SMOKEY STOVER, THE ORIGINAL FOO FIGHTER, FIRST APPEARED AS PART OF THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE
NEWSPAPER SYNDICATE IN 1935 BY CARTOONIST BILL HOLMAN. KNOWN FOR ITS PUNS, WEIRD
INVENTIONS AND SIGHT GAGS, SMOKEY STOVER WAS AN EXTREMELY POPULAR COMIC STRIP FOR
FORTY YEARS. SMOKEY STOVER HIMSELF BECAME THE MASCOT OF MANY BOMBER 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 COLLECTS HIS SIX APPEARENCES IN THE FOUR COLOR COMICS SERIES. This book was
compiled with the best images currently available. That stated, these comics are seventyyears old. The
best efforts have been made to make the pages as enjoyable as possible but not every panel is perfect
and some allowances for the age of the books need to be considered when judging the overall
contents.