Digital Comic Museum - Famous Funnies 052 (no BR)


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1938, 64 of 68p, BR removed

Issue: #52
Published: November 1938, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 68, Editing: Stephen Douglas
Color: Color Dimensions: Earlier Issues Standard Golden Age U. S.; Later Issues Standard Silver Age U.S. Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Notes: Much of the content of this comic consists of newspaper strip reprints, either Sunday or daily pages, reformatted to fit the comic book page. The dates of publication of these strips have been removed from the originals. On sale date from the previous issue's “Let's Get into a Huddle” page.

Comic Contents:

Cover (1 page)
Genre:	Humor
Characters:	Sam Smithers

Illustration (1 page)
Genre:	Humor Western-frontier
Characters:	Mescal Ike Pa Piffle Young 'Un

Comic Story (1 page)
Synopsis:	Two daily strips: Jitter sees a rattlesnake in the zoo and is later spooked by toothpaste coming out of a tube as a child plays with a rattle. Jitter has the family dog lick the dinner dishes clean.
Genre:	Humor Animal
Characters:	Jitter (chimp)

Cartoon (1 page)
Genre:	Humor

Cartoon (1 page)
Genre:	Humor
Characters:	Alvin

Comic Story (4 pages)
Credits:	Script: Paul Powell (credited)
Genre:	Adventure Teen
Characters:	Roy Powers Uncle Bob Tommy Glover

Text Article (1 page)
Featuring:	Let's Get Into a Huddle
Credits:	Script: Stephen Douglas \| Pencils: Stephen Douglas \| Inks: Stephen Douglas \| Letters: typeset

Comic Story (4 pages)
Credits:	Script: Philip Francis Nowlan \| Pencils: Rick Yager [as Dick Calkins] (signed) \| Inks: Rick Yager [as Dick Calkins] (signed)
Genre:	Science Fiction
Characters:	Anthony "Buck" Rogers Killer Kane Princess Ardala Dr. Elias Huer

Cartoon (0 pages)
Featuring:	Such is Life
Synopsis:	Goofy says he wasn't blowing a hockey player a "razzberry" (aka Bronx Cheer), he just has a cold and was blowing his nose.
Genre:	Humor
Characters:	Goofy Saunders

Cartoon (0 pages)
Featuring:	Dumb-Bells
Genre:	Humor

Comic Story (0 pages)
Featuring:	Dizzy Dramas
Synopsis:	A woman breaks a 5,000 year old vase at a museum and tells the guard "you're lucky it wuzn't bran' new."
Genre:	Humor

Comic Story (4 pages)
Synopsis:	Bull and Hurricane chase the kidnapper, Silky Sims, while Jerry and Gilly talk about airplanes.
Genre:	Adventure Aviation
Characters:	Bull Benham Hurricane Hawk The Pima Kid Silky Sims Puma Little Jerry Gilly

Comic Story (1 page)
Synopsis:	Marooned on an island with crocodiles.
Genre:	Adventure Humor
Characters:	Harry Hollingsworth Belinda Blinks

Comic Story (0 pages)
Genre:	Humor
Characters:	High-Gear Homer

Comic Story (1 page)
Genre:	Humor

Comic Story (2 pages)
Featuring:	War on Crime
Credits:	Script: Rex Collier (credited)
Genre:	Crime
Characters:	Agent Baker Dr. S. M. Hibbard Agent Applegate Agent Suhay

Comic Story (1 page)
Genre:	Humor Animal
Characters:	Jitter

Comic Story (1 page)
Genre:	Humor
Characters:	Big Chief Wahoo Pigtails Mrs. Upsnoot

Comic Story (4 pages)
Synopsis:	Dan and Dickie sail back to America and are sent by Dickie's father out to New Mexico to track down a new mystery.
Genre:	Adventure Children
Characters:	Dickie Dare Dan Flynn Wags (dog) John Barrington Richard Dare Mrs. Dare Smutty

Comic Story (2 pages)
Genre:	Adventure Children
Characters:	Patsy Cardigan Miss Ginny Uncle Phil Cardigan Thimble

Comic Story (1 page)	Theodora--Her Girlhood
Genre:	Biography History
Characters:	Empress Theodora

Comic Story (0 pages)
Featuring:	Boys and Girls the World Over
Synopsis:	Information on Guatemala.
Genre:	Non-fiction

Comic Story (0 pages)
Featuring:	Would You Believe It?
Genre:	Non-fiction

Activity (1 page)
Featuring:	Funland
Synopsis:	Seven different panels, each with an activity or puzzle.
Credits:	Script: A. W. Nugent \| Pencils: A. W. Nugent

