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Issue: Famous Funnies #39 Public Domain
Publication Date: October 1937
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Issues: #39 of 218 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: [no rating]
Publisher: FlagEastern Color
Brand: object(PgSql\Result)#3 (0) { }
Indicia Publisher: Famous Funnies Inc.
On Sale Date: 09/15/1937
Volume: none
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 52 (37 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Much of the content of this comic consists of newspaper strip reprints, either Sunday pages in their original format or five daily strips to the page. The dates of publication of these strips have, in practically all cases, been removed.

On sale date from the previous issue's “Let's Get into a Huddle” page.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
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
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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Sam Smithers
Character(s): Sam Smithers
First Line: That'll keep 'em from getting a goal!
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Genres: humorous, nature
Feature(s): Napoleon
Character(s): Napoleon
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Genres: humorous, nature
Character(s): Napoleon; Uncle Elby
First Line: Ah, yes, a riding habit!
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Reprint Notes: from Napoleon Sunday (Lafave Newspaper Features)
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Genres: humorous
First Line: Hey, Mom, let's have our eggs scrambled today, huh?
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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Dizzy Dramas
First Line: A penny for your thoughts
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Reprint Notes: from Dizzy Dramas daily (The Ledger Syndicate)
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Such Is Life
First Line: You shouldn't have worn that air cushion!
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Reprint Notes: from Such is Life daily (The Ledger Syndicate)
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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Dumb-Bells
First Line: There's a mouse in the milk pail!
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Genres: teen
Character(s): Roy Powers; Chunky; Rocky; Jack Stuart
First Line: I've got a plan! See that tree? That's where I'm heading!
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They're Off!

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Genres: non-fiction
Feature(s): Screen Odditiies
Character(s): Claire Dodd; Peter Lorre; Henry Hathaway; Dick Arlen
First Line: Claire Dodd has a great liking for gloves.
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Genres: adventure, aviation
Character(s): Hurricane Hawk; Skid; Little Jerry; Professor Gory; Dagmar Collingway
First Line: Where'd you learn to be so doggone acrobatic?
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Reprint Notes: from Skyroads daily (John F. Dille Co.)
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Genres: adventure
Character(s): Harry Hollingsworth; Rudolph Rassendale (villain); Belinda Blinks
First Line: Get set for a tumble, you two!
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Reprint Notes: from Hairbreadth Harry Sunday (The Ledger Syndicate)
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Genres: humorous
Character(s): High-Gear Homer
First Line: Madam - I have here a very remarkable book -
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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Buddy Deering; Princess Alura
First Line: Buddy, Alura, Wilma, the Kaddockians and I had no sooner reached the surface when we learned of the approach of a gigantic war-machine.
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Reprint Notes: from Buck Rogers Sunday (John F. Dille Co.) xxxx-xx-xx - xxxx-xx-xx
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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Life's Like That
First Line: I'll give you a dollar if you fix it...
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Genres: crime
Feature(s): War on Crime
Character(s): Alvin Karpis; J. Edgar Hoover
First Line: How d'ya like that, Harry?
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Reprint Notes: from War on Crime daily (The Ledger Syndicate) xxxx-xx-xx - xxxx-xx-xx
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Genres: adventure
Character(s): Dickie Dare; Lily; Dan Flynn; Wags; Walla-Walla
First Line: Take that rat-face!
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Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Adventures of Patsy
Character(s): Patsy; The Phantom Magician [Phil Cardigan]; Thimble; Queen Sylvia; Kogg
First Line: Just press this first button and they'll do whatever you say!
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Reprint Notes: from Adventures of Patsy daily (Associated Press)
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The End of Alexander

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Genres: historical
Character(s): Alexander the Great
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Genres: humorous, nature
Character(s): Uncle Elby; Napoleon
First Line: You say my dog is acting peculiarly...
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Reprint Notes: from Napoleon Sunday (Lafave Newspaper Features)
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Football Proves a Breath-Taking Game

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Genres: childrens, humorous
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Reprint Notes: from The Gay Thirties daily (Associated Press)
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Trader Horn

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Genres: non-fiction
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Genres: anthropomorphic, humorous
Feature(s): Animals in the News
First Line: Dog charged with biting boy is arrested...
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Genres: anthropomorphic, humorous
Feature(s): The Frog Pond Ferry
Character(s): The Skipper; Artie Ant
First Line: That little hard working Artie Ant...
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Genres: historical, humorous
Character(s): Sir Oaky Doaks; King Cedric; Empress Sheela
First Line: Oaky, I think I'm losing my mind!
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Reprint Notes: from Oaky Doaks daily (Associated Press)

1935-11-27 - 1935-11-30;
1935-12-02 - 1935-12-07;
1935-12-09 - 1935-12-14;
1935-12-16 - 1935-12-19

