Fawcett's Funny Animals (1942-1956 Fawcett/Charlton) comic books 1954-1956

Cover by Al Fago. Stories and art by Al Fago and others. Funny-animal comics from Charlton, featuring Hoppy the Bunny, Bobby Bantam and Kenny Kangaroo. Charlton takes over publishing of Funny Animals with this issue. Hoppy finds trouble everywhere when his tooth fillings start picking up random radio signals. After an errant Earth rocket angers Mars, the God of War, Atomic Mouse must step in. Willie the Worm and Sammy the Skunk enter a skiing contest, and it's all downhill from there. Fuzzy the Bear Rides the Roller Coaster; Hoppy the Marvel Bunny: Tooth Trouble; Atomic Mouse; Bucky's Sour Hour; Benny Beaver and Fuzzy Bear and Captain Blight; Leon the Lyin' Lion; Willie the Worm: A Rolling Snowball Gathers, Etc??; Kenny Kangaroo; Buzzy Bee. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Al Fago. Stories and art by Al Fago and others. Funny-animal comics from Charlton, featuring Hoppy the Bunny, Bobby Bantam and Kenny Kangaroo. Millie wants to go sailing on their picnic, but Hoppy's not so good with boats. Count Gatto plans to kick the orphans out unless Atomic Mouse can make enough money with his magic show. Monkey detective Sherlock the Monk goes after a crooked firefighter, and the fire jokes are spreading everywhere. Buzzy Bee; Hoppy: Its No Picnic; Atomic Mouse; Noahs Lark; Sherlock the Monk and Chuck: Fire, Fire!; Leon the Lyin Lion: Youth Said It, Kid; Hoppy: Fifty-Fifty. 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 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.

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.

Cover by Al Fago. 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. In Africa, The Merry Mailman gets a temporary promotion to King of the Jungle. Wheezer decides he wants to become a mailman, but does he have what it takes to be a Merry Mailman? Sherlock the Monk and Chuck investigate the mystery of the bent nails, and wind up tied to beds of nails by a crazed carpenter. Plus the legends of folk hero Paul Bunyan. The Merry Mailman: Extra Special Delivery; Merry Mailman's Coloring Page; Bart Beaver's Mistake; Merry Mailman and Wheezer in Australia; Legends of Paul Bunyon; Color-Me-Up Puzzle Page; The Merry Mailman in Africa; Oscar's Song; Here'n There; Willie the Worm; Sherlock the Monk and Chuck Nail a Thief. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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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.

Cover by Chad Grothkopf. Stories and art by Chad Grothkopf and others. Funny-animal comics from Charlton. Quick Quack convinces Hoppy to box Biff Bulldog to win the money to take Millie to the dance. Someone leaves an orphan chick on Bobby Bantam's doorstep, and his long rivalry with mischievous "nephew" Beep is begun. Sherlock the Monk and Chuck investigate who has been crushing all the nuts in Joe the Squirrel's Nut Store. Fun locomotive cover by Chad Grothkopf. Hoppy the Marvel Bunny: The Winner; Bobby Bantam: Good Feud; Robert Rabbit's Robot; Kid Gloves: A Moving Tale!; Sherlock the Monk and Chuck: Nutcrackers; Benny Beaver and Fuzzy Bear: and the Tyrant of the Seas; Dog Daze. Final issue under this title; series continues as Lil Tomboy (1956) #92. Charlton briefly revived the series in 1984, almost thirty years later. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.