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| I'm curious what Harvey's thinking was in launching (in 1943) two magazines with nearly identical titles, "Hello Buddies" and "Hello Pal." The latter was a comic book not much different from other comics aimed at kids. The former was a collection of "racy" cartoons and jokes--likely to be frowned upon even by parents who were okay with their kids reading regular comics. Did Harvey figure "Pal" would appeal to older readers? Or was "Pal" intended as a gateway drug to lure kiddies into craving salacious material? Either way, "Pal" only lasted four issues while "Buddies" carried on for years. |
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| Additional Information |
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| Publication | August 1951 | Price: 0.25 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: bi-monthly |
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| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Illustration | Virginia Mayo (1 page) |
| Featuring | Buddies' Pin-Up |
| Credits | Pencils:? (photograph) | Inks:? (photograph) |
| Notes | On inside front cover. |
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| Synopsis | A wife who has been kissing another man at a party suggests to her husband that they should go home. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Synopsis | A woman complains about her boyfriend to another woman. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Featuring | Sweet and Lovely |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Synopsis | A woman interviewing for a secretary position notes that she can't run for a very long time. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Synopsis | A woman on a farm thinks a cow named 'Marge' must be responsible for margarine. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Synopsis | A burlesque dancer tries to disguise herself by wearing sunglasses. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Featuring | Pin-Up Parade |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Synopsis | A hold-up man confronts a strip tease artist. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Synopsis | A woman complains about her lawyer boyfriend to another woman. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Featuring | They Kiss and Tell |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Synopsis | After slapping a man in the face, a woman realizes she recognizes his face from an earlier slap. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Synopsis | A woman insists to her husband that the dancer he's ogling isn't attractive without her make-up. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Synopsis | Miss Jones removes petal from flowers in order to advise people who write to her lovelorn column. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Miss Jones |
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| Featuring | Hot Shots |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Synopsis | Anthony the painter is threatened by his wife over the models he uses in his art. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Anthony |
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| Synopsis | A man talks about his girlfriend on the telephone. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Featuring | Domess-Tickles |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Synopsis | A woman boasts about her ability to get a waiter in a restaurant. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Synopsis | After her boyfriend proposes to her a woman remarks she hasn't been engaged in weeks. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Synopsis | A woman notes her boyfriend likes to drink with weak woman, which must be why he doesn't drink with his wife. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Featuring | Tipsy Tales |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Synopsis | A man tries to approach a female photographer. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Synopsis | Women wonder whether a store is selling dresses with low necklines or low prices. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Synopsis | A woman suggests to a jeweller that he lower his prices because she'll be back often, making her husband nervous. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Synopsis | A bandaged man has had ribbons and bows added by his nurse. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Medical |
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| Synopsis | A woman is outraged to see another woman has come nude to the 'come as you are' party. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Synopsis | Having tested an experiment using a child's chemistry set and survived an explosion, the toy testers recommend the manufacturers drop the experiment from the book. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Featuring | Take the Stand! |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Synopsis | A woman on the witness stand is revealing her underwear from under her short skirt while informing the court she has nothing to conceal. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Synopsis | A jewelery store clerk assumes a woman's husband must be unfaithful when he sees what she's buying. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Synopsis | A woman catches her husband with a secretary on his lap. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Miss Lally |
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| Featuring | What's Cookin'? |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Synopsis | A man eats his sandwich reather than stare at the showgirls dancing behind him. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Synopsis | Two sailors ogle a female usher. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Featuring | Something for the Boys |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Synopsis | A man proposes to his girlfriend's mother. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Synopsis | A waiter reveals to a woman that her husband was with a different woman the last time he dined there. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Synopsis | Two men at the opera talk about the opera singer's range. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Featuring | From Nine Til Five |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Synopsis | A mouse describes his home as 'a hole in the wall'. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Anthropomorphic-funny Animals |
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| Synopsis | A man complains about chest pains to his doctor after his girlfriend breaks up with him. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Medical |
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| Featuring | Throwing the Bull |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Synopsis | A businessman puts his secretary behind a screen because he finds her distracting. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Miss Golden |
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| Synopsis | The man who fired the paint-room foreman gets paint dumped over his head. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Synopsis | A man claims his uncle left his mistress to him in his will. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Featuring | Date Bait |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Synopsis | A woman who saw a magician has had her clothing disappear. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Publisher advertisement | They Laughed When I Started to Talk! (2 pages) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | On centerfold. |
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| Cartoon | Painter Paints Under Woman's Arm (1 page) |
