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| Publication | July 1936 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
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| Content | Characters: Dick Tracy; Little Orphan Annie; Skippy |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Smitty; Babe Ruth; Boss |
| Notes | Inside cover. Babe Ruth appears as character in strip |
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| Content | Genre: Children; Western-frontier | Characters: Little Joe; Utah |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure; Children | Characters: Little Orphan Annie |
| Notes | The topper is Maw Green, by the same creator.
Four Sunday pages, with 0.8 of Annie and 0.2 of Maw Green. |
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| Content | Genre: Drama | Characters: Maw Green |
| Notes | The topper to the Little Orphan Annie Sunday.
Four Sunday pages, with 0.8 of Annie and 0.2 of Maw Green. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Children |
| Notes | The Sunday page is shared with Skippy, by the same creator. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Skippy |
| Notes | Sunday page shared with Always Belittlin', by the same creator. |
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| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Dick Tracy; Tess Trueheart; Bookie Joe; Toby Townley; Blake; Donovan |
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| Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Children |
| Notes | The Sunday page is shared with Daisybelle, by the same creator. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Daisybelle |
| Notes | The Sunday page is shared with Reg'lar Fellers, by the same creator. |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure |
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| Content | Genre: Drama | Characters: Brickley; Wallet |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Uncle Willie; Lord Plushbottom |
| Notes | The footer is Kitty Higgins, by the same creator. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Kitty Higgins |
| Notes | The footer to Moon Mullins, by the same creator. |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure; Aviation | Characters: Smilin' Jack; The Professor |
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| Featuring | Real Magic |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Tad; Bozano the Great; Uncle Tony |
| Notes | Two Sunday pages, with 0.3 of Tad and 0.7 of Don Dixon apiece. |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure; Science Fiction | Characters: Don Dixon; Don's father; Doctor Lugoff |
| Notes | Two Sunday pages, with 0.3 of Tad and 0.7 of Don Dixon apiece. |
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| Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
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| Featuring | Nugent's Originals |
| Notes | Puzzles |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Harold Teen; Poppa Jenks |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Winnie Winkle |
| Notes | The footer is Looie, by the same creator. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Looie; Kipper; Swizzle |
| Notes | This is the footer to Winnie Winkle, by the same creator. |
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| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Bronc Peeler; Coyote Pete |
| Notes | The bottom half of the Sunday page is On the Range, by the same creator.
The newspaper strip ran between 1934-10-07 and 1938. |
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| Synopsis | A large illustration with accompanhying text. |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier |
| Notes | The top half of the Sunday page is Bronc Peeler, by the same creator.
The newspaper strip ran between 1934-10-07 and 1938. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Children |
| Notes | The Sunday page is shared with Skippy, by the same creator. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Skippy |
| Notes | The Sunday page is shared with Always Belittlin', by the same creator. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Ella; Eddie the Scrapper |
| Notes | The footer is Songlet, by the same creator. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | This is the footer to Ella and Her Fella, by the same creator. |
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| Featuring | The Popular Stamp Club |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | hobby |
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| Comic Story | Lucky for Scribbly It's the Last Day of School! (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Scribbly Jibbet is punished by his new teacher for drawing during class, but Scribbly gets the last laugh. |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Teen | Characters: Scribbly Jibbet (introduction); Miss Lacey (introduction, Scribbly's old teacher); Miss Loomis (introduction, Scribbly's new teacher); unnamed classmates of Scribbly |
| Notes | First appearance of Sheldon Mayer's "Scribbly" comic strip. The feature appears in Popular Comics (1936 series) #6-9 and The Funnies (1936 series) #2-29, both published by Dell Comics, then continues publication by DC Comics.
NOTE: This is the TRUE first appearance of Scribbly, not The Funnies #2 as stated in the Overstreet Price Guide and Goulart's Encyclopedia of American Comics. This issue precedes The Funnies #2 by over 4 months! |
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| Content | Genre: Drama | Characters: Bim Gump; Min Gump; Chester Gump; Koodloo |
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| Comic Story | Some Cats Think They're Smart! (1 page) |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Animal | Characters: Tippie |
| Notes | pantomime; wordless comic |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Lovey Dovey; Lovey's wife; Mrs. Dewflor |
| Notes | The footer to this Sunday page is Texas Slim, by the same creator. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Western-frontier | Characters: Texas Slim |
| Notes | This is the footer to the Lovey Dovey Sunday strip. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Pinhead; Jimmy Duffy; Ma Duffy |
| Notes | This strip shared a Sunday page with Daisybelle, by the same creator. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Daisybelle; Raymond |
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| Text Story | Bertie Gets His Dog (2 pages) |
| Featuring | Bertie |
| Credits | Pencils:? (2 spot illustrations) | Inks:? (2 spot illustrations) | Colors:? (2 spot illustrations) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Children | Characters: Georgie Blake; Cousin Bertie; Mrs. Blake |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Children |
| Notes | The Sunday page is shared with Skippy, by the same creator. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Skippy |
| Notes | The Sunday page is shared with Always Belittlin', by the same creator. |
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| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Bronc Peeler; Coyote Pete; Mr. E. String; Miss String |
| Notes | The bottom half of the Sunday page is On the Range, by the same creator.
