The Funnies comic books issue 18

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Victor E. Pazmiño cover. New Years cover. Contains comic strip reprints, activity pages, and a text story. In order of appearance: "Goofie Gags" by Victor E. Pazmiño; "Connie" and "The Wet Blanket" by Frank Godwin; "Fisher's History of Boxing" and "Joe Palooka" by Al Capp (as Ham Fisher); "Above the Crowd" by Benjamin D. Allen (as Stookie Allen); "Nipper" and "Footprints on the Sands of Time" by Clare Victor Dwiggins; "Good Deed Dotty" and "Dixie Dugan" by J. P. McEvoy and J. H. Striebel; "Napoleon" by Clifford McBride; "Flight" by W. D. Tipton and J. H. Mason; "Seaweed Sam" by Victor E. Pazmiño; "The Frog Pond Ferry" by M. E. Brady; "Strange as it Seems" by John Hix; "Hairbreadth Harry" by F. O. Alexander; "Buck Rogers" by Philip Francis Nowlan and Rick Yager (as Dick Calkins); "Simp O' Dill" and "The Nebbs" by Sol Hess and Wallace A. Carlson; "Somebody's Stenog" and "The Back-Seat Driver" by A. E. Hayward; "Jolly Geography" and "High Lights of History" by J. Carroll Mansfield; "Butty and Fatty" by M. E. Brady; "Babe Bunting" by Roy L. Williams; "S'matter Pop?" and "Honeybunch's Hubby" by Charles M. Payne; "Bobby" by S. M. Iger; "Flying to Fame" by John Welch and Russell Ross; "High-Gear Homer" by F. O. Alexander; "Little Brother" and "The Bungle Family" by Harry J. Tuthill; "Holly of Hollywood" and "Keeping Up With The Joneses" by Pop Mormand; "Such Is Life" by Walt Munson; "Dumb-Bells" by Charles J. Dunn (as Gar); "Dizzy Dramas" by Joe Bowers; "Olly of the Movies" by Julian Ollendorff; "Lena Pry" and "Jane Arden" by Monte Barrett and Jack W. McGuire; "Queenie" by S. M. Iger (as Bob Bliss); "Amaze A Minute" by Arnold; "Dan Dunn" by Norman Marsh; "Ned Brant of Carter" by Bob Zuppke and Bill W. Depew; "Vignettes of Life" by J. Norman Lynd; and "Screen Oddities" by Captain Roscoe Fawcett and Bruno Thompson. "Phantom Bullets" text story by Robert M. Hyatt. Activity pages by A. W. Nugent. 68 pages. Full color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by R. Webster. Stories and art by Stephen Douglas, Sy Mandell, Hy Barry, Alan Mandel, Ben Thompson, Harry G. Peter, Russell Keaton and Bill Everett. Superhero comics from Famous Funnies, featuring some of the stranger heroes of the Golden Age. Hydroman hunts an invisible murderer, the Phantom; Ace pilot Flyin' Jenny competes in an air race and battles criminals; Music Master and Downbeat get involved with a mysterious woman and a plot by foreign spies. Rainbow Boy, Music Master and Man o' Metal were all listed in Jon Morris's 2015 book The League of Regrettable Superheroes. True Stories of War Heroes; Hydroman; The Music Master; Rainbow Boy; Flying Fortress; Man O' Metal; Clark C. Kegelman; Cookin' With Gas; Flyin' Jenny. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

68 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Valentine's Day cover. Contains comic strip reprints, text articles, activity pages, and a text story. In order of appearance: "Herky" by Clyde Lewis; "Alley Oop" by V. T. Hamlin; "Dan Dunn" by Norman Marsh; "Stranger than Fiction" by Richard W. Thomas and Walter Galli; "Our Boarding House" by Gene Ahern; "G-Man vs. The Red X" (Big Little Book adaptation) by Dick Blair and Milt Youngren; "Freckles and his Friends" by Merrill Blosser; "Everybody's Playmate" by A. W. Nugent; "Bronc Peeler" by Fred Harman; "The Nut Bros." by Gene Ahern; "Boots" by Edgar Martin; "Don Dixon and the Hidden Empire" and "Tad of the Tanbark" by Bob Moore and Carl Pfeufer; "Curious Facts about Stamps" by I. S. Klein; "Captain Easy, Soldier of Fortune" by Roy Crane; "Ben Webster's Page" by Jay Jerome Williams (as Edwin Alger); "Funnies Cartoon Club" by Walter Cole Brigham; "Out Our Way" by J. R. Williams; "Tailspin Tommy" and "Four Aces" by Hal Forrest; "The Comic Zoo" by George Scarbo; "The Tiny Mites" by Hal Cochran and George Scarbo; "Scribbly" by Sheldon Mayer; "Home Magic" by A. W. Nugent; "Now You Tell One!" by Edward Courtney Dunkle; "Mutt and Jeff" and "Cicero's Cat" by Bud Fisher; "Reg'lar Fellers" and "Daisybelle" by Gene Byrnes; "Be a Champion" by Ed Cronin; "Heroes' Hall of Fame" by Benjamin D. Allen (as Stookie Allen); and "The Worry Wart" by J. R. Williams. "Battle Beneath the Midnight Sun, Part One" text story by H. T. Sperry, illustrated by Walter Cole Brigham. 68 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Ed Cronin. Stories and art by Will Eisner, Rube Goldberg, Art Pinajian, Frank Frollo, Ed Wheelan, Lank Leonard, Mo Leff (credited as Ham Fisher), John Hix, Russell E. Ross, J. H. Striebel, George Brenner, Bernard Baily, Bob Zuppke, R. W. Depew, Monte Barrett, J.P. McEvoy, Charles Driscoll, H.J. Tuthill, John J. Welch, George Marcoux, Ed Reed, Bill Sakren, and Vernon Henkel. An early comics anthology published by Harry Chesler, featuring reprints of newspaper comic strips. Will Eisner's spy hero Black X investigates after an American commercial plane is destroyed near a Chinese seaport. Slim and Tubby flee to the hills after escaping prison with Burns and Benton, but then they have a friendly visitor. In the early Eisner strip Archie O'Toole, King Archie encounters Doctor Finklestein, who wants to make a monster. Plus the early strip Lala Palooza by Rube Goldberg. Joe Palooka; They're Still Talking; Captain Cook of Scotland Yard; Jane Arden; Mickey Finn; Off the Record; Gallant Knight; Lala Palooza; Strange As It Seems; Espionage Starring Black X; The Clock Strikes; Slim and Tubby; Richard Manners; Reynolds of the Mounted; Mortimer Mum; Toddy; Pirates Ahoy; Ned Brant; Big Top; Dixie Dugan; Bungle Family; Lena Pry; Clip Chance at Cliffside; The Barbarian. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

This cover scene, beautifully rendered by Bill Everett, showing a male centaur wrestling a conventional horse is an image Buddy doesn't recall ever seeing on the cover of any other comic book, pulp, or for that on the cover of any magazine!

#18 Cover price $0.10.

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Dynapubs comic strip reprints from 1912-1945, complete stories in serial format, 11-in x 17 1/2-in, 16 Pages, B&W. Cover price $0.50.

Issue 18, September 1985 issue - Comic Strip Fanzine. 24 pages, B&W.

24 pages, partial color Cover price $0.10.