Funnyman #3
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeFrom the creative team of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, this April 1948 issue of Funnyman finds the red-nosed, polka-dotted hero launching a spring-heeled flying kick straight at a gun-toting jewel thief on a fire escape outside the Karat Jeweler Co. — a wonderfully kinetic scene brought to life by cover artists Creig Flessel and Marvin Stein. The crook clutches his loot bag and reels from the impact, making it clear that Funnyman's brand of comedic heroics is anything but gentle. With "The Timid Menace" as the featured story, this issue delivers the kind of lighthearted action-adventure that made this series a charming corner of the late-1940s comics landscape.
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An impish, red-suited alien named Timidio from the Planet Dearth, lands in Empire City, and explains to a crowd that he is there to take control of the Earth. Not taking him seriously, news reporter Smelles takes him to his editor and Timidio immediately becomes a headline sensation. When the alien causes an intense lightning storm, Funnyman arrives on the scene, and is taken by the alien to Planet Dearth, where he is taken to the Council, where Funnyman proclaims his idiotic Earthling Manifesto. The Council is so startled by it that they send Funnyman home and give up invasion plans.
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