hawk, Mary Jane & Sniffles, Elmer Fudd, Little Pancho Vanilla, Daffy Duck & Henery Hawk in untitled stories, a four-page text story "Too Much Country," and one- and two-page puzzlers and games. Entire issue is comic and puzzlers, no ads in book. Story and art credits: unknown. 116 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.25.

The Texas Chainsaw Samurai. Story by Phil Clarke and John Holiwski. Art by Tom Dougherty. Cover by Rich Buckler. A spoof of the ninja and samurai titles that followed in the wake of Frank Millers Daredevil and Ronin, from notorious indie publisher Solson, the company run by the son of Marvel comics veteran Sol Brodsky. This issue also parodies the influential horror film The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.00.

Story by Phil Nowlan. Art and cover by Dick Calkins. 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), following the adventures of Buddy Deering, younger brother of Buck's compadre Wilma Deering. On Mars, Buddy and Alura are trapped by the forces of the Tiger Emperor, who wants their space yacht. 68 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Amazing Spider-man is the 1st issue in the Bubble Funnies series released in 1981 by Amurol Products and Marvel. Each full color issue measures 2-5/8-in. x 3-1/2-in. and features 10 story pages. Spider-Man in "The Clutches of Doc Ock!" Copies originally came shrinkwrapped with a stick of pink bubble gum. A copy is considered mint even if the shrinkwrap and gum have been removed. In fact, the gum should be removed if still present to prevent future damage to the comic.In the Clutches of Doc Ock!". Miniature comic with bubble gum. Measures 3 3/4 x 2 1/2.

Stories and art by Morris Weiss and Herman C. Browner. An early comics anthology featuring humor and funny-animal stories from Charlton, published under the imprint Children Comics Publishing. Bloodhound Sherlock Sniff, better known as Detecto, and his giraffe sidekick Billy Longneck investigate after a runaway cobra steals milk from an unsuspecting cow on a farm. Little Leo, son of the king of the beasts, is framed for robbery and tried by a court of the animals, but the fox lawyer sees an opportunity. In an offbeat take on fairy tales, the King's Men are contractually obliged to attempt to put Humpty Dumpty back together again, but none can stand the rotten-egg smell. Plus puzzle and activity pages, fun facts about animals, and a WWII-era rendition of the Marine Corps Hymn in comics form. The Marines' Hymn; Detecto the Bloodhound: The Riddle of the Empty Udder; They Say; Little Leo; Animal Quiz: Okapi!; A Walking Stick; The Low-Down on Mother Goose: The Case of the Rotten Egg!; Rabbit-Son Crusoe; Tricks and Puzzles; Yellowjacket Jr.; Tommy and Dodo; Bojo the Monk; It's True. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart GD 2.0 $12.00 Cover detached at one staple. Cover oxidation. Heavy water damage. 3/4" Spine split from top. Chew.

