Issue: #25
Published: August 1936, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 68, Editing: Stephen Douglas
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 #24, but this 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: |
Strange As It Seems |
| Credits: |
Script: John Hix (credited) | Pencils: John Hix (credited) | Inks: John Hix (credited) | Letters: John Hix ? |
| Genre: |
Non-fiction |
| Characters: |
Tamerlane |
| Cartoon (1 page) |
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| Featuring: |
Goofie Gags |
| Credits: |
Letters: Victor E. Pazmiño ? |
| Genre: |
Humor |
| Comic Story (0 pages) |
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| Featuring: |
The Nut Bros. |
| Characters: |
Ches Wal |
| Comic Story (1 page) |
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| Featuring: |
Our Boarding House |
| Genre: |
Humor |
| Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword (1 page) |
We Are Observing Our Birthday! |
| Featuring: |
Let's Get Into a Huddle! |
| Credits: |
Script: Stephen Douglas | 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, Soldier of Fortune |
| Synopsis: |
Captain Easy finds himself among a native tribe and is told he must marry the matriach, the fierce Wogga Zazula. |
| Genre: |
Adventure |
| Characters: |
Captain Easy Wogga Zazula |
| Comic Story (1 page) |
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| Featuring: |
Alley Oop |
| Synopsis: |
Alley Oop and Zabo have promoted a popular battle with axes between two fierce opponents. But they refuse to fight unless they get a bigger cut of the gate, so in a real frenzy Alley knocks them both out. |
| Genre: |
Adventure Historical |
| Characters: |
Alley Oop Zabo Killer Kid Kar Zabo The Terrible |
| Cartoon (0 pages) |
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| Featuring: |
Such Is Life |
| Genre: |
Humor |
| Comic Story (0 pages) |
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| Featuring: |
Dumb-Bells |
| Credits: |
Script: Charles J. Dunn ?; Gar Schmitt ? [as GAR] (signed) | Pencils: Charles J. Dunn ?; Gar Schmitt ? [as GAR] (signed) | Inks: Charles J. Dunn ?; Gar Schmitt ? [as GAR] (signed) |
| Comic Story (3 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 |
| Activity (1 page) |
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| Featuring: |
Magic Made Easy |
| Comic Story (0 pages) |
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| Featuring: |
"Holly" of Hollywood |
| Genre: |
Humor |
| Characters: |
Holly |
| Comic Story (1 page) |
Eddie Loses His Appetite For Rabbitt |
| Featuring: |
Keeping Up With the Joneses |
| Genre: |
Humor |
| Comic Story (0 pages) |
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| Featuring: |
Footprints on the Sands of Time |
| Genre: |
Humor |
| Characters: |
Bill |
| Comic Story (1 page) |
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| Featuring: |
Amaze-A-Minute |
| Genre: |
Non-fiction |
| Comic Story (1 page) |
The Story of the Phillipines- Part V |
| Genre: |
Historical |
| Comic Story (1 page) |
The Runaway Changes His Mind |
| Featuring: |
The Nebbs |
| Genre: |
Humor |
| Comic Story (0 pages) |
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| Featuring: |
Fisher's History of Boxing |
| Credits: |
Script: Al Capp [as Ham Fisher] | Pencils: Al Capp [as Ham Fisher] | Inks: Al Capp [as Ham Fisher] |
| Genre: |
Sports |
| Characters: |
Firpo Jack Dempsey |
| Comic Story (1 page) |
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| Featuring: |
Happy Daze |
| Genre: |
Humor |
| Characters: |
Happy Daze |
| 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: |
The Adventures of Jabby |
| Genre: |
Humor Animal |
| Characters: |
Jabby |
| Comic Story (2 pages) |
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| Synopsis: |
Oaky, a sheep herder, decides he wants to join the royal court, so he hammers a suit of iron from a sheet taken from the roof, dragoons the old cart horse Nellie as his steed, and off he rides into adventure and romance. |
| Genre: |
Adventure Humor Historical |
| Characters: |
Oaky Doaks Pa Doaks King Cedric |
| Cartoon (0 pages) |
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| Featuring: |
Such Is Life |
| Genre: |
Humor |
| Comic Story (0 pages) |
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| Featuring: |
Dumb-Bells |
| Credits: |
Script: Charles. J. Dunn [as Gar] | Pencils: Charles. J. Dunn [as Gar] | Inks: Charles. J. Dunn [as Gar] |
| Comic Story (1 page) |
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| Featuring: |
Screen Oddities |
| Credits: |
Script: Capt. Roscoe Fawcett | Pencils: Thompson (?) | Inks: Thompson (?) |
| 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: |
Flapper Fanny |
| Genre: |
Humor |
| Characters: |
Fanny |
| Comic Story (1 page) |
Business of Stretching a Point |
| Featuring: |
Salesman Sam |
| Genre: |
Humor |
| Characters: |
Salesman Sam Howdy |
| Comic Story (1 page) |
Radio Trouble |
| Featuring: |
The Bungle Family |
| Genre: |
Humor |
| Characters: |
George Bungle |
| Comic Story (0 pages) |
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| Featuring: |
Otto Honk |
| Characters: |
Otto Honk |
| Comic Story (1 page) |
The Willetts |
| Featuring: |
Out Our Way |
| Genre: |
Humor |
| Advertisement (1 page) |
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| Featuring: |
Johnson Smith & Co. |
| Credits: |
Script: ? (ad copy) | Pencils: ? (illustrations) | Inks: ? (illustrations) | Letters: typeset |
| Advertisement (1 page) |
New is the Daisy watchword for 1936 |
| Featuring: |
Daisy Air Rifles |
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