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| Publication | January 18, 1962 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 2 | Frequency: Every two weeks during the school year. |
| Notes | wraparound cover |
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| Cover | What Holds an Airplane Up? |
| Featuring | T.C. Experimental Station |
| Credits | Pencils: Pete Hironaka | Inks: Pete Hironaka |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Anthropomorphic-funny Animals; Math & Science | Characters: Prof. Gunther Q. Mouse; Murphy |
| Notes | wraparound cover |
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| Activity | Let's Make A Ballooney (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Directions for making a "ballooney". Cut out the face and feet and follow the instructions for making a bouncy table decoration for all kinds of parties. |
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| Synopsis | Using the smugglers' own signal, FBI men have captured the schooner Resolute, but now they have been attacked by General Lagarto's forces and are being driven back. Frumson and Jimmy get below deck and into the storeroom to find a box of tacks and a small salute cannon. They load the tacks into the cannon and shoot it at the barefoot pirates, who are rendered helpless with pain when they step on the tacks that are all over the deck. The FBI takes the pirates into custody and Jimmy and Frumson are made members of The Swashbuckling Brotherhood of Honorary Pirates. |
| Featuring | The Champ and the Pirates! |
| Credits | Script: Capt. Frank T. Moss (credited) | Pencils: Frank Borth (signed) | Inks: Frank Borth (signed) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Humor | Characters: General Felix Lagarto; Slim; Frumson; Jimmy |
| Notes | Thus ends the seagoin' saga of The Champ and The Pirates. |
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| Synopsis | Once Lenin was dead, Zinoviev and Kamenev plotted with Trotsky to defeat Stalin, but Stalin had already grabbed power. He had Trotsky banished from Russia and in 1940 was killed by a Stalin agent in Mexico. The other two were demoted and executed. Stalin used propaganda to build himself up and his chief proponent was Khruschev, who helped him rise to power. Millions were sent to labor camps. All land was confiscated as property of The State.The peasants revolted by burning crops and cattle. Millions starved to death.He refused help from other countries, as it would admit defeat for communism. |
| Featuring | This Godless Communism |
| Credits | Pencils: Reed Crandall (signed R. Crandall) | Inks: Reed Crandall (signed R. Crandall) |
| Content | Genre: Biography; Historical | Characters: Joseph Stalin; Leo Kamenev; Leon Trotsky; Zinoviev; Nikita Khruschev |
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| Comic Story | What Holds an Airplane Up? (3 pages) |
| Synopsis | A look at the scientific principles involved in flight and directions for a simple experiment you can perform at home. |
| Featuring | T.C. Experimental Station |
| Credits | Script: Pete Hironaka (signed) | Pencils: Pete Hironaka (signed) | Inks: Pete Hironaka (signed) |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Anthropomorphic-funny Animals; Math & Science | Characters: Prof. Gunther Q. Mouse; Murphy |
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| Comic Story | Television How It Works (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | A look at a TV studio and the duties of the director, cameraman and carpenters. |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
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| Comic Story | The Story of Wilma Rudolph (3 pages) |
| Synopsis | Stricken with pneumonia and scarlet fever when she was 4 years old, she became the first American woman to win three gold medals in track in the olympics. |
| Featuring | Sports Heroes |
| Credits | Script: Bob Weber |
| Content | Genre: Biography; Sports | Characters: Wilma Rudolph |
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| Synopsis | In response to Tony's distress call by ham radio, planes are landing on the river with medical supplies. The broken bridge is soon repaired and truckloads of food, equipment and fuel arrive. The swamp is heavily sprayed to kill the last of the mosquitoes and plowing begins. The valley is surveyed into homestead claims, trees are felled for lumber and used to build a small church. Ed appologizes to Wilson for questioning his leadership. Kurt Rowe from Aware magazine arrives & asks Chuck to write a story about the homesteaders. Chuck takes leave of the Copper River Valley, but vows to return. |
| Featuring | Chuck White and His Friends |
| Credits | Script: Frank Moss [as Max Pine] (credited) | Pencils: Fran Matera (signed) | Inks: Fran Matera (signed) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Chuck White; Wilson Browne; Father Ekker; Dr. Black; Ed; Kurt Rowe |
| Notes | End of current storyline.
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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| Featuring | Talking It Over With Father John |
| Credits | Script: Rev. John M. Scott, S.J. | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction; Religious |
| Notes | Text article with three accompanying illustrations. |
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| Comic Story | Old Man Winter's White Carpet (4 pages) |
| Synopsis | Miss Anne asks Old Man Winter to tell her everything there is to know about his white carpet of snow. He starts from the beginning and tells her about all of the steps required for water vapor to become snow. All snowflakes are 6-sided and all different. A look at other aspects of snow around the world. |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Anthropomorphic-funny Animals; Math & Science | Characters: Old Man Winter; Miss Anne |
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| Synopsis | Hannibal tries to get into shape for skiing, but the exercise leaves him too worn out to ski. |
| Featuring | Hannibal Bear |
| Credits | Script: Frank Huffman | Pencils: Frank Huffman | Inks: Frank Huffman |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Anthropomorphic-funny Animals | Characters: Hannibal Bear |
| Notes | Pantomime gag strip told in 4 panels.
On inside back cover. |
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