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Issue: The Funnies #1

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Publication Date: January 1929

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Issues: #1 of 36 Issues

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Publisher: Flag

Dell

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Indicia Publisher: Film Humor Inc.

On Sale Date: 01/09/1929

Volume: none

Pages: 24

ISBN: none

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $0.10 USD

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Content Items: 25 (21 stories, 1 cover)

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Notes: This can be considered the very first newsstand comic book, put out by Dell Publishing nearly a decade before it hooked up with Western Publishing. It consisted of all-new, all original material in tabloid form, and it resembled a 16-page, 10.5" x 15.5" color Sunday newspaper comics section more than a modern comic book, though it was sold on newsstands for 36 weekly issues, until October 16, 1930. With #3, the cover price rose to 10 cents to 30 cents, then dropped to 5 cents until the end.

On sale date based on copyright date in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Volume 23-24, 1928-1929 Periodicals. Copyright Film Humor, Inc. Two copies of the periodical was deposited with the United States Copyright Office on January 2, 1929. Class B permit number 15066.

The indicia of #10 states "entered as second class matter December 27 1928".

Boody Rogers recalled, “A friend had told me that Dell Publications was starting a comic book. The offices were at 100 Fifth Avenue. [...] I came to their building. It was just before the arch in Greenwich Village. I showed my one page of “Rock Age Roy” to the editor. He bought it! [...] Then I did some other things—“Deadwood Gulch,” “Campus Clowns,” “Sancho and the Don,” and some puzzle pages. Dell bought them all. [...] I didn’t realize it then, but I was working on the first comic book ever published. It was the right idea, but the wrong format. It was more like a tabloid paper than the small comic books of today. It only lasted a year, but, thank God, it got us started in New York City.”

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: Color (some pages)

Dimensions: 10.5" x 15.5"

Paper Stock: Newsprint (no covers)

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Content Items (25 total)

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Genres: humorous

Character(s): Frosty Ayre; Goofy

First Line: Gosh! It's only a barber's pole!

Synopsis: Frosty and Goofy sneak aboard a boat heading for a polar expedition.

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Writer(s): Charles Curtis

Penciller(s): Ed Hermes

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Feature(s): How to Fly

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Writer(s): Howard Williamson

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Feature(s): Buck Buford

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Writer(s): F. N. Litten

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Stubby Shoots the Works

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Writer(s): Kenneth Whipple

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Pirates Ahoy

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Writer(s): Charles Driscoll

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Genres: anthropomorphic

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How Can I Become An Explorer

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Jungle Vengeance

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Writer(s): Earle Danesford

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Genres: western

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Feature(s): Corporal Tim

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Writer(s): J. Molina

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Feature(s): Dare Devil Gazabo

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Feature(s): What's Wrong With these Pictures?

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Notes: Possibly by Boody Rogers.

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Writer(s): Bencho

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Feature(s): Puzzles

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Feature(s): Joe Gum

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Notes: Ralph Wolfe was an animator and cartoonist at this time and was credited for this story. Boody Rogers remembers he submitted this story to Dell.

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Feature(s): Campus Clowns

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