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Funnyman is a fictional comic book character whose adventures were published in 1948 by Magazine Enterprises. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...
Fiction (from the Latin fingere, to form, create) is storytelling of imagined events and stands in contrast to non-fiction, which makes factual claims about reality. ...
A comic book is a magazine or book containing the art form of comics. ...
Publication history
After leaving DC Comics and suing that company in a dispute over the rights to Superman, the character's co-creators, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, rejoined their former DC editor Vin Sullivan — who had bought their character and edited the earliest adventures — at his new company, Magazine Enterprises. DC Comics is one of the largest American companies in comic book and related media publishing. ...
Superman is a fictional character and one of the most famous and popular comic book superheroes of all time. ...
Jerome (Jerry) Siegel (October 17, 1914 - January 28, 1996) was the co-creator of Superman, the first of the great comic book heroes and one of the most recognizable fictional characters from the 20th century. ...
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Vincent Vin Sullivan (died on February 3, 1999) is an early comic book editor, artist, and publisher. ...
The duo's new creation, Funnyman, starred in a series that ran just six issues (cover-dated Jan.-Aug. 1948). This premiere issue was preceeded the previous month by a black-and-white "ashcan" printing for copyright reasons. Captain Thunder, soon to be Captain Marvel, on the cover of the ashcan copy of Flash Comics #1. ...
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A newspaper comic strip debuted in October 1948, but Funnyman also failed to find an audience in this format, and his strip was soon dropped. This article is about the comic strip, the sequential art form as published in newspapers and on the Internet. ...
Character history Larry Davis is a red haired television comedian with mannerisms based on those of Danny Kaye. Larry's manager/agent June Farrell talks him into performing a superhero-like stunt in order to obtain publicity. This stunt goes wrong when Larry finds himself in a real crime scene. Larry stops this criminal, not knowing what he is doing is real until after the fact. A comedian, or comic, is an entertainer who amuses an audience by making them laugh. ...
Kaye entertaining U.S. troops at Sasebo, Japan, 25 Oct 1945 David Daniel Kaminsky, known as Danny Kaye (January 18, 1913 – March 3, 1987) was an American actor, singer and comedian. ...
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Discovering that he enjoys fighting crime, Larry begins a career as a costumed crime fighter under the alias Funnyman.
References - Don Markstein's Toonopedia: Funnyman
- Grand Comics Database: Funnyman
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