Animal Antics #10
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeAnimal Antics #10 (Sept–Oct 1947) sits squarely in the middle of DC's Golden Age funny-animal expansion, a period when the publisher was running the Raccoon Kids, Presto Pete, Goofy Goose, and Sheriff Corky as a rotating stable of anthropomorphic characters across a 52-page anthology that competed directly with Dell's dominant funny-animal line. The issue is representative of the creative moment when the Raccoon Kids — Otto Feuer's creation — had already supplanted Presto Pete as the series' anchor feature, a shift that ultimately gave the title enough staying power to run under three successive names (Animal Antics, Movietown's Animal Antics, and finally Raccoon Kids) for nearly a decade. As an artifact, the book illustrates how former animation studio talent — Feuer came out of Fleischer/Famous Studios — brought a fluid, cartoon-calibrated visual sensibility to the comic page at a time when the medium and the animation industry were still sharing personnel and aesthetic DNA.
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Animal Antics launched in April 1946 as part of DC/National's push into humorous anthropomorphic comics alongside Funny Stuff and Real Screen Comics. The series was edited initially by Bernie Breslauer and later by Larry Nadle, with Whitney Ellsworth receiving the on-masthead credit throughout. Letterer and logo designer Ira Schnapp was involved from the first issue, contributing the book's distinctive cover lettering and interior balloon work. Otto Feuer, who trained at the Cooper Union and built his craft at the Fleischer and Famous Studios animation houses before pivoting to comics around 1943, became one of the book's primary artistic engines, particularly on the Raccoon Kids feature that had already become the series' lead strip by the time issue #10 appeared.
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- Cover-dated September–October 1947; the tenth issue of DC/National's Animal Antics (Vol. 1), which ran for 23 issues before being retitled.
- The issue's contents include stories starring Presto Pete (6 pages), Crazy Fox (5 pages), Goofy Goose (4 pages), Custer Cat and Cheesy Mouse (5 pages), Dusty & Rusty (1 page), Sheriff Corky (5 pages), Benny Bear (1 page), and the Raccoon Kids (6 pages).
- The Raccoon Kids — starring brothers Rollo and Rudy Raccoon and their scheming Uncle Percy — had taken over as the series' lead feature beginning with issue #6, displacing the original headliner Presto Pete.
- Otto Feuer, a German-born artist who trained at the Cooper Union and worked at the Fleischer/Famous animation studios during the 1930s and early 1940s, handled the Raccoon Kids strip throughout the run of Animal Antics.
- Rube Grossman, another core contributor to the series, provided art on recurring features including Goofy Goose and Sheriff Corky across multiple issues.
- Letterer Ira Schnapp — later known for his superhero-title work at DC — designed the Animal Antics logo and lettered interior stories beginning with issue #1, continuing through the period that includes #10.
- The series was edited in practice by Bernie Breslauer (early issues) and then Larry Nadle, with Whitney Ellsworth listed as official editor on the masthead — a dual-credit arrangement common to DC funny-animal titles of the era.
- The Animal Antics title eventually evolved into Movietown's Animal Antics (starting with issue #24) and then into The Raccoon Kids (from issue #52), continuing the same numbering through issue #64 — a lineage that traces directly back through the run that issue #10 is part of.
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