Additional Information |
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Publication | May 1956 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 |
Notes | Cover says "by Al Vermeer," but he may or may not have drawn it. |
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Featuring | Priscilla's Pop |
Credits | Letters: typeset |
Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Priscilla; Oliver (dog) |
Notes | Cover says "by Al Vermeer," but he may or may not have drawn it. |
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Publisher advertisement | Another Outstanding Award for Dell Comics (1 page) |
Synopsis | Photo of trophy and citation "for his continuing efforts in behalf of the betterment of American youth" given by the Civil Air Patrol to Dell publisher George T. Delacorte, Jr. |
Credits | Pencils:? (photo) | Inks:? (photo) | Letters: typeset |
Content | Characters: Dell Publisher George T. Delacorte, Jr. (photo); Col. Draper F. Henry, USAF (photo); Major General Lucas V. Beau, USAF (photo); Hon. John I. Lerom, Asst. Sec. USAF (photo); Col C. Short, USAF (photo) |
Notes | Inside front cover; black and white. Three photos, typeset text, and Dell's "A Pledge to Parents." |
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Comic Story | The Holiday (8 pages) |
Synopsis | Priscilla gets "freckleitis," a harmless but contagious ailment, and is told to stay home from school for a week. Taking advantage of the situation, she charges other kids a nickel to catch the ailment so they can stay out of school a week, too; but the scheme backfires. |
Featuring | Priscilla's Pop |
Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Priscilla; Lester; Oliver (dog); Jenny Lu; Hollyhock |
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Comic Story | The Lion Tamess (8 pages) |
Synopsis | After watching a lion-tamer, Priscilla decides her new ambition is to be a lady lion-tamer. When Cato, an old and tame lion, runs away from the zoo; Priscilla find him and holds him at bay with a chair until his trainer tracks him down. |
Featuring | Priscilla's Pop |
Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Priscilla; Lester; Jenny Lu; Hollyhock; Stuart |
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Comic Story | Mixed-Up Movies (8 pages) |
Synopsis | When time runs short on producing a play for a contest, Priscilla borrows her father's home movie camera to film the scenes. The plan is for the silent films to be projected and the characters to read their dialogue from behind a screen. However on the night of the contest, Priscilla distributes the scripts in the wrong sequence and the dialogue doesn't match the film. |
Featuring | Priscilla's Pop |
Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Priscilla; Lester; Jenny Lu; Hollyhock |
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Synopsis | Priscilla reads a book on hypnotism. The other kids pretend to be hypnotized, but it turns out Lester really is and Priscilla orders him to carry her books to school each morning. Lester's mother is not happy with this turn of events and tells Priscilla to "un-hypnotize" him, but Priscilla can't remember the word to break the spell. |
Featuring | Priscilla's Pop |
Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Priscilla; Lester; Oliver (dog); Jenny Lu; Hollyhock |
Notes | The story narration at the bottom of each panel is told in rhyme, which was a device sometimes used in the newspaper strip. |
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Synopsis | Priscilla has to lick the flaps to seal a stack of envelopes for her mother. |
Featuring | Priscilla's Pop |
Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Priscilla |
Notes | Inside back cover; black and white. |
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Synopsis | Priscilla follows the instructions on a TV cooking show, but misunderstands an instruction. |
Featuring | Priscilla's Pop |
Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Priscilla |
Notes | Back cover. The last panel is Dell's "A Pledge to Parents." |
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