Cartoon Characters From the Funny Papers
Favorite funnies from the fifties
You — or your parents or grandparents — might remember some of these popular comic strips from the funny pages back in the '50s.
They were syndicated and ran in newspapers nationwide, so the whole country could follow along with the adventures of superheroes, silly folks, detectives, cowboys and everyday folks in humorous circumstances.
Here you'll find more than 50 old names like Hopalong Cassidy, Flash Gordon, Blondie, Li'l Abner, Curly Kayo, Nancy, Brick Bradford, Etta Kett, Grandma, Barney Google, Mandrake the Magician, Tillie the Toiler, The Lone Ranger, Moon Mullins, Myrtle, The Heart of Juliet Jones and a few more.
Vintage Sunday comic funnies: Abbie an' Slats (1952)
Vintage '50s comic strip: Ferd'Nand (1952)
Old fifties funnies: Smilin Jack (1952)
Funnies section Eveready Battery ad – The child who wouldn't drown (1952)
Hopalong Cassidy and Rip Kirby
The San Francisco Examiner – Mar 1 1954
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Flash Gordon by Mac Raboy
The Philadelphia Inquirer – Jun 6 1954
Fifties comic strips Barney Google and Mandrake the Magician
The San Francisco Examiner – Oct 18 1954
Blondie and Grandma
The Bristol Herald Courier – Aug 9 1954
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Duck and Lil Abner
The Bristol Herald Courier – Aug 9 1954
Freckles and his Friends and Kerry Drake
The Ogden Standard Examiner – Oct 18 1954
Hale Frontier Scout and Bugs Bunny
The Ogden Standard Examiner – Oct 18 1954
Fifties comic strips Henry and Jiggs
The Bristol Herald Courier – Aug 9 1954
Hopalong Cassidy and Rip Kirby
The San Francisco Examiner – Oct 18 1954
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Etta Kett
Intelligencer Journal Jun 28 1954
The Lone Ranger and a certain Duck
The San Francisco Examiner – Mar 1 1954
Brick Bradford and Adventures of Patsy
Daily Independent Journal Jan 7 1954
Fifties comic strips Moon Mullins and Nancy
Myrtle and Secret Agent X-9
The San Francisco Examiner – Mar 1 1954
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Myrtle and The Heart of Juliet Jones
The San Francisco Examiner – Oct 18 1954
Orphan Annie and Secret Agent
The Bristol Herald Courier – Aug 9 1954
Roy Rogers and Dick Tracy
The Bristol Herald Courier – Aug 9 1954
Curly Kayo
The Daily News Journal Feb 23 1954
Fifties comic strips Roy Rogers and Dick Tracy
The Bristol Herald Courier – Aug 9 1954
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Vintage comics from the '50s Freckles and Alley Oop
Intelligencer Journal Jun 28 1954
Invisible Scarlet O'Neil and Ella Cinders
Marin Daily Independent Journal Jan 7 1954
Steve Roper and L'il Abner
The Ogden Standard Examiner – Oct 18 1954
The Lone Ranger and a Duck
The San Francisco Examiner – Oct 18 1954
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Big Ben Bolt
The Philadelphia Inquirer – Apr 18 1954
Bringing up Father
The San Francisco Examiner – Oct 18 1954
Fifties comic strip Funny Business by Hershberger
The Ogden Standard Examiner – Oct 18 1954
On our Way by J R Williams
The Ogden Standard Examiner – Oct 18 1954
Rusty Riley
The Philadelphia Inquirer – Jun 6 1954
Tillie the Toiler
The San Francisco Examiner – Mar 1 1954
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Fifties comic strip Tillie the Toiler
The San Francisco Examiner – Oct 18 1954
Will Yum
Oakland Tribune – Jul 18 1954
Fifties comic strips Barney Google and Mandrake the Magician
The San Francisco Examiner – Mar 1 1954
Modest Maidens panel
Daily Independent Journal Jan 7 1954
Muggs and Skeeter and Brick Bradford
The Daily Notes May 26 1954
Vintage comics from the '50s – Big Sister and Mutt and Jeff
Daily Independent Journal Jan 7 1954
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Vintage comic strip – The Gumps (1956)
Sunday comics: Harold Teen (1956)
Early Peanuts with Charlie Brown and Snoopy (1956)
John Sevier – Nolichucky Jack – An Old Glory story (1956)
Old '50s comic strip: Penny(1957)
Pogo (1957)
Men at Work (1957)
There Oughta Be a Law comic (1957)
Lolly (1957)
Mickey Finn (1957)
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