Famous Funnies comic books issue 20

Contains comic strip reprints, activity pages, and a text story. In order of appearance: "Butty and Fatty" by M. E. Brady; "Goofie Gags" by Victor E. Pazmiño; "Fisher's History of Boxing" and "Joe Palooka" by Al Capp (as Ham Fisher); "The Adventures of Jabby" by Tom Carlisle; "Otto Honk" by Bela Zaboly; "Out Our Way" by J. R. Williams; "Alley Oop" by V. T. Hamlin; "Nipper" and "Footprints on the Sands of Time" by Clare Victor Dwiggins; "Captain Easy" by Roy Crane; "Herky" by Clyde Lewis; "Seaweed Sam" by Victor E. Pazmiño; "The Frog Pond Ferry" by M. E. Brady; "Hairbreadth Harry" and "High-Gear Homer" by F. O. Alexander; "Buck Rogers" by Philip Francis Nowlan and Rick Yager (as Dick Calkins); "Simp O' Dill" and "The Nebbs" by Sol Hess and Wallace A. Carlson; "Boots" by Edgar Martin; "Jolly Geography" and "High Lights of History" by J. Carroll Mansfield; "Above the Crowd" by Benjamin D. Allen (as Stookie Allen); "Babe Bunting" by Roy L. Williams; "Apple Mary" by Martha Orr; "Napoleon" by Clifford McBride; "S'matter Pop?" and "Honeybunch's Hubby" by Charles M. Payne; "The Nut Brothers" and "Our Boarding House" by Gene Ahern; "This Curious World" by William Ferguson; "Freckles and his Friends" by Merrill Blosser; "Somebody's Stenog" and "The Back-Seat Driver" by A. E. Hayward; "Flying to Fame" by John Welch and Russell Ross; "Mescal Ike" by S. L. Huntley and Art Huhta; "Olly of the Movies" by Julian Ollendorff; "Flight" by W. D. Tipton and J. H. Mason; "Ned Brant of Carter" by Bob Zuppke and Bill W. Depew; "Flapper Fanny" by Gladys Parker; "Salesman Sam" by C. D. Small; "Holly of Hollywood" and "Keeping Up With The Joneses" by Pop Momand; "Strange as it Seems" and "The John Hix Scrap Book" by John Hix; "Happy Daze" and "Pee Wee" by S. M. Iger; "Such Is Life" by Walt Munson; "Dumb-Bells" by Charles J. Dunn (as Gar); "Dizzy Dramas" by Joe Bowers; "Dan Dunn" by Norman Marsh; "Little Brother" and "The Bungle Family" by Harry J. Tuthill; "Screen Oddities" by Captain Roscoe Fawcett and Bruno Thompson; "Good Deed Dotty" and "Dixie Dugan" by J. P. McEvoy and J. H. Striebel; and "Amaze A Minute" by Arnold. "King Joko Comes Clean" text story by Armand Serent. Activity pages by A. W. Nugent. 68 pages. Full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by H.C. Kiefer. Stories and art by Stephen Douglas, Alexander Kostuk, H.C. Kiefer, Harry G. Peter, Russell Keaton and Bill Everett. Superhero comics from Famous Funnies, featuring some of the stranger heroes of the Golden Age. Man o' Metal investigates when a movie star is targeted by deadly accidents on the set; Hydroman tracks Nazi spies to a strange house by the sea; A foghorn provides Music Master with the power he needs to halt a sabotaged ship. Brutal but vibrant cover by H.C. Kiefer. Rainbow Boy, Music Master and Man o' Metal were all listed in Jon Morris's 2015 book The League of Regrettable Superheroes. True Stories of War Heroes; Hydroman; The Music Master; Rainbow Boy; The Sea Is Deep; Man O' Metal; You Can't Kill Him; Flyin' Jenny. 68 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.