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| Publication | August 1936 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
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| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Content | Genre: Non-fiction | Characters: Tamerlane |
| Notes | Inside front cover. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | Four unrelated gag panels. |
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| Featuring | The Nut Bros. |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Ches Nut; Wal Nut |
| Notes | The top tier of the "Our Boarding House" Sunday page, by the same creator. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | The top tier is "The Nut Brothers", by the same creator. |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure; Humor | Characters: Connie Kurridge; Jack; Willie; Algy |
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| Foreword/Afterword | We Are Observing Our Birthday! (1 page) |
| Featuring | Let's Get Into a Huddle! |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
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| Comic Story | René Fonck (1 page) |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction; Biography | Characters: René Fonck |
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| Synopsis | Captain Easy finds himself among a native tribe and is told he must marry the matriach, the fierce Wogga Zazula. |
| Featuring | Captain Easy, Soldier of Fortune |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Captain Easy; Wogga Zazula |
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| Synopsis | Alley Oop and Zabo have promoted a popular battle with axes between two fierce opponents. But they refuse to fight unless they get a bigger cut of the gate, so in a real frenzy Alley knocks them both out. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Historical | Characters: Alley Oop; Zabo; Killer Kid Kar; Zabo the Terrible |
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| Featuring | Such Is Life |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | A single daily gag panel. |
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| Featuring | Dumb-Bells |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | Two daily gag panels.
A previous indexer identified Charles J. Dunn as the creator, but evidence elsewhere suggests it may have been Gar Schmitt. |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure; Children | Characters: Dickie Dare; Dan Flynn |
| Notes | First comic-book appearance. Begins "Dickie Dare and the Pirate Sub" several weeks into the continuity. |
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| Featuring | Boots |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Boots Ruggles; Billy |
| Notes | The actual name of the strip was “Boots and Her Buddies”, but some newspapers presented the strip under the shortened title “Boots”, as here. The final panel on each Sunday page is one of fashion, named "Boots cut outs". |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure; Humor | Characters: Harry Hollingsworth; Rudolph Rassendale (villain); Belinda Blinks |
| Notes | The bottom tier is "High-Gear Homer", by the same creator. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: High-Gear Homer; Mr. Mint |
| Notes | The bottom tier of the "Hairbreadth Harry" Sunday page, by the same creator. |
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| Content | Genre: Science Fiction |
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| Featuring | Magic Made Easy |
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| Featuring | "Holly" of Hollywood |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Holly |
| Notes | The top tier of the "Keeping Up With the Joneses" Sunday page, by the same creator. |
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| Comic Story | Eddie Loses His Appetite For Rabbitt |
| Featuring | Keeping Up With the Joneses |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | The top tier is "Holly of Hollywood", by the same creator. |
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| Featuring | Flying to Fame |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Slim; Parker; Peg; Tubby; O'Brien; Miguel |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure; Aviation | Characters: Scorchy Smith; Tex; Ann; Col. Patterson |
| Notes | First comic-book appearance. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Nipper Tucker; Muriel; Archie; Ruff Bumps |
| Notes | The bottom tier is "Footprints on the Sands of Time", by the same creator. |
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| Featuring | Footprints on the Sands of Time |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Bill |
| Notes | The bottom tier of the “Nipper” Sunday page, by the same creator. |
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| Featuring | Amaze-A-Minute |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
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| Featuring | Dan Dunn, Secret Operative 48 |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Dan Dunn; Irwin |
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| Featuring | Herky |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Herky |
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| Comic Story | The Story of the Phillipines- Part V (1 page) |
| Content | Genre: Historical |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Animal | Characters: Napoleon; Willie |
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| Comic Story | The Runaway Changes His Mind |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Junior Nebb; Ma Nebb; Pa Nebb |
| Notes | The Sunday page is shared equally between "The Nebbs" and "Simp O'Dill", both by the same creators. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Simp O'Dill; Muggsy McGuiness |
| Notes | The Sunday page is shared equally between "The Nebbs" and "Simp O'Dill", both by the same creators. |
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| Content | Genre: Sports | Characters: Firpo; Jack Dempsey |
| Notes | The top tier of the "Joe Palooka" Sunday page, by the same creators. |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure; Sports | Characters: Joe Palooka; Knobby Walsh; Lord Ian Fusspotte |
| Notes | The top tier is "Fisher's History of Boxing", by the same creators. |
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| Featuring | Happy Daze |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Happy Daze |
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| Featuring | Pee Wee |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Pee Wee |
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| Featuring | Queenie |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Queenie |
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| Featuring | Ned Brant of Carter |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Sports | Characters: Ned Brant; Shotgun Sheldon |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Homer Hoopee; Helen Hoopee; Cousin Egbert |
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| Notes | puzzle-page |
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| Featuring | The Adventures of Jabby |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Animal | Characters: Jabby (a dog) |
| Notes | pantomime; wordless comic |
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| Featuring | Alec and Itchy |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Alec; Itchy |
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| Synopsis | Oaky, a sheep herder, decides he wants to join the royal court, so he hammers a suit of iron from a sheet taken from the roof, dragoons the old cart horse Nellie as his steed, and off he rides into adventure and romance. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Humor; Historical | Characters: Sir Oaky Doaks; Pa Doaks; King Cedric |
| Notes | First comic-book appearance.
