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Publication | November 1938 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 |
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Content | Genre: Anthropomorphic-funny Animals |
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Cartoon | All in Fun (1 page) |
Content | Genre: Humor |
Notes | Five unrelated gag panels. |
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Synopsis | Sailors are on strike and the captain has to tell the passengers he cannot sail. Annie has him lead her to the anchor, and she pulls it free of the bottom with her incredible strength. |
Featuring | Rough-house Annie |
Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Rough-house Annie |
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Synopsis | Diana is cast into the arena and a vicious beast released. Jack swings down on a sash and rescues her. He then releases the beasts into the arena and makes good their escape. |
Featuring | Jack Strand |
Content | Genre: Adventure; Science Fiction | Characters: Jack Strand; Diana; Doctor Hains; King Karl [Lefty Kranz] (villain) |
Notes | Frollo signs in the final panel. |
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Featuring | Wilbur |
Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Wilbur |
Notes | Credits suggested by Who's Who. |
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Synopsis | Professor Twiddle tries to solve the mystery of a missing grand piano. |
Featuring | Phony Crimes |
Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Professor Twiddle |
Notes | Signed in first panel on the side of the desk (hard to see).
All Gustavson credits verified and courtesy of Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson. |
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Synopsis | Autograph collector Otto Graf exchanges autographs with the crook Slippery Elm. Unfortunately for Otto he had signed a check, which Elm had cashed. |
Featuring | Otto Graff The Autograph Hunter |
Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Otto Graff; Slippery Elm (crook) |
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Synopsis | Fury goes to see Mary in order to propose, little knowing that her father has just been shot in the next room by the unscrupulous Van Tenningen. |
Featuring | Fury of the Foreign Legion |
Credits | Pencils: Laurence Spivak | Inks: Laurence Spivak |
Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Michael Fury; Baldy; Mary; her father; Van Tenningen; Bryant |
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Synopsis | The gang are swimming when a crocodile breaks surface, and Nemo falls out of bed. |
Featuring | Little Nemo in Slumberland |
Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Little Nemo; the Imp; Flip; the Princess |
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Text Story | The Ride of the Black Maria (4 pages) |
Synopsis | Drivers of a prison van accidentaly capture an escaped murderer, and are given a medal for their action. |
Credits | Letters: typeset |
Content | Characters: Timmie; Ned |
Notes | The art is a little more crude than Guardineer's usual work, and may be by another hand. |
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Content | Genre: Humor; Anthropomorphic-funny Animals |
Notes | A double page spread. |
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Featuring | Sportest |
Content | Genre: Non-fiction; Sports |
Notes | A test for readers, with sports personalities identified only by their initials. |
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Featuring | Picture-queries? |
Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
Notes | Four illustrated general knowledge questions for readers. |
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Comic Story | Sweet Revenge (4 pages) |
Content | Genre: Humor; Anthropomorphic-funny Animals |
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Synopsis | Two dwarfs, one old, one young, are sheltering from the rain under a huge mushroom. The senior of the pair chops down the mushroom and they use it as an umbrella. Arriving at a lake they upend it and use it as a boat. On the other side the elder cuts some mushroom steaks and cooks them over a fire. The youngster complains that he forgot the salt! |
Featuring | Those Dizzy Dwarfs |
Content | Genre: Humor |
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Synopsis | Fadeaway Farr visits Hermit Jackson, who is promptly shot. Fadeaway goes off to find medical help, but is waylaid by the villain Caine, who forces him to lead his party out of the mountains. Caine's daughter, who appears to have some medical knowledge, is terrified of her father, and Fadeaway leads her away during the night. They are pursued, but Fadeaway puts them to rout. Arriving back at the cabin, Mary is able to bring the hermit through. It is discovered, using two halves of a broken token, that she is the hermit's daughter, who was stolen by Indians eighteen years earlier. |
Featuring | Fadeaway Farr |
Content | Genre: Adventure; Historical | Characters: Fadeaway Farr; Hermit Jackson; Caine; Mary Caine |
Notes | The artist's full name was Yanos [Jack] Ronald Binder. |
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Comic Story | Football Odds and Ends (1 page) |
Content | Genre: Non-fiction; Sports |
Notes | Who's Who lists Nilan as the writer of his own sports fillers. |
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Featuring | Chuck Thorndyke's How to Draw Funny Pictures |
Credits | Script: Chuck Thorndyke (credited) | Pencils: Chuck Thorndyke (credited) | Inks: Chuck Thorndyke (credited) |
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Featuring | Joe Dokes |
Content | Genre: Humor |
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Comic Story | The Big Race (6 pages) |
Synopsis | Phil's horse Thunderbolt is pipped at the winning post, but the winner is a ringer and is disqualified. |
Content | Genre: Sports | Characters: Phil; Elaine; Ned |
Notes | In addition to the credits in the splash panel, Kashuba signed the last panel. |
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