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Issue: The Funnies #20 Public Domain
Publication Date: May 1938
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Issues: #20 of 64 Issues (65 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagDell
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: 04/08/1938
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 31 (22 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: full color and some black and white
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
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Genres: humorous
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Pages: 1
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Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Feature(s): The Funnies Letter Club
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: On inside front cover.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: humorous
First Line: And so dawns the day of the big fight
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Reprint Notes: from Alley Oop Sundays (NEA) 19XX-XX-XX - 19XX-XX-XX
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: childrens, humorous
First Line: I hafta go in the store an' get some soap for Mom!
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Reprint Notes: from Reg'lar Fellers Sundays (Bell Syndicate) 19XX-XX-XX - 19XX-XX-XX
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Pages: 4
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: adventure
First Line: Two spades.
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Reprint Notes: from Captain Easy Sundays (NEA) 1936-XX-XX - 1936-XX-XX
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Pages: 4
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Activity  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Feature(s): The Funnies Crossword Puzzle Page
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Pages: 1
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ? (red only)
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
First Line: Well, of all things - just when I'm in a hurry.
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Reprint Notes: from Out Our Way Sundays (NEA) 19XX-XX-XX - 19XX-XX-XX
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: The pages are not sequential. Spread throughout the magazine.
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G-Man vs. the Red X

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ? (red tones)
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Genres: crime
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Copyright Stephen Slesinger. Adapted from Big Little Book (Whitman, 1932 series) #1147 [G-Man vs the Red X] (1936).
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Genres: childrens, humorous
First Line: Watch closely, gentlemen!
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Reprint Notes: from Freckles and His Friends Sundays (NEA) 19XX-XX-XX - 19XX-XX-XX
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Pages: 2
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Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
First Line: Fetch a spade Hopkins!
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Reprint Notes: from Hold Everything Sundays (NEA) 1937-XX-XX - 1937-XX-XX
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Pages: 2
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic, humorous
First Line: Harmless little housefly out for some fun
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Reprint Notes: from Cicero's Cat Sundays (Bell Syndicate) 1937-XX-XX - 1937-XX-XX
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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Activity  on  Interior Page(s)
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Feature(s): Home Magic
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: humorous
First Line: Honey, whut is yo gone an' done?
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Reprint Notes: from Boots Sundays (NEA) 1936-XX-XX - 1936-XX-XX
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Pages: 2
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ? (red tones)
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Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
First Line: This is the third time I've asked you to spade my flower bed!
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Reprint Notes: from Our Boarding House Sundays (NEA) 19XX-XX-XX - 19XX-XX-XX
Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
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Genres: non-fiction
First Line: Gergory Main, of Saint Louis, M.O…
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Reprint Notes: from Stranger Than Fiction daily (Brooklyn Daily Eagle) 1935-10-25, 1936-04-15
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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West of Rainbow's End

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Writer(s): ? (adaptation)
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Genres: western
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Adapted from the 1938 Monogram Picture "West of Rainbow's End" motion picture. Written by Robert Emmett Tansey (story), Stanley Roberts (screenplay), and Gennaro Rea (screenplay).
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Activity  on  Interior Page(s)
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Feature(s): Funnies Cartoon Club
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Doing Things Over!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: adventure
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Reprint Notes: from Ben Webster's Page Sundays (Bell Syndicate) 19XX-XX-XX - 19XX-XX-XX
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: The strip was probably ghosted.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: crime
First Line: Forget that pocketbook business, Irwin --
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Reprint Notes: from Dan Dunn Sundays (Publishers Syndicate) 1937-08-22 - 1937-09-12
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: On the 4th Page of Dan Dunn it says See what happen - in our next issue. Dan Dunn does not appear in the next issue of The Funnies. Instead the feature move to a new comic series called Crackajack Funnies. Between this issue and the first issue of Crackajack Funnies they skip over 1937-09-19 Sunday.
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Genres: adventure, aviation
First Line: Just when Enoch Scroggins, vice-president of Comet Airways…
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Reprint Notes: from Four Aces Sundays (Bell Syndicate) 19XX-XX-XX - 19XX-XX-XX
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Pages: 2
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Activity  on  Interior Page(s)
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Feature(s): Everybody's Playmate
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Pages: 1
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Scribbly Jibbet; Mrs. Jibbet; Dinky Jibbet
First Line: Ma. Oh Ma! I'm goin' to Hollywood!
Synopsis: Scribbly tells his mother that he's going to Hollywood with Mr. Barlowe and Roscoe. After Scribbly leaves, Mrs. Jibbet discovers that her younger son is missing.
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Why Big Brothers Leave Home by Scribbly

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Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Scribbly Jibbet; Dinky Jibbet
First Line: I'm going to the archery club!
Synopsis: Scribbly heads out to the archery club, unaware that his kid brother has attached a bullseye to his back.
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Disclose Notes: Based on an idea sent in by Marshall Rosenberg.
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Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Scribbly Jibbet; Dinky Jibbet; Mr. Barlowe (nickname established as "Natey"); Roscoe T. Rooney; Bernie von Goldstein (introduction, movie director)
First Line: While at home Scribbly's kid-brother has disappeared...
Synopsis: Mr. Barlowe brings Scribbly and Roscoe to meet his friend, Bernie von Goldstein, the movie director. Bernie complains that his star, Dimples Dumpling, is out sick with the mumps. When Scribbly's kid brother emerges from his luggage, Bernie exclaims that he has found Dimples' replacement.
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Knick-Names for Scribbly's Kid Brother!

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Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Scribbly Jibbet
First Line: I call my kid-brother 'Brilliantine', because...
Synopsis: A reader tells Scribbly that she calls her kid-brother "Brilliantine" (a hair-grooming product) because he gets in her hair.
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Disclose Notes: Based on an idea sent in by Genevieve Ayoub.
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Genres: humorous
First Line: A man in Washington D.C. made 20 billion dollars in one week!
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Pages: 0.5
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Redskin Renegade

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: western
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Pages: 2
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Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: non-fiction
Feature(s): Curious Facts About Stamps
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Pages: 1
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: western
First Line: I suppose it was silly of me, but I asked Bronc Peeler to follow you!
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Reprint Notes: from Bronc Peeler Sundays (Consolidated News) 19XX-XX-XX - 19XX-XX-XX
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Pages: 3
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Buffalo Jones

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: biography, non-fiction
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Pages: 1
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Hammer Throwing

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Genres: sports
Feature(s): Be a Champion
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Pages: 1

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