Dell#1
The Funnies
#1
Jan 1929
Issues
36 issues
Sources
Catalog data from the Grand Comics Database is licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 and was normalized by The Collector. Cover images belong to their publishers.
Catalog data from the Grand Comics Database is licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 and was normalized by The Collector. Cover images belong to their publishers.
#3
Jan 1929
Who made the most issues of this run, with the issues they span.
Information about this series has been taken from "The American Comic Book: The Evolutionary Era, 1884-1939" by Denis Gifford & US Catalog of Copyright Entries, Periodicals for 1929 & 1930.
Weekly (#1-4; 22-36), Monthly (#5-17), Every Three Weeks (#18-21)
Issues #1 to 4 published by: Film Humor, Inc Issues #5 on: Dell Publishing Co. 100 Fifth Avenue, New York NY; Harry Steeger (editor); Abril Lamarque (comic art editor); Edythe Seims (assistant editor); George T. Delacorte, Jr. (managing editor)
Issues #1-2, #6-21 were 24 pages; #3-5 were 32 pages; the final issues, #22-36, were reduced to 16 pages, but priced at 5 cents. The first American newsstand comic book of all original material; early issues lacked a cover scene, and were therefore more like a newspaper insert or UK style comic, but sold independently.
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.
From the Grand Comics Database.