Comic Story (1 page)
Genre:	Humor Animal
Characters:	Napoleon Uncle Elby Joe Ballot

Comic Story (0 pages)
Featuring:	Animals in the News
Genre:	Humor Anthropomorphic-funny Animals

Comic Story (1 page)
Featuring:	Frog Pond Ferry
Genre:	Humor Anthropomorphic-funny Animals
Characters:	The Skipper Gink Goat

Comic Story (1 page)
Genre:	Humor Animal
Characters:	Napoleon Uncle Elby

Comic Story (0 pages)	Cat O' 9 Lives
Genre:	Humor Anthropomorphic-funny Animals

Comic Story (1 page)
Featuring:	Frog Pond Ferry
Genre:	Humor Anthropomorphic-funny Animals
Characters:	The Skipper Barkley

Comic Story (4 pages)
Synopsis:	Sergei Shadows makes his living haunting castles. Then Oaky is summoned back to Maple Island to fight a giant.
Genre:	Adventure Humor Historical
Characters:	Sir Oaky Doaks King Cedric Sergei Shadows The Giant

Comic Story (1 page)
Featuring:	Seaweed Sam the Rhyming Rover
Genre:	Humor
Characters:	Seaweed Sam Jibsail Jerry

Comic Story (1 page)
Genre:	Humor
Characters:	Big Chief Wahoo Pigtails Mrs. Upsnoot

Comic Story (2 pages)
Synopsis:	Two schemers try to convince Olly they've kidnapped Buddy.
Genre:	Adventure
Characters:	Olive Lane Buddy Lane Jum Bill

Comic Story (2 pages)
Synopsis:	The adventure over, Scorchy takes his reward money and goes to buy his own plane.
Genre:	Adventure Aviation
Characters:	Scorchy Smith Jay Tanta Armara Randolph General Armara Himmelstoff Mr. Treling Schmidt

Comic Story (1 page)
Genre:	Humor
Characters:	Sam Smithers Cam O’Flage

Comic Story (0 pages)
Synopsis:	from Somebody's Stenog Sunday (The Ledger Syndicate)
Genre:	Humor
Characters:	John Smith Mrs. Smith [both Unnamed Here]

Comic Story (1 page)
Synopsis:	Biography of 19th century photographer W.H. Jackson.
Genre:	Non-fiction
Characters:	W.H. Jackson

Comic Story (1 page)
Genre:	Humor Western-frontier
Characters:	Mescal Ike Pa Piffle Miss Sally Young Bates

Activity (1 page)	Magic Made Easy
Credits:	Pencils: Stephen Douglas ? \| Inks: Stephen Douglas ? \| Letters: typeset

Comic Story (1 page)
Genre:	Humor Animal
Characters:	Napoleon Willie

Cartoon (1 page)
Genre:	Humor Non-fiction

Comic Story (2 pages)
Synopsis:	Mrs. Bunting gets a job on a showbozt.
Genre:	Drama Children
Characters:	Dorothy "Babe" Bunting Mrs. Bunting Captain Lucifer Mulberry Benjy

Comic Story (1 page)
Credits:	Script: Fred Balk (signed) \| Pencils: Fred Balk (signed) \| Inks: Fred Balk (signed)
Genre:	Humor Children

Comic Story (1 page)
Genre:	Humor
Characters:	Connie Kurridge Mr. Kurridge Johnny

Comic Story (0 pages)
Genre:	Humor
Characters:	Ted

Comic Story (1 page)
Genre:	Humor

Comic Story (1 page)
Featuring:	Queenie
Genre:	Humor Children
Characters:	Queenie Aunt Prunella Jitters

Text Story (2 pages)	The Ghost of Devil Key
Credits:	Script: Connye M. Hyatt (credited) \| Letters: typeset
Genre:	Adventure
Characters:	Janey Anne

Comic Story (2 pages)
Synopsis:	Homer is searching for buried treasure - but only under duress.
Genre:	Adventure
Characters:	Homer Hoopee Pasquale Obregado

Activity (0 pages)
Featuring:	Artistic Artie
Genre:	Humor
Characters:	Artistic Artie

Comic Story (1 page)
Featuring:	Butty and Fatty
Genre:	Humor Children
Characters:	Butty Fatty Spunky Dory

Comic Story (1 page)
Genre:	Humor Animal
Characters:	Napoleon Uncle Elby

Comic Story (1 page)
Genre:	Humor Animal
Characters:	Jitter

Text Article (1 page)
Featuring:	Pen Pal Page
Synopsis:	List of pen pals for readers to correspond with.
Credits:	Pencils: Stephen Douglas \| Inks: Stephen Douglas \| Letters: typeset

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