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| Publication | January 4, 1962 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 2 | Frequency: Every two weeks during the school year. |
| Notes | wraparound cover |
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| Notes | wraparound cover |
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| Synopsis | A crossword puzzle; pair the rhyming word for each animal with each object shown; test your sense of humor by putting the proper title under each of four gag panels. |
| Featuring | Treasure Chest's Puzzle Page |
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| Synopsis | Chuck and his group arrive at Copper River and begin to survey planting plots before they lay out homestead claims. Swarms of mosquitoes make the job impossible and they need to drain the swamp before any work can get started. As the swamp starts to drain, Chuck collapses with fever and a novice radio ham puts out a call for assistance. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Chuck White; Tony |
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| Comic Story | Movie Madness (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Rose is in charge of her younger sister Marge while their parents are away. Marge wants to see a movie with her friends. Rose tells Marge to check The Legion of Decency rating on the film and doesn't want her to go when she finds out it's rated A-III (unobjectionable for adults). Rose trusts Marge will see a better rated film, but her friends talk her into seeing the movie that Rose forbid her to see. Other friends of Marge happen to see her entering the theater and are shocked that she would go to see such a movie. |
| Featuring | The Little Things |
| Content | Genre: Drama | Characters: Marge; Rose; Jan; Julia; John |
| Notes | An ongoing series, whereby a family situation is set up in 4 pages with no resolution and the reader is asked to judge what the right thing to do is in the given situation. One text page of 20 true/false questions about the story you just read follows, along with 2 discussion questions. There is another text page which discusses the moral implications of both sides of the story. The correct answers to the questions are upside-down on the bottom of the page and you can tally your score on a scoresheet. |
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| Comic Story | The Story of George Mikan (3 pages) |
| Synopsis | The story of George Mikan, a basketball player who led the Lakers to 6 league championships in 7 years and became a lawyer after retiring from basketball. |
| Featuring | Sports Heroes |
| Content | Genre: Biography; Sports | Characters: George Mikan; Ed Mikan; Joe Mikan; Fr.George Violich |
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| Synopsis | A look at how a television picture gets to your home, starting with the scientific principles involved in the picture element in a TV camera back at the television studio and ending when you turn on your TV set. |
| Featuring | Television How It Works |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction; Math & Science |
| Notes | An ongoing series. Other installments look at different aspects of television. |
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| Comic Story | Designed For Night Flying (1 page) |
| Synopsis | A look at owls and their special adaptations for silent flying, acute listening and night vision. |
| Content | Genre: Animal |
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| Comic Story | Our Lady of Guadalupe (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | In 1531, a peasant saw a vision of the Virgin Mary, who spoke to him and asked him to tell the Bishop that a church be built on the site. The Bishop didn't believe him at first and gave him difficult tasks to perform to humor him. Little by little, the Bishop came to believe that a miracle occurred and a church was built on the site that the peasant point out to them. |
| Content | Genre: Religious | Characters: Juan Diego |
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| Synopsis | Directions for making chocolate fudge. |
| Featuring | Patsy Planner |
| Content | Genre: Domestic | Characters: Patsy Planner |
| Notes | Script & art credits from Jerry Bails. |
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| Synopsis | Four single-panel gags. |
| Featuring | Fun Page |
| Credits | Pencils: Ali (signed) | Inks: Ali (signed) |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Synopsis | The schooner Resolute has been captured by arms smugglers. With Frumson and Jimmy as prisoners, the smugglers are sailing to a secret rendezvous with Gen. Lagarto, the revolutionary leader. The FBI starts out in pursuit of the smugglers and disguise themselves in pirate garb as the revolutionaries, but the fact that they're all wearing shoes gives them away. Just then, the real barefoot pirates show up and overwhelm the FBI. |
| Featuring | The Champ and the Pirates! |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Humor | Characters: Frumson (The Champ) Wooters; Jimmy; General Felix Lagarto; Agent Wilson; Captain Bascomb; Curley; Coot; Wilson |
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| Comic Story | Flipping Pancakes (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Pierre flips a flapjack and it rolls out of his diner. |
| Featuring | Pierre |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Pierre |
| Notes | Pantomime gag told in six panels.
On inside back cover. |
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