Funny Folks #8
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeFunny Folks #8 (June 1947) is a representative early chapter in DC's post-war funny-animal publishing push, a sustained editorial experiment that ran alongside the publisher's superhero and genre titles during a period when humor anthologies were a reliable commercial staple. The issue continues the development of Nutsy Squirrel — the character who would eventually become prominent enough to inherit the series title — just one issue before Nutsy ascended to formal lead-feature status with issue #9. As a surviving example of National Periodical Publications' mid-tier humor line, it documents the studio-style anthology model in which a single series housed several recurring strip characters simultaneously, a format that shaped DC's humor output for the better part of a decade.
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Funny Folks launched in May 1946 as part of a wave of DC funny-animal titles that debuted that year, joining Animal Antics and others on newsstands during comics' postwar expansion into humor genres. The series was produced by National Periodical Publications and relied heavily on Rube Grossman, who drew the dominant Nutsy Squirrel feature as well as several other strips throughout the run. Issue #8, published June 1947, falls in the early portion of the series and reflects the anthology's rotating cast of characters before Nutsy fully took over editorial real estate.
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- Published June 1947 by National Periodical Publications (DC Comics) as part of the ongoing Funny Folks series (Volume 1).
- Cover art is attributed to Ronald Santi, though that credit carries an uncertainty flag in the primary bibliographic record.
- The issue contains multiple Nutsy Squirrel stories drawn by Rube Grossman — including one in which Nutsy finds a mirror and mistakes it for a picture — continuing the character's build toward series prominence.
- Also features a Sweeney and Willie story (art by Ronald Santi), a Willy Wolf story (art by Ed Dunn), and a Treetop Flats story involving J. Foney Foxx (art by Rube Grossman).
- Nutsy Squirrel, the series' anchor character, first appeared in Funny Folks #1 (April-May 1946), created by Rube Grossman.
- By issue #9 — one issue after this issue — Nutsy Squirrel formally became the lead feature of the series, making #8 the final issue before that editorial shift.
- The Funny Folks series ran 26 issues before being renamed Hollywood Funny Folks at #27, and eventually retitled Nutsy Squirrel at #61, running until 1957.
- Nutsy Squirrel was later acknowledged as part of DC's broader funny-animal continuity, receiving a cameo in Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew #1 (1982) as a legacy DC funny-animal character.
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