New Funnies
#76
(June 1943)
Dell,
1942 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 68
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1943 ?
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
- Editing
- Oskar Lebeck (editor)
Issue Notes
Issue code number: N.F.#76. Lebeck credit per info in Michael Barrier's book Funnybooks the Improbable Glories of the Best American Comic Books. Previous indexer credited Eleanor Packer.
[no title indexed]
Andy Panda / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
- Characters
- Andy Panda; Little Eight Ball (cameo); Raggedy Ann (cameo); Raggedy Andy (cameo); Oswald the Rabbit (cameo); Felix the Cat (cameo)
[no title indexed]
activity / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- A. W. Nugent (signed)
- Inks
- A. W. Nugent (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
[Saving a Lion Tamer]
Andy Panda / comic story / 10 pages
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
- Characters
- Andy Panda
- Synopsis
- Andy saves a lion tamer's life by talking to the lions in their own language, and the circus owner rewards him with a bag of money that Andy gives to a poor family.
- Reprints
-
in Barks Bear Book (Editions Enfin, 1979 series) (2ème trimestre 1979) -
in The Unavailable Carl Barks (In Color) (Kim Weston, 2016 series) (2016)
-
Indexer Notes
Art submitted January 16, 1943. Carl Barks: "Some office staffer wrote it, maybe Eleanor Packer, who was editor of the L.A. division then." (August 1967 letter to Michael Barrier). Notes and synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (M. Lilien, 1982).
All non-animals depicted as real people.
Du Bois is credited as writer in Michael Barrier's book Funnybooks the Improbable Glories of the Best American Comic Books.
[no title indexed]
Raggedy Ann / comic story / 10 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- See - over there in the deserted garden! A strange dog!
- Genre
- humor; children; fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Raggedy Ann; Raggedy Andy; Sunny Bunny; a stray dog; a loonie; Maizie Moocow
Indexer Notes
Credits per info in Michael Barrier's book Funnybooks the Improbable Glories of the Best American Comic Books.
[no title indexed]
Li'l Eight Ball / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Hope dey's a pretty rainbow after the rain!
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Li'l Eight Ball; Mr. Raccoon and his two boys
[no title indexed]
The Brownies / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Snoopy! Floopy! Blimpy! Come here! There's work to do!
- Genre
- humor; fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Hermie, an old hermit; Snoppy, Floopy and Blimpy, three brownies
On Cannibal Island
Felix the Cat / comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Felix the Cat; a tribe of cannibals
- Keywords
- Cannibal Island
Indexer Notes
Racial stereotype
[no title indexed]
Oswald the Rabbit / comic story / 8 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Oh, boy! This sail is some invention!
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Oswald; Woody Woodpecker; two homeless owls
Indexer Notes
Woody is revealed to have a mechanical brain. Du Bois script per info in Michael Barrier's book Funnybooks the Improbable Glories of the Best American Comic Books.
[no title indexed]
Billy and Bonny Bee / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Frank Thomas (signed)
- Inks
- Frank Thomas (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- All right, Billy and Bonny ... here are your flight instructions ...
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Billy Bee; Bonny Bee; Mr. Scorpion, a baker, and his aide; an ant worker; The Queen Bee's Royal Guard
[no title indexed]
Mr. Twee Deedle / comic story / 8 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- How would you like to pick mother a nice bouquet of daisies ...
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Mr. Twee Deedle; Dicky, Dolly, and their dog, Micky; Terressa Turtle; Tommy Turtle; two scoundrel boys; Frankie Frog; Charlie Cricket and his orchestra; Frieda and Freddy Field Mouse, bride and groom; Oliver Owl, reverend; Roscoe Rabbit, best man; Rudolph Rat
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
[no title indexed]
Andy Panda -
1.
[no title indexed]
-
2.
[Saving a Lion Tamer]
Andy Panda -
3.
["See - over there in the deserted garden! A strange dog!"]
Raggedy Ann -
4.
["Hope dey's a pretty rainbow after the rain!"]
Li'l Eight Ball -
5.
["Snoopy! Floopy! Blimpy! Come here! There's work to do!"]
The Brownies -
6.
On Cannibal Island
Felix the Cat -
7.
The Paper Doll Boy to the Rescue
-
8.
["Oh, boy! This sail is some invention!"]
Oswald the Rabbit -
9.
["All right, Billy and Bonny ... here are your flight instructions ..."]
Billy and Bonny Bee -
10.
["How would you like to pick mother a nice bouquet of daisies ..."]
Mr. Twee Deedle -
11.
["This swell 8" x 10 1/2" picture in full color suitable for framing free!"]
-
12.
["Free! This 8" x 10 1/2" picture of lovable Andy Panda, in full color"]
This issue was modified by, among others
- Katie
- Nick Caputo
- Peter Croome
- Merlin Haas
- Scott Pell
- Claus Simonsen
- Jim Stangas
All portions of the Grand Comics Database™, except where noted otherwise, are
copyrighted by the GCD and are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0). This includes but is not necessarily limited to our database schema and data distribution format.