Fawcett's Funny Animals (1942-1956 Fawcett/Charlton) comic books 1946-1948

Cover by Chad Grothkopf. Stories and art by Chad Grothkopf, Joe Oriolo and Bill Brady. Funny-animal comics from Fawcett, featuring Hoppy the Marvel Bunny, who has the same powers and power-word as his hero (Shazam!). Marvel Bunny gets a plea for help from the queen of the butterfly people when Sam Spider is massing his spider forces along the border of Butterfly Land. Sherlock the Monk and Chuck investigate who is taking the sheet music from the local radio station. Someone is stealing all the eggs from nearby farms right before the Orphans' Easter Picnic. Hoppy the Marvel Bunny: Web of Evil; Billy the Kid and Oscar: Ten Cents Worth of Action; Sherlock the Monk and Chuck: Tops It All; Willie the Worm: The Worm Turns; Automania; Sherlock the Monk and Chuck: Out of Tune; Willie the Worm and Sammy; Benny Beaver and Fuzzy Bear: Fare 'Nuff; Benny Beaver and Fuzzy Bear: Gets Some Authority; Hoppy the Marvel Bunny: Easter Eggs. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Chad Grothkopf and Bill Brady. Funny-animal comics from Fawcett, featuring Hoppy the Marvel Bunny, who has the same powers and power-word as his hero (Shazam!). While collecting shoes for the orphanage, Hoppy and Millie find seven-league boots that lead Marvel Bunny to the land of the shoe leprechauns. Pine Needle the porcupine and his fellow outlaws hatch a fake-kidnapping plot to get rid of Billy the Kid. Fuzzy Bear checks into a fancy hotel and runs up a huge bill, despite Benny's warnings. Hoppy the Marvel Bunny Meets the Shoe Leprechauns; Benny Beaver Tries a Weighty Role; Billy the Kid and Oscar: Trouble on the Double; Sherlock the Monk and Chuck; Willie the Worm: Shadowed; Willipus Wallipus: High-Hattery; Billy the Kid and Oscar: Wanted - Dead Not Alive; Willie the Worm and Sammy; Benny Beaver and Fuzzy Bear: The Bell Tolls for Fuzzy; Hoppy the Marvel Bunny: The Gay Deception. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Chad Grothkopf and Bill Brady. Funny-animal comics from Fawcett, featuring Hoppy the Marvel Bunny, who has the same powers and power-word as his hero (Shazam!). Hoppy and Millie discover a sinister plot after the turtle population of the pond goes missing. Squirrel Mrs. Van Knutt hires Sherlock Monk and Chuck to find out why her husband wants to kill himself. Billy the Kid investigates strange doings at the Joe Fox silver mine. Hoppy the Marvel Bunny: A Shell by Any Other Name; Willie the Worm and Sammy: Made to Order; Sherlock the Monk and Chuck: A Greasy Case; Willipus Wallipus: Wool Gatherers; Billy the Kid and Oscar: Railroaded; Sherlock the Monk and Chuck; Willie the Worm and Sammy: A Hitch in Hitching; Benny Beaver and Fuzzy Bear: Caught Off Base; Hoppy the Marvel Bunny. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Stories and art by Bill Brady and others. Funny-animal comics from Fawcett, featuring Hoppy the Marvel Bunny, who has the same powers and power-word as his hero (Shazam!). Hoppy has terrain trouble after chasing crooks into the hills, where the echo of his "Shazams" keeps coming back at inopportune times and removing his powers. Billy the Kid investigates a series of mysterious train accidents. When stars start disappearing from the sky, Hoppy learns the Dark Witch is capturing stars and disguising them as people. Hoppy the Marvel Bunny: Echo Trouble; Fuzzy Bear; Billy the Kid and Oscar: The Casey Jones Run; Willipus Wallipus: Cash-Flashers; Willie the Worm and Sammy: Undecided; Benny Beaver and Fuzzy Bear: Caught Off Base; Sherlock the Monk and Chuck; Benny Beaver and Fuzzy Bear: Fuzzy Chops Up His Dream; Funny Animals Game Page; Sherlock the Monk and Chuck Wrestle a Wrestling Problem; Benny Beaver and Fuzzy Bear; Hoppy the Marvel Bunny: Stars over the Dark Witch. