Funnies, The (1936-1942 Dell) comic books 1955 or before

Add to cart CGC 2.0 $215.00 View scans Paper: Cream to off white Slab: Minor side/edge crack(s) Label #4223897006

Add to cart GD- 1.8 $195.00 View scans 1" Spine split/chew. Interior margin pieces missing. Water damage. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor. Other items consigned by Bud Plant

New Years cover. Contains comic strip reprints, text articles, and activity pages. In order of appearance: "The Nut Brothers", "Mr. Blotto", and "Our Boarding House" by Gene Ahern; "Herky" by Clyde Lewis; "Dan Dunn" by Norman Marsh; "Mutt and Jeff" and "Cicero's Cat" by Bud Fisher; "Boots" by Edgar Martin; "Everybody's Playmate" by A. W. Nugent; "Captain Easy, Soldier of Fortune" by Roy Crane; "Reg'lar Fellers" and "Daisybelle" by Gene Byrnes; "Ben Webster's Page" by Jay Jerome Williams (as Edwin Alger); "Otto Honk" by Bela Zaboly; "Out Our Way" by J. R. Williams; "Tailspin Tommy" by Hal Forrest; "From the Notes of Major Cosmo Strange, D.S.O." by George Baker; "Scribbly" by Sheldon Mayer; "The Tiny Mites" by Hal Cochran and George Scarbo; "Annibelle" by Dorothy Urfer; "Salesman Sam" by C. D. Small; "Bronc Peeler and Coyote Pete" by Fred Harman; "Alley Oop" by V. T. Hamlin; "Flapper Fanny" by Gladys Parker; "G Men on the Job" by Dick Blair and Milt Youngren; "Tad of the Tanbark" and "Don Dixon and the Hidden Empire" by Bob Moore and Carl Pfeufer; "Og, Son of Fire" by James Irving Crump; "From the Notes of Major Cosmo Strange, D.S.O." by George Baker; "Myra North, Special Nurse" by Ray Thompson and Charles Coll; "Home Magic" by A. W. Nugent; "Myra North, Special Nurse" by Ray Thompson and Charles Coll; "Freckles and his Friends" by Merrill Blosser; and "Stories in Stamps" by I. S. Klein. 68 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 8.5 $300.00 or Best Offer View scans CGC Qualified Paper: Cream to off white Slab: Minor side edge crack Pages 18, 19, and 24 missing, affects story. INCOMPLETE. Label #0004220013 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.

Contains comic strip reprints, text articles, activity pages, and a text story. In order of appearance: "Alley Oop" by V. T. Hamlin; "Herky" by Clyde Lewis; "Home Magic" by A. W. Nugent; "Dan Dunn" by Norman Marsh; "Our Boarding House" by Gene Ahern; "Ben Webster's Page" by Jay Jerome Williams (as Edwin Alger); "G Men on the Job" by Dick Blair and Milt Youngren; "Captain Easy, Soldier of Fortune" by Roy Crane; "Stranger than Fiction" by Richard W. Thomas and Walter Galli; "Boots" and "Bootkins" by Edgar Martin; "Bronc Peeler" by Fred Harman; "The Tiny Mites" by Hal Cochran and George Scarbo; "Out Our Way" by J. R. Williams; "Tailspin Tommy" and "Four Aces" by Hal Forrest; "Stories in Stamps" by I. S. Klein; "Og, Son of Fire" by James Irving Crump; "The Worry Wart" by J. R. Williams; "Scribbly" by Sheldon Mayer; "Don Dixon and the Hidden Empire" and "Tad of the Tanbark" by Bob Moore and Carl Pfeufer; "Reg'lar Fellers" and "Daisybelle" by Gene Byrnes; "Mutt and Jeff" and "Cicero's Cat" by Bud Fisher; "Everybody's Playmate" by A. W. Nugent; "Freckles and his Friends" by Merrill Blosser; "Now You Tell One!" by Edward Courtney Dunkle; "Heroes' Hall of Fame" by Benjamin D. Allen (as Stookie Allen); and "Be a Big Leaguer" by Ed Cronin. "Shark Hunters of Aran, Part One" text story by H. T. Sperry, illustrated by Walter Cole Brigham. 68 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 3.0 $1,975.00 View scans Paper: Slightly britle Label #1482295024 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.

Add to cart GD 2.0 $1,899.95 or Best Offer View scans Cover detached at two (of three) staples, 3" spine split from bottom. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor. Other items consigned by humble cow

Stories and art by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Roy Crane, V. T. Hamlin, Fred Harman, J. R. Williams, Gene Byrnes, Al McWilliams, Jim Gary, Hal Forrest, Walt Spouse, C. D. Small, Fred Harman, and Win Smith. The Funnies presented reprints of classic comic strips, including Roy Crane's influential Captain Easy, alongside original material. With the departure of former editor MC Gaines, this issue debuts several new features, including Edgar Rice Burroughs' authorized comic-strip adaptation of John Carter, Warlord of Mars. This is the first appearance of John Carter of Mars in a comic book. Another character making his comics debut is the early toon Bosko, in an adaptation of his 1931 Looney Tunes cartoon, Bosko Shipwrecked! Tex Ritter tracks down cattle rustler Dorgan, but Dorgan has dynamite, in an adaptation of the 1939 Western movie Sundown on the Prairie. Plus a comics adaptation of The Marvelous Land of Oz featuring art by Walt Spouse. Gene Autry: The Ghost of Winter Ranch; Salesman Sam; Alley Oop; Red Ryder; Bosko; Out Our Way; Four Aces; Everybody's Playmate; Tex Ritter: Sundown on the Prairie; John Carter, Warlord of Mars; Our Boarding House; The Crime Busters; Stranger Than Fiction; Oz; Captain Easy; Bronc Peeler. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 2.0 $370.00 View scans Paper: Cream to off white Label #4392532012

Add to cart FR/GD 1.5 $350.00 View scans 2" spine split with tape. Cover oxidation. Water spotting.

