All Funny Comics #7
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeAll Funny Comics #7 (June 1945) is a representative chapter of DC's Golden Age humor anthology experiment — one of relatively few titles the publisher produced during the wartime era specifically devoted to comedy rather than superheroes. Its significance for collectors lies primarily in the presence of a Captain Tootsie one-page advertisement strip: these C.C. Beck–drawn promotional pages, embedded across dozens of comics from multiple publishers beginning in 1943, constitute one of the earliest sustained examples of a fully costumed superhero used as a corporate advertising mascot, predating the modern licensed-character marketing era by decades. The issue also showcases the anthology model DC employed to keep humor characters like Genius Jones, Dover and Clover, and Penniless Palmer circulating across multiple titles simultaneously, a distribution strategy that kept the company's comedic output alive even as superhero books dominated newsstand real estate.
In "Twins Who Were Nobody's Relatives!", two unlikely heroes—Fatso and his mysterious twin—find themselves at the center of a quiet neighborhood mystery when a carrier pigeon becomes the key to stopping Red the Terror. With art by C. C. Beck and inks by Pete Costanza, this 1945 tale delivers classic DC charm, while the cover by Stan Kaye captures the moment just before the alarm is raised.
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All Funny Comics launched in December 1943 as a dedicated humor anthology within the DC/National Comics line, running for 23 issues through June 1948. Most of its recurring features — including Genius Jones, Dover and Clover, and Penniless Palmer — were shared properties that ran concurrently in other DC anthologies such as More Fun Comics, giving the series the character of a humor 'second home' rather than an originating title. The Captain Tootsie strip appearing in issue #7 was not an editorial creation by DC but a paid advertising feature: C.C. Beck (the Captain Marvel artist at Fawcett) and writer Rod Reed created the character in 1943 for the Tootsie Roll candy company, with Pete Costanza joining Beck on art duties after the strip's early installments. These one-page adventure ads were placed across comics from multiple publishers and in newspaper Sunday pages throughout the 1940s and into the mid-1950s.
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- Published June 1945 by DC Comics; 52 pages, full color; part of the 23-issue All Funny Comics anthology series (December 1943–June 1948).
- Cover art by Stan Kaye, who also drew the Genius Jones story inside the issue.
- Editorial stories confirmed in this issue include: Genius Jones ('Twins Who Were Nobody's Relatives'), Hamilton and Egbert ('Sleep Machine'), Two-Gun Percy ('No Noose is Good Noose'), Sadface Charlie ('What the Doctor Ordered'), Dover and Clover ('Museum Manhunt'), and Penniless Palmer ('Dead Heat With Danger,' written by Ken L. Fitch, art by Thurston Harper).
- Captain Tootsie, Rollo, and Fatso appear as part of a one-page Tootsie Roll advertising strip — a paid ad, not an editorial DC story — a format that ran in comics across multiple publishers from 1943 through the mid-1950s.
- Captain Tootsie was created in 1943 by C.C. Beck (the primary artist of Fawcett's Captain Marvel) and writer Rod Reed; Pete Costanza later joined Beck as co-artist on the strip.
- Rollo is Captain Tootsie's principal kid sidekick; Fatso (a red-haired boy) and Fisty are fellow members of the 'Secret Legion,' the kid-gang ensemble that accompanied the Captain on his candy-fueled adventures.
- Captain Tootsie's visual design bore a deliberate resemblance to Captain Marvel/Shazam, reflecting Beck's dual role as the dominant artistic force behind both characters simultaneously.
- The Captain Tootsie strip later received two standalone comic book issues published by Toby Press in 1950, and the character was revived in Erik Larsen's Savage Dragon beginning with issue #199.
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