Issue | #1 |
Published | April 1939 |
Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
Pages | 68 |
Editing | M C Gaines (managing); Sheldon Mayer (assistant) |
Notes | M. C. Gaines listed as Managing Editor |
Characters | Scribbly; Mutt; Jeff; Ben Webster; Reg'lar Fellas; Skippy; Toonerville Folks |
Genre | humor; adventure |
Pencils | Sheldon Mayer |
Inks | Sheldon Mayer |
Letters | typeset |
Notes | M. C. Gaines is listed as Managing Editor. |
Characters | Red Dugan (introduction); Whitey Smith (introduction); Blooey Blue (introduction); Doris West (introduction) |
Synopsis | Three old pals in the military service from Oakville reunite, they believe, to save Doris West, not realizing that she is a G-2 agent for the United States Secret Service, who is on the trail of a ring buying U.S. military secrets. |
Genre | adventure |
Script | Jerry Siegel ? |
Pencils | William Smith |
Inks | William Smith |
Letters | Harry Lampert |
Notes | Corrections made in November, 2004 by Bob Hughes. |
Characters | Mutt; Jeff; Mutt's wife; Cicero |
Synopsis | In this series of one page cartoons, 1) Mutt decides to paint his house rather than have professionals do it....with disastrous results; 2) Jeff, owing a friend $1, decides to get a buck the easy way out of Mutt by showing him a magic trick; 3) Mutt helps Cicero built a boat in the basement....but it's the boy who figures out a way to get it out of that basement; and 4) Mutt takes his wife and Cicero fishing in the new boat. |
Genre | humor |
Script | Al Smith [as Bud Fisher] (signed) |
Pencils | Al Smith [as Bud Fisher] (signed) |
Inks | Al Smith [as Bud Fisher] (signed) |
Letters | Al Smith |
Notes | Newspaper reprints. |
Characters | Tippie |
Synopsis | Tippie and her dog go to bed together, until her dog decides to take over all the space for itself! |
Genre | humor |
Script | Edwina Dumm [as Edwina] (signed) |
Pencils | Edwina Dumm [as Edwina] (signed) |
Inks | Edwina Dumm [as Edwina] (signed) |
Letters | Edwina Dumm |
Notes | Newspaper reprints. Credits corrected (October, 2004). Letterer credit added by Craig Delich 2010-4-6. |
Characters | Skippy; Mr. Brown |
Synopsis | When a friend of Skippy's berates him for not buying him a drink, Skippy offers to do so, even though the friend is unaware the drink contains castor oil! |
Genre | humor |
Script | Percy Crosby (signed) |
Pencils | Percy Crosby (signed) |
Inks | Percy Crosby (signed) |
Letters | Percy Crosby |
Notes | Newspaper reprints (two half-pages). Letterer credit added by Craig Delich 2010-4-6. |
Characters | Skippy |
Genre | humor |
Script | Percy Crosby (signed) |
Pencils | Percy Crosby (signed) |
Inks | Percy Crosby (signed) |
Letters | Percy Crosby |
Notes | Newspaper reprints (two half-pages). |
Script | Arthur William Nugent [as A. W. Nugent] (signed) |
Pencils | Arthur William Nugent [as A. W. Nugent] (signed) |
Inks | Arthur William Nugent [as A. W. Nugent] (signed) |
Letters | Arthur William Nugent [as A. W. Nugent] |
Characters | Pinhead; Jimmie; Curley; Puddinhead |
Genre | humor |
Script | Gene Byrnes (signed) |
Pencils | Gene Byrnes (signed) |
Inks | Gene Byrnes (signed) |
Letters | Gene Byrnes |
Notes | Newspaper reprints. |
Genre | fact |
Letters | typeset |
Editing | Montgomery Mulford |
Characters | Hop Harrigan (introduction); Tank Tinker [called Ikky] (introduction); Prop Wash (introduction) |