Cover by Al Fago. Stories and art by Al Fago and others. Charlton's second go at this funny-animal book, originally one of their first published titles. Punchy the boxer gets into a fight with a squirrel over an acorn - but that is one tough squirrel. So tough, in fact, that his manager puts him in the ring. Atomic Rabbit pursues The Disappearing Bandits. In a wordless story, Reynard the Fox gets all dressed up for his new job, only to find that it's in road construction. Punchy and the Black Crow; Leon the Lyin Lion; Atomic Mouse and the Armored Car; Atomic Rabbit: The Disappearing Bandits; Nip the Cat; Reynard the Fox; Leon the Lyin Lion: Big Stuff; What!!! No Elephants? 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories by Various. Art by Various. Featuring: The Worry Wart by J.R. Williams; Dan Dunn, Secret Operative 48 by Norman Marsh; Mutt & Jeff by Bud Fisher; Cicero's Cat by Bud Fisher; Reg'lar Fellers by Gene Byrnes; Daisybelle by Gene Byrnes; This Curious World by William Ferguson; Home Magic activity page by A.W. Nugent; Boots by Edgar Everett Martin; Tailspin Tommy by Hal Forrest; Flapper Fanny by Gladys Parker; Salesman Sam by C.D. Small; The Nut Bros. by Gene Aherne; Mr. Blotto by Gene Aherne; Our Boarding House with Major Hoople by Gene Aherne; Bronc Peeler and Coyote Pete by Fred Harman; On the Range by Fred Harman; Myra North, Special Nurse by Ray Thompson and Charles Coll; Otto Honk by Bela Zaboly; Out Our Way by J.R. Williams; The Tiny Mites by Hal Cochran and George Scarbo; Stranger Than Fiction by Richard W. Thomas and Walter Galli; Captain Easy, Soldier of Fortune by Roy Crane; Alley Oop by V.T. Hamlin; Freckles and His Friends by Merrill Blosser; Herky by Clyde Lewis; A Dog's Life by Beck; From the Notes of Maj. Cosmo Strange, D.S.O. text story "Concluding "Death Masquerade"" by George Baker; Ben Webster's Page written by Jay Jerome Williams [as Edwin Alger]; Tad of the Tanbark by Bob Moore and Carl Pfeufer; Scissor Sketches activity by Bob Moore and Carl Pfeufer; Don Dixon and the Hidden Empire by Bob Moore and Carl Pfeufer; Happy Mulligan; The Adventures of 'Sparagus and Chubby; Everybody's Playmate activity page by A.W. Nugent; This Curious World filler by William Ferguson; Stories in Stamps text article written by I.S. Klein; Uncle Bill by Fred Harman. 68 pages, partial color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories, art and covers by Robert Crumb. Short, classic Crumb tales, as an exasperated Mr. Natural tries to get Flakey Foont to see life outside his limited, conventional worldview. Thinkin About Death n Stuff; Who Are You?; Look and See; A Highly Spiritual Discussion Between Flakey Foont and Shuman the Human; Ah Yes, So It Goes; Big Man; Omen in the Gloamin; The Saints; I Dont Get It. 32 pages, B&W. Mature Readers. Cover price $5.95.

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"Dec: 2023!" Written by Dale Berry and Ken Sperry. Art by Dale Berry. Can even a ninja assassinate a man who has achieved superhuman powers? 16 pages, B&W. Cover price $1.40.

Add to cart CGC 7.0 $1,900.00 View scans Paper: Off white Pedigree: Rockford Rockford. Label #4268976014

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68 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 9.4 $375.00 View scans Paper: Off white to white Label #4346757002 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.

Controversial parody discontinued due to Disney lawsuit. The Air Pirates were a group of cartoonists who created two issues of an underground comic called Air Pirates Funnies in 1971, leading to a famous lawsuit by The Walt Disney Company. Founded by Dan O'Neill, the group also included Shary Flenniken, Bobby London, Gary Hallgren, and Ted Richards. The collective shared a common interest in the styles of past masters of the comic strip: Flenniken emulated George McManus's Bringing Up Father in her Trots and Bonnie comics, London's strip Dirty Duck paid homage to the styles of E.C. Segar's Thimble Theater and George Herriman's Krazy Kat, and Richards' Dopin' Dan was similar to Mort Walker's Beetle Bailey. The original Air Pirates were a gang of Mickey Mouse antagonists of the 1930s; O'Neill regarded Mickey Mouse as a symbol of conformist hypocrisy in American culture, and therefore a ripe target for satire. The first issue of Air Pirates Funnies was dated July 1971, and the second issue dated August. Both were published under the Hell Comics imprint, and were distributed through Ron Turner's Last Gasp publishing company. The lead stories in both issues, created by O'Neill and Hallgren, focused on Walt Disney characters, most notably from Floyd Gottfredson's Mickey Mouse newspaper strip, with the Disney characters engaging in adult behaviors such as sex and drug consumption. O'Neill insisted it would dilute the parody to change the names of the characters, so his adventurous mouse character was called "Mickey" Cover price $0.50.

Add to cart FN 6.0 $8.00 View scan	Add to cart FN 6.0 $9.00 View scan	Add to cart VG/FN 5.0 $6.80 View scan	Add to cart VG/FN 5.0 $7.00 View scan
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1st printing. Doctor Feelgood by Frank Stack ("Foolbert Sturgeon"), plus Gary Frutkoff, Will Hatcher, & Gilbert Shelton; 28 pages; b&w; mature; 7-in. x 10-in.. Cover price $0.50.

Add to cart VG- 3.5 $17.00 View scan 1/2" Spine split from bottom. Staple rust/migration.

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1st printing (identifiable by 50¢ cover price and lack of printing notice on inside front cover). Robert Crumb story, cover, and art. Includes the classic Crumb story "Whiteman Meets Bigfoot". Adults Only, 6 3/4" x 9 3/4", b&w, 28 pages. Cover price $0.50.

