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| Publication | September 11, 1958 | Pages: 1 | Frequency: published every two weeks during the school year |
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| Featuring | The Champ in the Circus |
| Credits | Pencils: Frank Borth (signed) | Inks: Frank Borth (signed) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Humor |
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| Synopsis | Four activities. Fit these 20 small words together to spell at least 18 large words. Jack is paying Mike $73 with seven bills, none of which are $1 bills. What is the value of each of the seven bills? Look carefully at the above figure and tell whether the black mark is on the bottom or top of the figure. Fill in the blanks and spell the names of three well-known trees. Answers are upside-down on the bottom of the page. |
| Featuring | Puzzle Page |
| Credits | Pencils: Bill Berry (signed) | Inks: Bill Berry (signed) |
| Notes | inside front cover |
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| Synopsis | Frumson Wooters shows up at Hornbeam's Circus, in the hopes of finding a job. The circus is a broken down affair that has seen better times. The clowns don't even try to be funny anymore. Unless Col. Hornbeam can pay his bills, the US Marshall will foreclose the mortgage next week. Frumson finds out they're not hiring because they're broke. He tries his luck at a high striker (use a mallet to ring the bell on top of a tower) and loses his dime. Unaware that the cable is controlled by the operator of the game, he tries again, determined to ring the bell and winds up breaking the game. |
| Featuring | The Champ in the Circus |
| Credits | Script: Capt. Frank Moss (credited) | Pencils: Frank Borth (signed) | Inks: Frank Borth (signed) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Humor | Characters: Frumson (The Champ) Wooters; Col. Horatio Hornbeam; Blackie Salter; Gunboat; Mr. Slade |
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| Synopsis | The editor tells the readers what sort of features Treasure Chest will be having during the new school year. |
| Featuring | JGS's Scratch Pad |
| Credits | Script: Joseph G. Schaller (editor) | Letters: typeset |
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| Synopsis | This issue features tips on how to keep yourself in condition spiritually, have the proper attitude when you win and also to lose with grace. He stresses that studies come first before sports. |
| Featuring | Terry Brennan's Do It Yourself! |
| Credits | Script: Terry Brennan (credited) | Pencils: Fran Matera (signed) | Inks: Fran Matera (signed) |
| Content | Genre: Sports | Characters: Terry Brennan |
| Notes | Notre Dame's Terry Brennan is the youngest major college football coach in the country today (1958). For that reason and because of his success at Notre Dame, he is becoming a symbol of athletic know-how for America's youth. Particularly Catholic youth. |
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| Text Article | Make Mine Vanilla/Double Dutch (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Two text articles with two accompanying illustrations. The first story tells how a little girl was waiting for a druggist to put a scoop of ice cream into her dish, but he accidentally dropped it into a glass of soda water. Before he could remove it, she began to eat it. On that day in 1874, the ice cream soda was invented. The other story tells the pre-Civil War origins of double-dutch jump roping in Tennessee, where grapevines were substituted for jump rope. |
| Featuring | The First Time |
| Credits | Pencils: Lloyd Ostendorf (signed) | Inks: Lloyd Ostendorf (signed) |
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| Comic Story | Patron of China … St. Joseph (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | The story of St. Joseph, starting from when he was a young man. |
| Featuring | Piercing the Iron Curtain |
| Credits | Script: Catherine Beebe (credited) | Pencils: Paul Karch [as P. K.] (signed) | Inks: Paul Karch [as P. K.] (signed) |
| Content | Genre: Religious | Characters: Jesus; Joseph; Mary; St. Joseph; Melchior; Caspar; Balthazar |
| Notes | The top half of the first page is typeset text. The comic story begins on the bottom half on the first page. |
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| Featuring | Treasure Chest's Joke Page |
| Credits | Script: Frank Huffman (signed) | Pencils: Frank Huffman (signed) | Inks: Frank Huffman (signed) |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | Four single-panel gags. |
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| Text Article | Once Upon a Time... |
| Synopsis | The top half of the page is an article from the editor telling the readers how in the weeks to come, Eric St. Clair will be retelling old fables and stories, but giving them a new touch. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | The editor seems to have thought very highly of Eric St. Clair and mentions several times how the author has a very good style and will make you smile. |
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| Text Story | …Midas Heard a Song (3.5 pages) |
| Credits | Script: Eric St. Clair (credited) |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Fantasy | Characters: King Midas |
| Notes | Text story begins on the bottom-half of the page and has six accompanying illustrations. |
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| Synopsis | School has started and Chuck is visiting his old alma mater, St. John's High School. Mike Kelly quit school to take a construction job and Father Carroll asks Chuck to visit Mike to talk him into quitting his job and returning to school and the football team. Mike tells Chuck he wants to be independent, be his own boss and not have anyone tell him what to do. Sally and Teddy drive past the construction site on their bikes and Mike drives a bulldozer to show off for them and then acts like he hardly knows them at all and leaves for dinner. |
| Featuring | Chuck White and His Friends |
| Credits | Script: Frank Moss [as Max Pine] (credited) | Pencils: Frank Borth (signed) | Inks: Frank Borth (signed) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Chuck White; Mike Kelly; Father Carroll; Dutch Berger; Joe Kelly; Sally; Teddy |
| 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 | Burying Bones (1 page) |
| Synopsis | A dog won't leave Pierre alone until he buries its bone for him. |
| Featuring | Pierre |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Pierre |
| Notes | inside back cover; pantomime gag-strip told in six panels. |
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| Synopsis | A nun invites a group of children to come into what looks like the doors of a school for their copies of Treasure Chest. The text describes the wealth of features that can be found in this year's batch of issues and how it can prepare today's youth for their future careers. |
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