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| Publication | February-March 1945 | 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 | Bucky Horse (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Bucky discovers how to lift the pasture bars off with his teeth and walk through the gap into the farmhouse yard. He has fun pulling clothespins from the washline until a sheet is suddenly blown over his head, blinding him. Terrified, he races blindly off the bluff and falls into the river. Swimming desperately, and confused, he squeals MAMA! Molly comes, pushes him to shore. Lesson learned: Bucky never pulled clothespins again! |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Animal; Children | Characters: Bucky Horse (a baby horse); Billy Breeze (the wind, anthropomorphic); Molly Mare (Bucky's mother) |
| Notes | On inside front cover (Cover #2, or C2, whole) in black, white and red. Writer credit per Du Bois Account Books. |
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| Comic Story | Helping the Homeless (10 pages) |
| Synopsis | Robert Raccoon tells Uncle Wiggily an owl drove his family from their cozy home in the hollow tree. Mama sobs he ate one of her children. Wiggily is fooled by a sign for a gypsy inn; Junior warns him it's an alligator! Mrs. Groundhog accepts the family at her inn. Bob takes Wiggily in the baby cart (because Wiggily's rheumatism) to attend to Owl. Buggsy joins them at the tree home, Wiggily frees him from many sticky things. A sticky device traps "cannibal" Owl. Wings, talons clipped! All's well. Buggsy's sticking with Wiggily! |
| Content | Genre: Anthropomorphic-funny Animals | Characters: Uncle Wiggily Longears (a rheumatic rabbit); Robert "Bob" Raccoon; Mama Raccoon; Junior Raccoon; Child Raccoon; Baby Raccoon; Alligator; Mrs. Groundhog; Mr. Savage Owl; Buggsy Bug |
| Notes | Writer credit per Du Bois Account Books.
Du Bois themes: friendship, mutual help overcoming adversity, brains over brawn. Another engineering project is involved. Another comedic Bug appears in the feature. |
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| Synopsis | Hector fakes his death to get back at his wife. |
| Content | Genre: Anthropomorphic-funny Animals | Characters: Hector the Henpecked Rooster; Mrs. Bertha Henpeck; Herman |
| Notes | Copyright 1945 by Famous Studios. |
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| Content | Genre: Anthropomorphic-funny Animals | Characters: Blackie; Wally; Wooly; Willy; Wolf |
| Notes | Copyright 1945 by Famous Studios. |
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| Comic Story | Albert the Whaler (8 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Anthropomorphic-funny Animals | Characters: Albert; Pogo; Uncle Antler; Howland Owl; Captain Churchy La Femme |
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| Synopsis | Cilly Goose tries to become a fortune teller. |
| Content | Genre: Anthropomorphic-funny Animals | Characters: Cilly Goose; Mrs. Van Oinke; Homer |
| Notes | Copyright 1945 by Famous Studios. |
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| Statement of Ownership | Statement of Ownership, Management, Circulation, Etc. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
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| Comic Story | Wheeled Wooden Ducklings (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Rollerskating, L.B. exhorts Eddie to speed, who demurs, comments he isn't built for it, sits on a log, removes the skates, tosses them, hitting Quacky who sits on her eggs. She leaves Eddie in charge, going for groceries. The ducklings hatch, see L.B.'s skates, return to their shells, regrow their legs and feet as wheels, lead the boys a merry chase on the water. Catching 'em in the overturned canoe, the boys see Quacky returning, angry. Ducklings skate off, Quacky weeps she can't catch 'em. Eddie gives her his skates, solving her problem, and his! |
| Content | Genre: Anthropomorphic-funny Animals | Characters: Eddie Elephant [E.E.] (a talking stuffed toy elephant); Little Brown Bear [L.B.] (a talking stuffed teddy-bear); Quacky Doodles (a talking wooden toy duck); three wooden ducklings |
| Notes | Copr. 1945 by Johnny Gruelle Co. Writer credit per Du Bois Account Books.
Toy wooden ducklings hatch from eggs? Then return to their shells to regrow their wooden legs and feet as wooden wheels? This is the elf-land of make-belief! But elf-land has internal rules, so when Quacky has no wheels for feet by which to catch her children, it isn't stated, but the logic is implicit why she can't likewise morph herself: not being newly hatched, she hasn't an eggshell to return to for regrowth. Her problem provides Eddie the opportunity to be of further assistance (he has already helped her by sitting on her eggs for her when she leaves for groceries). Barrier puts it this way in Funnybooks (UC Press, Oakland, 2015), p.126: "...what happened in his stories [were] plausible on the stories' own terms." Plausibility "in which sympathetic characters support one another." |
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| Text Story | A Friend in Need (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Philip and Tuck leave Patsy alone in the house. She playfully knocks over a box of matches to the floor. They spill. One by one they ignite. The curtains catch fire. Patsy meows for help. Tuck scratches through the screen door, picks Patsy up by her nape, and delivers her to safety outside as Philip and Mother attend the fire. Patsy and Tuck play. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Characters: Philip (a boy); Tuck (his big Airdale); Patsy (the kitten); Philip's mother |
| Notes | On inside back cover in black, white and red. Writer credit per Du Bois Account Books. Du Bois's story's title articulates the theme of friendship in so much of his work. |
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| Synopsis | The monkey turns the elephant's trunk into a scary puppet. |
| Content | Genre: Anthropomorphic-funny Animals |
| Notes | Back cover. |
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