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Fawcett's Funny Animals (1942-1956 Fawcett/Charlton) comic books 1953-1955

  • Issue #78
    Fawcett's Funny Animals (1942-1956 Fawcett/Charlton) 78
    • 3/4" Cumulative spine split. Water damage.
    • 2.5" Cumulative spine split through cover and wraps.

    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.

  • Issue #80
    Fawcett's Funny Animals (1942-1956 Fawcett/Charlton) 80
    • Cover detached. 3-1/2" Cumulative spine split.

    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.

  • Issue #81
    Fawcett's Funny Animals (1942-1956 Fawcett/Charlton) 81

    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.

  • Issue #82
    Fawcett's Funny Animals (1942-1956 Fawcett/Charlton) 82
    • 1/2" Cumulative spine split.

    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.

  • Issue #86
    Fawcett's Funny Animals (1942-1956 Fawcett/Charlton) 86

    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.

  • Issue #87
    Fawcett's Funny Animals (1942-1956 Fawcett/Charlton) 87

    Cover by Al Fago. Stories and art by Al Fago and others. Funny-animal comics from Charlton, featuring Hoppy the Bunny, Fuzzy Bear and Atomic Mouse. Hoppy gets a job at Millie's urging, only to learn he's the getaway driver for a gang of bank robbers. Outlaw Wezzy sees a fake bank robbery as the perfect chance to rob the post office while Sheriff Oscar and Billy the Kid are distracted. Sherlock and Chuck investigate accidents at a circus, and discover a crooked mouse lion-tamer who sells insurance on the side. Hoppy: Break the Bank; Billy the Kid and Oscar: The Hoax; Willie the Worm; Atomic Mouse: Bum-bum-bum-Bomb; Sherlock the Monk and Chuck: On the Flying Trapeze; Willie the Worm; Benny Beaver and Fuzzy Bear Play a Wishing Game; Fuzzy Bear: Nuts About Doughnuts; Willie the Worm and Sammy: No Joke. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #90
    Fawcett's Funny Animals (1942-1956 Fawcett/Charlton) 90
    • Water damage.

    Stories and art by Clint Harmon and Fred Ottenheimer. Funny-animal comics from Charlton, featuring the comics incarnation of 1950s kids' TV personality The Merry Mailman. Wheezer enlists the Merry Mailman to help him get his invention, a hoverbike, to the inventors' contest. Billy the Kid suspects that Swami, the new fortune-teller in town, is up to no good. Mac Mule's nerdy nephew Percival tries to civilize Battling Bantam, the quick-tempered rooster. Plus the legends of folk hero Paul Bunyan. The Merry Mailman: Registered Male; Merry Mailman's Coloring Page; Legends of Paul Bunyon; Merry Mailman: Stretching Things; Color-Me-Up Puzzle Page; Backward Land; Billy the Kid and Oscar: Crystalizes His Punch; Willie the Worm: Willie's Song; The Fighting Fool; The Royal Seal. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.