Funnyman #5
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn "Wanted: One Corpse!", Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster deliver a delightfully twisted tale of crime and comic misadventure. When Doc Gimmick unleashes his bizarre pacifier to turn cops into peaceable puppets, his plans for robbery take a strange turn—while a struggling comic artist’s quest to make his character truly loathsome accidentally sparks a nationwide backlash. The story’s sharp wit and offbeat menace shine through Joe Shuster’s distinctive pencils and inks, both inside and on the cover.
In "Wanted: One Corpse!", Louie, a fugitive on the run after a big heist, tries to stay ahead of the law by orchestrating a scheme to frame a look-alike—only to accidentally enlist Funnyman in the plan. When Lola’s mistaken grab of the hero backfires, chaos ensues and the gang’s elaborate ruse collapses under the weight of their own poor planning.
In "The Downfall of Noodnick Nogoodnick," Funnyman swings into action when he spots the scheming Noodnik Nogodnik targeting a shoeshine boy and his dog. With a heroic leap and a quick save, the Comic Crimefighter thwarts the thief, only to uncover a surprising twist: the boy once belonged to a wealthy family, and Funnyman soon finds himself guiding him back to his grateful mother.
In "The Peculiar Pacifier," Doc Gimmick’s latest invention turns a cop into a peaceable pacifist with a single sniff, giving the mad scientist a new tool for crime—until his scheme collides with the fallout from a cartoonist’s creative crisis. When the artist behind the hated Louie the Lout strip is pushed to new extremes of loathsomeness, the backlash causes newspapers to drop the comic, leaving the world unprepared for the next absurd twist.
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Reprinted in Great American Comic Books #[nn] (2001), Siegel and Shuster's Funnyman #[nn] (2010), Comics about Cartoonists: Stories about the World's Oddest Profession #[nn] (2012)
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