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| Publication | April 1956 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: Every other month |
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| Featuring | Little Max |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Little Max |
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| Comic Story | Funny Bunny (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Little Max dresses in a bunny costume for Joe Palooka's Easter party, given for neighborhood children. Max, who never speaks, surreptitiously arranges for his good friend Alice to find the golden egg and win a prize. |
| Featuring | Little Max |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Little Max; Joe Palooka; Ann Palooka; Alice |
| Notes | Max is a mute or "mime" character; readers follow his thought balloons, including childishly mixed-up words. |
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| Comic Story | See Worthy (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | Alice lends Little Max an umbrella, but he needs to hold it so low that he can't see. He collides with another pedestrian and tears a hole in the fabric. Now he has a window so he can see without getting wet. |
| Featuring | Little Max |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Little Max; Alice |
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| Comic Story | Water Boy (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | Casey and Little Max agree to water the animals in exchange for circus tickets. Casey says he'll do Max a favor and take the horses as there are more of them -- but the camels, of course, need many more buckets to satisfy them. The ringmaster says Casey must be at work every night, but Max is excused; camels go without water for a week. |
| Featuring | Little Max |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Little Max; Casey; ringmaster |
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| Text Story | The U.S.S. Humphrey |
| Featuring | Humphrey |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Humphrey Pennyworth; Elmer Fuddle; Lem Tyler; Mayor Toops; Pruney Pennyworth [also as Prunella] |
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| Statement of Ownership | Statement of the Ownership, Management and Circulation |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
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| Comic Story | Strictly from Hunger (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | Humphrey eats massive amounts of food, then dreams he's eating a three-foot stack of pancakes. |
| Featuring | Humphrey |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Humphrey; Pruney |
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| Comic Story | The Funny Mummy (4 pages) |
| Synopsis | Little Max tries to catch a fly, but gets all wrapped up in fly tape. Posing as a mummy, he wins a prize at Alice's costume party. |
| Featuring | Little Max |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Little Max; Alice; Joe Palooka |
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| Comic Story | Babysitter Jitters (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | Humphrey agrees to watch a baby while the baby's mothers does some shopping. He panics when the baby cries, not knowing how to comfort him. Running inside, he finds the mother, who tells him that the baby was just hungry, a condition with which Humphrey is all too familiar. |
| Featuring | Humphrey |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Humphrey Pennyworth; Mrs. Gooberfooful; Mrs. Gooberfooful's baby; grocery store shoppers |
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| Comic Story | Waisted Energy (4 pages) |
| Synopsis | Max overhears two men discussing that they need to lose weight and decides he should do the same. He spends the entire day doing exercises that he has seen Joe Palooka do when losing weight for a boxing match, wearing himself out in the process. Joe invites him and Casey out to dinner, and Max is so hungry from all of his exercise that he eats much more than usual. In the end, he has gained two pounds, but Joe tells him that it is healthy for a boy his age to gain weight. |
| Featuring | Little Max |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Little Max; unnamed pedestrians; Casey; Joe Palooka |
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| Text Story | Fishin' |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Children |
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