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Second printing (identifiable by printing notice on inside front cover). Robert Crumb story, cover, and art. Includes the classic Crumb story "Whiteman Meets Bigfoot". Adults Only, 6 3/4" x 9 3/4", b&w, 28 pages. Cover price $0.50.

Third printing (identifiable by printing notice on inside front cover). Robert Crumb story, cover, and art. Includes the classic Crumb story "Whiteman Meets Bigfoot". Adults Only, 6 3/4" x 9 3/4", b&w, 28 pages. Cover price $0.50.

Fourth printing (identifiable by printing notice on inside front cover). Robert Crumb story, cover, and art. Includes the classic Crumb story "Whiteman Meets Bigfoot". Adults Only, 6 3/4" x 9 3/4", b&w, 28 pages. Cover price $0.50.

Fifth printing (identifiable by printing notice on inside front cover). Robert Crumb story, cover, and art. Includes the classic Crumb story "Whiteman Meets Bigfoot". Adults Only, 6 3/4" x 9 3/4", b&w, 28 pages. Cover price $0.50.

Sixth printing (says "Printing 876" on inside front cover). Robert Crumb story, cover, and art. Includes the classic Crumb story "Whiteman Meets Bigfoot". Adults Only, 6 3/4" x 9 3/4", b&w, 28 pages. Cover price $0.50.

Add to cart Very Good $8.00

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Seventh printing (says "Printing 87" on inside front cover). Robert Crumb story, cover, and art. Includes the classic Crumb story "Whiteman Meets Bigfoot". Adults Only, 6 3/4" x 9 3/4", b&w, 28 pages. Cover price $0.50.

Add to cart VG+ 4.5 $9.00

Add to cart VG+ 4.5 $9.00

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Eighth printing (identifiable by printing notice on inside front cover). Robert Crumb story, cover, and art. Includes the classic Crumb story "Whiteman Meets Bigfoot". Adults Only, 6 3/4" x 9 3/4", b&w, 28 pages. Cover price $0.50.

Ninth printing (the only 75-cent cover with no printing listed in the indicia). Robert Crumb story, cover, and art. Includes the classic Crumb story "Whiteman Meets Bigfoot". Adults Only, 6 3/4" x 9 3/4", b&w, 28 pages. Cover price $0.75.

Add to cart VF- 7.5 $11.25

Add to cart Fine $9.00

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Tenth printing (identifiable by printing notice on inside front cover). Robert Crumb story, cover, and art. Includes the classic Crumb story "Whiteman Meets Bigfoot". Adults Only, 6 3/4" x 9 3/4", b&w, 28 pages. Cover price $0.75.

Add to cart FN 6.0 $9.00

Add to cart Good $3.00

Eleventh printing (identifiable by printing notice on inside front cover). Robert Crumb story, cover, and art. Includes the classic Crumb story "Whiteman Meets Bigfoot". Adults Only, 6 3/4" x 9 3/4", b&w, 28 pages. Cover price $0.75.

Twelfth printing (identifiable by printing notice on inside front cover). Robert Crumb story, cover, and art. Includes the classic Crumb story "Whiteman Meets Bigfoot". Adults Only, 6 3/4" x 9 3/4", b&w, 28 pages. Cover price $0.75.

Add to cart Fine $7.20

Add to cart Very Good $4.80

Thirteenth printing (identifiable by $1.00 cover price). Robert Crumb story, cover, and art. Includes the classic Crumb story "Whiteman Meets Bigfoot". Adults Only, 6 3/4" x 9 3/4", b&w, 28 pages. Cover price $1.00.

Add to cart Fine $6.00

Fourteenth printing (identifiable by $2.00 cover price). Robert Crumb story, cover, and art. Includes the classic Crumb story "Whiteman Meets Bigfoot". Adults Only, 6 3/4" x 9 3/4", b&w, 28 pages. Cover price $2.00.

Add to cart Very Fine $8.00

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Add to cart FN+ 6.5 $6.49

Fifteenth printing (identifiable by $2.50 cover price). Robert Crumb story, cover, and art. Includes the classic Crumb story "Whiteman Meets Bigfoot". Adults Only, 6 3/4" x 9 3/4", b&w, 28 pages. Cover price $2.50.

