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| Publication | July 1940 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
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| Cover | The Nation's Comic Monthly |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Animal | Characters: Jitter |
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| Publisher advertisement | Reg'lar Fellers Heroic Comics (1 page) |
| Featuring | Hydroman |
| Credits | Pencils: Bill Everett (signed) | Inks: Bill Everett (signed) |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Hydroman [Bob Blake]; Joyce Church; The Great One |
| Notes | Inside front cover. Includes indicia at bottom of the page.
Promotional advertisement for Reg'lar Fellers Heroic Comics (Eastern Color, 1940 Series) #1 (August 1940). |
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| Comic Story | Suiting Himself |
| Credits | Letters: Hank Barrow? |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Children |
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| Advertisement | Free! 5 Airplanes! |
| Credits | Script:? (ad copy) | Pencils:? (illustration) | Inks:? (illustration) | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Advertisement for making home-made airplanes from Smart Flying of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. |
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| Comic Story | Getting the Air |
| Credits | Letters: Hank Barrow? |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Children |
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| Credits | Letters: Victor E. Pazmiño? |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | Four gag cartoons. |
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| Featuring | Artistic Artie |
| Credits | Letters: M. E. Brady |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
| Notes | Artistic Artie is a topper to Butty and Fatty comic strip listed in the next sequence.
Activity panel inviting the reader to finish the drawing. |
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| Featuring | Butty and Fatty |
| Credits | Letters: M. E. Brady? |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Butty; Fatty |
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| Credits | Script: Paul Powell (credited) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Teen | Characters: Roy Powers; Chunky; Captain Conway; Olim Bhey |
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| Letters Page | Bigger and Better Than Ever (1 page) |
| Featuring | Let's Get Into a Huddle |
| Credits | Script: Stephen Douglas (signed) | Pencils: Stephen Douglas (signed) | Inks: Stephen Douglas (signed) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
| Notes | Promotional page for Famous Funnies and letter snippets.
Letter snippets from: Barbara Jean Ligget (Middletown, Ohio), and The Pen Pal Gang (Berkeley, California). |
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| Comic Story | Cavaliers and Roundheads (1 page) |
| Credits | Letters: J. Carroll Mansfield? |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction; History | Characters: King Charles I |
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| Credits | Letters: Russell Keaton? |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Aviation | Characters: Billy Hill; Freddie; Sally Young; Chang Foo; Clipper Williams |
| Notes | Last panel of each daily strip includes "Wing Tips", short factoids about flying. |
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| Credits | Letters: F. O. Alexander? |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Humor | Characters: Harry Hollingsworth; Rudolph Rassendale (villain); Belinda Blinks |
| Notes | The bottom tier is "High-Gear Homer", by the same creator. |
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| Credits | Letters: F. O. Alexander? |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: High-Gear Homer |
| Notes | The bottom tier of the "Hairbreadth Harry" Sunday page, by the same creator. |
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| Credits | Script: Rick Yager [as Dick Calkins] |
| Content | Genre: Science Fiction | Characters: Buddy Deering; Princess Alura; Black Barney |
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| Comic Story | Keep Out (1 page) |
| Credits | Letters: Arthur Poinier? |
| Content | Genre: Drama; Animal | Characters: Jitter |
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| Content | Genre: Science Fiction | Characters: Speed Spaulding; Ann Pendon; Professor Gale Pendon; Lieutenant Rex Dean; Torpedo; Spider; Secret Seven (two unnamed scientists); The President (unnamed) |
| Notes | First reprints of Speed Spaulding in comic books, reprinting the first comic strips published.