The newspaper strip ran between 1934-10-07 and 1938. |
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| Synopsis | A large illustration depicting a Western scene, with accompanying text. |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier |
| Notes | The top half of the Sunday page is Bronc Peeler, by the same creator.
The newspaper strip ran between 1934-10-07 and 1938. |
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| Cartoon | The Pickets (1 page) |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Daisy King |
| Notes | Four humorous panels, entitled "The Pickets", "Big Events in Little Lives", "Parental Problems" and "Sour Grapes".
The newspaper strip began on 1936-01-28. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Aunt Evvy; Uncle Mort |
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| Featuring | Nugent's Originals |
| Notes | puzzles |
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| Content | Genre: Non-fiction | Characters: William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody; Tommy Kaeo |
| Notes | Four unrelated panels showcasing unusual facts. |
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| Text Story | The Vanishing Heiress (2 pages) |
| Featuring | From the Notes of Maj. Cosmo Strange, D.S.O. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Maj. Cosmo Strange, D.S.O.; Milton Clark; Jane Murray |
| Notes | Concluded next issue. |
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| Featuring | Real Magic |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Moon Mullins; Kayo Mullins |
| Notes | The footer to the Sunday strip is Katie Higgins, by the same creator. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Katie Higgins |
| Notes | This is the footer to the Moon Mullins Sunday page, by the same creator. |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure; Military | Characters: Commander Don Winslow U. S. N.; Pennington |
| Notes | The footer to the Sunday page is Bos'n Hal Sea Scout, by the same creators. |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Captain Bell; Old Yonker |
| Notes | This is the footer to the Don Winslow U. S. N. Sunday page, by the same creators. |
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| Comic Story | The Fighting Cowboy (1 page) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Western-frontier | Characters: Tom Mix; Colonel White |
| Notes | Per info in Michael Barrier's Funnybooks The Improbable Glories of the Best American Comic Books, Gaylord Du Bois likely adapted the Big Little Book story for comics which would have been one of Du Bois' earliest comic book assignments. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Baxter; Kitty; Horace |
| Notes | The topper to the Sunday page is Baby Sister, by the same creator. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Baby Sister |
| Notes | This is the footer to the Little Folks Sunday page, by the same creator. |
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| Comic Story | Night-Time Nerves (1 page) |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Ginger; Ginger's mother |
| Notes | This is an Australian strip, later known as Ginger Meggs. |
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| Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Smokey Stover |
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| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Sylvia, Queen of the Circus; Bob |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Teen | Characters: Harold Teen; Fran; Beezer |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Mort Green; Mrs. Green |
| Notes | The footer to the Sunday page is Zipper, by the same creator. |
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| Comic Story | Zipper Digs in the Garden |
| Synopsis | Zipper digs up a garden while the gardener is hoeing. |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Animal | Characters: Zipper |
| Notes | This is the footer to the Mort Green & Wife Sunday page, by the same creator. |
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| Comic Story | Broken Tongs |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Children |
| Notes | The Sunday page is shared with Skippy, by the same creator.
pantomime; wordless comic |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Skippy |
| Notes | The Sunday page is shared with Always Belittlin', by the same creator. |
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| Credits | Pencils:? [as Edwin Alger] (credited) | Inks:? [as Edwin Alger] (credited) |
| Content | Genre: Drama | Characters: Bevans; Simpkins; Ben |
| Notes | Copyright 1934 by Jay Jerome Williams |
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| Content | Genre: Children | Characters: Tiny Tim; Dottie; Old King Cole |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Streaky |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Pa Sweeney; Ma Sweeney; young Sweeney |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Children |
| Notes | inside back cover
The footer to this Sunday page is Herby, by the same creator. |
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| Comic Story | Herby Uses an Umbrella |
| Synopsis | Herby walks under an umbrella and folds it up when passersby come too close. |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Herby |
| Notes | Inside back cover
This is the footer to the Smitty Sunday page, by the same creator. |
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