Saturday, May 1, 2010

Funnyman the World's First Jewish Superhero


Funnyman was a short lived comic book series created by Superman's Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. Via. Boing Boing

Funnyman was a clown-like superhero who used gags, pranks and Yiddishisms to defeat his humor-deficient enemies. He was a dead ringer for Danny Kaye, one of my favorite comedians. The comic book was a total flop. It ran for six issues and went out of business. Siegel and Shuster tried to keep it going as a newspaper strip, but gave up after a year. The team never worked together again.

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