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| Publication | October 12, 1961 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 2 | Frequency: every two weeks during the school year |
| Notes | wraparound cover |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Sports |
| Notes | wraparound cover |
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| Activity | TC's Touchdown Game (1 page) |
| Synopsis | One player is a tackler and travels over grey circles. The other player is a ball carrier and travels over black circles. At certain points, the two paths intersect and a player will be "tackled" and has to start over. The object of the game for the tackler is to tackle the ball carrier before he crosses the goal line. The object of the game for the ball carrier is to get over the goal line without being tackled. Each player gets three turns at carrying the ball. |
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| Comic Story | Diego De Deza (4 pages) |
| Synopsis | The story of how Bishop Diego De Deza used his influence to persuade the King and Queen of Spain to sponsor Columbus' exploration of a route to the Indies by sailing west. |
| Content | Genre: History; Religious | Characters: Bishop Diego De Deza; Christopher Columbus; Duke of Celi; King Ferdinand; Queen Isabella |
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| Synopsis | The Resolute has found a shoreline in the fog, but it's not Florida. They're lost because their compass has become magnetized and is useless. Eskimos in kayaks are attacking them, because they think they want to hunt their walrus meat. Frumson gets demoted to Cook's Assistant, because he was the one who placed a magnetic hammer under the compass and ruined it. The sea becomes becalmed as they approach the Florida coast and then towards the end of the day, a line squall comes up without any warning and becomes a full gale. The crew has their hands full when they come across a sinking ship. |
| Featuring | The Champ and the Pirates |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Humor | Characters: Captain Bascomb; Frumson (The Champ) Wooters; Mr. Keelson; Jimmy |
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| Synopsis | Directions for making two luscious chocolate-peppermint pies. |
| Featuring | Patsy Planner |
| Content | Genre: Domestic | Characters: Patsy Planner |
| Notes | Script & art credits from Jerry Bails. |
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| Comic Story | John Silver (3 pages) |
| Synopsis | John Silver was one of the most heroic fliers of World War I. He flew all of his combat missions without an airplane. His courage is still recalled each year at a special roll call of the 11th Signal Company in Hawaii. Oh, I forgot to mention that John Silver is a pigeon. His mounted body is on permanent display at the Air Force Museum at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton , Ohio. |
| Content | Genre: Historical; Military | Characters: John Silver |
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| Synopsis | A look at how different US cities got their names. |
| Featuring | What Does Your City's Name Mean? |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
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| Activity | Super T.C. Maze "The Expressway" (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | A maze challenge. Start at Yourtown and find the shortest route to Second City without going through any other city. Proceed to Thirdville, Fourthburg and back to Yourtown in that order. |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure |
| Notes | Max Pine was an alias of Frank Moss, per 2006 interview with Frank Borth: "You can find out in reading your things he also uses the word Max Pine as a substitute for him because he didn't want them to think he was writing everything in the place..." http://cuislandora.wrlc.org/islandora/object/cuislandora%3A40849 |
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| Comic Story | The Story of Knute Rockne (3 pages) |
| Synopsis | The story of America's greatest football coach. At halftime during the 1928 Army game, he reminded the team of George Gipp's dying wish, to, "go win one for the Gipper." He died in a plane crash at age 43. |
| Featuring | Sports Heroes |
| Content | Genre: Biography; Sports | Characters: Knute Rockne |
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| Comic Story | The New Leaders (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Paul is elected Class President. John came in second in the voting, so he becomes Vice-President. Classmates congratulate John, but he wants nothing to do with the position if he can't be President. He accepts the position, but does a bad job. The kids are going to raise money by washing cars and John is supposed to bring sponges, but he doesn't even bother showing up. Helen thinks that being elected Treasurer is very important, but she doesn't pay attention to which students are giving her money, or how much which defeats the purpose of being Treasurer. She's also doing a bad job. |
| Featuring | The Little Things |
| Content | Characters: Paul; John; Helen; Cindy |
| Notes | An ongoing series, whereby a 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.
The word balloons used in this series stand out and call attention to themselves, as they are not rounded in shape, but oddly shaped, having anywhere from 6 to 9 sides. |
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| Comic Story | Merging Dreams (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Hannibal is trying to count sheep as he sleeps but the sheep won't jump their fence; Hannibal's dog dreams himself into Hannibal's dream and gets the sheep moving. |
| Featuring | Hannibal Bear |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Anthropomorphic-funny Animals | Characters: Hannibal Bear |
| Notes | Pantomime gag strip told in five panels.
On inside back cover. |
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