Dell Comics · Popular Comics #139 · September 1947 · 10¢ · 52 pages
Grade: VG+ 4.5
No confirmed cover artist credit on file for this issue.
Felix the Cat leads this issue, as he does on the cover. The Felix material here derives from the Otto Messmer and Joe Oriolo newspaper strip tradition — wordplay, impossible-object gags, and Felix's signature mix of feline cool and cartoon logic that doesn't answer to physics. The strips are short-form, punchy, and built around single-premise visual jokes, exactly as they ran in syndication.
Zack Mosley's Smilin' Jack rounds out the anthology — aviation adventure with a square-jawed pilot protagonist, romantic entanglements, and the kind of propeller-age derring-do that made the strip a fixture in American papers from the 1930s onward. Jack's inset portrait on the cover signals his ongoing presence in the book's lineup. Additional strips typical of the Popular Comics format — likely including Terry and the Pirates-era adventure material and humor fillers — fill out the remaining pages, though specific titles and page counts for this issue are not confirmed in available records.
Popular Comics launched in 1936 as one of Dell's first ongoing anthology titles and ran to #145 — this is issue 139, deep in the final stretch of a run that helped establish the newsstand comic book format. Felix the Cat's appearances here predate the character's sustained Dell one-shot and series output of the late 1940s and early 1950s.
Condition VG+ 4.5 — .
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Dell Comics · Popular Comics #139 · September 1947 · 10¢ · 52 pages
Grade: VG+ 4.5
No confirmed cover artist credit on file for this issue.
Felix the Cat leads this issue, as he does on the cover. The Felix material here derives from the Otto Messmer and Joe Oriolo newspaper strip tradition — wordplay, impossible-object gags, and Felix's signature mix of feline cool and cartoon logic that doesn't answer to physics. The strips are short-form, punchy, and built around single-premise visual jokes, exactly as they ran in syndication.
Zack Mosley's Smilin' Jack rounds out the anthology — aviation adventure with a square-jawed pilot protagonist, romantic entanglements, and the kind of propeller-age derring-do that made the strip a fixture in American papers from the 1930s onward. Jack's inset portrait on the cover signals his ongoing presence in the book's lineup. Additional strips typical of the Popular Comics format — likely including Terry and the Pirates-era adventure material and humor fillers — fill out the remaining pages, though specific titles and page counts for this issue are not confirmed in available records.
Popular Comics launched in 1936 as one of Dell's first ongoing anthology titles and ran to #145 — this is issue 139, deep in the final stretch of a run that helped establish the newsstand comic book format. Felix the Cat's appearances here predate the character's sustained Dell one-shot and series output of the late 1940s and early 1950s.
Condition VG+ 4.5 — .
We use what the scientists are calling artificial intelligence to research and write our descriptions — it gives us more time to add books to our website and provide you with a wider array of inventory. We think Klaatu would approve. Details are verified but the robot does slip up. We're not infallible. Every book is graded by a human collector who has actually held it. If anything ever looks off, reach on out at robopictocomics@gmail.com.
