COMIC BOOK COMPULSIVE — Snap Comics #9
Presented as mostly a curiosity is Snap Comics #9, the first and only issue of this comic from 1944 that features select reprints from Punch Comics #1, which was also published by Harry “A” Chesler Jr. As you all know, I like a Golden Age comic book with a short snappy title, but given the cover’s emphasis on a grotesquely primitively drawn military gag I believe we are safe in assuming this comic existed mostly to separate bored servicemen from their dimes. The humor stuff is pretty awful and dated but among the straight adventure stuff is an ok adventure of Hale the Magician (who looks like Felix Faust’s dad) and The Voice, a ventriloquist private eye who had an unhealthy relationship with his dummy.
— Steve Bennett





















































