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Issue: The Funnies #33 Public Domain
Publication Date: July 1939
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Issues: #33 of 64 Issues (65 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagDell
Brand: object(PgSql\Result)#3 (0) { }
Indicia Publisher: Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: 06/15/1939
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 27 (20 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
Disclose Notes: On sale date from the publication date found in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, New Series, Volume 34, 1939, Number 3. Second class permit. Copyright number 427713. Copyright given to Stephen Slesinger, Inc.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: full color and some black and white
Dimensions: standard Golden Age U. S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Genres: humorous
First Line: Now don't get lost - Here - Take my hand!
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Genres: non-fiction, sports
Character(s): Dick Metz; Harold Cagle; Eric Tipton; Lauren Gale
First Line: Dick Metz
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Disclose Notes: The inside-front cover.
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Genres: humorous
First Line: You never heard of harnessin' a dinosaur??
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Pages: 5
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A Princess of Mars - Episode 4

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Genres: science fiction
First Line: As John Carter is being taken to the Green Martian capitol city, Barsoom, a peaceful flight of merchant rocket ships...
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Disclose Notes: Adapts Edgar Rice Burroughs' "A Princess of Mars."

Art credit per Michael Barrier, p. 27, Funnybooks (UC Press, Oakland, 2015). Script adaptation credit per Western's then policy per Oskar Lebeck cited in Barrier, p. 28 (ibid.).
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Genres: crime
Character(s): John Seadlund
First Line: Ah! - There's the cash!
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Genres: anthropomorphic, humorous
First Line: Now old mister bird - was as mad as could be...
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Genres: adventure
Character(s): Wash Tubbs; Captain Easy
First Line: Something's made Wash and Easy suspicious.
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Genres: humorous
First Line: I'll teach that hobo that he can't fool a westerner so easy!
Synopsis: Several 1-panel jokes.
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The Ghost of Winter Ranch

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Genres: western
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Genres: humorous
First Line: I'm th' game warden, fellas!
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Pages: 2.67
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Genres: drama, humorous
First Line: Why, that kid is chasing Willis...
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Genres: western
First Line: Now, Wilson, are you gonna talk?
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Disclose Notes: Previous archivist credited writer as R. S. Callender. (Callender, a Western Printing business manager who registered copyrights for creations owned by Western Printing, hence "© R. S. Callender" often found on various segments of a Dell comic, was not a writer.)
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The Black Widow

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Genres: adventure
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Genres: humorous
First Line: Oh, Willis - come here and help me.
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Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Major Hoople
First Line: Hooray, Uncle Amos!
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Reprint Notes: from Our Boarding House Sundays (NEA) xxxx-xx-xx - xxxx-xx-xx
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The Solution of the Fountain Pen Gun

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: mystery
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Genres: adventure
First Line: But it won't do you any good!
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Genres: drama, humorous
First Line: Why, that little snip!
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Genres: humorous
Character(s): Major Hoople
First Line: Look, Uncle Amos!
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Pages: 1
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: non-fiction
Feature(s): Curious Facts About Stamps
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Genres: fantasy
First Line: It is getting dark and Ojo, Scraps and the Glass Cat are looking for a place to sleep.
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Genres: humorous
First Line: I'd like to run over to Ella's for a few minutes but I can't...
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Genres: non-fiction
Feature(s): Crossword Puzzle Page
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Genres: humorous
First Line: Traffic light - what's that?
Synopsis: Several 1-panel jokes.
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The Cassowary

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Genres: nature, non-fiction
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Funnie-Bone Riddle Page
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Featuring Philip Lord's Gang Busters

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: non-fiction
Synopsis: House ad for Popular Comics.
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Disclose Notes: The back cover.

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