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.