| Synopsis | When a painter paints under the warm of a woman on his canvas she seems be tickled. |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Featuring | Joke Parade |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Synopsis | When an elevator reaches the floor where women's undergarments are sold the men in the elevator car snap to attention. |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Synopsis | A couple looking at a house for sale see the cellar is full of material from a ocean vessel, making they assume it's damp down there. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Synopsis | A woman wonders if the man proposing to her can provide for her basic things such as a mink coat or a home in Palm Beach. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Featuring | Knee Action |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Synopsis | A woman admires the thoughtful letter her credit manager sent. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Synopsis | A bald man tells his psychiatrist that he keeps imagining brushing hair from his eyes. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Featuring | Poetic Parodies |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Synopsis | A female employee complains that her boss had her literally 'on the carpet'. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Synopsis | The flower girl at a wedding is surprised to see Sammy, the boy who is ring-bearer. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Sammy Noves |
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| Synopsis | A newlywed bride leaves her husband alone in their car while she goes to meet a Hollywood movie star. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Featuring | Quack Cracks |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Medical |
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| Synopsis | A bank clerk sneezes causing money to fly in every direction. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Synopsis | After listening to a group called the Lullaby Serenaders an audition agent falls asleep. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Featuring | Radio Roundup |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | Jokes from The Ken Murray Show, Burns and Allen, The Robert Q. Lewis Show and The Abe Burrows Show. |
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| Synopsis | A man complains about cleaning the dishes after his friend invited him home for dinner. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Domestic |
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| Synopsis | A dentist asks his patient to tell him when he hurts him. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Synopsis | A woman who was just married to complains to her ex-fiancee that since he didn't show up to their wedding on time she had to marry someone else. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Featuring | Love Honor and Oh Boy! |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Synopsis | A mother argues on her teenage son's behalf for a new car. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Domestic |
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| Comic Story | One Wild Night! (3 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Romance |
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| Synopsis | Hector buys a shirt for $13.69 - a figure which is almost as odd as his body's shape. |
| Featuring | Hector the Director |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Hector the Director |
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| Synopsis | Rumpus buys from an ice cream vendor at a baseball game simply so he won't have to hear the vendor bellowing. |
| Featuring | Rumpus |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Rumpus |
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| Synopsis | Hector mistakes a new sign writer for his new film writer. |
| Featuring | Hector the Director |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Hector the Director |
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| Synopsis | Rumpus tries to show Seymour how to eat a grapefruit but keeps getting juice in his eye. |
| Featuring | Rumpus |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Rumpus; Seymour |
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| Featuring | Small Fry Chatter |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Children |
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| Synopsis | Boy Scouts aren't sure whether to help a woman fending off an amorous man or to help the man. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Synopsis | A plumber sticks his hat on a plunger instead of a hook. |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Synopsis | A woman fends off the man who took her on a date. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Featuring | Move It Over |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Synopsis | A man offers to pay the bill of the woman at the next table. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Synopsis | A female skiier puts on a plaster cast before going skiing. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Sports |
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| Featuring | Sporting Fun! |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Synopsis | A man who owns a television set receives a visit from a repairman, who was sent by his neighbors who have been watching television through his window. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Synopsis | A woman driver complains that the man whose car she hit is also responsible for the accident. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Synopsis | A Foreign Legion soldier forgets to put on his pants. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Military |
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| Synopsis | Henry's wife is annoyed when he doesn't part in their argument. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Domestic | Characters: Henry |
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| Synopsis | A bird has a nightmare of living in marble home. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Anthropomorphic-funny Animals |
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| Synopsis | A photographer holds up a picture of a woman to get his subject to smile. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Synopsis | A woman retrieves her deposit money from her garter. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Synopsis | As Harvey is about to propose his girlfriend already has a photographer ready to record the moment. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Harvey |
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| Publisher advertisement | Fresh! Sassy! Riot of Humor! (1 page) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Advertisement for Army & Navy Fun Parade. |
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| Synopsis | A man speaks modestly about his palacial manor. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Featuring | Last Laugh |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Synopsis | A man makes a suggestive comment about a female performer's tight dress. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Synopsis | Miss Tripwistle keeps throwing her bowling ball through the air instead of along the bowling lane. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Sports | Characters: Miss Tripwistle |
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| Illustration | Marie Blanchard (1 page) |
| Credits | Pencils:? (photograph) | Inks:? (photograph) |
| Notes | On inside back cover. |
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| Synopsis | A woman's friend June was married in Reno and divorced at Niagara Falls. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | On back cover. |
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