Super I.T.C.H » Blog Archive » COMIC BOOK COMPULSIVE — Snap Comics #9
Get these books by
Craig Yoe:
Archie's Mad House Krazy Kat & The Art of George Herriman: A Celebration
Archie's Mad House The Carl Barks Big Book of Barney Bear
Archie's Mad House Amazing 3-D Comics
Archie's Mad House Archie's Mad House
Archie's Mad House The Great Treasury of Christmas Comic Book Stories
Archie's Mad House The Official Fart Book
Archie's Mad House The Official Barf Book
Popeye: The Great Comic Book Tales of Bud Sagendorf Popeye: The Great Comic Book Tales of Bud Sagendorf
Archie: Seven Decades of America's Favorite Teenagers... And Beyond! Archie: Seven Decades of America's Favorite Teenagers... And Beyond!
Dick Briefer's Frankenstein Dick Briefer's Frankenstein
Barney Google: Gambling, Horse Races, and High-Toned Women Barney Google: Gambling, Horse Races, and High-Toned Women
Felix The Cat: The Great Comic Book Tails Felix The Cat: The Great Comic Book Tails
Klassic Krazy Kool Kids Komics The Golden Collection of Klassic Krazy Kool KIDS KOMICS"
"Another amazing book from Craig Yoe!"
-Jerry Beck
CartoonBrew.com
Dan DeCarlo's Jetta Dan DeCarlo's Jetta
"A long-forgotten comic book gem."
-Mark Frauenfelder
BoingBoing.net
The Complete Milt Gross Comic Books and Life Story The Complete Milt Gross Comic Books and Life Story
"Wonderful!"
-Playboy magazine
"Stunningly beautiful!"
- The Forward
"An absolute must-have."
-Jerry Beck
CartoonBrew.com
The Art of Ditko
The Art of Ditko
"Craig's book revealed to me a genius I had ignored my entire life."
-Mark Frauenfelder
BoingBoing.net
The Greatest Anti-War Cartoons
The Great Anti-War Cartoons
Introduction by Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus
"Pencils for Peace!"
-The Washington Post
Boody: The Bizarre Comics of Boody Rogers
Boody: The Bizarre Comics of Boody Rogers
"Crazy, fun, absurd!"
-Mark Frauenfelder
BoingBoing.net
More books by Craig Yoe
Wednesday, January 18, 2026

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

View the entire blog

I.T.C.H is looking forward to your thoughts. Please, no flame. Thanks!

SUBSCRIBE