Fawcett's Funny Animals (1942-1956 Fawcett/Charlton) comic books 1955 or before

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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!). Taken prisoner in a land of giant rabbits, Hoppy faces the wicked ruler of Carrotville. Monkey detective Sherlock Monk disguises himself for a showbiz party, in a story featuring caricatures of Edward G. Robinson and James Cagney. Billy the Kid tracks cattle rustlers to the Skeleton Gulch Trail. Plus a puzzle page promoting War Bonds and Stamps, fundraising efforts for WWII. Pencil Pranks; Hoppy the Marvel Bunny: How to Be Strong; Benny Beaver; Winkin', Blinkin' and Nod; Sherlock the Monk and Chuck; Uncle Don: Broadcasting for Funny Animals; Oliver the Owl; Billy the Kid and Oscar; The Hobby Page; Willie the Worm. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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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 battles a giant who has taken Millie prisoner. Monkey detective Sherlock Monk seeks a stolen camera prototype that can acquire anything it takes a picture of. Sheriff Oscar is hypnotized into releasing the Rattler from the Cactus County Jail, and Billy the Kid must recapture him. Plus a Reddy Dough story promoting War Bonds and Stamps, fundraising efforts for WWII. Hoppy the Marvel Bunny; Benny Beaver and Fuzzy Bear; Gremmy the Gremlin; Pencil Pranks; Sherlock the Monk and Chuck; Puzzle Prank-Sherlock's Mysterious Maze!; Uncle Don: "Anticipators" another Willipus-Wallipus, Jr. story!; Reddy Dough; Billy the Kid and Oscar; Willie the Worm and Sammy. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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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!). Captain Marvel Bunny discovers someone on the beach sending radio messages, and concludes that he must be an Axis spy. Monkey detective Sherlock Monk seeks the "book rat" who has been vandalizing library books. With an election coming up, Billy tries to help Sheriff Oscar catch the mysterious nighttime bandit so he can win the election. Plus a PSA for War Bonds and Stamps featuring Captain Marvel (Shazam). Hoppy the Marvel Bunny; Benny Beaver and Fuzzy Bear; Gremmy the Gremlin; Pencil Party!!!; Sherlock the Monk and Chuck; Uncle Don Broadcasting for Funny Animals "Martyr-Dum!"; Billy the Kid and Oscar; Willie the Worm and Sammy. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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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!). The animals decide to clear out the "Bat Glen" to make a playground, but that incurs the wrath of the King Bat. Gremmy the Gremlin helps the birds get even with the bear that's been throwing rocks at them. The Rattler fakes "cow pox" with paint to get cheap prices, but Billy the Kid isn't fooled. Plus a PSA for War Bonds and Stamps featuring the Marvel Family. Hoppy the Marvel Bunny; Benny Beaver and Fuzzy Bear; Gremmy the Gremlin; Maze-Puzzle; Sherlock the Monk and Chuck; Winkin', Blinkin' and Nod; Willipus Wallipus: Goofy-Darer; Billy the Kid Song; Billy the Kid and Oscar; Willie the Worm; Pencil Pranks. 56 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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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!). A rocket-taxi piloted by a monkey takes Hoppy and Millie to Planet Carrot, which is populated by two-headed rabbits. Benny Beaver and Fuzzy Bear get mixed up with escaped convict Grizzly the Giant while waiting for their big break on Amateur Night. A gold rush sends everyone out of Cactus County, including Sheriff Oscar, but it's all a plot by "that wicked Eastern crook, Snakeye Snazzy!" Hoppy the Marvel Bunny; Billy the Kid and Oscar; Willie the Worm; Sherlock the Monk and Chuck; The Chuck the Detective Song; Uncle Don; Winkin', Blinkin' and Nod; Willie the Worm and Sammy; Billy the Kid and Oscar; Benny Beaver and Fuzzy Bear; Chuck the Duck; Hoppy the Marvel Bunny. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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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 hides in an Easter egg and gets mistaken for a hatchling by Mrs. Roc, a giant bird with maternal instincts. Sherlock Monk finds out how to get free coal from the rail yard, but Chuck's method doesn't work for him. Billy the Kid and Sheriff Oscar go camping and immediately get lost, because Oscar forgot the compass. Hoppy the Marvel Bunny; Billy the Kid and Oscar; Oscar's Song Page: Ten Little Indians; Fuzzy Bear and the Eskimo Kayak; Willie the Worm; Sherlock the Monk and Chuck; Uncle Don: Criticizer!; Billy the Kid and Oscar's Substitute Compass; Benny Beaver: Benny's Guardian Angel Tells Him Off!; Sherlock Monk Solves the Heat Question; Hoppy the Marvel Bunny: The Paper Pig; Willie the Worm and Sammy; Brain Twisters; Benny Beaver and Fuzzy Bear; Billy the Kid and Oscar; Hoppy the Marvel Bunny. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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"Hoppy's Victory Page!"; Hoppy and his pals celebrate the patriotism of their loyal readers, while reminding them to continue saving paper, scrap metal, etc. to aid the war effort. "Hoppy the Marvel Bunny Scores a Touchdown!", art by Chad Grothkopf; Hoppy joins his friends from Funny Animal Town in a football game against a team from Woodland Village. "Knock, Knock on Wood," art by Bill Brady; Billy and Oscar thwart a gang of thieves who sneak into town hidden inside wooden Indian statues. "Shoos a Shoe!"; Willie the Worm gets a job in a shoe store. "The Missing Story!", art by Bill Brady; Sherlock the Monk visits a neighboring city to see what life is like in the big city. "A Set Type of Laziness," art by Bill Brady; Fuzzy Bear gets a job at the local newspaper office. "Paintiacs" text story; Willipus Wallipus gets into trouble while waiting on the front porch for his parents to come outside to go to a movie. "Behind the Ate Ball!", art by Chad Grothkopf; Willie goes into a restaurant to buy hamburgers for his friend. Untitled half-page story; Benny and Fuzzy have a great time fishing. Mary Marvel house ad. "Nursery Rhyme Land!", art by Chad Grothkopf; Hoppy the Marvel Bunny defends the inhabitants of Nursery Rhyme Land against a witch who wants to destroy them. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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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 mounts a desperate plan after bank robbers get the drop on him. Billy the Kid meets The Conceited Highwayman, who considers himself the handsomest, strongest and smartest hombre in the West. Hoppy goes on a quiz show. Hoppy the Marvel Bunny: Desert Danger; Billy the Kid and Oscar: Horse Feathers; Color-Me-Up; Sherlock the Monk and Chuck Meet a Slippery Customer; Willipus Wallipus: Sick Fibber; Billy the Kid and Oscar: The Conceited Highwayman; Willie the Worm and Sammy: The Last Straw; Benny Beaver and Fuzzy Bear: Let's Talk Business; Hoppy the Marvel Bunny: The Quiz Show. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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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.

