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| Publication | October-November 1953 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: bi-monthly |
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| Featuring | Solid Jackson |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Teen | Characters: Solid Jackson; Natch Kilroy |
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| Synopsis | Wilbur's pretty cousin comes to visit and he sets up a plot to have her make a play for Natch. However, she ends up making a play for Jackson instead. |
| Featuring | Solid Jackson |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Teen | Characters: Solid Jackson; Natch Kilroy; Slim; Judy Farrell; Portia Karloff; Wilbur Morton; Sylvia (Wilbur's cousin) |
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| Text Story | Quick as a Flash! (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Trudy tries to get school photographer Buff Collins to notice her, but thinks she's ruined her chances when she stumbles while carrying Buff's camera equipment and a camera's flash goes off. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Romance; Teen | Characters: Trudy; Buff Collins |
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| Synopsis | Depressed because all the girls have gone to summer camps for a month, Natch and Jackson decide to go camping on their own. They accidentally pick a spot on the lake that's right by Judy's and Portia's camp. |
| Featuring | Natch |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Teen | Characters: Natch Kilroy; Solid Jackson; Slim; Judy Farrell; Portia Karloff |
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| Synopsis | While taking a shortcut through a bad neighborhood, Pud, Janie, and Tim see a gang beating up a little kid. Pud blows a big bubble that bursts, knocking the bad guys down. |
| Featuring | Pud; Dubble Bubble; Fleer |
| Credits | Pencils: Ray Thompson | Inks: Ray Thompson |
| Content | Characters: Pud; Janie; Tim |
| Notes | Ad in comic format for Dubble Bubble bubble gum. F. H. Fleer Corp, Philadelphia, Pa. Art is not signed. |
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| Publisher advertisement | For Recommended Reading---American Comics Group! |
| Featuring | American Comics Group |
| Notes | Promo for American Comics Group with comic titles listed in stars. No characters depicted. |
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| Text Story | Girl Gets Boy! (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Janie needs a date to Angelica's party and as a last result asks her father to find a blind date for her from the relatives of his co-workers in his office. It works out better than she ever expected. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Romance; Teen | Characters: Janie Blaine; Rupert Potter |
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| Comic Story | Bye, Bye, Bonds! (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Mr. Kilroy forgets to mail the bonds on a half-million dollar deal. He calls Natch to have him take the bonds to the airport and send them registered mail. On the way Natch picks up Jackson on his way to a music lesson. As expected, Jackson takes the bonds to his music lesson and Natch sends Jackson's sheet music to California. It all turns out all right in the end, though there are side trips to the city dump and California. |
| Featuring | The Kilroys |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Teen | Characters: Mr. Kilroy; Natch Kilroy; Solid Jackson; Mrs. Kilroy; Slim; Miss Jones |
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| Comic Story | Nice Work (1 page) |
| Synopsis | A boy passes up a chance to attend a big dance in order to "baby-sit" the Fosters' teen-age niece. |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Teen |
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| Comic Story | The Big Promotion! (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | When Katie and Portia have to let Natch and Jackson use the Kilroy's record player, the girls decide the town needs a clubroom just for girls. To raise funds for the project, Katie organizes a benefit dance for the girls' parents (featuring Lawrence Welk), and has everything set--except that she forgot to budget money to pay the band. |
| Featuring | Katie Kilroy |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Teen | Characters: Katie Kilroy; Portia Karloff; Natch Kilroy; Solid Jackson; Slim; Mr. Kilroy; Mrs. Kilroy; Judy Farrell; Lawrence Welk |
| Notes | Lawrence Welk, complete with accordion, has a speaking role. The story is very heavy in teen slang, to the extent there are footnotes translating slang in two panels (mill = car, pocket lads = fathers, don't tense = take it easy). |
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| Advertisement | Free.. 10 Hitler Stamps (1 page) |
| Featuring | Littleton Stamp Co. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Characters: Adolf Hitler (postage stamp image) |
| Notes | Ad for postage stamps on approval, with premium of a set of ten Adolf Hitler stamps from Bohemia-Moravia, which are depicted. Littleton Stamp Co., Dept. 9-ACG, Littleton, N.H. |
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| Advertisement | Hey skinny! ...Yer ribs are showing! (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Joe gets pushed around at the beach because he's skinny. After taking the Charles Atlas course he pays back the bully. |
| Featuring | Charles Atlas |
| Credits | Pencils:?;? (photo) | Inks:?;? (photo) | Letters:?; typeset |
| Content | Characters: Charles Atlas (photo) |
| Notes | Inside back cover. Variation of the classic Charles Atlas comic-format ad. Charles Atlas, Dept. 29, 115 East 23 St., New York 10, N.Y. |
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