Funnies Album #[9]/1950

In this 1949 humor short from Funnies Album #9, Mac and McCrow mistake a football club’s vacancy notice for a job opening for players, launching into a chaotic training session that ends with a broken window and a knocked-down chimney pot—all in the name of joining the team.

In this 1949 humor short from Funnies Album #9, the Professor's latest invention—a fizzy atomic drink—takes an unexpected turn when he tests it on his cat. With the feline rocketing through the window and the Professor in hot pursuit, chaos unfolds in two quick pages of madcap mischief.

In "The Valley of Evil," a dying stranger stumbles into the camp of Alan and Stan, gasping a desperate plea about his missing partner held by natives upcountry—prompting the two adventurers to venture into the unknown. Written by an unknown author and illustrated by an unknown artist, this taut two-page tale kicks off with a sudden, urgent call to action, setting a pulse-pounding tone from the first panel.

In this 1949 humor tale from Funnies Album #9, Grabber spots a rope hanging from a boarding house window and decides to climb it—only to be knocked off by a man in a hurry to escape without paying, sending him tumbling into a water butt.

A five-pound note floats into the hand of a man who owes four pounds to another—just enough to settle the debt, but not quite enough to keep the peace. When the note’s true owner demands it back, the simple transaction spirals into something far more complicated than a little money could explain.