"SUN FUN KOMIKS NUMBER ONE" 1939 SATIRICAL COMIC BOOK.
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Thursday, November 10, 2011 12:00:00 PM (20 Minute Clock Begins At Thursday, November 10, 2011 12:00:00 PM)
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Auction #204 - Part II
Item numbers 1447 through 3204 in auction 204
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Item Description
8-1/8x10-7/8" with stiff paper covers and 32 pulp paper pages with some red accent color. Full front cover title is "Sun Fun Juniper J. Jones' Burlesque On Comics 15¢" with text across bottom "Read These Sensationally Insipid Saga Of Spineless Sam The Schlemiel". Wonderful center art image shows frightened man reading "Gus The Goon Comics" which has image of people killing each other on front cover and text on back cover "Super-Hyper Ultra-Colossal Gigantic Terrific Dynamic Ghastly Gristly Comics". Published by Sun Publications Inc. Chicago, Illinois edited by Bill O'Donnell. Artists include Nodel, Porcelli, Rowls, Maher. Humorous storyline tells of Juniper J. Jones "A Man At Peace With The World" slowly becoming corrupted from being "Introduced To His First Comic Magazine, With Its Amazing Heroes And Astounding Villains." Contents include crowd on street being wind blown after "Super Sam Just Passed Through", Mike Mayhem wearing suit and bow tie acting like superhero, school teacher telling boy "Put Down The Comic Book Stinky And Pay Attention To Your Geography Lesson!", publisher's offer of coloring set to color this comic available for a ten dollar gold piece, Juniper Jones campaigning for president, ad for "Corny's" cereal, story with "Ultra-Hyper-Super Sam" and his dog Snoosey fighting criminals and leaping over the desert, anti-Hitler, Mussolini, and Stalin ad, Nazis running from "Gus The Goon Comics" and take off on Robert Ripley titled "Believe It Or Not - This Comic Craze Has Even Got Ridley Going" showing him reading "Gus The Goon Comics". Covers have lt. dust soil with very narrow vertical dust streak at lower right side of front cover. Inside pages are clean, tight and VF. Listed as rare in Overstreet. Well done and funny. An historically important comic issued within one year of the first appearance of Superman appearing in Action Comics. Additional photos online.
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