Comedy Comics #24
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeComedy Comics #24 (Summer 1944) sits squarely in the middle of Timely's Golden Age funny-animal experiment — a wartime anthology built around Super Rabbit, Ernie Hart's superhero-parody cartoon character who debuted in Comedy Comics #14 and became one of Timely's most-read non-superhero features of the decade. The series itself represents a deliberate pivot by publisher Martin Goodman away from his superhero 'bread and butter' to meet wartime demand for lighter, all-ages humor content, and Comedy Comics was one of Timely's two flagship funny-animal titles — the other being Krazy Komics — anchoring the company's separate 'animator bullpen.' That bullpen was a proving ground for future comics luminaries including Al Jaffee, who would later define MAD Magazine, and it operated largely independently from the superhero wing of the same office, making the Comedy Comics run a fascinating parallel track in the early history of what became Marvel Comics.
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Comedy Comics began in April 1942 as a direct continuation of the cancelled superhero title Daring Mystery Comics, inheriting its numbering at issue #9 and quickly transitioning from leftover superhero inventory strips toward a stable funny-animal roster. A young Stan Lee — already Timely's editor-in-chief — also wrote and edited Comedy Comics in its early issues before being drafted into the Army around issue #15, at which point veteran Timely animator Vincent Fago took over editorial duties. Fago himself departed after issue #18, and by the time issue #24 appeared in mid-1944, editorial credit is largely unverified in surviving records; much of the issue-by-issue creative work from this period remains uncredited to this day.
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- Published by Timely Comics (operating under the Marvel Comics corporate imprint); cover-dated Summer 1944, released May 10, 1944.
- Issue #24 carried the lead feature title 'Super Rabbit,' confirming Super Rabbit as the cover star and headline character of the issue.
- Super Rabbit — Timely's signature funny-animal superhero — was created by cartoonist Ernie Hart and debuted in Comedy Comics #14 (March 1943); he headlined the series through issue #33 (September 1946).
- The Comedy Comics series itself was born from the cancelled superhero title Daring Mystery Comics, which shifted to humor content with issue #9 (April 1942) and was formally renamed Comedy Comics.
- Comedy Comics and Krazy Komics were Timely's two dedicated funny-animal anthology titles; Super Rabbit anchored Comedy Comics while Ziggy Pig and Silly Seal (created by Al Jaffee) anchored Krazy Komics.
- Super Rabbit appeared across multiple Timely anthology titles during this period — including All Surprise Comics, Comic Capers, and Animated Funny Comic-Tunes — and received his own solo title, Super Rabbit Comics, which launched in Fall 1944, the same season as this issue.
- Early issues of Comedy Comics featured work by Stan Lee (as writer and editor), Basil Wolverton, Mike Sekowsky, Al Gabriele, and a young Al Jaffee; by issue #24, most credited name talent had departed and specific creative credits for individual issues are unknown.
- The series was produced by Timely's 'animator bullpen,' a separate creative unit from the superhero group, led by former Fleischer Studios animator Vincent Fago, which also staffed Terrytoons Comics and Krazy Komics.
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