Comedy Comics #34
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeComedy Comics #34 (Fall 1946) stands as a document of Timely Comics in transition: it is the final issue of the title's original run, and — crucially — it completely abandoned the funny-animal format that had defined the series for four years, replacing anthropomorphic characters with career-girl leads Margie and Nellie the Nurse. This single issue therefore captures the exact moment Timely pivoted its humor line away from wartime funny-animal fare toward the post-war teen-comedy genre that would define the company's non-superhero output for years. It also carries the first appearance of Margie, a character whose name would later lend itself to a separate Timely/Atlas series, making the issue a quiet but concrete origin point in Marvel's humor publishing lineage.
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Comedy Comics itself was born from editorial recycling: Timely picked up the numbering from the cancelled Daring Mystery Comics, debuting Comedy Comics #9 in April 1942. Stan Lee edited the series in its early issues before being called into Army service; long-time staffer Vincent Fago took over editorial duties at #15 and held the post through #18, after which the editor of the remaining issues — including #34 — is unknown. By the time #34 appeared, reader tastes had shifted sharply away from funny animals toward the 'Betty and Veronica'-style teen humor pioneered by Archie Comics, and Timely's own rising titles like Millie the Model and Nellie the Nurse had already shown the company where the audience was going. Issue #34 reflects that awareness, effectively reimagining what Comedy Comics was — and foreshadowing the 1948 relaunch that would star Millie, Hedy, and Tessie outright.
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- Comedy Comics #34 is cover-dated Fall 1946 and is the final issue of the title's original run (Vol. 1), which began with #9 in April 1942 — a run of 26 issues in total.
- The title's numbering was inherited from Daring Mystery Comics, which Timely cancelled after eight issues; Comedy Comics picked up with #9 rather than starting at #1.
- Issue #34 marks the series' complete abandonment of funny-animal content — the only issue in the entire original run with no anthropomorphic animal characters.
- The character Margie makes her first appearance in this issue, per the Marvel Database; she later headlined her own Timely/Atlas series.
- Nellie the Nurse appears in this issue — her only appearance within Comedy Comics — as a guest feature, despite having her own concurrent solo title at Timely.
- The 'Eustace Hayseed and Choo Choo' feature (normally a staple of Gay Comics and drawn in a style evocative of Al Capp's Li'l Abner) makes its only appearance in Comedy Comics in this issue.
- Dauntless Dawson (Dawson Droop) also makes his first appearance in this issue, per the Marvel Database.
- When Timely revived the Comedy Comics title in 1948 (Vol. 2), the relaunch starred Millie the Model, Hedy De Vine, and Tessie the Typist — confirming that #34's teen-comedy pivot was the template for the series' second life.
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