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Issue: Funnyman #5
Publication Date: July 1948
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Issues: #5 of 6 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagMagazine Enterprises
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Magazine Enterprises Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
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Content Items: 5 (3 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Raymond C. Krank
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
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
Credits
Penciller(s): Dick Ayers [as Joe Shuster] (signed)
Inker(s): Shuster shop
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, superhero
Feature(s): Funnyman
Character(s): Funnyman [Larry Davis]
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Cover signed Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster.
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A Killer-Diller!

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Subject Matter
Synopsis: 1 page ad for Manhunt magazine, reprinting cover to issue 10 (July 1948).
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Wanted: One Corpse!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Jerry Siegel (signed)
Penciller(s): John Sikela [as Joe Shuster] (signed)
Inker(s): Shuster shop
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, superhero
Feature(s): Funnyman
Character(s): Funnyman [Larry Davis]; Sgt. Harrigan; Louie the Louse (villain, introduction); Louie's gang [Lola; Peanut; Thimblebrain] (villains, introduction for all); Doctor Hacksaw (villain, plastic surgeon, introduction)
Synopsis: After stealing millions of dollars, Louie bemoans his current fate to his gang members. The Police are hot on his trail, but he devises a plan to have the features of a stoolie altered to look like Louie, then murder him. Lola makes the mistake of nabbing Funnyman to have his features altered, but the whole plan backfires, and the gang is rounded up by Sgt. Harrigan.
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Pages: 15
Disclose Notes: Logo for Funnyman includes Siegel and Shuster's names.
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The Downfall of Noodnick Nogoodnick

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Jerry Siegel (signed)
Penciller(s): John Sikela [as Joe Shuster] (signed)
Inker(s): Shuster shop
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, superhero
Feature(s): Funnyman
Character(s): Funnyman [Larry Davis]; June Farrel; Happy; Little Jimmy Zitto (orphaned shoeshine boy, introduction); Ragsy (Zitto's pet dog, introduction); Jimmy's mother (introduction); Noodnik Nogodnik (villain, introduction)
Synopsis: Funnyman spots the evil Noodnik Nogodnik preparing to steal money from an orphaned shoeshine boy, and leaps from a window to rescue the boy and his dog. The Comic Crimefighter succeeds, then learns the boy originally came from a wealthy family years ago, and returns the child to his grateful mother.
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Pages: 10
Disclose Notes: Logo for Funnyman includes Siegel and Shuster's names.

Pencil credit formerly assigned to Joe Shuster.
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The Peculiar Pacifier

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Jerry Siegel (signed)
Penciller(s): John Sikela [as Joe Shuster] (signed)
Inker(s): Shuster shop
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, superhero
Feature(s): Funnyman
Character(s): Funnyman [Larry Davis]; unnamed Policeman; June Farrell; B. Beane (newspasper editor, introduction); Karl Borisloff (cartoonist, introduction); Doc Gimmick (villain); Torgo (villain, the doc's assistant)
Synopsis: Having created the "peculiar pacifier", Doc Gimmick sends Torgo out to lure a cop to his laboratory, and when the Policeman arrives, the doc uses his creation on him, whose gas makes anyone who smells it conciliatory or peaceable. When the doc proves that it works, he feels safe on using it anywhere and on anyone so that he can commit his robberies. Meanwhile, the artist on the famed Louie the Lout strip, is told by his editor to achieve a new epitome of loathsomeness for his comic character, which causes newspapers across the land to cancel the strip.
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Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Logo for Funnyman includes Siegel and Shuster's names.

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