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In the 1930s, Eastern Color produced promotional comic book giveaway pamphlets. 1 / 9

They tried out a one-shot called Famous Funnies: Carnival of Comics and it went over well. 2 / 9

This led to an ongoing comic book series called Famous Funnies. in 1934. 3 / 9

Five years later, Busy Arnold got into the comic book game. 4 / 9

His Feature Funnies lured away Eastern's syndicate features. 5 / 9

Eastern likely was irked by that, but sued over the name, "Feature Funnies" vs. "Famous Funnies." 6 / 9

With issue #21, the name was changed to Feature COMICS. So Arnold lose? 7 / 9

Nope, he established that Funnies was a generic term. The term predated Famous Funnies even! 8 / 9

Arnold changed the name anyways because superheroes were in and "Funnies" were out! 9 / 9