| Additional Information |
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| Publication | May 1951 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: quarterly |
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| Content | Genre: Children; Western-frontier | Characters: Spunky Kidd; Stanley; Cora Sue Lee |
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| Comic Story | Meet Mr. Whiskers (10 pages) |
| Synopsis | Spunky befriends a bearded old man who calls himself Whiskers. Mr. Kidd hires Whiskers to help out on the ranch. A few days later, Flint and some other of Mr. Kidd's hands steal some of Kidd's cattle, and capture Spunky and Stanley in the process. Whiskers frees them, and they manage to capture the whole gang. At the end, Whiskers reveals he is Marshal Slim Hawks, who has been on the trail of Flint and his gang for three months. |
| Content | Genre: Children; Western-frontier | Characters: Spunky Kidd; Stanley; Whiskers [Marshal Slim Hawks]; Sam Kidd; Flint (villain); Bert (villain) |
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| Activity | Puzzles (1 page) |
| Credits | Job #: A-1225 |
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| Comic Story | The Eatin' Fool (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | Stanley stuffs himself eating hay in the barn, and later does the same with apples. His huge stomach gives Spunky problems trying to keep a saddle on him. |
| Credits | Job #: A-1263 |
| Content | Genre: Anthropomorphic-funny Animals; Western-frontier | Characters: Spunky Kidd; Stanley; Cora Sue Lee (mentioned, not shown) |
| Notes | The splash panel logo is "Stanley". |
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| Text Story | The Grouchy Squirrel (1 page) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset | Job #: A-1282 |
| Content | Characters: Sidney believes none of the other squirrels like him, so he acts bad-tempered with all of them. When winter comes, he gets snowed in. He's frightened and lonely. The other squirrels dig him out, and he realizes they really are his friends after all. |
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| Comic Story | The Good Deed (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Pepito spends a couple of hours trying to catch George the pig to help a crying senorita. Finally managing that when a muddy rainstorm distracts the pig, he is too tired and dirty to continue a planned visit to his uncle. He regrets doing the good deed. Back home, he learns that the storm flooded the ravine he would have traveled in. The delay from the good deed probably saved his life. He goes back later to thank the senorita and George. He gets a kiss. |
| Featuring | Pepito |
| Credits | Job #: A-1259 |
| Content | Characters: Pepito; senorita; George (a pig); Pepito's father; Pepito's mother |
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| Comic Story | Enough Rope (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Stanley laughs at Spunky's roping practice, but Spunky fools him with a trick. |
| Credits | Job #: A-1273 |
| Content | Genre: Anthropomorphic-funny Animals; Children; Western-frontier | Characters: Spunky Kidd; Stanley |
| Notes | The splash panel logo is "Stanley and Spunky". |
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| Comic Story | The Sharp-Shooter (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Spunky has fun playing pranks with his bean-shooter, but wishes he had a gun. A robber knocks out Mr. Kidd and takes a satchel of money. Spunky with his bean-shooter makes the robber's horse buck so much the robber falls and gets knocked out. |
| Credits | Job #: A-1241 |
| Content | Genre: Children; Western-frontier | Characters: Spunky Kidd; Stanley; Mike; Joe; Sam Kidd; robber |
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| Text Story | Peter Porcupine’s Fence (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Peter Porcupine can't keep a bunch of rabbits from his vegetable garden, until he makes a fence from his own quills. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset | Job #: A-1283 |
| Content | Characters: Peter Porcupine |
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| Comic Story | Prairie Dogs (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Spunky doesn't believe Stanley who says a lot of holes in the ground are prairie dog holes, because they only show themselves behind Spunky. |
| Credits | Job #: A-1175 |
| Content | Genre: Anthropomorphic-funny Animals; Children; Western-frontier | Characters: Spunky Kidd; Stanley |
| Notes | The splash panel logo is "Spunky and Stanley". |
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