Add to cart FN/VF 7.0 $7.00

Add to cart FN+ 6.5 $6.49

Add to cart Fine $6.00

Add to cart Fine $6.00

Sixteenth printing (identifiable by $3.50 cover price). Robert Crumb story, cover, and art. Includes the classic Crumb story "Whiteman Meets Bigfoot". Adults Only, 6 3/4" x 9 3/4", b&w, 28 pages. Cover price $3.50.

Cover by Bill Walton. Art by Frank Frazetta and Max Elkan. Adventure tales featuring Hollywood legend Buster Crabbe, star of Flash Gordon, Buck Rogers and Tarzan serials. A profile of Buster Crabbe, who was an Olympic athlete before becoming an actor; Buster and Whiskers track a killer into the Colorado mountains and find foreign agents making atomic weapons; A classic PSA featuring early art by fantasy and comics legend Frank Frazetta. Buster Crabbe; Mysterious Mountain; Whiskers Rides Again; The Guns That Won the West; The Branding Iron; The Arrow of Death; The Sinister Cargo; Billy the Kid - a True Story of the Old West; We Can Stop the Enemies of Youth. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart FN 6.0 $17.00 View scan Staple rust.

Add to cart Good $4.20

1st printing. Stories and art by Gilbert Shelton, R. Crumb, Shary Flenniken, Lora Fountain, Gary Frutkoff, Bobby London, and J.A. Smith. 32 pages, B&W. MATURE READERS. NOTE: 1st printings have a matte cover, with BLUE beer cans on the cover. Cover price $0.50.

Add to cart FN 6.0 $12.00

Add to cart Very Good $4.80

Add to cart Very Good $4.80

2nd printing. Stories and art by Gilbert Shelton, R. Crumb, Shary Flenniken, Lora Fountain, Gary Frutkoff, Bobby London, and J.A. Smith. 32 pages, B&W. MATURE READERS. NOTE: 2nd printings have a glossy cover, with ORANGE beer cans on the cover. Cover price $0.50.

1st Printing. Art and Story by Larry Fuller and Raye Horne. 36 Pages. 18+ Adults Only. Cover price $0.75.

2nd Printing. Art and Story by Larry Fuller and Raye Horne. 36 Pages. 18+ Adults Only. Cover price $2.50.

Add to cart Very Good $8.40

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No. 51109e on cover. Copyright 1971. Semi-pro comic art, generally better quality. Cover and interior art Larry Sutherland on "The Right On Squad"; Wyatt Winghead, The Holy Five, The Cosmos; slick cover; b&w; 40 pages; mature; 6 3/4-in. x 9 3/4-in. Cover price $0.50.

Add to cart FN+ 6.5 $10.50 View scan	Add to cart FN 6.0 $9.50 View scan	Add to cart FN 6.0 $9.50 View scan	Add to cart FN- 5.5 $8.50 View scan
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32 pages B&W. Magazine size. Betty Boop, Bimbo, Koko and Freddie in "Betty Boop at Coney Island" written and illustrated by Larry Latham. Felix the Cat in "Cabbit Call." Betty Boop and friends in "The Funny Murder Case" with Lathan story and art. Bart Bush, publisher. Larry Latham and Bart Busch were founding members of O.A.F., the Oklahoma Alliance of Comics, a fan organization established in the late 1960s and still going strong today. Cover price $1.00.

1st printing. British underground comic. Cover by Greg Irons. Written by Mick Farren, Feux Dennis, and Dick Fountain. Art by Chris Welcj, M. Livingstone, and Dave Gibbons. 7 1/2-in. x 10-in., 36 pages, B&W. MATURE READERS

Add to cart FN/VF 7.0 $5.60

Add to cart VG/FN 5.0 $3.60 Has $1.00 price sticker over printed $.75 price, indicia confirms first printing.

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Cover art by Howard Cruse. The Eclipse; Barefootz and Dolly encounter a cosmic phenomenon. Numerous one-page stories with Barefootz, Dolly, Headrack, and other characters. All art and scripts by Howard Cruse. Adults only. 36 pgs. $0.75. Cover price $0.75.

