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| Publication | June 1949 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: bi-monthly |
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| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Hortense; Glum |
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| Advertisement | Wouldn't you be proud to own ... (1 page) |
| Credits | Pencils:? (spot illustrations) | Inks:? (spot illustrations) | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Inside front cover. Advertisement for Harvey Sales |
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| Featuring | Chauncey Chirp and Johnny Jay |
| Content | Genre: Anthropomorphic-funny Animals | Characters: Chauncey Chirp; Johnny Jay; a cat |
| Notes | Chauncey and Johnny save a ferocious cat from drowning, thereby winning his friendship. |
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| Comic Story | The Yegg and I (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | High-speed nonsense script. Bingo saves the goose from collector of everything Willie by making Glum dress up as a bird. Willie falls into the fountain of youth and ends up being hatched by the goose. |
| Featuring | Bingo and Glum |
| Content | Genre: Fantasy | Characters: Bingo; Glum; Weak-Eyed-Willie; The goose that lays golden eggs |
| Notes | The logo in this story is only "Bingo". |
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| Comic Story | The Colly-Flowered Walrus and the Woggle-Eyed Carpenter (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | The carpenter fixes the walrus' three-tune radio, making it into a device that directs the king home from where he is stranded in a flat cart. The walrus and the carpenter get rewarded with jobs in the king's service. |
| Featuring | Jingle-Jangle Tales |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: A colly-flowered walrus; a woggle-eyed carpenter; a late weather report; the king; the king's heavy guard |
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| Synopsis | Bookworm Curly eats a Mexican jumping bean, thinking it's a jelly bean, and hops into the haunted house. |
| Featuring | The Old Swap Shop |
| Content | Genre: Fantasy | Characters: Ambrose; Curly; a spook |
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| Text Article | Your Record Review (1 page) |
| Credits | Pencils:? (spot illustration) | Inks:? (spot illustration) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Children |
| Notes | Reviews of 13 children's records |
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| Advertisement | Enjoy ice cream in Safe-T cones & cups (2 pages) |
| Credits | Pencils:? (spot illustrations) | Inks:? (spot illustrations) | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Advertisement for Safe-T Cone Co. |
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| Synopsis | Johnny enters a soap box derby with the help of Spry in order to win a scholarship. Butch sabotages Johnny's car, but ends up driving it. |
| Featuring | Aunty Spry |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Aunty Spry; Johnny; Butch |
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| Text Story | Jump and Grump (2 pages) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
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| Synopsis | The Green Witch makes Dimwitri's pipe blow soap bubbles that catch him inside. |
| Featuring | The Pie-Face Prince of Old Pretzleburg |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Dimwitri, the Pie-Face Prince; the Green Witch; Princess Panatella Murphy; Sir Razzo Razzh-Berri |
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| Synopsis | Polly-Anna is not talking on the phone to the kid next door. |
| Featuring | Polly-Anna |
| Content | Genre: Anthropomorphic-funny Animals | Characters: Polly-Anna, a parrot; an unnamed girl [Polly-Anna's owner] |
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| Synopsis | Turtles have no housing problems. |
| Featuring | 'Topsy' Turtle |
| Content | Genre: Anthropomorphic-funny Animals | Characters: Topsy Turtle; another turtle |
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| Synopsis | Speedy is chased by the cat who simply wants his copy of "Famous Funnies" |
| Featuring | Speedy |
| Content | Genre: Anthropomorphic-funny Animals | Characters: Speedy, a mouse; a cat; another mouse |
| Notes | Comic strip advertisement for "Famous Funnies" #178 |
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| A Modern "49"er (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Snapper wins the Savings Bond Soap Derby in a jet-propelled covered wagon |
| Featuring | Snapper |
| Content | Genre: Children | Characters: Snapper |
| Notes | Advancing the purchase of U.S. Savings Bonds |
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| Synopsis | Hortense saves a banana from being kept in the refrigerator, where it'll never ripe. |
| Featuring | Hortense the Lovable Brat |
| Content | Genre: Children; Fantasy | Characters: Hortense; Benny Banana; Anna Banana; the man who turns off the light in the refrigerator; Hortense's mother (cameo) |
| Notes | The logo in this story is only "Hortense". |
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| Advertisement | Girls! It's the wonderful new Beauty Trix Wallet (1 page) |
| Credits | Pencils:? (spot illustrations) | Inks:? (spot illustrations) | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Advertisement for Scope Sales Co. |
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| Advertisement | Give your kiddie his own phonograph (1 page) |
| Credits | Pencils:? (spot illustrations) | Inks:? (spot illustrations) | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Inside back cover. Advertisement for Fun Industries |
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| Advertisement | Amazing new Mickey Mouse - Donald Duck weather forecaster (1 page) |
| Credits | Pencils:? (spot illustration) | Inks:? (spot illustration) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Characters: Mickey Mouse; Donald Duck; Pluto; Figaro the cat |
| Notes | Back cover. Advertisement for The Weatherman |
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