The Funnies comic books issue 20

Contains comic strip reprints, activity pages, and a text story. In order of appearance: "Butty and Fatty" by M. E. Brady; "Goofie Gags" by Victor E. Pazmiño; "Fisher's History of Boxing" and "Joe Palooka" by Al Capp (as Ham Fisher); "The Adventures of Jabby" by Tom Carlisle; "Otto Honk" by Bela Zaboly; "Out Our Way" by J. R. Williams; "Alley Oop" by V. T. Hamlin; "Nipper" and "Footprints on the Sands of Time" by Clare Victor Dwiggins; "Captain Easy" by Roy Crane; "Herky" by Clyde Lewis; "Seaweed Sam" by Victor E. Pazmiño; "The Frog Pond Ferry" by M. E. Brady; "Hairbreadth Harry" and "High-Gear Homer" 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; "Boots" by Edgar Martin; "Jolly Geography" and "High Lights of History" by J. Carroll Mansfield; "Above the Crowd" by Benjamin D. Allen (as Stookie Allen); "Babe Bunting" by Roy L. Williams; "Apple Mary" by Martha Orr; "Napoleon" by Clifford McBride; "S'matter Pop?" and "Honeybunch's Hubby" by Charles M. Payne; "The Nut Brothers" and "Our Boarding House" by Gene Ahern; "This Curious World" by William Ferguson; "Freckles and his Friends" by Merrill Blosser; "Somebody's Stenog" and "The Back-Seat Driver" by A. E. Hayward; "Flying to Fame" by John Welch and Russell Ross; "Mescal Ike" by S. L. Huntley and Art Huhta; "Olly of the Movies" by Julian Ollendorff; "Flight" by W. D. Tipton and J. H. Mason; "Ned Brant of Carter" by Bob Zuppke and Bill W. Depew; "Flapper Fanny" by Gladys Parker; "Salesman Sam" by C. D. Small; "Holly of Hollywood" and "Keeping Up With The Joneses" by Pop Momand; "Strange as it Seems" and "The John Hix Scrap Book" by John Hix; "Happy Daze" and "Pee Wee" by S. M. Iger; "Such Is Life" by Walt Munson; "Dumb-Bells" by Charles J. Dunn (as Gar); "Dizzy Dramas" by Joe Bowers; "Dan Dunn" by Norman Marsh; "Little Brother" and "The Bungle Family" by Harry J. Tuthill; "Screen Oddities" by Captain Roscoe Fawcett and Bruno Thompson; "Good Deed Dotty" and "Dixie Dugan" by J. P. McEvoy and J. H. Striebel; and "Amaze A Minute" by Arnold. "King Joko Comes Clean" text story by Armand Serent. Activity pages by A. W. Nugent. 68 pages. Full color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by H.C. Kiefer. Stories and art by Stephen Douglas, Alexander Kostuk, H.C. Kiefer, Harry G. Peter, Russell Keaton and Bill Everett. Superhero comics from Famous Funnies, featuring some of the stranger heroes of the Golden Age. Man o' Metal investigates when a movie star is targeted by deadly accidents on the set; Hydroman tracks Nazi spies to a strange house by the sea; A foghorn provides Music Master with the power he needs to halt a sabotaged ship. Brutal but vibrant cover by H.C. Kiefer. 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; The Sea Is Deep; Man O' Metal; You Can't Kill Him; Flyin' Jenny. 68 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Leon A. Beroth. Stories and art by Roy Crane, Fred Harman, Norman Marsh, Art Krenz, J. R. Williams, Merrill Blosser, Ray Thompson, Charles Coll, Martha Orr, Win Smith, William Ferguson, Gene Ahern, Bill Baltz, Al McWilliams, Al Lewin, Frank V. Martinek, Leon A. Beroth, and Abe Martin. Crackajack Funnies presented original stories and reprints of classic comic strips, including Roy Crane's influential Wash Tubbs & Captain Easy. Wash Tubbs opens his nightclub, the Topsy Turvy, to great success, but gangster Frankie Slaughter wants to shut him down. Fleeing from enemy agents and local authorities alike, Stratosphere Jim takes