Crackajack Funnies #12 for Sale - First Appearance of Little Beaver - Where to Buy

Identification plate

Series: Crackajack Funnies (Western, 1938 series)
Issue: #12
Publication date: June 1939
Key date: 1939-06-00
On-sale date: 1939-04-25
Indicia publisher: Whitman Publishing Co. Inc.
Price: $0.10
Pages: 68

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Why this issue matters

First appearance of Little Beaver - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

The evidence

Claims here come from the story records for this issue, listed under Sources at the bottom of the file. Character hubs with full evidence tables are coming to this site.

Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	-	cover	1
1	-	cartoon	1	script: Art Krenz; pencils: Art Krenz; inks: Art Krenz
2	-	comic story	4	script: Norman Marsh; pencils: Norman Marsh; inks: Norman Marsh
3	-	comic story	4	pencils: Fred Harman	Little Beaver First, Red Ryder
4	Major Hoople	text story	1	letters: typeset
5	-	comic story	4	script: Merrill Blosser; pencils: Merrill Blosser; inks: Merrill Blosser
6	The Payroll Bandits	comic story	4	pencils: Jim Chambers
7	-	comic story	4	script: Ray Thompson; pencils: Charles Coll; inks: Charles Coll	Myra North (Special Nurse)
8	Dan Dunn	text story	1	letters: typeset
9	Stamps Tell a Story	activity	2	letters: typeset
10	Hold Up at Sea	comic story	4	pencils: Roy Crane	Helga Zmith
11	-	comic story	3	pencils: Al Lewin; inks: Al Lewin
12	The Bandits of Dead Man's Gulch	comic story	4
13	-	comic story	3	script: Abe Martin; pencils: Abe Martin; inks: Abe Martin
14	How to Draw Cartoon Characters	activity	1	script: Hugh Harman, Rudolph Ising; pencils: Hugh Harman, Rudolph Ising
15	-	comic story	0.5	script: Gene Ahern; pencils: Gene Ahern; inks: Gene Ahern
16	-	comic story	1.5	script: Virginia Krausmann; pencils: Virginia Krausmann; inks: Virginia Krausmann
17	Myra North Traps the Jewel Thieves	text story	1	letters: typeset
18	-	comic story	4	pencils: Al McWilliams	Dr. Wu; Prince Chang-Li
19	-	comic story	3	script: Sol Hess; pencils: Wallace Carlson; inks: Wallace Carlson
20	-	comic story	4	script: Frank V. Martinek; pencils: Leon A. Beroth; inks: Leon A. Beroth	Don Winslow
21	-	comic story	0.5	pencils: J. R. Williams
22	-	comic story	0.5	script: Gladys Parker; pencils: Gladys Parker; inks: Gladys Parker
23	Freckles - the Newspaper Editor	text story	1
24	-	comic story	3	script: Martha Orr; pencils: Martha Orr
25	The Piranha - Ghastly Killer	comic story	4
26	Winners of the April Contest	activity	1	script: assorted readers

Where to read it

Collection	Year
Don Winslow of the Navy	1939	On eBay ›
Myra North Special Nurse	1939	On eBay ›

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Before you buy

Golden-age paper is brittle. Ask about page suppleness and check edges for chips in the photos.
Check for trimmed edges, married covers, and clipped coupons - all common on books this old.
Confirm the indicia matches this plate; many golden-age titles changed names mid-run.

Series context

‹ #1112 of 43#13 ›

Sources

Grand Comics Database, issue record (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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