| Additional Information |
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| Publication | November 1946 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
| Notes | Felix the Cat cover art is by a Dell/Western Publishing staff artist. It is not by Otto Messmer, or another artist generally associated with Felix.
Felix uncharacteristically wears white gloves and sports cheeks reminiscent of Popeye the Sailor. |
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| Cover | Say Cheese, Felix! |
| Synopsis | Skidoo springs a cheese-loaded mousetrap at Felix. |
| Content | Genre: Anthropomorphic-funny Animals | Characters: Felix the Cat; Skidoo the Mouse; Smilin' Jack (inset); Terry Lee (inset) |
| Notes | Felix the Cat cover art is by a Dell/Western Publishing staff artist. It is not by Otto Messmer, or another artist generally associated with Felix.
Felix uncharacteristically wears white gloves and sports cheeks reminiscent of Popeye the Sailor. |
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| Comic Story | Socks Shredder Smokey (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Smokey finds a way to quickly dry the Chief's wet socks... at least what's left of them. |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Smokey Stover; Chief Cash U. Nutt |
| Notes | Black, white, and red on inside front cover. |
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| Comic Story | Warring with Cap Woody (12 pages) |
| Synopsis | In Toyland, Felix rescues Dolly from the high castle tower in which she is being held by toy soldier Cap Woody. |
| Content | Genre: Anthropomorphic-funny Animals | Characters: Felix the Cat; Dolly; Cap Woody; polar bear; swordfish; Cap Woody's toy soldier army; lion |
| 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 1939 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.
This is a portion of Otto Messmer's longer 1939 Felix newspaper continuity called "Felix the Cat and The Merry Midgets" - presented in a more complete form in Felix the Cat Winter Annual #2 (Toby Press, 1954 Series). https://www.comics.org/issue/274581/#3524595
Prior and subsequent segments of this story are presumed to be in adjoining issues of Popular Comics, #129 thru #137. |
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| Synopsis | Wrongly charged with the murder of her ex-husband and deadbeat dad, Mr. Brotherly aka Sam Cider, Cindy is jailed awaiting trial. She is forced into a prison break by two hardened female criminals to be used as a getaway pilot. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Aviation | Characters: Smilin' Jack; Cindy Cider; Mr. Brotherly [Sam Cider]; Downwind Jaxon; sheriff; Butcher-Knife Liz (female convict); Canned-Heat Hattie (female convict); jail guard; airport guard; fuel truck crew; Stretch Martin |
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| Comic Story | Down Memory Lame (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Smokey drives himself nuts trying to remember something important that he had to do. |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Smokey Stover; Cookie Stover; Earl Stover; 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 | Shortcutting a Sign (1 page) |
| Synopsis | The Chief makes a deal for a cut-rate sign for the firehouse. |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Smokey Stover; Chief Cash U. Nutt; Bill Boad (sign painter); Spooky (cat) |
| Notes | No feature logo for this strip. |
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| Comic Story | Alley... Oops! (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Smokey installs a home bowling alley in a room too small to accommodate one. |
| 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 | A Hot Delivery (1 page) |
| Synopsis | If the firemen won't come to the fire, the fire will go to the firemen. |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Smokey Stover; Chief Cash U. Nutt; motorist; Spooky (cat) |
| Notes | No feature logo for this strip. Middle right page of centerfold. |
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| Comic Story | Milking It for All He's Worth (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Smokey comes up with a way to foil a persistent thief from stealing his milk deliveries. ...Or does he? |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Smokey Stover; Cookie Stover; milk stealer; Spooky (cat) |
| Notes | No feature logo for this strip. |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Burma; Dude Hennick; Raven Sherman |
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| Comic Story | Payroll Robbery Gang (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Slats Varrel's gang holds up a payroll courier and carjacks an armored car, killing innocents in the process of both acts. After a wild road chase, the criminals meet their doom at a highway construction crew's blasting site. |
| Content | Genre: Crime | Characters: Sam (payroll courier); Sam's police guard; Inspector Blake; Sneed (Inspector Blake's assistant); Slats Varrel (gang leader); Slats Varrel's gang; armored car driver; armored car guard; traffic cop; innocent motorist; two patrol car officers; blasting crew |
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| Text Story | Discovery (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | Young Babe Worth must become the hunter/provider for his family when his father breaks his leg hunting in the October cold of Canada. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Drama | Characters: Babe Worth; Mother Worth; Dad Worth; Jean Worth; Cree Indian; bearded man |
| Notes | Story is "Copyright 1946 by R.S. Callender".
GCD's notes attached to the creator object for artist "I. R. T." read as follows: Bails' Who's Who speculates this might be Irving Tripp who was working for Dell at this time and merits comparison (cf). |
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| Content | Genre: Drama | Characters: Skeezix; Trixie Traymore; Sally; Nina Clock; Miss Snipe; Mr. Chigger; Wilmer |
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| Comic Story | Into the Woods (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | Uncle Bim finances a camping trip for Chester and Bull Moose. Bull Moose, "the biggest, strongest, most resourceful woodman in the world", eschews the conveniences provided by Uncle Bim and prefers to rough it. The pair take off in a self-made dugout canoe to adventures lying ahead. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Humor | Characters: Chester; Bull Moose; Uncle Bim |
| Notes | Page One is black, white, and red on inside back cover. Page Two is in color on back cover. |
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