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| Publication | March 1937 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
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| Synopsis | Joe Palooka and Sam Smithers play golf in the deep snow. |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Joe Palooka; Sam Smithers |
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| Featuring | Screen Oddities |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction | Characters: Myrna Loy; Joan Crawford; Herbert Marshall; Fred Keating; Leo Carillo; Harry Cornblath; Anna May Wong; Claudette Colbert; John Beal; Charles Laughton; John Boles |
| Notes | Inside cover |
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| Featuring | Alec and Itchy |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Alec; Itchy |
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| Featuring | Goofie Gags |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | Four unrelated gag panels. |
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| Comic Story | Digging for Bones |
| Synopsis | Jabby digs under a fence to find some castoff bones only to discover another dog has already taken them. |
| Featuring | The Adventures of Jabby |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Animal | Characters: Jabby |
| Notes | pantomime; wordless comic |
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| Featuring | War On Crime |
| Content | Genre: Crime | Characters: John Dillinger; "Three FIngered Jack" Hamilton; Marie Conforti; "Baby Face" Nelson; his wife; Jean Delaney |
| Notes | True crime story |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Animal | Characters: Napoleon; Uncle Elby |
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| Featuring | Nipper |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Nipper Tucker; Muriel |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure; Aviation | Characters: Hurricane Hawk; Cookie |
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| Featuring | Let's Get Into a Huddle! |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
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| Featuring | Queenie |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Queenie; Prunella; Henrietta Hickup; Jitters |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Harry Hollingsworth; Rudolph Rassendale (villain); Belinda Blinks; Fitz; Startz |
| Notes | The bottom tier is "High-Gear Homer", by the same creator. |
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| 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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| Content | Genre: Science Fiction |
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| Featuring | Amaze-A-Minute |
| Credits | Script: Arnold | Pencils: Arnold | Inks: Arnold |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
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| Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
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| Content | Genre: Sports | Characters: Gene Tunney |
| Notes | The top tier of the “Joe Palooka” Sunday page, by the same creators. |
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| Content | Genre: Drama | Characters: Joe Palooka; Knobby Walsh |
| Notes | The top tier is “Fisher’s History of Boxing”, by the same creators. |
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| Synopsis | Dickie and Dan sail for Tahiti at the invitation of Dan's old friend "Cranky Joe" Hatch. He has discovered a bed of huge black pearls and has hired a schooner to go diving for them. One of the natives overhears the conversation and reports it to his chief. As the fellowship sail off they run into a rough squall. Looking over the bow they spot a small rowboat containing a girl. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Children | Characters: Dickie Dare; Dan Flynn; "Cranky Joe" Hatch |
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| Synopsis | The Geste boys are posted on desert duty, guarding a ring of oases. Lejaune hatches a cunning plan to massacre the attacking Arabs. |
| Featuring | Beau Geste |
| Credits | Script:? (adaption) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Beau Geste; John Geste; Adjutant Lejaune |
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| Synopsis | Scorchy and Gus find Brook unconscious, a victim of The Gas Fiend. He escapes in a stolen airplane, which subsequently crashes and kills him. He is revealed as Brook's father, who has willed her his vast business interests - a big plantation, coastal interests, turpentine forests. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Scorchy Smith; Gus; Brook Edmundson Patterson; The Gas Fiend [aka John Armentrot Patterson] (villain, death); Colonel Hummel; Doctor Diehl |
| Notes | Bert Christman took over the strip from Sickles on 1936-11-23, so these reprints fall before that date. |
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| Synopsis | The Magician makes his first appearance and turns King Silhouette into a sausage. Then he turns the cat into a sausage. Then Thimble eats one of them! |
| Featuring | Adventures of Patsy |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Superhero | Characters: The Phantom Magician (intro); Patsy; King Silhouette; Thimble |
| Notes | The Magician is dressed in green in this issue. Usually he's in red. |
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| Synopsis | Dotty's good deed for the day consists of giving a noisy caged parrot a book on etiquette and manners. |
| Featuring | "Good Deed" Dotty |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: "Good Deed" Dotty |
| Notes | The top tier of the "Dixie Dugan" Sunday page, by the same creators. |
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| Synopsis | Tim Dugan first complains about the new scientific method of eating standing up, then goes for a walk and curses kids on their new-fangled roller skates. He sees his two daughters and his wife skating on the sidewalk opposite, but Ma Dugan loses her balance and all three fall on their rear ends. |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Dixie Dugan; Tim Dugan; Ma Dugan |
