Collects stories from Funnyman (1947) #0-6 and newspaper strips.Įdited by Thomas Andrae and Mel Gordon. Jerks in the Works Funnyman The Teen-Age Terrors! Funnyman, Comicman, and Laffman The Truant Toy. Featuring some of the first published work by future Marvel legend Dick Ayers. Funnyman and a jewel thief race to capture a runaway robot kangaroo with a fortune in its pouch. Funnyman's rivals Comicman and Laffman try to outdo Funnyman and catch Flathead Floogie after he escapes police custody at Grand Central Station. When a superhero-style publicity stunt results in the capture of actual criminals, Larry decides to use his comedy as a force for good, and becomes Funnyman. TV comedian Larry Davis uses vaudeville-style shenanigans to fight bad guys. Famous as the "other" superhero created by Siegel and Shuster, who started the whole phenomenon with Superman. Art by Joe Shuster, Marvin Stein and Dick Ayers. Stories by Jerry Siegel, plus a text story by Ray Krank and Gardner Fox.
If you use the "Add to want list" tab to add this issue to your want list, we will email you when it becomes available. Thomas Andrae is the author of Batman and Me.This item is not in stock at M圜omicShop. Mel Gordon is the author of Voluptuous Panic: The Erotic World of Weimar Berlin. This book tells the back story of the unsuccessful strip and Siegel and Shuster’s ambition to have their funny Jewish superhero trump Superman. All the turmoil and personal disasters in Siegel and Shuster’s postwar life percolated into the comic strip. But when the naïve duo launched their new comic character Funnyman in 1947, it failed miserably. Their contract with the DC publishers was soon heralded as the most foolish agreement in the history of American popular culture.Īfter toiling on workman’s wages for a decade, Siegel and Shuster struggled to come up with a new superhero, one that would right their wrongs and prove that justice, fair-play, and zany craftsmanship was the true American way and would lead to ultimate victory.
Not only did they lose the ownership of the Superman character, they also agreed to write and illustrate it for ten years at ten dollars per page. Siegel and Shuster, two Jewish teenagers from Cleveland, sold the rights to their amazing and astonishingly lucrative comic book superhero to Detective Comics for $130 in 1938. Included are complete comic-book stories and daily and Sunday newspaper panels from Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster’s creative fiasco. Here is a kaleidoscopic analysis of Jewish humor as seen through Funnyman, a little-known super-heroic invention by the creators of Superman.
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