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| Publication | January 1942 | Price: 0.15 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: Monthly |
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| Synopsis | A soldier complains his evasive date is being a "draftee dodger." |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Military |
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| Comic Story | If the Ladies Ran the Army (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Jokes about women changing the army to suit their fashion and gossiping needs. |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Military |
| Notes | On inside front cover. |
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| Synopsis | A woman tells her lover that her husband just received another sharp-shooting medal. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Synopsis | Jones receives a pie in the mail and his comrades scatter rather than help him eat it. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Military | Characters: Jones |
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| Synopsis | A man wanted to get married to avoid the draft but ultimately volunteered to avoid marriage. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Military |
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| Synopsis | A sergeant tells a female soldier that her nose is shiny. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Military |
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| Synopsis | A new hostess works out with a punching bag, intimidating the soldiers. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Military |
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| Synopsis | An officer scolds a sailor for saying "my eye" instead of "aye, aye." |
| Credits | Script:? [as Cooper] (signed) | Pencils:? [as Cooper] (signed) | Inks:? [as Cooper] (signed) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Military |
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| Synopsis | A woman calls Private Magee's pick-up lines a "blitzkrieg." |
| Credits | Script:? [as J. Cooper] (signed) | Pencils:? [as J. Cooper] (signed) | Inks:? [as J. Cooper] (signed) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Military | Characters: Private Magee |
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| Synopsis | Myrtle embarrasses her soldier boyfriend by giving him her handkerchief. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Military | Characters: Myrtle |
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| Synopsis | A electric razor salesman tries to sell one to a soldier peeling potatoes. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Military |
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| Text Story | The Girl I Left Behind (1 page) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Synopsis | Mr. Twiddle hires a lawyer to defend him against his sergeant's insults. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Military | Characters: Mr. Twiddle |
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| Synopsis | A car salesman is selling a cheap vehicle made by the defense program by mistake - a car with a propellor. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Military |
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| Synopsis | A soldier takes his sergeant's sarcastic remark about "breakfast in bed" literally. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Military |
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| Synopsis | X-5 the spy goes undercover as an organ grinder's monkey. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Spy | Characters: X-5 |
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| Synopsis | A soldier compliments the army on the "camouflage" work they did disguising their meal as something inedible. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Military |
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| Synopsis | A civilian tries to get into the movies for free by wearing his friend's uniform only to discover movies aren't free on evenings, Sundays or holidays. |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Synopsis | A fat soldier asks a thin soldier who his tailor is. |
| Credits | Script:? [as J. Cooper] (signed) | Pencils:? [as J. Cooper] (signed) | Inks:? [as J. Cooper] (signed) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Military | Characters: Roggen |
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| Synopsis | Lt. McNip is a popular medical officer because he has a St. Bernard with a flask. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Military | Characters: Lt. McNip |
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| Synopsis | Rajah expects his new wife to sleep on a bed of nails. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Rajah |
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| Synopsis | A sailor sees signs for "no fishing" and "no hunting." Next to a woman he sees the sign "no nothing." |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Cartoon | Believe It or Bust (1 page) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Military; Satire-parody |
| Notes | Believe It or Not parody. |
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| Synopsis | A parachuter always counts to ten when he gets excited. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Military |
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| Synopsis | A draft board phones a diner to request one soda jerker. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Military |
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| Synopsis | A soldier feels like punching his sergeant "again" - like the way he felt the day before. |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Military |
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| Text Story | Blue Army Blues (1 page) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Synopsis | The owner of a fruit wagon asks to join the cavalry. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Military |
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| Synopsis | A butler announces a woman's boyfriend using her pet name. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Activity | Me and My Shadow (1 page) |
| Synopsis | How to make shadow puppets. |
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| Synopsis | A soldier brags about a saxophone competition. |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Synopsis | The owner of a building shaped like a beer bottle Notes it could be converted into an antiaircraft gun. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Synopsis | A small boat is in danger of being hit by a large ship. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Military |
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| Featuring | They Kiss and Tell |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
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| Cartoon | Sailor Prepares to Startle Comrade (1 page) |
| Synopsis | One sailor is cleaning a large cannon. Another sailor is about to burst a paper bag to startle him. |
| Credits | Script:? [as J. Cooper] (signed) | Pencils:? [as J. Cooper] (signed) | Inks:? [as J. Cooper] (signed) |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Military |
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| Synopsis | Winkle parachutes upside down. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Military | Characters: Winkle |
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| Synopsis | Soldiers are made to march past billboards advertising beer as a test of stamina. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Military |
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| Synopsis | A sergeant reads the order of the day and the movie program. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Military |
