Dave Clark's Classic Comics Featuring

Zack Mosley's Smilin' Jack first appeared December 30, 1933. Cartoonin' Zack and Smilin' Jack serve up a menu of daring high-speed aviation adventure seasoned with aviation publicity and informative tid-bits. Jack flies everything from Jennies, Cub and gliders to jet jobs and and B-29's.

He has been eyed covetously by a thousand beautiful girls and has a full share of crashes, bail-outs, and other narrow escapes from death. He suffers bankruptcy and the assaults of uncountable goons and hoodlums.

So take off with the Classic Aviator, Smilin' Jack,
for more action and 2-fisted adventure.

The greatest sports hero in the history of the funny papers is

Joe Palooka

Joe Palooka Fighter 



the ageless and seemingly indestructible heavyweight. He has walloped the likes of 
Ruffy Balonk and Red Rodney 
with boyish ease,tee hee, but now,tch tch, he leads a quiet suburban life. 
Come on and get your Ticket to  Palookaville. 





Jim Hardy






Starting in 1936, this is an early strip by Dick Moores,  who later took over the Gasoline Alley strip. Moores was an assistant to Chester Gould, creater of Dick Tracy, and this strip was created to compete with Dick Tracy. It has the same action-packed, violent stories as Tracy.  

This book shows Moores striking pictorial style and fast-paced strip continuity as displayed in his daily and Sunday episodes. Jim Hardy made a considerable national impact on millions of comic book readers with its monthly reprint  appearances in United Features' Tip Top Comics in 1938. 




Smilin' Jack /  Joe Palooka
/ Jim Hardy /  Order form

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Comments to author: Dave Clark

Page revised 4/99


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