Issue: #22
Published: May 1936, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 68, Editing:
Color: Color Dimensions: Earlier Issues Standard Golden Age U. S.; Later Issues Standard Silver Age U.S. Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Notes: Almost all of the content of this comic consists of newspaper strip reprints modified to fit comic book format. The dates of publication of these strips have, in practically all cases, been removed.
The usual next issue’s on sale date is missing from the “Let's Get into a Huddle” page in #21, but issue #25 contains the statement, “For two years now we have been coming to you in FAMOUS FUNNIES every month - on the 15th of every month.”
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| Cover (1 page) |
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| Featuring: |
Our Boarding House |
| Genre: |
Humor |
| Comic Story (1 page) |
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| Featuring: |
Goofie Gags |
| Genre: |
Humor |
| Comic Story (1 page) |
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| Featuring: |
Our Boarding House |
| Genre: |
Humor |
| Characters: |
Armistice |
| Comic Story (1 page) |
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| Featuring: |
Adventures of Jabby |
| Genre: |
Humor Animal |
| Characters: |
Jabby |
| Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword (1 page) |
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| Featuring: |
Let's Get Into a Huddle! |
| Credits: |
Letters: typeset |
| Comic Story (1 page) |
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| Featuring: |
Above the Crowd |
| Credits: |
Script: Stookie Allen | Pencils: Stookie Allen | Inks: Stookie Allen |
| Genre: |
Non-fiction |
| Comic Story (2 pages) |
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| Featuring: |
Captain Easy |
| Synopsis: |
While exploring an undersea city, Easy discovers an enormous statue of a monkey made of gold. He snaps off the tail and brings it to his boat, then dives again and saws off the head, only to find it is hollow. He is caught by a tentacle of a huge octopus. |
| Genre: |
Adventure |
| Characters: |
Captain Easy Pippy |
| Comic Story (1 page) |
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| Featuring: |
Alley Oop |
| Genre: |
Humor |
| Characters: |
Foozy |
| Comic Story (1 page) |
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| Featuring: |
Alec and Itchy |
| Credits: |
Script: Jimmy George [as George] (credited) | Pencils: Merle Mulholland [as Mulholland] (credited and signed) | Inks: Merle Mulholland [as Mulholland] (credited and signed) |
| Genre: |
Humor Children |
| Characters: |
Alec Itchy Mr. Herman |
| Comic Story (0 pages) |
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| Featuring: |
Otto Honk |
| Genre: |
Humor |
| Characters: |
Otto Honk |
| Activity (1 page) |
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| Featuring: |
Magic Made Easy |
| Comic Story (4 pages) |
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| Credits: |
Script: Philip Francis Nowlan | Pencils: Rick Yager [as Dick Calkins] (signed) | Inks: Rick Yager [as Dick Calkins] (signed) |
| Genre: |
Science Fiction |
| Comic Story (0 pages) |
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| Featuring: |
Footprints on the Sands of Time |
| Genre: |
Humor |
| Characters: |
Bill |
| Comic Story (1 page) |
A Tired Crew |
| Featuring: |
The Nebbs |
| Genre: |
Humor |
| Characters: |
Pappy |
| Comic Story (1 page) |
Simp's Silver Dollar Disappears |
| Featuring: |
Simp O'Dill |
| Genre: |
Humor |
| Characters: |
Simp O'Dill |
| Comic Story (0 pages) |
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| Featuring: |
Fisher's History of Boxing |
| Credits: |
Script: Ham Fisher (?) | Pencils: Ham Fisher | Inks: Ham Fisher |
| Genre: |
Sports |
| Characters: |
Jack Dempsey Fred Fulton |
| Comic Story (1 page) |
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| Featuring: |
This Curious World |
| Credits: |
Script: William Ferguson | Pencils: William Ferguson | Inks: William Ferguson |
| Genre: |
Non-fiction |
| Comic Story (1 page) |
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| Featuring: |
Freckles and His Friends |
| Credits: |
Script: Fred Fox [as Blosser] (credited) |
| Genre: |
Humor |
| Characters: |
Freckles McGoosey Elmer Jerry |
| Activity (1 page) |
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| Featuring: |
Funland |
| Credits: |
Script: A. W. Nugent | Pencils: A. W. Nugent | Inks: A. W. Nugent |
| Comic Story (1 page) |
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| Featuring: |
Flapper Fanny |
| Genre: |
Humor |
| Characters: |
Fanny |
| Comic Story (1 page) |
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| Featuring: |
Salesman Sam |
| Genre: |
Humor |
| Characters: |
Sam Duffy |
| Comic Story (0 pages) |
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| Genre: |
Humor |
| Comic Story (1 page) |
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| Featuring: |
Seaweed Sam the Rhyming Rover |
| Synopsis: |
Sam and Columbus escape from the Indians and throw rocks, which they discover are gold. They are on their way to Eldorado. |
| Genre: |
Humor |
| Characters: |
Seaweed Sam Columbus |
| Comic Story (1 page) |
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| Featuring: |
Amaze-A-Minute |
| Genre: |
Non-fiction |
| Comic Story (0 pages) |
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| Featuring: |
Dumb-Bells |
| Credits: |
Script: GAR | Pencils: GAR | Inks: GAR |
| Comic Story (0 pages) |
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| Featuring: |
Dizzy Dramas |
| Genre: |
Humor |
| Comic Story (4 pages) |
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| Featuring: |
Jane Arden / Lena Pry |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Jack W. McGuire (credited & signed) | Inks: Jack W. McGuire (credited & signed) |
| Genre: |
Adventure Humor |
| Characters: |
Jane Arden Lena Pry |
| Comic Story (1 page) |
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| Featuring: |
Flight |
| Credits: |
Script: W. D. Tipton | Pencils: J. H. Mason | Inks: J. H. Mason |
| Genre: |
Non-fiction |
| Comic Story (1 page) |
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| Featuring: |
Strange As It Seems |
| Credits: |
Script: John Hix | Pencils: John Hix | Inks: John Hix |
| Genre: |
Non-fiction |
| Cartoon (1 page) |
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| Featuring: |
Such Is Life |
| Genre: |
Humor |
| Characters: |
Gus |
| Comic Story (0 pages) |
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| Featuring: |
Dumb-Bells |
| Credits: |
Script: GAR | Pencils: GAR | Inks: GAR |
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