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Famous Funnies (1934) 74 CGC 4.5

Paper: Off white to white

Label #4745717009

Contains comic strip reprints, activity pages, and a text story. In order of appearance: "Napoleon" by Clifford McBride; "Goofie Gags" by Victor E. Pazmiño; "Spunky Dory" by M. E. Brady; "Roy Powers, Eagle Scout" by Paul Powell; "Buck Rogers" by Philip Francis Nowlan and Rick Yager (as Dick Calkins); "High Lights of History" by J. Carroll Mansfield; "Skyroads" by Dick Calkins and Russell Keaton; "Hairbreadth Harry" and "High-Gear Homer" by F. O. Alexander; "Jitter" by Arthur B. Poinier; "Speed Spaulding" by Edwin Balmer, Philip Wylie, and Marvin Bradley; "Dickie Dare" by Milton Caniff; "Adventures of Patsy" by Mel Graff; "The Gay Thirties" by Hank Barrow; "Big Chief Wahoo" by Allen Saunders and Elmer Woggon; "The Frog Pond Ferry" by M. E. Brady; "Oaky Doaks" by Ralph Briggs Fuller; "Seaweed Sam" by Victor E. Pazmiño; "Olly of the Movies" by Julian Ollendorff; "Scorchy Smith" by Noel Sickles; "Somebody's Stenog" and "The Back-Seat Driver" by A. E. Hayward; "Lightnin' and the Lone Rider" by Jack Kirby (as Lance Kirby); "Above the Crowd" by Benjamin D. Allen (as Stookie Allen); "Babe Bunting" by Roy L. Williams; "Mescal Ike" by S. L. Huntley and Art Huhta; "Connie" and "The Wet Blanket" by Frank Godwin; "Life's Like That" by Fred Neher; "Butty and Fatty" by M. E. Brady; and "Homer Hoopee" by Fred Locher. "The Belled Buoy" text story by Robert M. Hyatt. Activity pages by A. W. Nugent. 68 pages. Full color. Cover price $0.10.

Famous Funnies (1934) 214 Coverless

Comic is complete other than being coverless.

Cover by Frank Frazetta. Stories and art by Rick Yager, Matt Christopher and Coulton Waugh. The long-running series that introduced "comic books" to the world, featuring reprints of comic strips. Dickie Dare falls asleep on the boat, which drifts out to sea. Another mind-blowingly good Frank Frazetta Buck Rogers cover. A series of short "True Heroic Stories," featuring real-life tales of heroism. Buck Rogers; Dickie Dare; Danger - Ice!; He Made It Possible. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Famous Funnies (1964 Super Reprint) 15 GD/VG 3.0

Water spotting.

Interior reprinted from Super Cat (1957) #4. All stories but "Super Cat: Off to the Moon or Bust" originally reprinted from sources noted. In order of appearance: "Super Cat: Off to the Moon or Bust!"; "Magic for Myrtle" art by Al Fago from Frisky Fables Vol. 2 (1946) #9; "Targetoons" by Milt Hammer from Target Comics Vol. 09 (1948) #4; "Diggy the Derrick" art by Chuck Winter from Frisky Fables Vol. 3 (1947) #8; "Targetoons" by Milt Hammer from Target Comics Vol. 09 (1948) #6; and "Cows and Cats and Crackerjacks" from Frisky Fables Vol. 4 (1948) #3. "Jasper gets Spring Fever" text story from Frisky Fables Vol. 3 (1947) #3. 36 pages. Full color. Cover price $0.12.