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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!). 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.

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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.

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Stories and art by Chad Grothkopf and others. Funny-animal comics from Fawcett, featuring Hoppy the Bunny, Bobby Bantam and Kenny Kangaroo. Billy Goat's voice teacher hands him a jackhammer, after which Billy descends through the floors of a high-rise in a bravura comedy sequence. Bobby Bantam discovers that he's sharing the bathtub with Beep's pet snapping turtle. Hoppy and his duck pal have an adventure in the West, even though Hoppy literally doesn't know which end of the gun to point. Plus the saga of the dreaded Squirrel Burglar. Buzzy Bee; Bobby and Beep: All Wet; Kenny Kangaroo: Sleep Tight; Teddy Bear and Skeezel the Weasel: Some Potatoes; Billy Goat: Odd Jobs; Squirrel Burglar; Hoppy the Marvel Bunny: Westward, Ho, Ho!; Kenny Kangaroo. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Stories and art by Chad Grothkopf and others. Funny-animal comics from Fawcett, featuring Hoppy the Bunny, Bobby Bantam and Kenny Kangaroo. Billy Goat has a close encounter with a knight in armor. Buzzy Bee has bee business at the break of day. Hoppy takes part in The Great Carrot Hunt. Bobby Bantam: Destination Moonshine; Kenny Kangaroo; Teddy Bear and Skeezel the Weasel: Rough Game; Billy Goat; Buzzy Bee; Night Song; Hoppy the Marvel Bunny: The Great Carrot Hunt; Buzzy Bee. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Chad Grothkopf. Stories and art by Chad Grothkopf and others. Funny-animal comics from Fawcett, featuring Hoppy the Bunny, Bobby Bantam and Kenny Kangaroo. Billy Goat gets lost in the museum. Bobby Bantam's mischievous nephew Beep finally pushes him too far. Hoppy has trouble in the kitchen. Bobby Bantam: Slightly Psycho!; Fuzzy Bear meets Skeezel the Weasel; Billy Goat: Museum Madness; Kenny Kangaroo; Buzzy Bee; Hootie's Hullaballoo; Hoppy the Marvel Bunny: What's Cookin? 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Funny-animal comics from Fawcett, featuring Hoppy the Bunny, Bobby Bantam and Kenny Kangaroo. Champ the monkey loves movies. Bobby Bantam wants to spend his vacation relaxing at Bedlam-in-the-Pines, but unfortunately his mischievous nephew Beep came along on the trip. Hoppy goes excavating in the yard. Bobby Bantam: Vacation Daze!; Teddy Bear and Skeezel the Weasel: A-Hunting We Will Go!; Champ the Chump of Chimps: The Movie Fan!; Musical Seal; Buzzy Bee; Hoppy the Marvel Bunny: Dig-Dig-Dig. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart GD 2.0 $8.00 3/4" Cumulative spine split. Water damage.