Script previously credited to Ralph Briggs Fuller, but McCleery was the author for forty years. |
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| Text Story | Mickey in the Lions' Den (2 pages) |
| Credits | Pencils:? (2 spot illustrations) | Inks:? (2 spot illustrations) | Colors:? (2 spot illustrations) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Drama | Characters: Lou Rostane; Mickey Breen |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure; Children | Characters: Dorothy "Babe" Bunting; Old Ezra; Ezra's wife; Zenas; Jasper Scrawn; Miss Grimstone |
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| Content | Genre: Drama | Characters: Olive Lane; Wally Street; Monte Roberts; Lona Arbut |
| Notes | This strip ran between 1934-01-22 and 1938, so these reprints fall within that period. |
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| Featuring | Seaweed Sam the Rhyming Rover |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Seaweed Sam; Prof. A.Nutt |
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| Featuring | Such Is Life |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | A one panel daily gag. |
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| Featuring | Dumb-Bells |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | Three daily gag panels.
Charles J. Dunn has generally been credited as the creator, but evidence elsewhere suggests it may have been Gar Schmitt. |
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| Featuring | Jane Arden / Lena Pry |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Jane Arden; Lena Pry |
| Notes | Three Sunday pages, each one featuring a sequential "Jane Arden" storyline (0.5), a self-contained "Lena Pry" story (0.33), and a fashion panel "Jane Arden's Wardrobe" (0.17). |
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| Featuring | Screen Oddities |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction; Biography | Characters: May Robson; Glenda Farrell; Jean Harlow; Ann Harding; Ann Dvorak; Merle Oberon |
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| Featuring | Bobby |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Bobby; Stub; Spec |
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| Featuring | Flight |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
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| Featuring | Apple Mary |
| Content | Genre: Drama | Characters: Mary Worth; Dennie; Bill; Louise Worth |
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| Featuring | Flapper Fanny |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Fanny |
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| Comic Story | Business of Stretching a Point |
| Featuring | Salesman Sam |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Salesman Sam Howdy |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Little Brother |
| Notes | The top tier of "The Bungle Family" Sunday page, by the same creator. |
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| Comic Story | Radio Trouble |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: George Bungle; Jo Bungle |
| Notes | The top tier is "Little Brother", by the same creator. |
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| Featuring | Otto Honk |
| Content | Characters: Otto Honk |
| Notes | The top tier of the "Out Our Way" Sunday page. The strip was discontinued in 1936. |
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| Comic Story | The Willetts |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | The top tier is "Otto Honk". |
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| Featuring | "Good Deed" Dotty |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: "Good Deed" Dotty |
| Notes | The top tier of the "Dixie Dugan" Sunday page, by the same creators. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Dixie Dugan; Mickey; Madame Sylph |
| Notes | The top tier is "Good Deed" Dotty, by the same creators. |
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| Featuring | Johnson Smith & Co. |
| Credits | Script:? (ad copy) | Pencils:? (illustrations) | Inks:? (illustrations) | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Inside back cover.
Advertisement for novelties for sale from the Johnson Smith and Company of Detroit, Michigan. |
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| Advertisement | New is the Daisy watchword for 1936 (1 page) |
| Featuring | Daisy Air Rifles |
| Notes | Back cover Daisy air rile catalogue |
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