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| This book reprints the cover of Star Publishing's original "Holiday Comics 2", but its inside pages are reprints of Star's original "Holiday Comics 4", which were originally printed in Robert Farrell's "Daffy Tunes 12" in 1947.
Unfortunately, Grand Comics Database lists details of only the cover of Star's original 1951 "Holiday Comics 2", and not the inside pages. So, all I know that occupies the inside pages of that book is its first story starring "Baxter Koala".
A few years ago, I found an advert on The Internet with the original Star 1952 issue for sale, which had its front cover torn, with the top one-third of that page missing. The first inner page's top third was showing instead of the missing cover top portion. That page portion contained the splash panel logo including the story's title banner, which reads: "Baxter The Koala Bear visits America with Katie" His Pet Kookaboora Bird. Very little of the picture below shows, but it reveals a map of Australia with (ostensibly) Baxter wearing a Tam O' Shanter (cap) and superimposed over the map. Unfortunately, I cut off the portion of the attached original 1952 cover, but because the tear was uneven, enough of a strip was left to reveal the red balloon on the left side that sits just to the left of the rabbit (Billy Bunny) band majorette's swinging baton, including the 2 motion lines between. I've added my scan of it to a cop of this note in The Forum's "Comments on Our Books" section, where you'll be able to compare it to the original 1952 cover, for confirmation that "Baxter Koala" is the first story in Star's original version. Notice that Baxter Koala is playing the drum on the original cover, and remember that he WASN'T one of Star's regular characters, so, that's more evidence that leads me to know I'm not making a mistake in surmising that the Accepted reprint was missing this story, but the original, Star 1952 version contained it, and it was that book's first story. |
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| Publication | 1958 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 |
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| Cover | Animals on Parade |
| Content | Genre: Anthropomorphic-funny Animals |
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| Advertisement | Reduce With Delicious Kelpidine Candy Plan! (1 page) |
| Credits | Pencils:? (photo);? | Inks:? (photo);? |
| Notes | Sold by American Healthaids Company.
On inside front cover in black and white. |
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| Comic Story | Superfox Versus "Needle-Noggin" (6 pages) |
| Featuring | Superfox |
| Content | Genre: Anthropomorphic-funny Animals; Superhero | Characters: Superfox [Webb J. Fox]; Needle-Noggin (villain) |
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| Featuring | Jumps Rabbit |
| Content | Genre: Anthropomorphic-funny Animals | Characters: Jumps Rabbit; Benjy; Mrs. Quail; Tuck Turtle |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Fantasy | Characters: Buddy; Mr. Elf |
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| Advertisement | Kids! Be the First to Send for this New Plastic Aircraft Carrier (1 page) |
| Notes | Sold by Lucky Products. |
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| Advertisement | Reversible Auto Seat Covers (1 page) |
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| Comic Story | Bonzo the Monster (6 pages) |
| Featuring | Dr. Leer |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Horror-suspense | Characters: Dr. Leer; Mumps Mahoney; Bonzo the Monster |
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| Featuring | Goofy Gator |
| Content | Genre: Anthropomorphic-funny Animals | Characters: Goofy Gator |
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| Advertisement | In 10 Minutes of Fun a Day I Changed Myself (1 page) |
| Credits | Pencils:? (photos);? | Inks:? (photos);? |
| Content | Genre: Sports | Characters: Ken Grimm (photo) |
| Notes | On inside back cover in black and white. |
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| Advertisement | Men-Women-Boys-Girls Prizes Given (1 page) |
| Notes | Back cover. |
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| The data in the additional content section is courtesy of the Grand Comics Database under a
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