Cover by Rube Goldberg. Stories and art by Rube Goldberg, Ed Wheelan, Lank Leonard, Ham Fisher, R. W. Depew, Russell E. Ross, J. H. Striebel, Bob Zuppke, Monte Barrett, J.P. McEvoy, H.J. Tuthill, John J. Welch, George Marcoux, Ed Reed, Al Zere, and Ed Cronin. An early comics anthology published by Harry Chesler, featuring reprints of newspaper comic strips. Female reporter Jane Arden has adventures and fights crime, paving the way for later heroes like Brenda Starr and Friday Foster. Sports comic Ned Brant features football exploits written by legendary college football coach Bob Zuppke. Also featuring several strips created by the famous Eisner/Iger shop: Modern 'Planes, Puzzle Phun, and a Star Snapshots profile of Hollywood star Robert Taylor. Joe Palooka; They're Still Talking; Jane Arden; Star Snapshots; Mickey Finn; Off the Record; Modern Planes; Lala Palooza; Strange As It Seems; Off Side; Slim and Tubby; Crack Casey; Puzzle Phun; Flossie; Toddy; Pirates Ahoy; Ned Brant; Big Top; Dixie Dugan; Bungle Family; Lena Pry; Jim Swift. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

By Paul Hornschemeier. An abusive cowboy to a literate dinosaur to a heartbroken teenager to a has-been TV character running from cancellation...an endless stream of segues from one seemingly un-segue-able narrative to the next -- this is Forlorn Funnies. Moving from his formal experimentation-laden, sharply-designed and critically-acclaimed series, Sequential, Paul Hornschemeier begins this full-color, quarterly series without reserve: seven distinct and separate narratives flow into and out of one another seamlessly, creating the sensation of an anthology written by Siamese quintuplets! 32 pages, full color. Mature Readers. Cover price $3.95.

Add to cart Fine $3.60

Golden Funnies (1973), published by DynaPubs Enterprises weekly in 1973, features rotating classic 1912-1945 newspaper strips such as The Phantom, Batman, Little Nemo, Charlie Chan, Superman, Buck Rogers, Krazy Kat, Dick Tracy, Mandrake, Bringing up Father. Included in #1 is the very first Superman Sunday page by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster from November 5, 1939. Newsprint, tabloid-sized 11.25-in. x 17.5-in. (standard horizontal tabloid fold not considered a defect), B&W. Cover price $0.50.

Add to cart Fine $4.80

Add to cart FN 6.0 $4.80

Bob Fosters underground comix character Myron Moose returns after 14 years in a new series from Fantagraphics. Includes reprints from his 1970s series alongside new material. Story, art and cover by cartoonist and animator Bob Foster. Black and white; 32 pages. Mature readers. Cover price $2.00. Cover price $2.00.

1st printing.

By Paul C. Tumey.

The story of screwball comics, with new research and rare art from some of the most hilarious cartoonists of all time.

Before "screwball" became a movie genre, it was a staple of other forms of American culture, including newspaper comic strips. Emerging from the pressures of a rapidly accelerating technological and information-drenched society, screwball comics offered a healthy dose of laughter and perspective. Comics scholar Paul C. Tumey traces the development of screwball as a genre in magazine cartoons and newspaper comics, presenting the lives and work of around two dozen cartoonists, with an art-stuffed chapter on each.

Screwball! offers a wealth of previously un-reprinted comics, unleashing fresh views of some of America's greatest and most-loved cartoonists, including George Herriman (Krazy Kat), E.C. Segar (creator of Popeye), Winsor McCay (Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend), Rube Goldberg (The Inventions of Professor Lucifer G. Butts, A.K.) and Bill Holman (Smokey Stover). In addition, readers will be delighted to discover previously "lost" screwball masters including Gene Ahern (The Squirrel Cage), Gus Mager (Sherlocko the Monk), Milt Gross (Count Screwloose), George Swanson ($alesman $am) and many others.

Hardcover, 11-in. x 11-in., 272 pages, full color.

Cover price $59.99.

Stories by Allen Saunders. Art by Elmer Woggon. Reprints of the classic comic strip about the adventures of a two-fisted photographer. An old college chum offers Steve a dangerous job as photographer for his muckraking magazine. The history of the Steve Roper strip, which started as the very different comedy strip "Chief Wahoo". A trapper captures a python in Malaysia. Also featuring a full-page ad for Bow-Lite, the "sensational ready-made electric" light-up bowtie. ("Wow the Women! Win New Friends!") Steve Roper and Wahoo; Brain Child; Trapper. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.