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| Publication | April 1938 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
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| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Featuring | Grin and Laff |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | four one-panel gag pieces. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | Four one-panel gags cartoons.
All Gustavson credits verified and courtesy of Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | Five one-panel gag cartoons.
All Gustavson credits verified and courtesy of Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson. |
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| Comic Story | Dick Powell (1 page) |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction; Biography | Characters: Dick Powell; Man Mountain Dean |
| Notes | Set up similar to a Ripley's Believe It or Not cartoon. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | four one-panel cartoons with lame word puzzles and un-appealing prizes for the winners. |
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| Synopsis | Jack and Diana are on a mission for Dr. Powers to make contact with an undersea race that he has discovered. The divers will use Dr. Powers' invention that lets them breath and talk at great depths without any apparatus. Marcus Stenzo wants his former employer's secret discovery to make himself wealthy. Jack and Diana make contact with the undersea race and are captured. Continued next issue. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Jack Strand; Diana Carlin; Doctor Powers; Marcus Stenzo (Dr. Power's former assistant) |
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| Synopsis | Mayor Charlie Bulldog is running for re-election, but is worried by his opponent. The Mayor hires a ne'er-do-well to disrupt the speech and seal the election results. |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Comic Story | Mel Ott (1 page) |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction; Biography; Sports | Characters: Mel Ott (Major League Baseball); Man Mountain Dean; Strangler Lewis |
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| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Synopsis | Wilbur makes his plea to a skeptical judge as to why he should be excused from jury duty. |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Synopsis | The Phoney Detective is shadowed by a newspaper man intent on learning his methods. The Detective solves a kidnapping case. |
| Content | Genre: Crime |
| Notes | All Gustavson credits verified and courtesy of Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Synopsis | A wife goes to Insurance Ike to take out an accident policy on her husband who had the accident earlier that day. |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Comic Story | Jim Comes Through (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | Jim gets passed over by his boss for a promotion, and is later solicited by a shady character in a scheme to rob his employer. Jim goes along with the mysterious thief, but notifies the police. It all turns out to be a ploy by his boss to test Jim's loyalty. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure |
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| Content | Genre: Anthropomorphic-funny Animals |
| Notes | a center-spread illustration of the Circus, populated with Dick Ryan's usual crew of talking zoo characters. |
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| Text Story | Black Night (8 pages) |
| Credits | Colors:? (illustration) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Crime |
| Notes | text story with one illustration per page. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | All Gustavson credits verified and courtesy of Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Comic Story | Voices in the Dark (4 pages) |
| Synopsis | Joe and another mugger rob Frank while he's carrying his business' deposit bag. However, Frank used to be Henri the ventriloquist and throws his voice to make the thieves think the police have cornered them. |
| Content | Genre: Crime | Characters: Frank; Joe |
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| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Synopsis | Eric goes undercover to thwart an armed revolt against the kingdom. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Eric Hagert |
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| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Comic Story | On the Air (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | Curry, an honest political candidate, is set to make a radio broadcast exposing the mob ties of his corrupt opponent Leary. Curry refuses to back down and his argument is accidentally broadcast, exposing Leary's crimes. |
| Content | Genre: Crime | Characters: Curry; Leary; Mulligan |
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| Comic Story | Rattlesnake Gulch (4 pages) |
| Synopsis | Scarface George is ambushing men and throwing them into a pit of rattlesnakes but Jim and Phil escape the pit and catch the killers. |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Marty (dies); Jim; Scarface George (crook); Jake (crook); Phil Hart |
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