SMOKEY STOVER, THE ORIGINAL FOO FIGHTER FIRST APPEARED AS PART OF THE CHICAGO
TRIBUNE NEWSPAPER SYNDICATE IN 1935 BY CARTOONIST BILL HOLMAN. KNOWN FOR IT
PUNS, WEIRD INVENTIONS AND SIGHT GAGS, SMOKEY STOVER WAS AN EXTREMELY POPULAR
COMIC STRIP FOR FOURTY YEARS. SMOKEY STOVER HIMSELF BECAME THE MASCOT OF MANY
BOMBERS PLANES DURING WORLD WAR TWO AND IS STILL THE POPULAR MASCOT OF
MULTIPLE FIREHOUSES TODAY.
SMOKEY AND HIS CREW'S ODDBALL SHENANIGANS APPEARED IN VARIOUS COMICS PUBLISHED
BY DELL THIS BOOK REPRINTS FOUR COLOR COMICS #7, WHICH REPRINTED 68 PAGES OF THE
VARIOUS SUNDAY SMOKEY STOVER COMIC COMIC STRIPS FROM 1940.