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| Publication | October-November 1944 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: Bi-Monthly |
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| Content | Genre: Anthropomorphic-funny Animals | Characters: Uncle Wiggily; Albert the Alligator |
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| Text Story | Runaway Reddy (1 page) |
| Synopsis | A wayward chick provokes a grasshopper, gets lost in the tall grass, is alone and afraid, and cries out. Mama comes and saves him. He expresses heartfelt contrition and repentance. |
| Content | Genre: Animal; Children | Characters: Reddy (the baby chick); Mrs. Mama Hen; Grasshopper |
| Notes | On inside front back cover in black, white and red.
Writer credit per Du Bois Account Books. Du Bois, a fundamentalist lay preacher, tells here a most basic animal fable of a child seized by fear that, sans sermon or evangelism, manages to echo both Jesus's parable of the prodigal son who returns to the fold contrite and repentant, and Jesus's likening himself to a mother hen who longs to gather her chicks under her wing. |
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| Comic Story | Uncle Wiggily's Adventure-filled Day (12 pages) |
| Synopsis | Wiggily saves Prickly from a bear-trap. Prickly saves him from Growler's stew-pot. They dine on Wiggily's cherry pie at toadstool table. A quill-prick prompts stalk-growth, lifting Wiggily aloft to feed pie to crying Baby Birdies. Prickly exits, toadstool-stalk recedes, stranding Wiggily aloft. Mrs Bird returns from grocer's, tows Wiggily off in her balloon-risen basket, joined by Buggsey. Bad Foxes hurl rocks. Sending Mrs Bird away to safety, Wiggily and Buggsey return fire with cherry pies. How now to land? A pin-prick by Buggsey, the balloon deflates, landing Wiggily right back home. |
| Content | Genre: Anthropomorphic-funny Animals | Characters: Uncle Wiggily Longears; Nurse Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy; Prickly Porcupine; Growler Bear; Baby Birdies 1&2; Mrs. Mama Bird; Buggsey Bug; Two Bad Foxes |
| Notes | Copyright 1944 Howard R. Garis.
Gaylord Du Bois writer credit per Gaylord Du Bois, page 4, Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books Sorted by Title compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott (Michigan State University Libraries 1985) 203 leaves ; 28 cm. -- Photocopy of computer printout. -- Call no.: PN6727.D77 A2S35 1985, which states: "Uncle Wiggly. 12p. For Animal Comics #12. Paid Jan. 21, 1944."
Hubbell R. McBride art credit per Michael Barrier, page 71, "Funnybooks" (UCPress 2015), which states, "The 'Uncle Wiggly' stories were drawn by Hubbell R. McBride, who was, like his Western colleagues Arthur Jameson and George Kerr, a veteran illustrator---in McBride's case, of Liberty magazine's covers."
The narrative sequences: Begin / Episode / Interlude / Episode / Interlude / Episode / End. Du Bois themes are: Friendship (making friends by being a friend through doing acts of mercy or charity); and Brains Over Brawn (overcome threats and obstacles by using wits and getting help from friends, and Providence). Each episode follows a single pattern. • 1) Wiggily does an act of mercy, or, charity. • 2) A predicament grows from that act. • 3) The friend made by the act of kindness helps deliver Wiggily from the predicament. |
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| Synopsis | Bertha become the world's heavyweight wrestling champ. |
| Content | Genre: Anthropomorphic-funny Animals | Characters: Hector the Henpecked Rooster; Mrs. Bertha Henpeck; Herman |
| Notes | Copr. 1944 by Famous Studios. |
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| Content | Genre: Anthropomorphic-funny Animals | Characters: Albert; Pogo; Bumbazine; Mr. Bug; Mr. Fox |
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| Content | Genre: Anthropomorphic-funny Animals | Characters: Cilly Goose; Dickie Goose |
| Notes | Copr. 1944 by Famous Studios. |
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| Synopsis | The Wolf tries to eat Blackie and his brothers while they are swimming at the beach. |
| Content | Genre: Anthropomorphic-funny Animals | Characters: Blackie; The Wolf; Mayor Scallop |
| Notes | Copr. 1944 by Famous Studios. |
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| Comic Story | A Cure for Foolishness (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Eddie rebels against nature, wants hair like a lion, not bald as an elephant. Dr Stork humors him, applying seeded moss, and water it. Eddie loves his grassy head. Forest animals flee in terror. Maisie munches his mane. Mom is pleased. |
| Content | Genre: Anthropomorphic-funny Animals | Characters: Eddie Elephant [E.E.]; Little Brown Bear [L.B.]; Maisie Moocow [M.M.]; Mrs. Elephant; Dr. Stork; talking squirrels (and other forest creatures: deer, owl, cardinal, frog, sparrows, rabbit) |
| Notes | Copr. 1944 by Johnny Gruelle Co.
Writer credit per Du Bois Account Books. Written as 8p. The number of panels per page (7,8) suggests the cut to 6p. was accomplished without panel loss. |
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| Text Story | The Winning Bounce (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Gary is the faster runner, but Bouncer jumps on his back and stays there, tells himself he's just learned that being the fastest thinker is best. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Animal | Characters: Bouncer Bunny; Gary Greyhound |
| Notes | On inside back cover in black, white and red. Writer credit per Du Bois Account Books. |
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| Content | Genre: Anthropomorphic-funny Animals |
| Notes | Back cover. |
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