The Funnies

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, [http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/tri046.html "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 October 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", [ [http://www.comics.org/details.lasso?id=75 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
* [http://www.dereksantos.com/comicpage/pregold2.html CBW Comic History: The Early Years...1896 to 1937, Part II]
* [http://www.collectortimes.com/~comichistory/Platinum.html The ComicBooks.com: The History of Comic Books]
* [http://www.toonopedia.com/dell.htm Don Markstein's Toonopedia: Dell Comics]
* [http://www.comics.org/series.lasso?SeriesID=83 Grand Comics Database: "The Funnies" (1936 series)]


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