Edwin Balmer; Philip Wylie (credited, original authors of book, but probably syndicate-authored). |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure; Children | Characters: Dickie Dare; Dan Flynn; Kit Karson; Norcross |
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| Credits | Letters: Mel Graff? |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Humor; Animal | Characters: Patsy Cardigan; Uncle Phil Cardigan; |
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| Credits | Letters: Charles McBride? |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Animal | Characters: Napoleon; Uncle Elby |
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| Credits | Letters: Elmer Woggon? |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Princess Minnie Ha-Cha; Big Chief Wahoo; Rajah of Raz-Mah-Taz; Rajah's slaves |
| Notes | Last panel includes a scale up design for a lawn ornament cut out called "Chief Wahoo's Jig-Saw Do-Jiggers". |
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| Featuring | Penpal Page |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
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| Credits | Letters: Clifford McBride? |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Animal | Characters: Napoleon; Uncle Elby |
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| Publisher advertisement | Hi Fellers! Join Today! (1 page) |
| Featuring | Buck Rogers Solar Scouts |
| Credits | Script:? (promo copy) |
| Content | Genre: Science Fiction |
| Notes | Promotional advertisement to join the Buck Rogers Solar Scouts club. |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure; Fantasy; Historical | Characters: Sir Oaky Doaks; Princess Osha; King Cedric; The Caliph of Badgag; General Ali Bar |
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| Featuring | Seaweed Sam the Rhyming Rover |
| Credits | Letters: Victor E. Pazmiño? |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Seaweed Sam; Prince Tiny |
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| Credits | Letters: Elmer Woggon? |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Big Chief Wahoo; Princess Minnie Ha-Cha; Wah-Wah (nephew) |
| Notes | Last panel is called "Indian Slango" listing period gags on Native American slang. Dialogue edited out of the reprint at the bottom of the "Indian Slango" panel. |
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| Content | Genre: Drama | Characters: Olive Lane; Irma Hunkatin; Abe "A. G." Ginsberg; Ann; Reuben Hunkatin |
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| Credits | Letters: Noel Sickles? |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Aviation | Characters: Scorchy Smith; Mickey Lafarge; Himmelstoss; M'sieu Ronique; Gus |
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| Comic Story | Vacation Daze Romance |
| Credits | Letters: A. E. Hayward? |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Sam Smithers; Cam O'Flage; Mame Doodle |
| Notes | The bottom tier is “The Back-Seat Driver”, by the same creator. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: John Smith; Mary Smith (both unnamed here) |
| Notes | The bottom tier of the "Somebody's Stenog" Sunday page, by the same creator. |
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| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Lone Rider [Jim Larrimore]; The Panther (villain); Ramon (henchman); Luis (henchman); Reggie Van Smyth |
| Notes | The first page reprints Robbins material, which is the last of the comic strip reprints. Story is continued on the second page with new material by Kirby.
Inker credit from Craig Delich. Kirby letters on second page only.
Reprint information from the Stripper's Guide blog (http://strippersguide.blogspot.com/2017_09_24_archive.html, retrieved 27 September 2017) based on research by Allan Holtz and Jeffrey Lindenblatt. |
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| Cartoon | The Senate's Adventurer (1 page) |
| Credits | Letters: Stookie Allen? |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction; Biography | Characters: Senator Hiram Bingham |
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| Credits | Letters: Clifford McBride? |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Animal | Characters: Napoleon; Uncle Elby; Mr. Jones |
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| Credits | Letters: Elmer Woggon? |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Big Chief Wahoo; Princess Minnie Ha-Cha; unnamed poor kids; unnamed rich kids; Ammonia; Madam Zeemore; Oscar the Octopus |
| Notes | Last panel includes an Oscar the Octopus gag panel. |
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| Credits | Letters: Roy L. Williams? |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Children | Characters: Dorothy "Babe" Bunting; Miss Tosy; Lawyer Hawks; Benjy Boles; Mrs. Crumpet |
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| Comic Story | Professional Advice! |
| Featuring | Mescal Ike |
| Credits | Script: S. L. Huntley (credited) | Pencils: Art Huhta (signed) | Inks: Art Huhta (signed) |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Western-frontier |
| Notes | Mescal Ike logo above this strip. |
