Auctions: comic books published by Famous Funnies

Buck Rogers (1940 Famous Funnies) 6 GD- 1.8 (R)

Restored (see item notes)

RESTORATION. Piece-fill. 1" Spine split from bottom. Cover detached at single center staple. Tape on interior cover and pages.

Story by Phil Nowlan. Art by Dick Calkins. Cover by Stephen A. Douglas. Reprints of the early comic strip that defined "science fiction" for an entire generation. Collects the Buck Rogers Sunday strips (with a different storyline than the daily strip), following the adventures of Buddy Deering, younger brother of Buck's compadre Wilma Deering. Buck and Wilma join forces with Buddy and Alura to make a last stand on Earth against the invading Martian armies. Final issue of the series; Buck Rogers reprints continued in Famous Funnies (1934). 60 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Buster Crabbe (1951 Famous Funnies) 7 GD- 1.8

Cover detached.

Cover by Mike Roy. Stories and art by Robert Peterson, Mike Roy, Jerry Fasano, Jack Farr, Harold LeDoux, Jack Berrill and Frank Frazetta. Adventure tales featuring Hollywood legend Buster Crabbe, star of Flash Gordon, Buck Rogers and Tarzan serials. Buster and Whiskers track Madman Madden into the untamed wilds of Peru. A classic religious PSA featuring early art by fantasy and comics legend Frank Frazetta. A vintage ad for Lionel Trains and a Boy Scouts PSA on voting. Jivaro Headhunters; Whiskers and the Dead Detective; Homer on the Range; They Struck It Rich; Hey! Get Your Folks to Vote; The Counterfeit Plot; Prayer Works Wonders; Gold Rush Gus. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Famous Funnies (1934) 36 CGC 4.5 Qualified

Paper: Slightly britle

Page 5, 6, 8, 9 missing.

Label #4491105022

Victor E. Pazmiño cover. Contains comic strip reprints, activity pages, and a text story. In order of appearance: "Screen Oddities" by Captain Roscoe Fawcett and Bruno Thompson; "Napoleon" by Clifford McBride; "Goofie Gags" by Victor E. Pazmiño; "Alec and Itchy" by Jimmy George and Merle Mulholland; "War on Crime" by Rex Collier and Hammon; "Nipper" by Clare Victor Dwiggins; "Skyroads" by Dick Calkins and Russell Keaton; "Queenie" by S. M. Iger (as Bob Bliss); "Hairbreadth Harry" and "High-Gear Homer" by F. O. Alexander; "Nippie" and "Mickey Finn" by Frank E. Leonard (as Lank Leonard); "Fisher's History of Boxing" and "Joe Palooka" by Al Capp (as Ham Fisher); "Dickie Dare" by Milton Caniff; "Beau Geste" by P. C. Wren and Bill W. Depew; "Scorchy Smith" by Noel Sickles; "Adventures of Patsy" by Mel Graff; "Good Deed Dotty" and "Dixie Dugan" by J. P. McEvoy and J. H. Striebel; "The Frog Pond Ferry" by M. E. Brady; "Holly of Hollywood" and "Keeping Up With The Joneses" by Pop Momand; "Above the Crowd" by Benjamin D. Allen (as Stookie Allen); "Little Brother" and "The Bungle Family" by Harry J. Tuthill; "Ned Brant of Carter" by Bob Zuppke and Bill W. Depew; "Oaky Doaks" by Ralph Briggs Fuller; "Jolly Geography" and "High Lights of History" by J. Carroll Mansfield; "Olly of the Movies" by Julian Ollendorff; "Connie" and "The Wet Blanket" by Frank Godwin; "Bobby" by S. M. Iger; "Somebody's Stenog" and "The Back-Seat Driver" by A. E. Hayward; "Mescal Ike" by S. L. Huntley and Art Huhta; "Lena Pry" and "Jane Arden" by Monte Barrett and Jack W. McGuire; "Butty and Fatty" by M. E. Brady; "Flight" by W. D. Tipton and J. H. Mason; "Babe Bunting" by Roy L. Williams; "Strange as it Seems" by John Hix; "Toddy" by George Marcoux; "Homer Hoopee" by Fred Locher; "The Gay Thirties" by Hank Barrow; "Seaweed Sam" by Victor E. Pazmiño; and "Buck Rogers" by Philip Francis Nowlan and Rick Yager (as Dick Calkins). "Powder for the Fleet" text story by Ruth Colby. Activity pages by A. W. Nugent. 68 pages. Full color. Cover price $0.10.