Cover by John Coleman Burroughs. Stories and art by John Coleman Burroughs, Roy Crane, V. T. Hamlin, Chester Gould, Gaylord Du Bois, Al Micale, J. R. Williams, Al McWilliams, Walt Spouse, C. D. Small, Hugh Harman, and Win Smith. The Funnies presented reprints of classic comic strips, including Roy Crane's influential Captain Easy, alongside original material. Searching for the canal that leads to Helium, John Carter, Dejah Thoris and Sola are spotted by the savage green Martians, in the official comic-strip adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs' A Princess of Mars. John Carter provides a distraction so the women can get away, but he is captured by the green Martians for use in their gladiatorial games. Bosko loses his overcoat that has $8 in it, so he goes around cutting the tails off of every overcoat in town until he finds it. Plus a text story featuring Dick Tracy. Cover and John Carter art by John Coleman Burroughs, son of Edgar Rice Burroughs. John Carter Warlord of Mars; The Sky Ranger; Salesman Sam; Alley Oop; Bosko; Tom Beatty: The Hand of Horror; Lightning Jim; Out Our Way; Dick Tracy: The Famon Gang; Find the Errors; Our Boarding House; The Crime Busters; This Curious World; Oz; Captain Easy; Mr. District Attorney. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 0.5 $125.00 or Best Offer View scans Paper: Off white to white 6 center wraps missing. Label #4471846001 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.

Rex King of the Deep; John Carter; Capt. Easy

Stories and art by Roy Crane, V. T. Hamlin, John Coleman Burroughs, Gaylord Du Bois, Bob Jenney, Al McWilliams, Walt Spouse, Walker Harman, and Win Smith. The Funnies presented reprints of classic comic strips, including Roy Crane's influential Captain Easy, alongside original material. Appointed to the palace of the Jeddak of Zodanga after rescuing the Jeddak's cousin, John Carter uses the opportunity to track down Dejah Thoris. But believing Carter was dead, she has sworn to marry the son of her captor, in the official comic-strip adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs' A Princess of Mars. John Carter art by John Coleman Burroughs, son of Edgar Rice Burroughs. Captain Easy and Wash Tubbs try to make ends meet with a traveling medicine show. John Carter Warlord of Mars; The Sky Ranger; Alley Oop; Bosko; What Would You Do?; Rex, King of the Deep; Oz; Captain Easy; The O'Malley Kids; Whitey Harrison; Mr. District Attorney; Speed Martin. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart FR 1.0 $110.00 View scans 4" cumulative spine split, with interior splitting. Centerfold detached. Brittle interior.

Cover by Dan Gormley. Stories and art by Robert Brice, Al McWilliams, Victor Bloom, Wilson Starbuck, Jim Chambers, Gordon A. J. Peterson, Erwin Hess, Tom Hickey, Roy Humphries, E. C. Stoner, and Bob Jenney. The Funnies presented reprints of classic comic strips alongside original material. Captain Midnight is enlisted to head a new secret squadron, where he learns that his arch-enemy Ivan Shark is behind the fifth columnists. Legendary detective Philo Vance makes his comics debut in this issue, as he investigates the murder of Miss Canary in an adaptation of the novel The Canary Murder Case by S.S. Van Dine. The Sky Ranger is sent to Alaska to investigate missing soldiers at a remote base. Phantasmo, the Master of the World; Captain Midnight; Philo Vance; The Sky Ranger; Rex, King of the Deep; Mr. District Attorney; The Rocket Boys in Space; Navy Bob's Scrap Book; Navy Bob Steele; Did You Know That; The Black Knight; Speed Martin. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart FR/GD 1.5 $140.00 View scans Cover and centerfold detached. Tape on interior pages. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

Cover by Dan Gormley. Stories and art by Victor Bloom, Maurice Kashuba, Gordon A. J. Peterson, Erwin Hess, E. C. Stoner, and Bob Jenney. The Funnies presented reprints of classic comic strips alongside original material. Captain Midnight escorts his sidekick Chuck to a summer vacation home, but Ivan Shark and his gang are waiting to ambush them. A dying man tells Phantasmo and Whizzer that the politician "Big Tom" Morgan is really bank robber "Cracker" Gorman. This issue features one of the first comic-book appearances of funny-animal Andy Panda, a Walter Lantz character, soon to be the long-running star of this comic. Joe Snoope; Phantasmo, the Master of the World; Captain Midnight; Philo Vance; The Sky Ranger; Rex, King of the Deep; Mr. District Attorney; The Rocket Boys in Space; Andy Panda; Navy Bob Steele; It's Nature!; The Black Knight; Speed Martin. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart GD- 1.8 $199.95 or Best Offer View scans 3.5" Cumulative spine split. Cover detached. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor. Other items consigned by humble cow

Cover by Dan Gormley. Stories and art by Victor Bloom, Dan Gormley, Maurice Kashuba, Gordon A. J. Peterson, Erwin Hess, E. C. Stoner, and George Kerr. The Funnies presented reprints of classic comic strips alongside original material. Ivan Shark thinks he has Captain Midnight and his friends captured at last. Phantasmo uses his astral powers against wartime saboteurs. While returning to American in his experimental super-sub, Rex and his crew stumble on the underwater base of Captain Mars. You're in the Army Now; Phantasmo, the Master of the World; Captain Midnight; Philo Vance; Rex, King of the Deep; Mr. District Attorney; The Rocket Boys in Space; Andy Panda; Navy Bob Steele; It's Nature!; The Black Knight; Speed Martin. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.