1941 CRACKAJACK FUNNIES # 40 PRE-WW2 THE OWL: DELL’S ANSWER TO BATMAN For Sale

CRACKAJACK FUNNIES # 40 OCT 1941

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In between helping to pioneer the modern comic book withThe FunniesandFamous Funnies, and becoming a juggernaut best known for Disney comic books, Dell Publishing (this comic, however was published by Whitman) made a brief excursion into superheroes along with the rest of the comics industry during the Golden Age. A character called the Owl was one of the most notable parts of that effort. The Owl was a crime-fighting costumed superhero published primarily from 1940-1943, first inCrackajack Funniesand then inPopular Comics. The definitive version of the character was created byFrank Thomas, likely from a concept by editorOskar Lebeck, and debuted inCrackajack Funnies #25in July 1940. The character is private detective and millionaire playboy Nick Terry, who used his wealth to fund his crime-fighting activities as the Owl, most notably with his Owl plane. Terry's fiance, newspaper reporter Belle Wayne quickly discovers his secret identity and becomes his costumed sidekick Owl Girl. The Owl was Dell's answer to Batman.Crackajack Funnies was technically never a Dell title, but the Popular Comics series featuring the Owl's later adventures was published by Dell.Crackajack Funnieswas a Whitman Publishing Co. series, and editor Oscar Lebeck worked for Whitman. Whitman was a publishing subsidiary of Western Printing & Lithographic Co. and Dell Publishing had a relationship with Western on a number of fronts at this time.

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