Comicman

Born in the Golden Age pages of Funnyman #1 (1948), Comicman is a rare curiosity from the creative minds of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster — the legendary duo who gave the world Superman — working here for Magazine Enterprises in a lighter, more comedic corner of the comics universe. With only a handful of catalogued appearances, Comicman is very much a deep-cut discovery, sharing those vintage pages with characters like Funnyman and Laffman in what amounts to a wonderfully offbeat slice of late-1940s humor comics. The fact that this character's footprint stretches across reprints and rediscoveries as late as 2010 speaks to the enduring fascination with Siegel and Shuster's full body of work beyond their most famous creation. For collectors who love hunting the margins of Golden Age history, Comicman is exactly the kind of find that makes the hobby endlessly rewarding.