Funnyman
Funnyman #1 (Jan. 1948). Cover art by Joe Shuster.
Publication information
Publisher	Magazine Enterprises
First appearance	Funnyman #1 (Jan. 1948)
Created by	Jerry Siegel (writer) Joe Shuster (artist)
In-story information
Alter ego	Larry Davis
Partnerships	June Farrell Happy Sgt. Harrigan
Notable aliases	Comic Crimebuster

Funnyman is a comic book character whose adventures were published in 1948 by Magazine Enterprises.^[1]

Publication history

After leaving DC Comics and suing that company in a dispute over the rights to their character Superman, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster rejoined their former DC editor Vin Sullivan — who had edited the earliest Superman adventures — at his new company, Magazine Enterprises.^[2]

Siegel and Shuster's new creation, Funnyman, starred in a series that ran six issues (cover-dated Jan.–Aug. 1948).^[3]

In the first issue, Siegel and Shuster mocked what they saw as the rush of Superman clones in a story called "Funman, Comicman and Laffman".^[4] In the story, TV comedian Larry Davis dresses up in a costume to catch a fake criminal for a publicity stunt, but he catches a real criminal instead, and decides to become a superhero.

Funnyman's enemies include Doc Gimmick, a criminal robot, and the crime team of Schemer Beamer, Bug-Eyes, Crusher, Rockjaw and the Curve.^[5]

A newspaper comic strip debuted in October 1948, but Funnyman also failed to find an audience in this format, and the strip was soon dropped.^[6]

References

Further reading

• Gordon, Mel; Andrae, Thomas (2010). Siegel and Shuster's Funnyman: The First Jewish Superhero from the Creators of Superman. Feral House. p. 240. ISBN 978-1-932595-78-9.

External links

• Funnyman at the Comic Book DB (archived from the original)

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