The Funnies, #38

Published: December 1939

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The Funnies #38

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Issue Contents:
1 page adventure

Featuring The Funnies Contest

Story 1 1 page

"Free to boys and girls--- $25 in cash awards for Unscrambling these Scrambled Proverbs!"

Story Notes

Inside front cover

Story 2 4 pages humor

"---So you insist upon hot chili?"

Credits
Story Notes

© 1939 by Stephen Slesinger

Push-Button Railroading
Story 3 1 page
Boys! How Many of These Chemical Secrets Do You Know?
Story 4 1 page
Story 5 4 pages science fiction

"The great games of Warhoon have begun..."

Characters
Story Notes

© 1939 by Edgar Rice Burroughs Inc.

Story 6 5 pages humor

"Well, Dinny, it looks as if our little war is over!"

Characters
  • Alley Oop
  • Ooola
  • Dinny
  • Eeny
Reprint Notes

from Alley Oop daily (NEA) xxxx-xx-xx - xxxx-xx-xx

Story Notes

Copr. 1938 by NEA Service, Inc.

Electric Fish
Story 7 1 page non-fiction; nature
Story Notes

Copr. 1938 by NEA Service, Inc.

Winners of the August Contest

Featuring The Funnies Contest

Story 8 1 page
The Hound of Horror [Part 3]
Story 9 5 pages detective-mystery
Credits
Story Notes

© 1939 by R. S. Callender

Story 10 1 page humor

"Wow!"

Story Notes

Copr. 1938 by NEA Service, Inc.

Winners of the July Popularity Poll
Story 11 1 page
Story 12 4 pages western-frontier

"Lightning Jim, daring U.S. Marshal, and his faithful deputy, Whitey..."

Credits
Story Notes

© 1939 by Beatrice Creamery Co Writer credit from Dave Porta. Feature title shortened from issue #35.

Story 13 4 pages adventure

"Well, lads, how d'ye like the lovely isle of paradise?"

Characters
  • Wash Tubbs
  • Captain Easy
Credits
Reprint Notes

from Captain Easy Sundays (NEA) xxxx-xx-xx - xxxx-xx-xx

Story 14 6 pages adventure

"Rex has made his preparations for the first cruise in his super submarine..."

Credits
Story Notes

© 1939 by R. S. Callender

Story 15 4 pages crime

"While New York City sleeps, four figures labor furiously"

Credits
Story Notes

© 1939 by Stephen Slesinger

Story 16 5 pages fantasy

"Thru an accident Ojo's uncle Nunkie and Mrs. Pipt, the magicians wife..."

Characters
Credits
Story 17 6 pages detective-mystery

"Bud Lenoir 16 yr old witness of the Martin shooting..."

Story Notes

Based on Phillips H. Lord's famous radio program © 1939 by Phillips H. Lord Inc.

Faces
Story 18 0 pages
Story 19 1 page
Story 20 0 pages

"The January issue of The Funnies will be on sale December 15"

Story 21 1 page humor

"That lazy lummox!"

Reprint Notes

from Our Boarding House Sundays (NEA) xxxx-xx-xx

Story Notes

Copr. 1938 by NEA Service, Inc.

Story 22 8 pages adventure; aviation

"Bruce McKay, aviator and government agent, assign Ed to capture the Obermaster..."

Story Notes

© 1939 by R. S. Callender

Story 23 4 pages adventure

"Speed Martin ace cameraman for United Newsreel, arrives at Riverdale..."

Credits
Story Notes

© 1939 by R. S. Callender

Story 24 1 page
Story Notes

Inside back cover

The Sensational New All-Electric Erector
Story 25 1 page
Story Notes

Back cover