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Chad Grothkopf. Stories and art by Chad Grothkopf and others. Funny-animal comics from Fawcett, featuring Hoppy the Marvel Bunny, who has the same powers and power-word as his hero (Shazam!). Marvel Bunny Meets Windy, the Baby Tornado, but a baby tornado is still a tornado. Sherlock the Monk and Chuck investigate a mystery at a laundromat, and the laundry jokes are hanging everywhere. Benny Beaver and Fuzzy Bear work hard at being lazy. Hoppy the Marvel Bunny: Telescopic Trouble; Willie the Worm; Willipus Wallipus: Snoozealot; Benny Beaver and Fuzzy Bear: Suit Themselves; Sherlock the Monk and Chuck: A Couple of Washouts; Billy the Kid and Oscar: Cleaning Time; Benny Beaver and Fuzzy Bear: A Knight of Laziness; Hoppy the Marvel Bunny Meets Windy, the Baby Tornado. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Funny-animal comics from Fawcett, featuring Hoppy the Marvel Bunny, who has the same powers and power-word as his hero (Shazam!). Marvel Bunny takes action when everyone else falls prey to an evil magical flute. Sherlock the Monk and Chuck investigate a clothes-related mystery and find material for puns everywhere. The Well of Sadness threatens to drag down the spirits of even Marvel Bunny himself. Hoppy the Marvel Bunny: The Evil Flute; Willie the Worm and Sammy; Billy the Kid and Oscar: Plant Winner; Willipus Wallipus: Take a Chancer; Benny Beaver and Fuzzy Bear: Fuzzy Bear Gets the Business; Sherlock the Monk and Chuck: Vanity Case; Billy the Kid and Oscar: Rice Shots; Benny Beaver and Fuzzy Bear: Sour Reward; Hoppy the Marvel Bunny: Well of Sadness. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Bill Brady and others. Funny-animal comics from Fawcett, featuring Hoppy the Marvel Bunny, who has the same powers and power-word as his hero (Shazam!). Every rabbit in town is interested when gigantic "Marvel Carrots" are discovered. Fuzzy Bear learns that bricks thrown up in the air always come down... eventually. Marvel Bunny tries to safeguard clumsy Cousin Oscar from himself. Hoppy the Marvel Bunny: Discovery of the Marvel Carrots; Willie the Worm: Everybody's Friend; Sherlock the Monk and Chuck: The Morgue the Merrier; Billy the Kid and Oscar: On the Ball; Willipus Wallipus: Fire-Foolers; Benny Beaver: A Change of Address; Sherlock the Monk and Chuck: Comic Capers!; Hoppy the Marvel Bunny: Cousin Oscar Steps Forth. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Chad Grothkopf and others. Funny-animal comics from Fawcett, featuring Hoppy the Marvel Bunny, who has the same powers and power-word as his hero (Shazam!). Fuzzy Bear wants to learn how to play the violin. Willipus Wallipus learns a lesson about laziness, courtesy of Uncle Don. Plus a guest appearance by Tuck Sedo the Penguin Playboy, previously seen in the Fawcett's Animal Fair. Tuck Sedo uses his fortune to play an elaborate practical joke. Hoppy the Marvel Bunny: Friendly Spirit; Willie the Worm: Acid Test; Fuzzy Bear: Fuzzy Fiddles Around; Sherlock the Monk and Chuck: On Their Toes; Colonel Walrus and Snazzy the Snail: Finder's Instinct; Willipus Wallipus: Lazy Boners; Tuck Sedo the Penguin Playboy Fires Away!; Billy the Kid and Oscar: Wide Awake. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Chad Grothkopf and others. Funny-animal comics from Fawcett, featuring Hoppy the Marvel Bunny, who has the same powers and power-word as his hero (Shazam!). When civil war breaks out between the "plain" and "fancy" paper dolls in their paper cities, Marvel Bunny tries to make peace. Willipus Wallipus learns a lesson about false alarms, courtesy of Uncle Don. Billy the Kid and Oscar the Sheriff meet "The Girl Desperado." Hoppy the Marvel Bunny: Ripping Adventure; Willie the Worm Rings the Bell; Benny Beaver and Fuzzy Bear Get Glass-y-eyed; Sherlock the Monk and Chuck: Round One; Droopy the Ant Bear and Reddy Fox: Junk Relics; Willipus Wallipus: False-a-Fire; Battling Bantam: The Big City Blues; Billy the Kid and Oscar: The Girl Desperado. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Bill Brady and others. Funny-animal comics from Fawcett, featuring Hoppy the Marvel Bunny, who has the same powers and power-word as his hero (Shazam!). The demonic Mr. Rumor, who looks like a Gilbert Shelton character 20 years early, arrives on Earth to spread doubt and misinformation. This is the final Hoppy the Marvel Bunny story in Funny Animals until issue #55. Hired by wealthy Mrs. Gotrocks, Sherlock the Monk and Chuck match wits with Terriarity the Terrible Terrier. Willie the Worm has a suggestion for pompous Mr. Hoot the owl. Hoppy the Marvel Bunny: Mr. Rumor Comes to Town; Willie the Worm: Can't Dampen His Spirits; Fuzzy Bear: The Idea Alarms Him; Sherlock the Monk and Chuck: The Roundup; Willipus Wallipus: Mug Uglies; Battling Bantam: Battling Bantam Goes-A-Courting; Billy the Kid and Oscar: Uprooted Evil. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Chad Grothkopf and others. Funny-animal comics from Fawcett, featuring Hoppy the Marvel Bunny, who has the same powers and power-word as his hero (Shazam!). Oscar's re-election as sheriff calls for a celebration, but Billy the Kid goes overboard with the fireworks. Willie the Worm sets up a medicine-show tent, offering to sell the other animals water from the Fountain of Youth. Plus a vintage Tootsie Roll ad, Captain Tootsie: The Log Jam Rescue, with art by Shazam co-creator CC Beck, and a hair-cream ad featuring detective Sam Spade. Billy the Kid and Oscar: Spiked Fireworks; Battling Bantam Comes Up with an Answer; Willipus Wallipus: Catastrophe; Willie the Worm: The Fountain of Youth; Sherlock the Monk and Chuck Jump to Conclusions; Fuzzy Bear Gets Psycho-Analyzed. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Funny-animal comics from Fawcett, featuring Hoppy the Marvel Bunny, who has the same powers and power-word as his hero (Shazam!). Billy the Kid learns outlaws are planning to use Dry Gulch's annual dance as a diversion. Mac Mule asks Battling Bantam to help him rebuild his barn, but he didn't take "Battling's" temper into account. Sherlock the Monk and Chuck are hired to keep crooks from stealing a priceless formula for creating untearable ribbons. Plus a vintage Tootsie Roll ad, Captain Tootsie: Counter Spook, with art by Shazam co-creator CC Beck, and a hair-cream ad featuring detective Sam Spade. Billy the Kid and Oscar: Dangerous Dance; Battling Bantam: Brick Top; Uncle Don: Silly-Risers; Willie the Worm: Brick Top/ Makes Good Cents to Us/ A Light Answer; Sherlock the Monk and Chuck: A Winding Case; Benny Beaver and Fuzzy Bear Are Out of Focus. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Funny-animal comics from Fawcett, featuring Hoppy the Marvel Bunny, who has the same powers and power-word as his hero (Shazam!). Billy the Kid enters a horse race, but someone doesn't want him to win. Mac Mule despairs that he can't even take Battling Bantam to the store without him getting into a fight. An architect hires Sherlock the Monk and Chuck to find out what happened to his missing bridge. Billy the Kid and Oscar: The Death Race; Battling Bantam: Courts Trouble; Uncle Don: Stuffacake; Willie the Worm: Wasted Time/ Full of Hot Air/ Puts in His Ten Cents Worth; Sherlock the Monk and Chuck Play Bridge; Benny Beaver and Fuzzy Bear: Two Holes in One. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Funny-animal comics from Fawcett, featuring Hoppy the Marvel Bunny, who has the same powers and power-word as his hero (Shazam!). Billy the Kid tries to keep outlaw Trigger Boley from crossing the border. Benny Beaver decides to take some time off to go to the dance, but finds himself working twice as hard as he normally does. When White Beauty, the famous racehorse, disappears, could Foxy the jockey be involved - and where did that black horse come from? Plus a delightful vintage ad for Schwinn bicycles featuring movie cowboy Roy Rogers and his horse Trigger: "Next to riding you, Trigger, there's nothing like riding a Schwinn!" Billy the Kid and Oscar: On the Border of Trouble; Battling Bantam: The Private Tutor; Willipus Wallipus: Bad Medicine; Benny Beaver: Double Trouble; Willie the Worm: Shades of the Night/ Willie the Worm Cries Uncle/ Sounds Off; Sherlock the Monk and Chuck: Horse Sense; Benny Beaver and Fuzzy Bear: Less Strain on the Eyes. