The Funnies comic books issue 15

Victor E. Pazmiño cover. Contains comic strip reprints, activity pages, and a text story. In order of appearance: "Napoleon" by Clifford McBride; "Flight" by W. D. Tipton and J. H. Mason; "Connie" and "The Wet Blanket" by Frank Godwin; "The Adventures of Jabby" by Tom Carlisle; "Buck Rogers" by Philip Francis Nowlan and Rick Yager (as Dick Calkins); "Above the Crowd" by Benjamin D. Allen (as Stookie Allen); "Nipper" and "Footprints on the Sands of Time" by Clare Victor Dwiggins; "Good Deed Dotty" and "Dixie Dugan" by J. P. McEvoy and J. H. Striebel; "Goofie Gags" by Victor E. Pazmiño; "Bobby" by S. M. Iger; "The Frog Pond Ferry" by M. E. Brady; "Strange as it Seems" by John Hix; "Hairbreadth Harry" by F. O. Alexander; "Simp O' Dill" and "The Nebbs" by Sol Hess and Wallace A. Carlson; "Somebody's Stenog" and "The Back-Seat Driver" by A. E. Hayward; "Jolly Geography" and "High Lights of History" by J. Carroll Mansfield; "Butty and Fatty" by M. E. Brady; "Olly of the Movies" by Julian Ollendorff; "S'matter Pop?" and "Honeybunch's Hubby" by Charles M. Payne; "Seaweed Sam" by Victor E. Pazmiño; "Flying to Fame" by John Welch and Russell Ross; "High-Gear Homer" by F. O. Alexander; "Little Brother" and "The Bungle Family" by Harry J. Tuthill; "Holly of Hollywood" and "Keeping Up With The Joneses" by Pop Mormand; "Alec and Itchy" by Jimmy George and Merle Mulholland; "Ned Brant of Carter" by Bob Zuppke and Bill W. Depew; "Fisher's History of Boxing" and "Joe Palooka" by Al Capp (as Ham Fisher); "Lena Pry" and "Jane Arden" by Monte Barrett and Jack W. McGuire; "Mescal Ike" by S. L. Huntley and Art Huhta; "Queenie" by S. M. Iger (as Bob Bliss); "Pee Wee" by S. M. Iger; "Amaze A Minute" by Arnold; "Dan Dunn" by Norman Marsh; "Vignettes of Life" by J. Norman Lynd; "Screen Oddities" by Captain Roscoe Fawcett and Bruno Thompson; "Dizzy Dramas" by Joe Bowers; "Dumb-Bells" by Charles J. Dunn (as Gar); and "Such Is Life" by Walt Munson. "Just a Flying Coward" text story by Robert M. Hyatt. Activity pages by A. W. Nugent. 68 pages. Cover price $0.10.

First appearance of Downbeat. Contains four original features accompanied by comic strip reprints, activity pages, and a text story. In order of appearance: "Hydroman" by Bill Everett; "Rainbow Boy" by Stephen Douglas and Ben Thompson; "Reg'lar Fellers" by Gene Byrnes; "The Music Master" by Stephen Douglas and Bill Everett; "Dare-devils of Destiny" by Frank Rentfrow and Don Dickson; "Man O'Metal" by H. G. Peter; and "Flyin' Jenny" by Russell Keaton. "Downhill Race" text story by Clary Thompson. Indicia states "Reg'lar Fellers Heroic Comics". 68 pages. Full color. Cover price $0.10.

Contains comic strip reprints, text articles, activity pages, and a text story. In order of appearance: "Alley Oop" by V. T. Hamlin; "Herky" by Clyde Lewis; "Dan Dunn" by Norman Marsh; "Stranger than Fiction" by Richard W. Thomas and Walter Galli; "Our Boarding House" by Gene Ahern; "Fun with a Pencil" by Walter Cole Brigham; "Freckles and his Friends" by Merrill Blosser; "Everybody's Playmate" by A. W. Nugent; "Bronc Peeler" by Fred Harman; "The Tiny Mites" by Hal Cochran and George Scarbo; "Boots" by Edgar Martin; "Don Dixon and the Hidden Empire" and "Tad of the Tanbark" by Bob Moore and Carl Pfeufer; "Curious Facts about Stamps" by I. S. Klein; "Captain Easy, Soldier of Fortune" by Roy Crane; "Ben Webster's Page" by Jay Jerome Williams (as Edwin Alger); "Scribbly" by Sheldon Mayer; "Out Our Way" by J. R. Williams; "Tailspin Tommy" and "Four Aces" by Hal Forrest; "G-Man vs. The Red X" (Big Little Book adaptation) by Dick Blair and Milt Youngren; "Home Magic" by A. W. Nugent; "Now You Tell One!" by Edward Courtney Dunkle; "Mutt and Jeff" and "Cicero's Cat" by Bud Fisher; "Reg'lar Fellers" and "Daisybelle" by Gene Byrnes; "Be a Big Leaguer" by Ed Cronin; and "Heroes' Hall of Fame" by Benjamin D. Allen (as Stookie Allen). "Sandy Ferguson, Sourdough, Part Two" text story by H. T. Sperry, illustrated by Walter Cole Brigham. 68 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Lee Sherman. Stories by unknown. Art by Lee Sherman, Herman C. Browner? and unknown. Featuring: Parade of Puzzles activity page; Bojo and Tony in "At the Zoo"; "Indian Tales"; untitled Rabbit-Son Crusoe tale; gorilla facts in "A Visit to the Zoo with Patsy and Lou"; 2-page text story "Crown for a Hero"; Detecto in "The Mystery of the Disappearing Squirrel"; chinchilla facts in "Unusual Animals"; untitled Piggly Pete tale; and an untitled The Scouts tale. 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

