Funnyman (comics)
Funnyman is a fictional comic book character whose adventures were published in 1948 by Magazine Enterprises.
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[edit] 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.
The duo's new creation, Funnyman, starred in a series that ran just six issues (cover-dated Jan.-Aug. 1948). The premiere issue was preceded the previous month by a black-and-white "ashcan" printing for copyright reasons.
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.
[edit] Fictional character biography
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.
Discovering that he enjoys fighting crime, Larry begins a career as a costumed crime fighter under the alias Funnyman.
[edit] Further reading
- Gordon, Mel and Andrae, Thomas (June 2010). Siegel and Shuster’s Funnyman: The First Jewish Superhero From the Creators of Superman. Feral House. pp. 240. ISBN 1932595783.
[edit] References
- Funnyman at Don Markstein's Toonopedia
- Funnyman at the Grand Comics Database
- Funnyman at the Comic Book DB
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