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Funny-animal comics from Fawcett, featuring Hoppy the Marvel Bunny, who has the same powers and power-word as his hero (Shazam!). Battling Bantam the rooster takes a job as a security guard, but he's a little too volatile for all that sitting around. Benny Beaver and Fuzzy Bear try to fit in at a proper garden party. Uncle Don provides a floating object lesson. Plus a vintage Tootsie Roll ad, Captain Tootsie Saves the Sailplane, with art by Shazam co-creator CC Beck, and a hair-cream ad featuring detective Sam Spade. Billy the Kid and Oscar: Serve It Up; Battling Bantam: Thieves in the Night; Uncle Don: Naughty-Cal; Willie the Worm: Watery Brain/ Forever and a Day/ Baby Talk; Sherlock the Monk and Chuck: Confidence No End; Benny Beaver and Fuzzy Bear: Garden Party Frolics. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Funny-animal comics from Fawcett, featuring Hoppy the Marvel Bunny, who has the same powers and power-word as his hero (Shazam!). Billy the Kid tries to find out what's making ordinary townspeople engage in gunfight duels. Sherlock the Monk and Chuck are hired to investigate the Mystery of the Magic Gourd. Benny Beaver and Fuzzy Bear play a wishing game. Plus a vintage Tootsie Roll ad, Captain Tootsie: Radar Rescue, with art by Shazam co-creator CC Beck, and a hair-cream ad featuring detective Sam Spade. Billy the Kid and Oscar: Fighting Fools; Battling Bantam: Schoolhouse Riot; Uncle Don: Cave-Enterers; Willie the Worm: Satisfied/ Dark View/ Carry Him Away; Sherlock the Monk and Chuck: The Mystery of the Magic Gourd; Benny Beaver and Fuzzy Bear Play a Wishing Game. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Funny-animal comics from Fawcett, featuring Hoppy the Marvel Bunny, who has the same powers and power-word as his hero (Shazam!). Billy the Kid finds gold and tries to share it with the town of Dry Gulch, but a gold rush is inevitable. An appeal for help from the Ghosts Benevolent Association sends Marvel Bunny into battle against the Ghost of Captain Shark. Sherlock the Monk pretends illness to get out of cleaning the office, and ends up fleeing from the head nurse at the hospital. Plus a vintage Tootsie Roll ad, Captain Tootsie and the Secret-Play Touchdown, with art by Shazam co-creator CC Beck, and a hair-cream ad featuring detective Sam Spade. Billy the Kid and Oscar: Gold in Them Thar Hills!; Hoppy the Marvel Bunny: Ghost Talk!; Battling Bantam: The Haymaker Troublemaker; Willipus Wallipus: Snitch-Fibbers; Willie the Worm and Sammy: The Kingdom of King Vulture; Sherlock the Monk and Chuck: Real Pill; Fuzzy Bear Sleeps Like a Log. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Funny-animal comics from Fawcett, featuring Hoppy the Marvel Bunny, who has the same powers and power-word as his hero (Shazam!). Billy the Kid learns that outlaws Diamond Bill and Slippery are coming to Dry Gulch, just when Governor "Honest Jim" Dawson is arriving to make a speech. Marvel Bunny travels through time and meets his superpowered ancestors, Pilgrim Marvel and Sir Marvel, the Red Knight. Willie the Worm explains why he reads so much. Plus a vintage Tootsie Roll ad, Captain Tootsie: Counter Spook, with art by Shazam co-creator CC Beck, and an ad for My Secrets of Magic, by Blackstone the Magician. Billy the Kid and Oscar Meet the Assassins; Hoppy the Marvel Bunny: Gallant Ancestors!; Battling Bantam: Movie Struck; Willipus Wallipus: Chemical-Luney; Willie the Worm: Zero Weather/ Novel Fellow/ Gives Us Indigestion; Benny Beaver and Fuzzy Bear: Have a Fine Day; Willie's Song. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Chad Grothkopf. Stories and art by Chad Grothkopf and others. Funny-animal comics from Fawcett, featuring Hoppy the Marvel Bunny, who has the same powers and power-word as his hero (Shazam!). Sheriff Oscar insists on going after the Smith Brothers outlaw gang without help from Billy the Kid, but that's not such a hot idea. Willie the Worm's practical jokes soon get on everyone's nerves, except Willie's. Sherlock Monk and Chuck the Duck check into a hotel for an overnight stay and notice some strange activity - well, Chuck does, anyway. Plus a vintage Tootsie Roll ad, Captain Tootsie Saves the School Party, with art by Shazam co-creator CC Beck. Billy the Kid and Oscar: Desperate Desperadoes; Droopy the Ant Bear and Reddy Fox: The Heavy Load; Willipus Wallipus: Tooth-a-Nailer; Willie the Worm: No Joke; Sherlock the Monk and Chuck: Spring Action; Fuzzy Bear: Nuts about Doughnuts; Hoppy the Marvel Bunny and the F.B.I. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Chad Grothkopf. Stories and art by Chad Grothkopf and others. Funny-animal comics from Fawcett, featuring Hoppy the Marvel Bunny, who has the same powers and power-word as his hero (Shazam!). Cactus Jack gets the drop on Sheriff Oscar, but luckily, they're standing under the shoddy chimney that Oscar built. While seeking a good deed to do, Marvel Bunny encounters the Brownies and their magical world. A scavenger hunt gives Fuzzy Bear some unwelcome advice. Hoppy the Marvel Bunny and the Brownies; Billy the Kid and Oscar: The Hacienda Fortress; Fuzzy Bear: Treasure Hunt; Willie the Worm: Perfect Fit/ Plays No Favorites; Uncle Don: Double Trouble; Sherlock the Monk and Chuck: A Fishing Repartee; Hoppy the Marvel Bunny: Horoscope-Horrors; Billy the Kid and Oscar: Chimney Fix. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Funny-animal comics from Fawcett, featuring Hoppy the Marvel Bunny, who has the same powers and power-word as his hero (Shazam!). Hired as a doorman for Mrs. Grand Llama's party, Hoppy has to turn Millie away because of the dress code. Then he decides to make a point by having his well-dressed friends pretend to rob the party! Billy the Kid and Sheriff Oscar the Ostrich uncover a hoax. Burglars hide inside Marvel Bunny balloons during rich kids' birthday parties to infiltrate the homes of their wealthy parents. Hoppy the Marvel Bunny: The Party; Billy the Kid and Oscar: The Hoax; Willie the Worm: No Escape Clauses!; Droopy the Ant Bear and Reddy Fox: Meal Ticket; Chuck's Song; Willipus Wallipus: Horse Sense; Colonel Walrus and Snazzy the Snail: Engineering Feats; Sherlock the Monk and Chuck: False Alarm; Hoppy the Marvel Bunny: The Marvel Balloons. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Chad Grothkopf. Stories and art by Chad Grothkopf and others. Funny-animal comics from Fawcett, featuring Hoppy the Marvel Bunny, who has the same powers and power-word as his hero (Shazam!). Millie puts on a circus for the orphans, but Skinflint wants half the profits for using his property, until Captain Marvel Bunny intervenes. Billy the Kid and Sheriff Oscar the Ostrich travel to the big city, where things are much different than in their tiny desert town of Dry Gulch. When sinister magician Presto starts making the important people in town disappear, Hoppy becomes Marvel Bunny to get to the bottom of it. Hoppy the Marvel Bunny: Circus Capers; Billy the Kid and Oscar: Trouble in the Big City; Brother Troll: Peanut Sale; Sherlock the Monk and Chuck: There's Fight in Them Thar Hills; Benny Beaver and Fuzzy Bear: For Bed-Der or Worse; Hoppy the Marvel Bunny: A Box of Tricks. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Chad Grothkopf. Stories and art by Chad Grothkopf and others. Funny-animal comics from Fawcett, featuring Hoppy the Marvel Bunny, who has the same powers and power-word as his hero (Shazam!). Millie and Hoppy are captured by the Mountain King, forcing Marvel Bunny to battle his army of sinister little elves. Billy the Kid suspects that Swami, the new fortune-teller in town, is up to no good. Sherlock the Monk and Chuck investigate the mystery of the bent nails, and wind up tied to beds of nails by a crazed carpenter. Hoppy the Marvel Bunny: Searching for Happiness; Billy the Kid and Oscar: Crystalizes His Punch; Backward Land; Sherlock the Monk and Chuck Nail a Thief; Benny Beaver and Fuzzy Bear: Fair Play; Willie the Worm: Guess-It; Hoppy the Marvel Bunny in the Hall of the Mountain King! 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.