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Issue: Funnyman #5
Publication Date: July 1948
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Issues: #5 of 6 Issues
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagMagazine Enterprises
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Magazine Enterprises Inc.
On Sale Date: 05/25/1948
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
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Content Items: 7 (3 stories, 1 cover)
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Disclose Notes: On-sale date from the publication date reported to the United States Copyright Office found in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series. Part 2: Periodicals Jan-Dec 1948: Vol. 2 No. 1-2. Copyright registration number B138400.
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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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Genres: humorous, superhero
Synopsis: High above a circus, Funnyman rides a unicycle on a tightrope while throwing juggling pins at a man assaulting a woman.
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Pages: 1
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A Killer-Diller!

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Feature(s): Manhunt
First Line: Get it at your favorite newsstand now!
Synopsis: Promotional advertisement for Manhunt (Magazine Enterprises, 1947 series) #10. Contains an image of that issue's cover.
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Wanted: One Corpse!

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Genres: humorous, superhero
Character(s): Louie the Louse (villain, introduction); Louie's gang [Lola; Peanut; Thimblebrain] (villains, introduction for all)
First Line: Everyone likes to be considered desirable. It's only natural. We all like to feel we're wanted -- and that someone, somewhere, wants us for their own.
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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The Downfall of Noodnick Nogoodnick

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Genres: humorous, superhero
Character(s): Noodnik Nogodnik (villain, introduction); Ragsy (Zitto's pet dog, introduction); Little Jimmy Zitto (orphaned shoeshine boy, introduction); Jimmy's parents (introduction)
First Line: While June Farrell and "Happy" wrack their brains for a novel twist to pep up Larry Davis' comedy routine, the ace comedian amuses himself...
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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The Peculiar Pacifier

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Genres: humorous, superhero
Character(s): B. Beane (newspasper editor, introduction); Karl Borisloff (cartoonist, introduction); Mark Sade
First Line: Take a pinch of Doc Gimmick's weirdest crime discovery -- add a spoonful of "Louie the Lout," America's most gruesome comic strip...
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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Bad Skin?

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First Line: Stop worrying about pimples, blackheads and other externally caused skin troubles
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Disclose Notes: Sold by New York Skin Laboratory.
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New Swiss Chalet Electric Whirling Clock

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First Line: New! Different! Sensational! Here's beauty! Here's action! Here's the perfect timepiece!
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Disclose Notes: Sold by Illinois Merchandise Mart.
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