Famous Funnies comic books issue 1

Rare. First comic book made available for public purchase via newsstand distribution. Jon Mayes cover. Contains comic strip reprints, activity pages, and a text story. In order of appearance: "Toonerville Folks" and "Little Stanley" by Fontaine Fox; "Amaze A Minute Scientifacts" by Arnold; "Little Brother" and "The Bungle Family" by Harry J. Tuthill; "Tailspin Tommy" by Glenn Chaffin and Hal Forrest; "Somebody's Stenog" and "The Back-Seat Driver" by A. E. Hayward; "Hairbreadth Harry" and "High-Gear Homer" by F. O. Alexander; "Good Deed Dotty" and "Dixie Dugan" by J. P. McEvoy and J. H. Striebel; "Mutt and Jeff" by Al Smith (as Bud Fisher); "Pam" and "Donald Dare, the Demon Reporter" by A. W. Brewerton; "Simp O' Dill" and "The Nebbs" by Sol Hess and Wallace A. Carlson; "S'matter Pop?" and "Honeybunch's Hubby" by Charles M. Payne; "Nipper" and "Footprints on the Sands of Time" by Clare Victor Dwiggins; "Connie" and "The Wet Blanket" by Frank and Harold Godwin; "Jolly Geography" and "High Lights of History" by J. Carroll Mansfield; and "Ben Webster's Page" by Jay Jerome Williams (as Edwin Alger). "Dick Whittington Went to London" text story by Jane Corby. Activity pages by A. W. Nugent. 68 pages. Full color. Cover price $0.10.

First appearances of Hydroman (art by Bill Everett), the Purple Zombie (by Tarpe Mills), and Mann of India (by Mills). Newspaper strip reprints: Reg'lar Fellers, Flyin' Jenny, Sergeant Stony Craig, Dinky Dinkerton, Don Dixon and the Hidden Empire, Bill & Davey, Daredevils of Destiny, Gordon Fife and the Boy King, and Tad of the Tanbark. Everett cover. Cover price $0.10.

Story by Phil Nowlan. Art and cover by Dick Calkins. 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. On Mars, Buddy and Alura are trapped by the forces of the Tiger Emperor, who wants their space yacht. 68 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Bill Walton. Art by Frank Frazetta and Max Elkan. Adventure tales featuring Hollywood legend Buster Crabbe, star of Flash Gordon, Buck Rogers and Tarzan serials. A profile of Buster Crabbe, who was an Olympic athlete before becoming an actor; Buster and Whiskers track a killer into the Colorado mountains and find foreign agents making atomic weapons; A classic PSA featuring early art by fantasy and comics legend Frank Frazetta. Buster Crabbe; Mysterious Mountain; Whiskers Rides Again; The Guns That Won the West; The Branding Iron; The Arrow of Death; The Sinister Cargo; Billy the Kid - a True Story of the Old West; We Can Stop the Enemies of Youth. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories by Allen Saunders. Art by Elmer Woggon. Reprints of the classic comic strip about the adventures of a two-fisted photographer. An old college chum offers Steve a dangerous job as photographer for his muckraking magazine. The history of the Steve Roper strip, which started as the very different comedy strip "Chief Wahoo". A trapper captures a python in Malaysia. Also featuring a full-page ad for Bow-Lite, the "sensational ready-made electric" light-up bowtie. ("Wow the Women! Win New Friends!") Steve Roper and Wahoo; Brain Child; Trapper. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

68 pages, full color. Cover price $0.25.

Canadian Edition. Cover price $0.35.