Hollywood Funny Folks #39
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeHollywood Funny Folks #39 is a representative mid-run chapter of one of DC's longest-running Golden Age funny-animal anthologies — a line that originated as Funny Folks in 1946 and would eventually evolve into the dedicated Nutsy Squirrel title by issue #61. Its significance as a snapshot lies partly in its hosting of a Captain Tootsie advertising strip: C.C. Beck's candy-sponsored superhero was one of the most widely distributed advertising comics of the postwar era, and his appearances in DC anthology titles like this one document how promotional comic art routinely shared page space with editorial content throughout the Golden Age. The issue also reflects DC's early investment in all-ages humor publishing, a strand of the company's output that has historically received less scholarly attention than its superhero line but was commercially central to the era.
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The Hollywood Funny Folks series was the renamed continuation of Funny Folks, which launched in May 1946 under the editorship of Sheldon Mayer and featured an ensemble of funny-animal characters with Nutsy Squirrel gradually emerging as the marquee star. The title change to Hollywood Funny Folks began with issue #27 in August 1950, and Rube Grossman became the principal artist on Nutsy stories throughout this phase of the run. Sheldon Mayer continued to contribute his own scripts and art — most notably his Bo Bunny feature — alongside Jack Schiff-written public service announcement inserts and cover art by Grossman. Captain Tootsie, created in 1943 by C.C. Beck and Pete Costanza as a one-page comic-strip advertisement for Tootsie Roll products, appeared in comic books across many publishers through the mid-1950s, with the ad strips drawn by the Beck studio in a style that closely echoed their Captain Marvel work.
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- Published October 1951 by National Periodical Publications (DC) as issue #39 of Hollywood Funny Folks.
- The series continued numbering from Funny Folks (which ran #1–26, May 1946–July 1950), and later became Nutsy Squirrel beginning with issue #61.
- Cover art for this issue is by Rube Grossman, who was the primary artist on Nutsy Squirrel stories throughout the Hollywood Funny Folks run.
- Indexed contents include a 'Treasure Island' Nutsy Squirrel parody (art by Rube Grossman), a Bo Bunny story (script and art by Sheldon Mayer), and a 'Lost – A Free Education' public service announcement starring Binky (script by Jack Schiff, art by Bob Oksner).
- Captain Tootsie — catalogued as appearing in this issue — is a superhero advertising character created in 1943 by C.C. Beck and Pete Costanza, originally debuting in Ace Comics #76 (July 1943) as a one-page promotional strip for Tootsie Roll candy products.
- Rollo is one of Captain Tootsie's kid sidekicks, collectively known as the Secret Legion (alongside Fatso and Fisty); the trio appeared with Tootsie throughout his advertising strip run in the 1940s–50s.
- Captain Tootsie ad strips appeared across many publishers' comics and were drawn by the C.C. Beck studio, which also produced the Captain Marvel material at Fawcett — giving the strips a visual kinship with superhero comics of the era.
- The Captain Tootsie character was later revived in Image Comics' Savage Dragon beginning with issue #199 (2014), establishing a modern continuity for the Golden Age advertising hero.
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