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3 unusual facts about The Funnies


1920s in comics

January 16: Dell Comics publishes The Funnies #1, the first American newsstand comic book of all-original material.

Foxy Grandpa

In 1929, the strip appeared in America's first comics periodical, The Funnies.

The Funnies

Dell Publishing's second publication by this name was a standard American comic book published during the 1930s and 1940s period fans and historians call the Golden Age of Comic Books.



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