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Famous Funnies comic books issue 3

  • Issue #3
    Famous Funnies (1934) 3
    • Restored (see item notes)
    • RESTORATION. Spine split seal. Damage/some splitting to interior spine.
    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.
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    Rare. First comic book appearance of Buck Rogers. Victor E. PazmiƱo cover. Contains comic strip reprints, activity pages, and a text story. In order of appearance: "Strange as it Seems" by John Hix; "Fisher's Foolish Fiction" and "Joe Palooka" by Al Capp (as Ham Fisher); "The Frog Pond Ferry" and "Buttons and Fatty" by M. E. Brady; "Good Deed Dotty" and "Dixie Dugan" by J. P. McEvoy and J. H. Striebel; "Little Brother" and "The Bungle Family" by Harry J. Tuthill; "Ned Brant at Carter" by Bob Zuppke and Bill W. Depew; "Nipper" and "Footprints on the Sands of Time" by Clare Victor Dwiggins; "Napoleon" by Clifford McBride; "Hairbreadth Harry" and "High-Gear Homer" by F. O. Alexander; "Mutt and Jeff" by Al Smith (as Bud Fisher); "Jolly Geography" and "High Lights of History" by J. Carroll Mansfield; "Vignettes of Life" by J. Norman Lynd; "Ben Webster's Page" by Jay Jerome Williams (as Edwin Alger); "The Adventures of Jabby" by Tom Carlisle; "Alec and Itchy" by Jimmy George and Merle Mulholland; "Holly of Hollywood" and "Keeping Up With The Joneses" by Pop Mormand; "Fisher's Foolish Fables" by Al Capp (as Ham Fisher); "Dip and Duck" by M. E. Brady; "Somebody's Stenog" and "The Back-Seat Driver" by A. E. Hayward; "S'matter Pop?" and "Honeybunch's Hubby" by Charles M. Payne; "Simp O' Dill" and "The Nebbs" by Sol Hess and Wallace A. Carlson; "Connie" and "The Wet Blanket" by Frank Godwin; "Fisher's History of Boxing" by Al Capp (as Ham Fisher); "Buck Rogers" by Philip Francis Nowlan and Rick Yager (as Dick Calkins); "Lena Pry" and "Jane Arden" by Monte Barrett and Jack W. McGuire; "Fisher's Looney Legends" by Al Capp (as Ham Fisher); and "Flying to Fame or Slim and Tubby" by John Welch and Russell Ross. "The Hidden Vault in City Hall" text story by Ralph Daigh. Activity pages by A. W. Nugent. 68 pages. Full color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #3
    Heroic Comics (1940 Famous Funnies) 3

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    Bill Everett cover. Contains three original features accompanied by comic strip reprints, activity pages, and a text story. In order of appearance: "Hydroman" by Bill Everett; "Reg'lar Fellers" by Gene Byrnes; "Flyin' Jenny" by Russell Keaton; "Star Flashes" by Charles Bruno; "The Purple Zombie" by Tarpe Mills; "Sergeant Stoney Craig" by Frank Rentfrow and Don Dickson; "Dinky Dinkerton" by Art Huhta (as Jim Wallace); "Don Dixon and the Hidden Empire" by Bob Moore and Carl Pfeufer; "Mann of India" by Tarpe Mills; "Bill and Davey" by James P. McCague; "Dare-devils of Destiny" by Frank Rentfrow and Don Dickson; "Gordon Fife and the Boy King" by Bob Moore and Jim Hales; "Amaze A Minute" by Arnold; "Tad of the Tanbark" by Bob Moore and Carl Pfeufer; and "Kitty Moran and her Hound" and "Idioddities" by Jack Romer. "Looking for Trouble" text story by E. Albert Willard, illustrated by Everett. Indicia states "Reg'lar Fellers Heroic Comics". 68 pages. Full color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #3
    Buck Rogers (1940 Famous Funnies) 3

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    Story by Phil Nowlan and Russell Keaton. Art by Dick Calkins and Russell Keaton. 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 prevent the Martian invasion of Earth. Also, airborne adventure with the aviation strip Skyroads. Buck Rogers; Skyroads. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #3
    Buster Crabbe (1951 Famous Funnies) 3

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    Cover by George Evans. Art by Allen Ulmer, Bob Powell, Howard Nostrand, Jack Farr, H. G. Peter, Harold LeDoux, Al Williamson and George Evans. Adventure tales featuring Hollywood legend Buster Crabbe, star of Flash Gordon, Buck Rogers and Tarzan serials. Buster and Whiskers face the mysterious Ogre, in a story with art by EC legends Al Williamson and George Evans; Sidekick Whiskers has a solo adventure, with art by Bob Powell. Also featuring cover art by EC legend George Evans. Black Bart; Buster Crabbe and the Mankiller; The Ogre; Whiskers and the Ghoul Gang; Homer on the Range; The Story of Rawhide in the West; The Showdown; Whisker's Nag. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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    $70 Buster Crabbe # 3 GOOD VERY GOOD 1952 See creator names below

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  • Issue #3
    Steve Roper (1948 Famous Funnies) 3

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