his experimental golden airplane into a dangerous series of canyons after dark. Don Winslow captures the pirate known as The Dwarf, but Doctor Thor has escaped with the pirate fortune for use in his future terrorism. Plus a Tarzan adventure. In This Corner; Dan Dunn; Red Ryder; Freckles and His Friends; Myra North, Special Nurse; Wash Tubbs; Apple Mary; Our Boarding House; Clyde Beatty; Stratosphere Jim; Don Winslow of the Navy; Ed Tracer, G-Man X32; Tarzan; Time Marches Back with Looney Luke; Speed Bolton, Air Ace; Out Our Way; Curious World. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Contains comic strip reprints, text articles, activity pages, and a text story. In order of appearance: "Alley Oop" by V. T. Hamlin; "Reg'lar Fellers" by Gene Byrnes; "Captain Easy, Soldier of Fortune" by Roy Crane; "Out Our Way" by J. R. Williams; "G-Man vs. The Red X" (Big Little Book adaptation) by Dick Blair and Milt Youngren; "Freckles and his Friends" by Merrill Blosser; "Hold Everything" by Clyde Lewis; "Cicero's Cat" by Bud Fisher; "Home Magic" by A. W. Nugent; "Boots" by Edgar Martin; "Our Boarding House" by Gene Ahern; "Stranger than Fiction" by Richard W. Thomas and Walter Galli; "Tim McCoy: West of Rainbow's End" film adaptation; "Funnies Cartoon Club" by Walter Cole Brigham; "Ben Webster's Page" by Jay Jerome Williams (as Edwin Alger); "Dan Dunn" by Norman Marsh; "Four Aces" by Hal Forrest; "Everybody's Playmate" by A. W. Nugent; "Scribbly" by Sheldon Mayer; "Now You Tell One!" by Edward Courtney Dunkle; "Curious Facts about Stamps" by I. S. Klein; "Bronc Peeler" by Fred Harman; "Heroes' Hall of Fame" by Benjamin D. Allen (as Stookie Allen); and "Be a Champion" by Ed Cronin. "Redskin Renegade" text story by H. T. Sperry. 68 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Grieg Chapian. Stories by Paul Graham, Steven Dahlman, Bob Butts, James P. McGague, George Loomis, John Kolb, Harry Campbell, and Malcolm Kildale. Science fiction stories, adventure tales, and Amazing Mystery Funnies starring such characters as Fantom of the Fair, Kern'l Kilgore, Larry Kane, Steve Raymond, Bill and Davey, Tiger, Jon Linton, and Speed Centaur. 68 pages, full color. $0.10. 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 goes undercover at a munitions factory to smoke out a saboteur, but almost gets smelted for his trouble. Pioneering masked hero The Clock is unmasked by ganglord Boss Marco, but no one can see the Clock's face and live. In the early Eisner strip Archie O'Toole, King Archie investigates the haunted east wing of the castle. 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; The Mystery of Echo Island, Chapter 1: Man of Iron; Big Top; Dixie Dugan; Bungle Family; Lena Pry; Clip Chance at Cliffside; The Outcast. Final issue under this title; series continues as Feature Comics (1939) #21. 68 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

The Eye Sees (art by Frank Thomas), Dean Denton Scientific Detective, Dan Dennis F.B.I., TNT Todd Ace G-Man, Dean Masters D.A., Spy Masters, the Masked Marvel, and Spark O'Leary. Classic Thomas cover. Cover price $0.10.

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Issue 20, January 1986 issue - Comic Strip Fanzine. 24 pages, B&W.

24 pages, partial color Cover price $0.10.

Created, written and drawn by Brian Kirk Moot. 4 1/4" x 5 1/2", 8 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

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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.