Synopsis | Having lost his father's farm, Hop jumps into a Flying Jenny and lands at an air field, meeting two people destined to be life-long friends. |
Genre | aviation |
Script | Jon L. Blummer [as Jon Elby] (signed) |
Pencils | Jon L. Blummer [as Jon Elby] (signed) |
Inks | Jon L. Blummer [as Jon Elby] (signed) |
Letters | Jon L. Blummer [as Jon Elby] |
Characters | Scribbly Jibbet; Scribbly's un-named mother; Amelia "Sisty" Hunkel; Daphine; Sylvester; Butch; Eppie; Gladys |
Synopsis | Scribbly returns from a trip to the coast with his mother and Sisty only to discover that his favorite girl, Daphine, has fallen for a soldier. |
Genre | humor |
Script | Sheldon Mayer (signed) |
Pencils | Sheldon Mayer (signed) |
Inks | Sheldon Mayer (signed) |
Letters | Sheldon Mayer |
Notes | Topper is Why Big Brudders Leave Home! Continued from series in Dell's The Funnies. Last appearance in the Funnies #29, March, 1939. |
Characters | Ted Dolliver; Alan Kane; Professor Lutyens |
Synopsis | Alan and Ted meet one another by pure chance, but both become involved with a Professor who has figured out a way to reverse gravity. They are asked by the professor to accompany him in his space ship, "The Wanderer", on a trip to Mars, where they are told they will find fame and fortune. |
Genre | science fiction |
Script | Carl H. Claudy (signed) |
Pencils | Stan Aschmeier |
Inks | Stan Aschmeier |
Notes | Book adaption, with art corrections (from Jerry Bails and Craig Delich) by Bob Hughes (November, 2004). |
Characters | Ben Webster; Briarsie (Ben's dog) |
Genre | adventure |
Script | Edwin Alger (signed) |
Pencils | Edwin Alger (signed) |
Inks | Edwin Alger (signed) |
Letters | Edwin Alger |
Notes | Newspaper reprints. |
Characters | Ben Webster |
Genre | adventure |
Script | Edwin Alger (signed) |
Pencils | Edwin Alger (signed) |
Inks | Edwin Alger (signed) |
Letters | Edwin Alger |
Notes | Not to be confused with Russell Cole who did fillers using the pen-name "Alger". |
Reprinted | Newspaper reprints. |
Characters | Ben Webster; Professor Matt Mattix; Briarsie (Ben's dog) |
Synopsis | Ben moves a down-on-his-luck friend into better quarters and provides him with some money to get along. However, that friend suddenly has "friends" of his own crawling out of the woodwork to access some of that money. |
Genre | adventure |
Script | Edwin Alger (signed) |
Pencils | Edwin Alger (signed) |
Inks | Edwin Alger (signed) |
Letters | Edwin Alger |
Notes | Newspaper reprints. |
Characters | Ben Webster; Professor Matt Mattix; Briarsie (Ben's dog) |
Genre | adventure |
Script | Edwin Alger (signed) |
Pencils | Edwin Alger (signed) |
Inks | Edwin Alger (signed) |
Letters | Edwin Alger |
Notes | Newspaper reprints. |
Characters | Spot Savage |
Synopsis | Spot is given the assignment to interview The Duchess.....who turns out to be a man! |
Pencils | Harry Lampert (signed) |
Inks | Harry Lampert (signed) |
Letters | Harry Lampert |
Notes | Letterer credit added by Craig Delich 2010-4-6. |
Characters | Daisybelle |
Genre | humor |
Script | Gene Byrnes (signed) |
Pencils | Gene Byrnes (signed) |
Inks | Gene Byrnes (signed) |
Letters | Gene Byrnes |
Notes | Newspaper reprints. |
Characters | Mutt; Jeff |
Genre | humor |
Script | Al Smith [as Bud Fisher] (signed) |