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Funny-animal comics from Fawcett, featuring Hoppy the Bunny, Bobby Bantam and Kenny Kangaroo. Buzzy's flapjacks are too hard to be breakfast, but they make great pistol targets. Bobby Bantam's nephew Beep wants to go to the ball game, but Bobby doesn't have enough money for both of them to go. Kenny Kangaroo must improvise when his coal shovel is too wide to fit through the furnace doors. Bobby Bantam: Take Me Out to the Brawl Game!; Horse Sense; Buzzy Bee; Kenny Kangaroo; Champ the Chump of Chimps: I Know Best!; Teddy Bear and Skeezel the Weasel: Mailman Stay 'Way from My Door; Hoppy the Marvel Bunny: The Magic Lamp. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Chad Grothkopf. Stories and art by Chad Grothkopf and others. Funny-animal comics from Fawcett, featuring Hoppy the Bunny, Bobby Bantam and Kenny Kangaroo. Bobby Bantam throws a surprise party for his rich uncle, Forgetful Fogety, but Fogety's the one who brings the surprises. In a new feature, "The Forest Folk," Gopher is running late for work at Mole's construction company when he gets buried under a landslide and has to be rescued by Mole. Hoppy, his Marvel powers long forgotten, keeps getting beaten up by tough guy Rocky Raccoon in a series of misunderstandings over Rocky's girlfriend, Phoebe Fieldmouse. Cow Says Moo; Bobby Bantam: Surprise Party; Teddy Bear and Skeezel the Weasel: The Philanthropist; Buzzy Bee; Kenny Kangaroo; Champ the Chump of Chimps Has a Bone to Pick; The Forest Folk: Big Diggings; Hoppy the Marvel Bunny: The Hermit. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Chad Grothkopf. Stories and art by Chad Grothkopf and others. Funny-animal comics from Fawcett, featuring Hoppy the Bunny, Bobby Bantam and Kenny Kangaroo. At a restaurant, Bobby Bantam's uncle Forgetful Fogety accidentally claims a magician's magic-trick-laden coat. In the second and last appearance of "The Forest Folk," Gopher and Mole conspire to get maple sugar from Fox's maple trees to make Gopher's pie for the pie contest. Hoppy and Quick-Quack follow an ape stealing lollipops to a mystery at the waterfront. Funny Chicken; Bobby Bantam: Watch Your Coat; Teddy Bear and Skeezel the Weasel: Easy Money; Buzzy Bee; Kenny Kangaroo; Champ the Chump of Chimps: Stop, Luck, and Listen; The Forest Folk: Prize Surprise; Hoppy the Marvel Bunny: The Mystery of the Last Licks. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart GD+ 2.5 $9.60 View scan 1/2" Cumulative spine split.

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Cover by Chad Grothkopf. Stories and art by Chad Grothkopf, Bill Woolfolk and Walter Farmer. Funny-animal comics from Fawcett, featuring Hoppy the Bunny, Bobby Bantam and Kenny Kangaroo. Kenny Kangaroo is such a bad boxer, he loses a shadow-boxing match. Skeezel's latest scheme goes so wrong that Teddy falls off a building into a tomato truck, plastering passersby in tomato puree. Hoppy gets jealous when Millie makes eyes at carnival strong man Herman Hare, but his superhero days are long behind him. Ambitious Cat; Slinky Stinky: The Stolen Swimming Pool; Teddy Bear and Skeezel the Weasel: All Washed Up; Hoppy the Marvel Bunny: Muscle Tussle; Kenny Kangaroo; Bobby Bantam: Bailing, Bailing; Buzzy Bee. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Al Fago. Funny-animal comics from Charlton, featuring Hoppy the Bunny, Fuzzy Bear and Atomic Mouse. Hoppy and Millie fight back with improvised weapons after their sailboat encounters pirates. A scavenger hunt gives Fuzzy Bear some unwelcome advice. Sherlock and Chuck get jobs at a fish market and battle a walrus hoodlum who's there to steal fish. Buzzy Bee; Hoppy: Pirate Trouble; Atomic Mouse; Fuzzy Bear: Treasure Hunt; Willie the Worm: Perfect Fit; Red Ned's Danger; Sherlock the Monk and Chuck in a Fishing Repartee; Willie the Worm Takes No Chances; Hoppy: Never Best a Pest. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Al Fago. Stories and art by Al Fago and Fred Ottenheimer. Funny-animal comics from Charlton. With this Charlton issue, Funny Animals gets a new star, the comics incarnation of 1950s kids' TV personality The Merry Mailman. Merry Mailman and Wheezer are off for adventure when someone mails a treasure map to Long John Silver. Millie wonders why Hoppy doesn't want to kiss her when they're playing kissing games at her party. Plus the legends of folk hero Paul Bunyan. Li'l Buck; The Merry Mailman Goes to Treasure Island; Merry Mailman's Coloring Page; Hoppy: Missed Kiss; Fuzzy's Song Page; The Mouse Has the Last Laugh; The Merry Mailman: King for a Day!; Legends of Paul Bunyon; Color-Me-Up Puzzle Page; The Merry Mailman Goes to Africa; Wilbur the Waiter. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.