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 #229.