Pencils | Al Smith [as Bud Fisher] (signed) |
Inks | Al Smith [as Bud Fisher] (signed) |
Letters | Al Smith |
Notes | Newspaper reprints (two half-pages). |
Characters | Cicero; Cicero's Cat |
Genre | funny animal |
Script | Al Smith [as Bud Fisher] (signed) |
Pencils | Al Smith [as Bud Fisher] (signed) |
Inks | Al Smith [as Bud Fisher] (signed) |
Letters | Al Smith |
Notes | Newspaper reprints (two half-pages). |
Synopsis | Five different magic tricks are illustrated and explained. |
Script | Arthur William Nugent [as A. W. Nugent] (signed) |
Pencils | Arthur William Nugent [as A. W. Nugent] (signed) |
Inks | Arthur William Nugent [as A. W. Nugent] (signed) |
Letters | Arthur William Nugent [as A. W. Nugent] |
Characters | Skippy; Northrup |
Genre | humor |
Script | Percy Crosby (signed) |
Pencils | Percy Crosby (signed) |
Inks | Percy Crosby (signed) |
Letters | Percy Crosby |
Notes | Newspaper reprints (two half-pages). |
Characters | Skippy |
Genre | humor |
Script | Percy Crosby (signed) |
Pencils | Percy Crosby (signed) |
Inks | Percy Crosby (signed) |
Letters | Percy Crosby |
Notes | Newspaper reprints (two half pages). |
Characters | Tippie |
Genre | humor |
Script | Edwina Dumm [as Edwina] (signed) |
Pencils | Edwina Dumm [as Edwina] (signed) |
Inks | Edwina Dumm [as Edwina] (signed) |
Letters | Edwina Dumm |
Notes | Newspaper reprints. |
Characters | Davey O'Brien; Hank Luisetti; Ernie Lombardi |
Genre | fact |
Pencils | Walter Galli (signed) |
Inks | Walter Galli (signed) |
Letters | Walter Galli |
Characters | Stanley; Uncle Eben; Katrinka; Ezra |
Synopsis | The kids decide to milk the cow out in the snow and end up with snow ice cream! Later, Katrinka offers to pull Stanley's sled, but ends up pulling a "train" of sleds. Still later, Stanley decides to test out his mother's belief that whenever Uncle Eben's corns hurt, it snows. |
Genre | humor |
Script | Fontaine Fox (signed) |
Pencils | Fontaine Fox (signed) |
Inks | Fontaine Fox (signed) |
Letters | Fontaine Fox |
Notes | Newspaper reprints. |
Characters | Bobby Thatcher; Tubby; ? Bowers |
Synopsis | The boys go out on a fishin g trip, but get caught in a rainstorm and decide to hunker down in a deserted house. |
Genre | adventure; children |
Pencils | George Storm (signed) |
Inks | George Storm (signed) |
Letters | George Storm |
Characters | Jimmy Stone (introduction); Mr. Hackett (introduction) |
Synopsis | Jimmy, an orphan who lost his father in a fire that was set by racketeers and burned down the family store, decides to go to night school and become a lawyer. Hovering around the dock areas, he discovers a spy ring and alerts the Police to the matter. |
Genre | adventure |
Script | Loring Dowst (signed) |
Pencils | Sheldon Mayer |
Inks | Sheldon Mayer |
Letters | typeset |
Characters | Bob Wiley; Mr. Knox; Dexter |
Synopsis | Bob wins an appointment to West Point, but a landslide on the road heading to the Point has it blocked, so Bob decides to parachute into the facility instead! |
Genre | adventure |
Pencils | Lt. Richard Rick (signed) |
Inks | Lt. Richard Rick (signed) |
Synopsis | House ad for the 1st issue of Movie Comics, complete with cover which has an illustration from the film starring Jackie Cooper, "Scouts to the Rescue". |
Letters | typeset |
Notes | Found on the inside back cover. |