| Additional Information |
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| Publication | December 1951 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: every other month |
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| Featuring | Little Max |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Little Max |
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| Contents | Contents (1 page) |
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| Comic Story | Little Max in Little Red Riding Hood (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Joe reads a somewhat different versin of Little Red Riding Hood to Max while Max imagines himself in it. |
| Featuring | Little Max |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Little Max; Joe Palooka; wicked witch; little red riding hood; grandma |
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| Comic Story | Soda Sale (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | Max and his friends pool their money to buy candy and get a free ice cream soda. |
| Featuring | Little Max |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Little Max; Max's friends; store clerk |
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| Comic Story | Sweet Treat (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | When Max makes five cents shining shoes, he treats his friends to candy. But after they choose what they want at the candy store, there is no money left for him to buy some for himself. Fortunately, the candy store clerk has a sympathetic heart. |
| Featuring | Little Max |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Little Max; Max's friends; candy store clerk |
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| Text Story | Close Call! (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Humphrey combats a barn fire. |
| Featuring | Humphrey |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Humphrey; Prunella; townspeople of West Wokkington Falls |
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| Activity | Travel Puzzle (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Pictures of various modes of travel hve been scrambled and the reader is challenged to sort them out. |
| Featuring | Little Max |
| Content | Characters: Little Max |
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| Comic Story | Funny Animals (2 pages) |
| Featuring | Little Max Rhymes with Reason |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Little Max |
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| Comic Story | Just for Laughs (4 pages) |
| Synopsis | Joe takes Max and Alice to the carnival, where they decide to try out the fun house. When they start going through it, it's more scary than fun, and Max finds himself wondering when the fun part begins. However, once they are out, Max wants to go back through again. |
| Featuring | Little Max |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Little Max; Joe Palooka; Alice; carnival ticket booth operator; carnival goers |
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| Activity | How to Make Your Very Own Talking Hand (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Description of how to draw a face on one's hand and then make it "talk" with hand movements. |
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| Synopsis | Hector goes fishing in a barrel. |
| Featuring | Hector the Director |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Hector; Hector's acquaintence |
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| Synopsis | When Rumpus asks his girlfriend Maizie to marry him and change her name to his, she says she prefers Maizie to Rumpus. |
| Featuring | Rumpus |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Rumpus; Rumpus's friend; Maizie (mentioned only) |
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| Comic Story | Let's Play Doctor (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | Humphrey agrees to let his fan club practice first aid on him, but Prunella thinks he is really injured. |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Humphrey; Prunella; members of Humphrey's fan club |
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| Comic Story | The Brush Off (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | Max is sweeping the floor in his house when the baby brother of the North Wind comes to play tricks on him. After the wind blows the dust he has swept in several directions, Max tricks the wind into blowing the dust out the door. |
| Featuring | Little Max |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Little Max; baby brother of the North Wind |
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| Activity | Little Max's Zoo Quiz (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Little Max challenges the reader to identify six animals based upon rhyming descriptions. |
| Featuring | Little Max |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction; Animal | Characters: Little Max; Lion; Zebra; Camel; Giraffe |
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| Text Story | Secret Formula (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Using a chemistry set, Jimmy accidentally discovers formula XXQ9456Y, which transports him to another planet. One of the inhabitants of that planet tells him that since he has discovered them, he can never return home. He does indeed return home, and manages to bring back a small piece of evidence from his trip, but decides to stick to easy chemistry experiments in the future. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Children | Characters: Jimmy Jones; DeeDee Jones; unnamed men from another planet |
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| Activity | Circus Quiz (1 page) |
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