Comedy and parody super-hero strips are just as old as the more sincere kind, but they don't get very plentiful or very good until the MAD Magazine era (and even if I'm setting myself up for a fall by saying that, I would love to be proven wrong). Until we get to that far-off time this will be a round-up in name only - I have enough partially-completed entries clogging up my drafts as it is.
Stuporman:
As befits his status as one of the earliest comedy super-heroes, Stuporman, aka Marmaduke Snood Jr, is both a parody of Superman, the big guy, and also a clearing-house for every dumb joke that the writer (credited as Harry Douglas, who is also listed as the creator of the Blue Blaze) could come up with on the fly.
Stuporman has all of what is already the standard array of super powers: he is super fast and strong is invulnerable and can fly. Comedy super-heroes are generally either hyper-competent or ludicrously incompetent, and while Stuporman is the former this is balanced out by the fact that he is extremely lazy. A pretty basic super-hero parody over all, but I suppose that's to be expected when you're looking at what is quite possibly the first example of such. (Daring Mystery Comics 006, 1940)
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