Comicstrip: Joe Palooka 1946

1946 collected strips

dailies download

sundays b/w download

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Comic: Big Shot Comics

Filled with tons of golden age favs from Columbia Comics.
Joe Palooka,Skyman , Charlie Chan, the Face ,Sparky Watts ,Marvelo and more!
#1,9,95,103 download

#2,5,19,61,69 download

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Comic/news strips: Joe Palooka 1936-8

I found three more years worth of Joe Palooka newstrips

1936

1937

1938

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Comic/news strips: Joe Palooka

Here are two years of newspaper strips in cbr form starring Joe Palooka
includes the accompanying strip history of boxing

Joe Palooka was an American comic strip about a heavyweight boxing champion, created by cartoonist Ham Fisher. With various assistants and successors, the strip lasted for over half a century with spin-offs to radio, movies, television and merchandising.

In his home town of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, Fisher devised the character in 1921 after he met a boxer, Pete Latzo, outside a poolroom. As Fisher explained in an article in Collier's:

Here, made to order, was the comic strip character I had been looking for -- a big, good-natured prize fighter who didn't like to fight; a defender of little guys; a gentle knight. I ran back to the office, drew a set of strips and rushed to the newspaper syndicates.

However, many rejections followed before Fisher's strip was finally syndicated by the McNaught Syndicate after Fisher, working as a salesman for McNaught, sold it to over 20 newspapers. It debuted April 19, 1930, and by 1948 it was ranked as one of the five most popular newspaper comic strips.

Fisher originally changed the appearance of Palooka to fit each reigning real-life champ — until the coming of African-American Joe Louis in the 1930s, at which time the image of the cowlicked blond Palooka remained unchanged. Though his adventures were mostly low-key, he was pumped up by a supporting cast led by girlfriend Ann Howe, boxing manager Knobby Walsh, his mute orphan sidekick Little Max, and lovable giant Humphrey Pennyworth, a smiling blacksmith who wielded a 100-pound (45 kg) maul. Like Ozark Ike McBatt in baseball, Joe Palooka was intended to exemplify the sports hero in an age when uprightness of character was supposed to matter most. - more at wiki here

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1934 download



1935 download

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(pic below is not from the strips)

Movie: Palooka (1934)

Time for another trip to the retro drivein. Pull up a chair and enjoy a classic sports comedy starring the one and only Joe Palooka! How to top that off? Well how about adding Jimmy Durante into the mix?!

Palooka is a 1934 comedy film based on the comic strip by Ham Fisher.
Joe Palooka (Stuart Erwin) is a naive young man whose father Pete (Robert Armstrong) was a champion boxer, but his lifestyle caused Joe's mother Mayme (Marjorie Rambeau) to leave him and to take young Joe to the country to raise him. But when a shady boxing manager (Jimmy Durante) discovers Joe's natural boxing talent, Joe decides to follow him to the big city, where he becomes a champion and begins to follow his father's path of debauchery, much of it including the glamorous cabaret singer Nina Madero (Lupe Velez). The film also stars William Cagney, the younger brother of actor James Cagney.
Run time: 86 min
downloads:
avi.700 mbs - Palooka.avi
or
mp4 -357mbs - Palooka_512kb.mp4
or
ogg -Palooka.ogv

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more information on Joe
joe palooka info on wiki
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Audio : Joe Palooka radio programs

Classic Boxing episodes starring Joe!
It says there is 3 episodes but theres really 2 (#7 is a double)
find them here at the archive
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