What was the origination of the phrase "See you in the funny papers"?
 Who gets credit for coining the phrase?

One plausible explanation (and the only one I found that specifically
attributed the phrase to a single person):

"Cartoonist Roy Crane wrote a comic strip Called "Wash Tubbs" in 1935.
He visited St. Marys, GA and sat on the porch on the second floor of
the Riverview Hotel and got ideas for his strip. He featured local
landmarks and people in his strip. When the strip come out the local
people would look to see who was used for that particular strip. The
saying "See you in the funnny papers" arose from that experience.
Another local item he featured was the Model T Ford truck with a
wooden passenger enclosure on it that ran on the railroad tracks
between Kingsland and St. Marys, GA. This was dubbed the Toonerville
Trolley."

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It's in Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life."

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Philip Vandoren Stern, et al.

I don't know of an earlier citation.

hlabadie-ga

According to what the folks on the Stumpers-L Listserv (a Listserv for
reference librarians trying to solve difficult reference questions)
found, the phrase dates back to the 1920s.

Stumpers thread "See You in the Funny Papers"
http://listserv.dom.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe?S2=stumpers-l&L=STUMPERS-L&q=see+you+in+the+funny+papers&s=&f=&a=&b=

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