The Funnies
The Funnies is an American publication of the late 1920s that was a seminal precursor of comic books.
In 1929, George T. Delacorte Jr.’s Dell Publishing, founded eight years earlier, published The Funnies, described by the Library of Congress as “a short-lived newspaper tabloid insert”.U.S. Library of Congress, “American Treasures of the Library of Congress” exhibition (This is not to be confused with Dell’s later same-name comic book, which began publication in 1936.) Comics historian Ron Goulart describes the 16-page, four-color, newsprint periodical as “more a Sunday comic section without the rest of the newspaper than a true comic book. But it did offer all original material and was sold on newsstands”.Goulart, Ron. Comic Book Encyclopedia (Harper Entertainment, New York, 2004) ISBN 0-06-053816-3
The magazine ran 36 issues, published Saturdays through Oct. 16, 1930. The cover price rose from 10¢ to 30¢ with issue #3. This was reduced to a nickel from issue #22 to the end.
The Funnies helped lay the groundwork for two subsequent publications in 1933: Eastern Color Printing’s similar proto-comic book, the eight-page newsprint tabloid Funnies on Parade, and the Eastern Color / Dell collaboration Famous Funnies: A Carnival of Comics,Grand Comics Database: Famous Famous - Carnival of Comics considered by historians the first true American comic book.Goulart, p.144, for example, calls it “the cornerstone for one of the most lucrative branches of magazine publishing”.
Footnotes
References
- All in Color for a Dime by Dick Lupoff & Don Thompson ISBN 0-87341-498-5
- The Official Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide by Robert Overstreet — Edition #35 ISBN 0-375-72107-X
- The Steranko History of Comics, Vol. 1 & 2, by James Steranko — Vol. 1 ISBN 0-517-50188-0
- CBW Comic History: The Early Years…1896 to 1937, Part II
- The ComicBooks.com: The History of Comic Books
- Don Markstein’s Toonopedia: Dell Comics
- Grand Comics Database: The Funnies (1936 series)
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