Funnyman

Real Name: Larry Davis

Identity/Class: Normal human

Occupation: Comedian

Affiliations: None known

Enemies: Lazar, Cheval, Slippery Sam, Doc Gimmick

Known Relatives: None known

Aliases: The Comic Crimebuster

Base of Operations: Empire City

First Appearance: Funnyman #1 (Magazine Enterprises Of Canada, 1948)

Powers/Abilities: A variety of special equipment, all with a practical joke theme. Fights using a slapstick style.

History:  Larry Davis was a successful comedian whose manager, June Farrell, cooked up a publicity stunt which she felt would enhance his career. Wearing a humorous costume and false rubber nose, Larry would pretend to stop a fake robbery carried out by her assistant, Happy. However on the day Larry accidentally picked a real robbery, managing to catch the criminal using a seltzer bottle. Finding that he enjoys taunting crime and stopping villains with "jabs and gags", he tells June not to reveal that it was him who stopped the theft, and becomes The Funnyman, Empire City's newest crimefighter.

As well as the underworld, Funnyman also faced Laffman and Comicman, two would-be heroes who tried to steal his schtick. They aren't really enemies, but they're certainly not friends either.

Comments: Created by Jerry Siegal and Joe Shuster, who also created Superman.

CLARIFICATIONS: None

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