The Funnies #1

A genuine piece of 1936 comics history, The Funnies #1 from Dell arrives billed as entertainment "For All the Family" and delivers with a cover by Gene Ahern that's all charm and slapstick energy. The scene captures a well-dressed couple — a mustachioed gentleman in a top hat and a fur-collared woman — riding in a bright red touring car, seemingly oblivious to the uniformed policeman they've just sent tumbling to the ground beside his stop sign. Inside, the lineup is a rich sampler of the era's newspaper strip favorites, including Alley-Oop, Mutt & Jeff, Captain Easy, Don Dixon, and many more — a genuine anthology treat for any fan of golden-age funny pages.