| Notes | The top tier is "Good Deed" Dotty, by the same creators. |
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| Synopsis | Nutsy Squirrel pelts Skipper with old rotten nuts, so he goes to see Henrietta and takes a basket of "no account eggs" which failed to hatch, and drops them on Nutsy Squirrel's head. |
| Featuring | The Frog Pond Ferry |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Anthropomorphic-funny Animals | Characters: The Skipper; Nutsy Squirrel; Henrietta Hen |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Animal | Characters: Napoleon; Uncle Elby |
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| Activity | survey (1 page) |
| Featuring | Tell Us About Yourself |
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| Featuring | Butty and Fatty |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Butty; Fatty |
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| Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
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| Synopsis | The coach breaks his leg and has Ned take over the team. |
| Featuring | Ned Brant of Carter |
| Content | Genre: Sports | Characters: Ned Brant; "Shotgun" Sheldon; Coach Dave Meegan; Jack Perrin |
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| Synopsis | Invited to tea with Princess Mercedes, Oaky decides to wear his armor. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Humor; Historical | Characters: Sir Oaky Doaks; Princess Mercedes |
| Notes | Script previously credited to Fuller, but McCleery wrote the scripts for four decades. |
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| Notes | Puzzle page |
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| Comic Story | An Edison of Ancient Greece (1 page) |
| Content | Genre: Historical |
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| Featuring | Olly of the Movies |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Olive Lane; Abe "A.G." Ginsberg; Lala Palooza; Skip Allen [aka Chick Keen]; Maxie (Olly's agent) |
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| Synopsis | Connie receives a threatening letter from Slugger McCabe. A man calls, saying the chief has told him to take her for a ride. eventually she spies a policeman and tells him she is being kidnapped, but he says Slugger McCabe and his gang were arrested that morning. Her "abductor" turns out to be a car salesman giving her a free test spin. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Connie Kurridge |
| 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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| Featuring | Bobby |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Bobby; his mother; Tex |
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| Featuring | Nippie |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Nippie |
| Notes | The top tier of the "Mickey Finn" Sunday page, by the same creator. |
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| Synopsis | Mickey finds a stray dog, which belongs to a wealthy woman. When he returns it he declines the reward she offers. The dog is pampered beyond toleration at home and reappears on Mickey's beat. |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Mickey Finn; Mr. O'Brien; Miss Asprinwald; Henrietta (a maid) |
| Notes | The top tier is "Nippie", by the same creator. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Western-frontier | Characters: Pa Piffle; Mister Davis; Mescal Ike |
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| Synopsis | A mysterious will, a mystery woman, rival brothers. Suspense looms for Jane Arden. |
| Featuring | Jane Arden / Lena Pry |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Humor | Characters: Jane Arden; Charles; Frieda Strom; Johnny; Lena Pry |
| Notes | Four Sunday pages, each one featuring a sequential "Jane Arden" storyline (0.5), a self-contained "Lena Pry" story (0.33), and a fashion panel "Jane Arden's Wardrobe" (0.17). |
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| Featuring | Butty and Fatty |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Butty; Fatty |
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| Featuring | Flight |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction; Aviation |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure; Children | Characters: Dorothy "Babe" Bunting; Roger Weston; Jasper Scrawn; Robert Bunting |
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| Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
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| Featuring | Toddy |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Toddy |
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| Text Story | The Terrible Voice (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | A squadron of Foreign Legion troops fight off an attack by Arabs. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Gunner Wolgast; Corporal Malcolm Ridley; Lieutenant Leseur; Mahmoud; Corporal Durand; Jaccard; Griggs |
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| Synopsis | Homer wants to make Hector a Hollywood star to get him out of the house. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Homer Hoopee; Binks; Hector; Helen; Henrietta |
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| Featuring | Magic Made Easy |
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| Featuring | Seaweed Sam the Rhyming Rover |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Seaweed Sam |
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| Content | Genre: Sports | Characters: Gene Tunney |
| Notes | The top tier of the “Joe Palooka” Sunday page, by the same creators. |
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| Content | Genre: Sports | Characters: Joe Palooka; Knobby Walsh; Gobly; Herbert |
| Notes | The top tier is “Fisher’s History of Boxing”, by the same creators. |
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