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It was good to see the very first Abby an' Slats strips. I never wanted to read the strip before because I didn't know what the concept was. |
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Publication | April 1938 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
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Content | Genre: Adventure; Humor |
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Featuring | Danny |
Content | Genre: Humor |
Notes | On the inside-front cover. |
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Content | Genre: Drama | Characters: Abbie Scrapple; Sally Scrapple; Aubrey Eustace (Slats) Scrapple; Jasper Hagstone |
Notes | Origin story.
Spinster Abbie Scrapple (an old-fashioned, ungainly, but always reliable relic of the past) and her sister Sally (a sweet cookie left on life's shelf) arrive in Crabtree Corners to meet her orphaned cousin Aubrey Eustace (Slats). |
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Content | Genre: Humor |
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Comic Story | Tarzan of the Apes (5 pages) |
Content | Genre: Adventure; Jungle |
Notes | Origin story. |
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Text Story | Wayne Webster of Waverly Prep - Chapter One (3 pages) |
Credits | Letters: typeset |
Content | Genre: Drama; Sports |
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Comic Story | James Cagney (3 pages) |
Credits | Letters: typeset |
Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
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Featuring | Jest di-Jest |
Credits | Letters: typeset |
Content | Genre: Humor |
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Content | Genre: Humor |
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Content | Genre: Western-frontier |
Notes | Origin story. |
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Content | Genre: Humor |
Notes | The top 2/3 of four pages. |
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Featuring | Colonel Wowser |
Content | Genre: Humor |
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Activity | Invisible Imp (1 page) |
Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
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Activity | Thia Is Doris (1 page) |
Featuring | For Junior Readers |
Content | Genre: Humor; Non-fiction |
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Content | Genre: Drama; Sports |
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Content | Genre: Humor; Domestic |
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Content | Genre: Adventure; Fantasy |
Notes | The top 2/3 of 4 pages. |
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Comic Story | A Rubber-Band Machine Gun (1.33 pages) |
Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
Notes | The bottom 1/3 of four pages. |
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Text Article | In Malta (1 page) |
Featuring | Stampin' Around |
Credits | Pencils:? (photo) | Inks:? (photo) | Letters: typeset |
Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
Notes | Includes stamp ads. |
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Content | Genre: Anthropomorphic-funny Animals |
Notes | The bottom 2/3 of three pages. |
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Content | Genre: Humor |
Notes | The top 1/3 of three pages. |
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Content | Genre: Drama; Children |
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Content | Genre: Humor |
Notes | The top 2/3 of three pages. |
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Content | Genre: Humor; Children |
Notes | The bottom 1/3 of two pages. |
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Comic Story | Fairs |
Content | Genre: Non-fiction; History |
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Comic Story | Rain-Making |
Featuring | If You Want to Know |
Content | Genre: Non-fiction; Math & Science |
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Comic Story | Tobacco |
Content | Genre: Non-fiction; History |
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Comic Story | Four and Twenty Blackbirds Baked in a Pie |
Featuring | If You Want to Know |
Content | Genre: Non-fiction; History |
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Content | Genre: Drama |
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Content | Genre: Humor; Domestic |
Notes | The top 1/2 of two pages. |
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Featuring | Dub Dabs |
Content | Genre: Humor |
Notes | The bottom 1/2 of two pages. |
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Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: The Duchess of Bopshire [Bessie Hunks] (Li'l Abner's aunt); Mimi Van Pett |
Notes | Origin story.
Colored reprints of the first Abner dailies. |
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Content | Genre: Humor; Animal |
Notes | Four 1-panel jokes.
The inside-back cover. |
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