| Additional Information |
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| Publication | April 1952 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: every other month |
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| Featuring | Little Max |
| Content | Genre: Children | Characters: Little Max; Casey |
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| Contents | Little Max Contents April No. 16 (1 page) |
| Content | Characters: Little Max; Alice |
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| Comic Story | Little Max Sambo (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | While waiting for Alice to buy some butter, Max imagines himself in the story of Little Black Sambo. |
| Content | Genre: Children | Characters: Little Max; Alice |
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| Comic Story | Light Lunch (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | Little Max and Casey go hiking; Max wonders what Casey has in his big, heavy lunchbox, and it turns out to be a watermelon. |
| Content | Genre: Children | Characters: Little Max; Casey |
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| Activity | Game Page (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Max needs to go from Island 1 to Island 4 by crossing each of the 15 bridges once. |
| Content | Characters: Little Max |
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| Text Story | The Mysterious Shadow (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Someone is following Little Max; it turns out to be a monkey, whose owner gives Max a dollar for finding. |
| Credits | Letters:? (illustration); typeset (story) |
| Content | Genre: Children | Characters: Little Max; Bobo; Alice (illustration only) |
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| Comic Story | Size Isn't Everything (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | Casey is mystified when Max takes home two slippers from the junkyard; it turns out he wants them to put flowers in. |
| Content | Genre: Children | Characters: Little Max; Casey |
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| Comic Story | On the Bottom of the Sea (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | Little Max is shown swimming among different ocean creatures, with rhyming captions describing them. |
| Featuring | Little Max Rhymes with Reason |
| Content | Genre: Nature | Characters: Little Max |
| Notes | Avison credit from Michael Rhode, GCD Main mailing list, 22 September 2020. |
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| Comic Story | On the Beam (4 pages) |
| Synopsis | Max and Casey play at an empty construction site; Max gets his pants stuck on a nail, but Joe comes along and rescues him. |
| Content | Genre: Children | Characters: Little Max; Casey; Joe Palooka; Ann Howe |
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| Comic Story | The Piper (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | Joe is told that Max is the "piper" for the basketball game in the vacant lot; it turns out that that means he's the only one small enough to crawl into a pipe when the ball rolls in it. |
| Content | Genre: Children | Characters: Little Max; Joe Palooka; Alice |
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| Cartoon | Wouldn't It Be Funny! (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Series of five illustrated wordplay jokes (example: "If ducks really had BILLS!" with a drawing of a duck at a desk, surrounded by bills to pay). |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Comic Story | Hot Dip (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | Humphrey sees Ichabod running and runs with him; they fall into the water, enabling Ichabod to show Humphrey that it's warm enough to go swimming. |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Humphrey Pennyworth; Ichabod |
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| Text Story | Peter, the Singer |
| Synopsis | Peter has trouble singing with his friends because his voice has changed while theirs haven't, but when they learn a new song that requires a deeper voice he is redeemed. |
| Content | Genre: Animal; Anthropomorphic-funny Animals | Characters: Peter Puppy; Rufus Dog; Stevie Puppy; Oswald the daschund |
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| Credits | Letters: typeset |
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| Comic Story | Funny Face (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | Joe shows the kids the spear, shield and mask he was given by an African chief; Max tries them on and scares himself. |
| Content | Genre: Children | Characters: Little Max; Alice; Joe Palooka |
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