Famous Funnies (1934) 76 GD/VG 3.0

Bill Everett art accompanies text story. Contains comic strip reprints, activity pages, and a text story. In order of appearance: "The Gay Thirties" by Hank Barrow; "Goofie Gags" by Victor E. Pazmiño; "Above the Crowd" by Benjamin D. Allen (as Stookie Allen); "Roy Powers, Eagle Scout" by Paul Powell; "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; "Buck Rogers" by Philip Francis Nowlan and Rick Yager (as Dick Calkins); "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; "Napoleon" by Clifford McBride; "Big Chief Wahoo" by Allen Saunders and Elmer Woggon; "Spunky Dory" 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); "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; "There's A Town" by M. E. Brady; and "Homer Hoopee" by Fred Locher. "While the Radio Played" text story by F. S. Saunders. Activity pages by A. W. Nugent. 68 pages. Full color. Cover price $0.10.

Famous Funnies (1934) 189 CGC 9.4

Paper: Cream to off white

Label #1995877016

Stories and art by Lawrence Lariar, John Spranger, Allen Saunders, Elmer Woggon, Clifford McBride, Philip Francis Nowlan, Rick Yager (credited as Dick Calkins), Clark Haas, Albert Willard, Rodlow Willard, Mabel Burwick (credited as Odin), Martha B. Links, and Ralph Briggs Fuller. The long-running series that introduced "comic books" to the world, featuring reprints of comic strips. Ben Friday and pals escape from the Baron's trap, but they must find a way to get off the island so they can stop him. Kit Karson schemes to keep hunky Sonny Brawnski at her estate. A boat, an underwater camera, and a captain's lovely daughter spell adventure for Dickie Dare. Ben Friday; Steve Roper and Wahoo; Napoleon; Buck Rogers; Scorchy Smith; An Unexpected Present; Dickie Dare; Bobby Sox; Yipee; Oaky Doaks. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Heroic Comics (1940 Famous Funnies) 25 CGC 4.0

Paper: Off white

Label #4481630002

Cover by H.C. Kiefer. Stories and art by Allen Ulmer, Harry G. Peter, Frank Wead, Russell Keaton and Stephen Douglas. Superhero comics from Famous Funnies, featuring some of the stranger heroes of the Golden Age. Hydroman and Rainbow Boy track down the Phantom Pirate who is attacking ships on the eastern seaboard; A PSA for wartime scrap-metal drives featuring Hydroman; Music Master battles The Lama Who Had No Face. Music Master and Man o' Metal were listed in Jon Morris's 2015 book The League of Regrettable Superheroes; this was the final appearance of Rainbow Boy until his revival in the 2000s. True Stories of War Heroes; Hydroman; The Music Master; He Changed Their Plans; Man O' Metal; Ammunition for Victory; Flyin' Jenny. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Heroic Comics (1940 Famous Funnies) 27 VG/FN 5.0

Water spotting.

Stories and art by Alfonso Greene, Ed Murphy, Frank Wead, Russell Keaton and Stephen Douglas. Superhero comics from Famous Funnies, featuring some of the stranger heroes of the Golden Age. Man o' Metal investigates trouble in Oil Country; Hydroman advocates saving paper, in a PSA for wartime scrap drives; Flyin' Jenny competes with Spinner to win a Navy contract. Man o' Metal was listed in Jon Morris's 2015 book The League of Regrettable Superheroes. True Stories of War Heroes; Hydroman; Waste Paper Goes to War!; Man O' Metal; I'm Sorry I Invented the Pocket!; Flyin' Jenny. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.