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| Comic Story | A Desperado-By Choice! |
| Featuring | Mescal Ike |
| Credits | Script: S. L. Huntley (credited) | Pencils: Art Huhta | Inks: Art Huhta |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Western-frontier |
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| Comic Story | What-No Dessert? |
| Featuring | Mescal Ike |
| Credits | Script: S. L. Huntley (credited) | Pencils: Art Huhta | Inks: Art Huhta |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Western-frontier |
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| Comic Story | Rain, Rain, Go Away! |
| Featuring | Mescal Ike |
| Credits | Script: S. L. Huntley (credited) | Pencils: Art Huhta (signed) | Inks: Art Huhta (signed) |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Western-frontier |
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| Credits | Letters: Frank Godwin? |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Connie Kurridge; her father; Jack Brown |
| Notes | The bottom tier is “The Wet Blanket”, by the same creator. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | The bottom tier of the "Connie" Sunday page, by the same creator. |
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| Credits | Letters: Fred Neher? |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Squeaky |
| Notes | Six daily gag cartoons, two of which feature a boy named Squeaky. |
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| Comic Story | Campaign, Tennessee; Promise, Oregon; Windy, West Virginia; Sugar, Idaho (1 page) |
| Credits | Letters: M. E. Brady? |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
| Notes | Those credited for "discovering" these towns in their submission are: Loyd Anderson (San Ramon, California), Phyllis Penley (Asheville, North Carolina), Thomas Kitsch (Mahanoy City, Pennsylvania), James Asendorf (Jacksonville, Florida), Barbara Green (Camp Hill, Pennsylvania), Myron Nathan (Bronx, New York), and Joan Baxter (San Bernardino, California).
Jane A. Whipple (Malone, New York) received credit for the suggestion of the “Picture Places” drawing within this feature. |
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| Text Story | Long Live the King (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Harding's dog King is suspected of killing Mr. Heath's sheep. However, when King helps in the locating of Mr. Heath's missing son, Eddie, Mr. Heath knows it was not him. |
| Credits | Script: Eva Hanks Lycan (credited) | Pencils:? (illustrations) | Inks:? (illustrations) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Drama | Characters: Alfred Harding; Ben Harding; King (dog); Mrs. Harding; Mr. Heath; Mrs. Heath; Eddie Heath; Hank Grenlow |
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| Credits | Letters: Fred Locher? |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Homer Hoopee; Miss Button |
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| Featuring | Funland Everybody's Playmate |
| Credits | Script: A. W. Nugent (credited) | Pencils: A. W. Nugent (signed) | Inks: A. W. Nugent (signed) | Letters: Art Nugent? |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
| Notes | Puzzle and activity page. |
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| Comic Story | Piano Concert (1 page) |
| Credits | Letters: Clifford McBride? |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Animal | Characters: Napoleon; Willie; his mother; his music teacher |
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| Featuring | Magic Made Easy |
| Credits | Script: Stephen Douglas [as S. D.] (signed) | Pencils: Stephen Douglas [as S. D.] (signed) | Inks: Stephen Douglas [as S. D.] (signed) | Letters: Stephen Douglas?; typeset |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
| Notes | Activity page of magic tricks. |
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| Publisher advertisement | Hey Fellows... Here It Is!! (1 page) |
| Featuring | Big Shot Comics |
| Credits | Script:? (promo copy) | Pencils: Ogden Whitney (cover Big Shot Comics #3); various (cover vignettes) | Inks: Ogden Whitney (cover Big Shot Comics #3); various (cover vignettes) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Characters: Skyman; Charlie Chan; Joe Palooka; Marvelo (vignette); The Face (vignette); Rocky Ryan (vignette); a tiger |
| Notes | Inside back cover.
House promotional advertisement for Big Shot Comics (Columbia, 1940 Series) #3 (July 1940) and #4 (August 1940, partial cover only). |
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| Advertisement | Ready The Sensational New Daisy 1000-Shot Red Ryder Cowboy Carbine (1 page) |
| Featuring | Red Ryder; Daisy Manufacturing Company |
| Credits | Script:? (ad copy) | Pencils: Fred Harman (Red Ryder characters) (signed);? (illustrations) | Inks: Fred Harman (Red Ryder characters) (signed);? (illustrations) | Letters:?; typeset |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Red Ryder; Little Beaver |
| Notes | Back cover.
Advertisement featuring characters from the Red Ryder comic characters for the Red Ryder 1000-shot Carbine BB gun from Daisy Manufacturing Company of Plymouth, Michigan. |
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