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
seventy years 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.