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Publication | July 1938 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
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Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Sidney |
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Foreword/Afterword | Here's a Barrel of Good News (1 page) |
Synopsis | Short essay on how to be a good neighbor and new comics coming from Centaur. |
Credits | Script:? [as Uncle Joe] | Letters: typeset |
Notes | Inside front cover. |
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Featuring | Don't Look Now |
Content | Genre: Humor |
Notes | All Gustavson credits verified and courtesy of Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson.
Four unrelated gag panels beginning with "Don't look now". |
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Synopsis | At an obviously fake wrestling match, Annie obeys the shouts of the crowd to "Throw the bums out". |
Featuring | Rough House Annie |
Content | Genre: Humor; Sports | Characters: Rough House Annie |
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Synopsis | Jack foils the plans of Stenzo to kill King Milo and loot the Coral City. |
Featuring | Jack Strand |
Content | Genre: Science Fiction | Characters: Jack Strand; Diana; King Milo; Stenzo |
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Featuring | Wilbur |
Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Wilbur |
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Synopsis | Someone has kidnapped the high school football team. A detective looks for clues but the answer is, the team is not due to play until the following week. |
Featuring | Phoney Crimes |
Content | Genre: Detective-mystery; Sports |
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Featuring | Ages of Animals |
Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
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Comic Story | Pokey Forgets to Rememrer [Pokey Forgets to Remember] (1 page) |
Featuring | Pokey |
Content | Genre: Anthropomorphic-funny Animals | Characters: Pokey |
Notes | Title appears to be mis-lettered. |
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Activity | The Fun Spot (1 page) |
Credits | Letters: typeset |
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Featuring | Brain Teasers |
Content | Genre: Humor |
Notes | Four unrelated gag panels. |
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Featuring | Do You Remember? |
Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
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Advertisement | Look! A New Card Game for Boys and Girls (1 page) |
Synopsis | Ad for Cross-Words Card Game and 100 Puzzles in a book. |
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Synopsis | The famiy goes shopping. The shopkeeper invites the kids to take some raisins, but they hesitate, so that he gives them even more with his bigger hand. |
Featuring | Bib an' Tucker |
Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Bib; Tucker; their mother |
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Illustration | Romance in the Zoo (2 pages) |
Content | Genre: Humor |
Notes | Two page spread of the people behind a hippopotamus at a movie. |
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Text Story | The Yellow Death Part 2 (6 pages) |
Synopsis | Detectives Casey, Roberts and Malloy combat a secret society in the heart of Chinatown. |
Credits | Letters: typeset |
Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Pat Casey; Ray Roberts; Kein Wan (villain); Malloy; Wong |
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Comic Story | Crossed Wires (5 pages) |
Synopsis | Ted Stevens is a repairman working on the telephone lines. Cutting in on the line of his girl Mary Ann, he hears her arranging to meet a man at a drug store. In a huff he cuts the line and races to the store, only to discover the man is her father. |
Content | Genre: Adventure; Drama | Characters: Ted Stevens; Mr. Jones; Mary Ann |
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Featuring | Nothing But The Truth |
Content | Genre: Humor |
Notes | All Gustavson credits verified and courtesy of Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson.
Four unrelated gag panels in which people tell the absolute truth. |
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Comic Story | Sweet Revenge (4 pages) |
Content | Genre: Anthropomorphic-funny Animals |
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Featuring | Joe Dokes |
Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Joe Dokes |
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Synopsis | Chancellor Hagert and Captain Lopez are concerned about the narrowness of the king's home schooling, so decide to send him to a semi-private school which gives attention to character. The king registers under an alias, with instructions to conceal his identity at all times, and interact with his fellow pupils in a fair manner. His superior education, however, quickly earns him an enemy in the humiliated Master Brut. |
Featuring | His Highness |
Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: King Louis [aka George Walberg]; Chancllor Eric Hagert; Captain Kris Lopez; Professor Danzig; Master Brut |
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Featuring | Tell Me Mr. Wise-Guy? |
Content | Genre: Humor |
Notes | All Gustavson credits verified and courtesy of Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson. |
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Publisher advertisement | Now On Sale (1 page) |
Synopsis | Ad for items that could be bought from Centaur Publications. |
Notes | Inside back cover. |
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Synopsis | Ad for many small items from Johnson Smith and Co., Detroit Michigan. |
Notes | On back cover of comic. |
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