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| Synopsis | A woman turned her dress around because it was too low in front. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Synopsis | Private Magee performs his right-about-face so fast that his neck is twisted. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Military | Characters: Private Magee |
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| Synopsis | A soldier camouflaged his tent, now he can't find it. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Synopsis | A soldier in the desert is told to not spend all of his money in one place. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Military |
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| Synopsis | A doctor sits on the foot of his patient who has an injured foot. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Medical |
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| Synopsis | A telegram messenger sings "I Can't Give You Anything But Love" to a woman. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Synopsis | An officer dresses in a horse costume with a major so that he can talk to him about insurance. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Military |
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| Synopsis | A soldier wants a gun that makes the noise "rat-tat-tat." |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Military |
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| Synopsis | A circus rubber man has been thrown out of a nightclub but he keeps bouncing back. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Synopsis | Two angels think they're flying too high because they have frost on their wings. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Cartoon | Sick Call (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Soldiers come running for sick call. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Military |
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| Synopsis | Higgins' employer tells him to eat his plans if caught, although the plans are an enormous pile of papers. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Higgins |
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| Synopsis | A female sergeant is told she can be a lieutenant for only 45 cents more. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Military |
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| Synopsis | A man joined the Navy because he was already in the army and wanted to see more of the world. |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Military |
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| Comic Story | Draftinitions (1 page) |
| Credits | Script:? [as R] (signed) | Pencils:? [as R] (signed) | Inks:? [as R] (signed) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Military |
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| Synopsis | Maisie's boyfriend can't leave because she's sitting on his lap. |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Military | Characters: Maisie |
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| Synopsis | A woman brushes her hair until the hair falls out. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Synopsis | A construction crew are being spied on by someone inside their cement mixer. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Comic Story | Sailor Attacks Torpedo (1 page) |
| Synopsis | A sailor attacks an incoming torpedo with a knife as though it were a shark. |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Military |
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| Synopsis | A woman was offended by her doctor telling her to say "moo." |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Cartoon | Tank Goes Parking (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Cars go parking at a scenic view. One vehicle is a tank. |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Military |
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| Synopsis | Daffy and his friend are taken off K.P. duty to help prepare for a party but must do the same menial work: peeling potatoes. |
| Featuring | Daffy Drafty |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Military | Characters: Daffy Drafty; Sergeant Skowl; Miss Prune |
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| Activity | Private Puzzlers (1 page) |
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| Synopsis | A woman painting a scene of the ocean asks a U-boat captain to return so that she can finish it. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Military |
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| Synopsis | A soldier in the desert sees a submarine periscope and prepares to attack, even if it turns out to be a mirage. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Military |
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| Synopsis | The military police arrested two sleepwalkers. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Military |
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| Synopsis | Private McDuff's superior asks him to identify the right response to different situations. |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Military | Characters: Private McDuff |
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| Synopsis | A pawn shop offers rates for medals. |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Synopsis | Ensign Tweetle goes fishing while on duty. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Military | Characters: Ensign Tweetle |
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| Synopsis | A waiter is lifted off the ground by a fan. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Synopsis | A tanker puts up his tank as collateral for a car loan. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Military |
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| Synopsis | A Jewish company is reluctant to offer a job to Mr. Birdsall because he has a moustache like Hitler's. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Mr. Birdsall |
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| Synopsis | A cavalryman has been charging a woman money for riding lessons. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Military |
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| Synopsis | A soldier's girlfriend is afraid she'll lose her job if they marry. He suggests a secret marriage. |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Military |
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| Synopsis | A pilot has to keep his motor running to appease his colonel's son. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Aviation; Military |
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| Synopsis | A soldier can handle picking garbage with a pointed stick because his father was a whale harpooner. |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Military |
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| Synopsis | A woman said her brother had more stripes than her soldier boyfriend because he's a convict. |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Military |
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| Text Story | Hinky Dinky Parlay Voo (1 page) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | Poems written by soldiers. |
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| Synopsis | A woman compares her relationship with her soldier boyfriend to Cleopatra and Mark Antony. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | On inside back cover. |
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| Synopsis | Among her identical chorus line dancers a woman explains her boyfriend likes her because she's different. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | On back cover. |
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