11-27 - Ho!
11-28 - Can't Take it, eh?
11-29 - Ah...Romance
11-30 - Shall We Join the Ladies?
12-02 - Captured
12-03 - That's Be Fun [sic]
12-04 - That's an Insult
12-05 - Not That it Matters
12-06 - Time to Eat
12-07 - An Eye For Blondes
12-09 - Ouch!
12-10 - The Modest King
12-11 - The Modest King [sic]
12-12 - Why Not?
12-13 - In Like a Lion - Out Like a Lamp
12-14 - All Together, Boys
12-16 - On the One-Yard Line
12-17 - Round One
12-18 - The Retreat
12-19 - Why, Empress
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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Seaweed Sam the Rhyming Rover
Character(s): Seaweed Sam
First Line: Poor Sam!
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Introducing Cleopatra

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Genres: historical
Character(s): Cleopatra
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Reprint Notes: from Highights of History Sunday (The Bell Syndicate)
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Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Olly of the Movies
Character(s): Olive Lane; Skip Allen; Lona; Buddy; Lala Palooza; Abe "A. G." Ginsberg
First Line: Here's a lady to see you, Skip!
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Genres: adventure, aviation
Character(s): Scorchy Smith; "Knucks" Maddox (villain); Devitt; Pudge
First Line: A nice, new, big juicy bomber for my first victory!
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Reprint Notes: from Scorchy Smith daily (Associated Press) xxxx-xx-xx - xxxx-xx-xx
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Genres: humorous
Character(s): Cam O'Flage; Sam Smithers; Mame
First Line: The boss' wife has taken up riding!
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Reprint Notes: from Somebody's Stenog Sunday (The Ledger Syndicate)
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Pages: 0.8
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Genres: humorous
Character(s): John Smith; Mrs. Smith [both unnamed here]
First Line: We'd better take the lower road...
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Reprint Notes: from Somebody's Stenog Sunday (The Ledger Syndicate)
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Pages: 0.2
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Genres: childrens, humorous
Feature(s): Bobby
Character(s): Bobby; Mister Gottrocks
First Line: Daddy says I should save my pennies for a rainy day...
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Genres: humorous, western
Character(s): Mescal Ike; Miss Sally; Pa Piffle
First Line: Miss Sally says supper's ready!
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Feature(s): Magic Made Easy
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Pin the Tail on the Donkey

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Genres: humorous, nature
Character(s): Uncle Elby; Napoleon
Synopsis: Blindfolded for a game of pin the tail on the donkey, Uncle Elby pins Napoleon instead.
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Reprint Notes: from Napoleon Sunday (Lafave Newspaper Features)
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Disclose Notes: pantomime; wordless comic
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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): There's A Town
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Genres: childrens, humorous
Feature(s): Butty and Fatty
Character(s): Butty; Fatty; Grandpop; Spunky Dory
First Line: It's a letter for Grandpop from his old war buddy...
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Genres: adventure, childrens
Character(s): Dorothy "Babe" Bunting; Mrs. Crumpet; Mary Mole; Miss Young; Zenas; Grandma Rakestraw
First Line: Babe Bunting, where have you been?
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Reprint Notes: from Babe Bunting daily (The Ledger Syndicate)
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Genres: childrens, humorous
Character(s): Punky; his father
First Line: Punky! Don't you dare shoot the truant officer!
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Genres: adventure, humorous
Character(s): Connie Kurridge; Willy
First Line: Here comes Willy with his camera...
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Reprint Notes: from Connie Sunday (The Ledger Syndicate)
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Genres: humorous
First Line: I was very prominent in Washington society!
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Reprint Notes: from Connie Sunday (The Ledger Syndicate)
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Genres: humorous
First Line: Watch him break the world's broad-jump record this time
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Genres: childrens, humorous
Feature(s): Queenie
Character(s): Queenie; Aunt Prunella; Colonel Chauncey Clambake
First Line: Queenie - take these eggs to Colonel Clambake...
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A Real Champion

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Writer(s): John A. Thorne (credited)
Penciller(s): ?
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: childrens, drama
Character(s): Richie Sands; Jimmy Carr; Sheriff Lem Briggs; Martha
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Genres: adventure
Character(s): Homer Hoopee
First Line: You've got to pull yourself together...
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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): "Holly" of Hollywood
Character(s): Holly
First Line: Bring me my check - quick!
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Reprint Notes: from Keeping Up With the Joneses Sunday (Associated Newspapers)
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Pages: 0.2
Disclose Notes: The top tier of the “Keeping Up With the Joneses” Sunday page, by the same creator.
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Justice - Blind Justice

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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Keeping Up With the Joneses
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Genres: humorous, nature
Character(s): Uncle Elby; Napoleon; Geo. Jabber
First Line: My barber's away - so I guess I'll go in here!
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Reprint Notes: from Napoleon Sunday (Lafave Newspaper Features)
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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Animals in the News
First Line: Trainer says turtles make better housepets than cats
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Genres: anthropomorphic, humorous
Feature(s): The Frog Pond Ferry
Character(s): The Skipper; Mrs. Nutsy Squirrel
First Line: Gee, there's Nutsy Squirrel's wife...
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Genres: non-fiction
Feature(s): Screen Oddities
Character(s): Myrna Loy; S. S. Van Dine; Josef von Sternberg; Marion Davies; Richard Dix; Ken Maynard; Nelson Eddy; Jean Parker; Otto Kruger; Lynn Overman; Carole Lombard; William Powell; Mary Ellis
First Line: Myrna Loy was honored by having the world's...
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