68 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Ed Cronin. Stories and art by Will Eisner, Rube Goldberg, Art Pinajian, Ed Wheelan, Lank Leonard, Mo Leff (credited as Ham Fisher), John Hix, Russell E. Ross, J. H. Striebel, George Brenner, Bernard Baily, Bob Zuppke, R. W. Depew, Monte Barrett, J.P. McEvoy, Charles Driscoll, H.J. Tuthill, John J. Welch, George Marcoux, Ed Reed, Al Zere, and Vernon Henkel. An early comics anthology published by Harry Chesler, featuring reprints of newspaper comic strips. Will Eisner's spy hero Black X learns that a pirate submarine is sinking American ships, in an attempt to goad the (then still neutral) US into joining WWII. Far from home, Gallant Knight Sir Neville defends a lonely castle from strange invaders. In the early Eisner strip Archie O'Toole, King Archie goes to America to seek a loan for his country, Pyromania. Plus the early strip Lala Palooza by Rube Goldberg. Joe Palooka; They're Still Talking; Jane Arden; Mickey Finn; Off the Record; Gallant Knight; Lala Palooza; Strange As It Seems; Espionage Starring Black X; The Clock Strikes; Slim and Tubby; Reynolds of the Mounted; Flossie; Toddy; Pirates Ahoy; Ned Brant; Big Top; Dixie Dugan; Bungle Family; Lena Pry; Clip Chance at Cliffside. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Golden Funnies (1973), published by DynaPubs Enterprises weekly in 1973, features rotating classic 1912-1945 newspaper strips such as The Phantom, Batman, Little Nemo, Charlie Chan, Superman, Buck Rogers, Krazy Kat, Dick Tracy, Mandrake, Bringing up Father. Included in #15 is a Superman Sunday page by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster from February 11, 1940. Newsprint, tabloid-sized 11.25-in. x 17.5-in. (standard horizontal tabloid fold not considered a defect), B&W. Cover price $0.50.

Vol 2 # 11. "The Fantom of the Fair" by Paul Gustavson; "Daredevil Barry Finn" by Tarpe Mills; "The Inner Circle"; the conclusion of "Don Dixon and the Hidden Empire" by Bob Moore and Carl Pfeufer; "Jon Linton" by Harry Francis Campbell; "Speed Centaur" by Malcolm Kildale; and a two-page text story, "Runaway Rocketship" by Lloyd Victor. Half-page Bill Everett (William Blake Everett) bio on the inside front cover. Frank Thomas cover. Cover price $0.10.

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Comic Strip Fanzine. 22 pages, B&W.

Interior reprinted from Super Cat (1957) #4. All stories but "Super Cat: Off to the Moon or Bust" originally reprinted from sources noted. In order of appearance: "Super Cat: Off to the Moon or Bust!"; "Magic for Myrtle" art by Al Fago from Frisky Fables Vol. 2 (1946) #9; "Targetoons" by Milt Hammer from Target Comics Vol. 09 (1948) #4; "Diggy the Derrick" art by Chuck Winter from Frisky Fables Vol. 3 (1947) #8; "Targetoons" by Milt Hammer from Target Comics Vol. 09 (1948) #6; and "Cows and Cats and Crackerjacks" from Frisky Fables Vol. 4 (1948) #3. "Jasper gets Spring Fever" text story from Frisky Fables Vol. 3 (1947) #3. 36 pages. Full color. Cover price $0.12.

24 pages, partial color Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Terry Gilkison. Stories and art by Will Eisner, Jack Cole, Paul Gustavson, Terry Gilkison, George Filchock, Al Hopkins, Pat Allen, Martin Filchock, Fred Schwab, Maurice Kashuba, Will Harr, and Maurice Gutwirth. Centaur publishes the final run of Star Ranger, one of the very first Western comics. Short Western strips, sometimes just one to three pages, with titles like Wild West Junior and Cowboy Jake. Historical and educational strips, including comics biographies of Frank James, "Wild Bill" Hickock, Bob Dalton, William Tilghman and Kit Carson. In the early days of the frontier, the mysterious scout known as The Ermine emerges from the woods to help a pioneer family. A lawman sets a trap for a criminal running a phony tax scheme on homesteaders, in a very early story by comics legend Will Eisner. An early humor strip by comics legend Jack Cole, creator of Plastic Man. True WesterNotes; Home in the Ozarks; Tenderfoot Joe; Tenderfoot Mary; Wild West Junior; The Ermine; Rangeography!; 'Wild Tex' Martin; Cowboy Jake; Lyin' Lou; The Plugged Dummy; The Riddle Roundup!; Sunset; The Rodeo Rope Rescue; How to Draw Comic Cowgals; One Buck and Two Bits; Famous Frontiersmen; Crime Doesn't Pay; Daffy-Dills; Jess Phoolin; Slim Pickens; Spurs; Red Coat; Two Buckaroos; Trouble Hunters; Medicine Man. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.