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| Publication | September 1946 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
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| Cover | Anchor Management |
| Synopsis | Skidoo drops anchor... after tying Felix's tail to the other end of the rope. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Anthropomorphic-funny Animals | Characters: Skidoo the Mouse; Chief Cash U. Nutt |
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| Comic Story | A Hat Unraveled (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Smokey starts his journey home with more hat than he arrives with. |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Smokey Stover; Chief Cash U. Nutt; Cookie Stover |
| Notes | Black, white, and red on inside front cover. |
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| Comic Story | Food Fighters (12 pages) |
| Synopsis | Felix and Skidoo battle over food... and also because they are cat and mouse. |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Anthropomorphic-funny Animals | Characters: Felix the Cat; Skidoo the Mouse; constable; Flub the Pup |
| Notes | Though credited to Pat Sullivan, the work here is largely by Otto Messmer, but with some panels added by Dell staff artists - presumably to facilitate the formatting of this collection of 1945 Felix daily newspaper strip reprints by Otto Messmer to the pages of a comic book. These added panels are easy to identify as both the art and lettering is noticeably different from Messmer's work. |
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| Synopsis | Jack and Cindy survive a fiery plane crash, resulting from sabotage. Someone with ill-intent removes a critical page from Jack's copy of the "Weekly Notice to Airmen" warning of a test of anti-aircraft fire in the area Jack has plotted to fly through. Though he and Downwind Jaxon manage to maneuver away from the danger zone at the last minute, a stray shell hits Jack's plane. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Aviation | Characters: Smilin' Jack; Cindy Cider; Downwind Jaxon; Mr. Brotherly; Fuzzwuzz; anti-aircraft gunners |
| Notes | A running joke involving the character of Downwind Jaxon is that his face is never seen. He is usually drawn with his back to the reader with only a hint of his profile. In these segments, the gag is carried further still when Downwind dons a pajama top which he pulls over his face and, when reacting to the stray shell hit, he reacts instinctively by putting a hand over his face. |
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| Comic Story | Day In, Knight Out (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Smokey's suggestion that the Chief wear a suit of armor to a masquerade ball results in unexpected problems. |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Smokey Stover; Chief Cash U. Nutt; Spooky (cat) |
| Notes | The first of five consecutive Smokey Stover strip reprints strung together to look like a five-page story, and the only strip of the five to retain its feature logo. The four subsequent entries are stripped of their logos to create the illusion of a five-page story, though there is no throughline of continuity among the strips. |
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| Comic Story | Bell of the Bowl (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Smokey uses an impromptu fruit bowl for a big batch of fresh fruit. |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Smokey Stover; Chief Cash U. Nutt; Spooky (cat) |
| Notes | No feature logo for this strip. |
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| Comic Story | An Alarming Discovery (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Smokey and the Chief discover why the fire bell keeps ringing when there are no fires in town. |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Smokey Stover; Chief Cash U. Nutt; Spooky (cat) |
| Notes | No feature logo for this strip. Middle left page of centerfold. |
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| Comic Story | Shoe Enough (1 page) |
| Synopsis | A free circus ticket in exchange for a shoeshine seems like a good deal to Smokey. |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Smokey Stover; Earl Stover; Spooky (cat); head circus clown |
| Notes | No feature logo for this strip. Middle right page of centerfold. |
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| Comic Story | The Foo Recruits (1 page) |
| Synopsis | The Chief's new firefighting recruits leave something to be desired. |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Smokey Stover; Chief Cash U. Nutt; Lyman Jooce; Clem Jooce; Spooky (cat) |
| Notes | No feature logo for this strip. |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Terry Lee; Burma; Colonel Wolff |
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| Comic Story | Dope Smugglers (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | A jacked-up dope fiend falls to his death beneath the wheels of a moving subway train, while another, behind the wheel of an automobile, clips a pedestrian and crashes through a storefront window. These events and others like them lead Inspector Blake and Sneed to investigate and bring down a ring smuggling illegal drugs into the country. |
| Content | Genre: Crime | Characters: Inspector Blake; Sneed (Inspector Blake's assistant); subway dope fiend; Mike (subway cop); Pat (subway cop); driving dope fiend; arresting officer; police sergeant; Old Bess; unnamed drug kingpin; police lab tech; crew of drug smuggling ship |
| Notes | Story opens in a 50th Street Station of the New York City Subway, of which there are two. It could be that of the "1 Broadway Local" or the "C 8th Avenue Local". An approaching train reads "Local" "Chambers St", of which there are three Chambers Street stations - on the aforementioned 1 and C lines, as well as the "6 Lexington Avenue Local".
The comic itself refers to its narcotic-addicted characters as "dope fiends".
The two subway cops in this story are named Mike and Pat. Four issues later, in the Gang Busters story in issue #131, two railroad employees are also named Mike and Pat. |
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| Text Story | Charro Days (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | Twelve-year old Buddy Wayne dreams of riding his pony, Hidalgo, in the Grand Charro Days Parade, but is discouraged by his scornful older brother Carter, who threatens have the parade committee bar the underage hopeful. Buddy decides to crash the parade and hope for the best. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Buddy Wayne; Hidalgo (Buddy's pony); Carter Wayne (Buddy's older brother); president of Charro Days |
| Notes | Story is "Copr. 1946 by R.S. Callender". |
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| Synopsis | Angela makes Mr. Chigger miserable and, in turn, Mr. Chigger makes his office staff miserable. |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Skeezix; Sally Snipe; Wilmer; Mr. Chigger; Horace; Nina; Angela (Mr. Chigger's separated wife) |
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| Comic Story | Mercy Mission (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | Uncle Bim sends a mercy plane carrying medical personnel to the South Pacific to retrieve Kain Budd who is "suffering from immersion and shock". |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Uncle Bim; Chester; Rose; Martin (Uncle Bim's chauffeur); Captain Biggers (captain of the S.S. Mer); Doc; Kain Budd; Duke (mercy plane pilot); Jack (mercy plane co-pilot); crewmen of the S.S. Mer; radio man |
| Notes | Story consists of two Sunday strips. One on the inside back cover in black, white, and red. The other on the back cover in color.
As Uncle Bim watches his mercy plane take off on its mission, at the end of the first strip, he reflects on the times of World War II when the strip was first published.
UNCLE BIM: "It is satisfying indeed to see an airplane in these troubled times on a mission of mercy instead of one of destruction - Godspeed, my friends!" |
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