Famous Funnies comic books issue 23

Contains comic strip reprints, activity pages, and a text story. In order of appearance: "Goofie Gags" by Victor E. Pazmiño; "The Nut Brothers" and "Our Boarding House" by Gene Ahern; "The Nebbs" by Sol Hess and Wallace A. Carlson; "Above the Crowd" by Benjamin D. Allen (as Stookie Allen); "Captain Easy" by Roy Crane; "Alley Oop" by V. T. Hamlin; "The Adventures of Jabby" by Tom Carlisle; "Otto Honk" by Bela Zaboly; "Out Our Way" by J. R. Williams; "Boots" by Edgar Martin; "Hairbreadth Harry" by F. O. Alexander; "Buck Rogers" by Philip Francis Nowlan and Rick Yager (as Dick Calkins); "Such Is Life" by Walt Munson; "Dumb-Bells" by Charles J. Dunn (as Gar); "Napoleon" by Clifford McBride; "Herky" by Clyde Lewis; "Flying to Fame" by John Welch and Russell Ross; "Bobby" by S. M. Iger; "Nipper" and "Footprints on the Sands of Time" by Clare Victor Dwiggins; "Dan Dunn" by Norman Marsh; "This Curious World" by William Ferguson;"Freckles and his Friends" by Merrill Blosser; "Jolly Geography" and "High Lights of History" by J. Carroll Mansfield; "Screen Oddities" by Captain Roscoe Fawcett and Bruno Thompson; "Ned Brant of Carter" by Bob Zuppke and Bill W. Depew; "Flapper Fanny" by Gladys Parker; "Salesman Sam" by C. D. Small; "Alec and Itchy" by Jimmy George and Merle Mulholland; "The Frog Pond Ferry" by M. E. Brady; "Seaweed Sam" by Victor E. Pazmiño; "Olly of the Movies" by Julian Ollendorff; "Babe Bunting" by Roy L. Williams; "Amaze A Minute" by Arnold; "Queenie" by S. M. Iger (as Bob Bliss); "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; "Apple Mary" by Martha Orr; "Fisher's History of Boxing" and "Joe Palooka" by Al Capp (as Ham Fisher); and "Strange as it Seems" by John Hix. "A Vacation at Spooks House" text story by Robert M. Hyatt. Activity pages by A. W. Nugent. 68 pages. Full color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by H.C. Kiefer. Stories and art by Jimmy Thompson, H.C. Kiefer, Harry G. Peter, Charles G. Loeb, 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 strange hauntings in a coal mine and discovers diamonds; A PSA for wartime scrap-metal drives featuring The Music Master; Music Master learns the Nazis are testing a secret sonic weapon. Music Master and Man o' Metal were listed in Jon Morris's 2015 book The League of Regrettable Superheroes. True Stories of War Heroes; Hydroman; The Music Master; Warrior in Underwear; Man O' Metal; I Faced a One-Man Firing Squad; Destination: Death; Flyin' Jenny. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.