| Notes | This book, its series’ first issue, was produced in 1947, likely by Ben Sangor’s? ? ACG/Creston Publishing, for marketing and selling in Canada, given that all its stories I’ve identified so far, were printed previously, or reprinted in Sangor’s ACG books.? ? Its covers were printed in USA, but all inside pages were printed in Toronto, and its books issued and distributed throughout Canada by Rotary Litho Co., Ltd.? ? With issue No. 2, the series’? ? Canadian sales agent and distributor was changed to BetterPublications of Canada, Ltd., because that firm had larger and better distribution channels, and Sangor could have more control, because it was already successful, handling Sangor’s own son-in-law (Ned Pines)’s Nedor Comics line in that country.? ? The series, set up to be issued bi-monthly, ran only 2 issues, after weak sales.This first issue has not yet been indexed by The Grand Comics database; and so, this scanned version is incomplete, having been pieced together from advertisement scans posted on The Internet revealing individual sample pages, and adding remaining pages of those stories from those stories’ reprints or former printings.? ? So,this upload stands as a placeholder, until a complete, original book can be scanned and uploaded. The positions within the book of the “Hurry Hare” and “singing cat” (possibly “Tuffy Cat”?) stories are uncertain.? ? Therefore, unknown page numbers were assigned merely so that all unknown missing page numbers (other than Page 1of the “Tuffy Cat” story) could be lumped together consecutively. The “Corky” Fox story and Back Cover gag were both written and drawn by Ken Hultgren.? ? The “Sammy Squirrel” story was supposedly drawn by Bob Wickersham (GCD reference).? ? The “Hurry Hare” story is listed on GCD as “possibly drawn by Carl Wessler”, but the artwork is clearly NOT drawn in Wessler’s style.? ? It was written, however, by Bob Karp.? ? I have included both the original and reprinted single pages we have from stories which we’ve completed using scans of reprinted pages, for the readers, to keep the story character colouring consistent, for easier reading.
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