Hollywood Funny Folks #27
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeHollywood Funny Folks #27 marks a genuine publishing watershed: it is the first issue to carry the retitled masthead that replaced the long-running Funny Folks banner DC had used since 1946, making it the premiere issue of a distinct volume in the publisher's funny-animal line. Because the series would eventually shed the Hollywood Funny Folks name entirely and become the self-titled Nutsy Squirrel comic with issue #61, this issue sits at the origin point of a chain of three consecutive title evolutions — Funny Folks → Hollywood Funny Folks → Nutsy Squirrel — that trace the rising prominence of Nutsy as DC's flagship funny-animal star of the early 1950s. As one of DC's original anthropomorphic characters (not derived from any animated property), Nutsy and his supporting cast including Robert Rabbit represent a distinct strand of Golden Age humor comics that National Periodical Publications produced entirely in-house.
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Funny Folks was launched in April 1946 by editor and cartoonist Sheldon Mayer, who conceived it as a home for original funny-animal characters rather than licensed cartoon tie-ins. Nutsy Squirrel appeared from the very first issue of that predecessor title and had risen to lead-feature status by issue #9, establishing a loyal readership that justified the rebranding. The primary visual architect of the Nutsy strip throughout the run was artist Rube Grossman, whose loose, expressive line defined the character's look across the Hollywood Funny Folks era and into the eponymous solo title.
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- Hollywood Funny Folks #27 (September 1950, National Periodical Publications) is the first issue published under the retitled Hollywood Funny Folks masthead, directly continuing the numbering from Funny Folks.
- The series ran 34 issues (August 1950–July 1954) before its title changed again to Nutsy Squirrel with issue #61, which then ran through issue #72 (1957).
- Nutsy Squirrel — the strip's lead character — had been appearing since Funny Folks #1 (April 1946) and was the anchor feature of the anthology by issue #9 of that predecessor title.
- Robert Rabbit is a recurring supporting character in the Nutsy Squirrel stories, appearing alongside Nutsy and The Professor in stories throughout the Funny Folks / Hollywood Funny Folks run.
- Rube Grossman was the principal artist on Nutsy Squirrel stories across the Hollywood Funny Folks run and continued on the subsequent Nutsy Squirrel solo title.
- The Nutsy Squirrel characters were original DC creations, not based on any animated film or licensed property, distinguishing them from many competing funny-animal comics of the era.
- The series was published by Sheldon Mayer, the Hall of Fame editor-cartoonist who founded the Funny Folks line in 1946 as part of DC's broader post-war expansion into humor and funny-animal genres.
- The DC Database places Nutsy Squirrel (Earth-C) within DC's multiverse continuity, where his history — including the Hollywood Funny Folks appearances — was later retroactively incorporated into the publisher's cosmology.
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