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| Check out the fan art page--an airplane drawing was sent in by Gaspar Saladino of Brooklyn, NY. Based on his Wikipedia bio Saladino would have been between 11 and 13 years old. It wouldn't be long before he was working in the Jacquet shop and learning to be one of the kings of comics lettering. |
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| Publication | October 1939 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
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| Cover | "Hold yer hat, Pop!" |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Featuring | Let's Play Checkers |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Only artwork is diagrams of checkboards. Inside front cover, black and white. |
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| Notes | Promo ad for Amazing Mystery Funnies and Keen Detective Funnies. 3 small spot illustrations. Black-and-white, inside front cover. The top half of the page is "How to Play Checkers" and the rest of the page is a small mail-order ad. |
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| Synopsis | The Whisp robs a jewelry store and escapes in a getaway car. Pulling off the mask reveals her to be a young woman. The Arrow pursues the car, only to be driven off the road into a river below, but he manages to exit his car and capture the crooks. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Arrow [Ralph Payne]; The Whisp (villain); Joe |
| Notes | All Gustavson credits verified and courtesy of Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson. |
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| Featuring | ComiCartoons |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | Four one-panel gag cartoons and a 3-panel strip at the bottom. |
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| Featuring | The Circus and Sue |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Drama | Characters: Madame Renee; Margo; Carlo; Sam; Sue |
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| Synopsis | Boodini walks a tightrope over Niagara Falls with ease, carrying a man and an anvil, but later trips over his own foot. |
| Featuring | Great Boodini |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Great Boodini |
| Notes | Previously credited to Ed Wood but this is signed "Schwab" on the last panel. |
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| Featuring | Spots |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Animal | Characters: Spots |
| Notes | The first panel has interlocking initials which resemble Gustavson's "PG" seen in other strips.
All Gustavson credits verified and courtesy of Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson. |
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| Synopsis | The pair get a job loading crates onto a ship, but through sheer incompetence they end up in the water. |
| Featuring | Block and Fall |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Block; Fall |
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| Comic Story | Haunted House (1.9 pages) |
| Featuring | Windy |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Windy; Scat the cat |
| Notes | In black-and-white. |
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| Featuring | Scat |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Scat the cat |
| Notes | A four panel tier faturing the cat from the preceding "Windy" strip. |
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| Featuring | Bingo |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Bingo |
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| Featuring | Mollie |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Mollie McGuire; her mother |
| Notes | There is a highly stylized 'F' in the final panel. |
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| Featuring | Magic |
| Credits | Pencils: Ed Wood | Inks: Ed Wood |
| Notes | Instructions about how to do various magic tricks. |
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| Featuring | Jest Jokes |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Text jokes and some spot illustrations. Duotone (black, white, red). |
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| Featuring | Missing Links |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Anthropomorphic-funny Animals |
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| Synopsis | Waitress Ann gets an order for two three minute eggs, but they don't have any so brings one six minute egg instead. |
| Featuring | Ann How! |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Ann How |
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| Synopsis | Prince Abdullah returns home to find that his father, Kin Muhral, as been deposed. |
| Featuring | Abdallah |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Prince Abdullah; King Barbar; Ahloo; King Haschid; King Muhral |
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| Featuring | Your Page! |
| Credits | Pencils: Ed Wood | Inks: Ed Wood |
| Notes | Not really a letters page, but a map of the USA with cartoons sent in by readers (who are named, with their home town) for each state: "We have received cartoons from every state in the nation (except nine)!" Duotone, black-and-white and red. Ed Wood at Centaur Pub. is the contact person and signs the page.
"crashryan" on the Comic Book + site, writes:
"Apr 19, 2014--Check out the fan art page--an airplane drawing was sent in by Gaspar Saladino of Brooklyn, NY. Based on his Wikipedia bio Saladino would have been between 11 and 13 years old. It wouldn't be long before he was working in the Jacquet shop and learning to be one of the kings of comics lettering." |
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| Activity | Lesson #11 (1 page) |
| Featuring | Cartoonin' |
| Notes | How to draw "domestic animals." |
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| Synopsis | A series of minstrel show jokes and songs. |
| Featuring | Cheerio Minstrels |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | racist humor |
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| Featuring | Officer Clancy |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Officer Clancy |
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| Comic Story | Diana Deane in 'White Goddess' (4 pages) |
| Featuring | Diana Deane in Hollywood |
| Content | Genre: Drama |
| Notes | Previous indexer credited pencils and inks to Paul Gustavson. |
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| Featuring | The Story Behind Stamps |
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| Activity | SporTest (1 page) |
| Notes | Sports trivia quiz. Four illustrated questions, answers printed upside-down at bottom of page. Black-and-white, inside back cover. |
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