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| Publication | December 1944-January 1945 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: Bi-Monthly |
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| Content | Genre: Anthropomorphic-funny Animals | Characters: Uncle Wiggily |
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| Text Story | Albert's Picnic (2 pages) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Anthropomorphic-funny Animals | Characters: Albert; Fanciful Fox |
| Notes | On inside front and back covers in black, white and red. |
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| Comic Story | A Fox in Lamb's Clothes (10 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Bugs alert Wiggily a Burglar Fox in lamb's clothes took Susie and Sammie. Off to the rescue! Picking up others in trouble, parents seeking their own missing children. Enlisting a cop. The Bugs get separated from the others at Fox's roadblock, and tail him home as the rest are astray. Fox departs. Bugs set a fire that draws the rest. The children are saved. The criminal fox returns, is taken in custody. The rest head home. The Bugs talk. |
| Content | Genre: Anthropomorphic-funny Animals | Characters: Uncle Wiggily Longears (an elderly rheumatoid rabbit); Nurse Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy (his housekeeper, a muskrat); Susie Littletail (his niece, a rabbit kit); Sammie Littletail (his nephew, a rabbit kit); a Burglar Fox (a homicidal kidnapper); Mr Bug (a friend); Mrs Bug (a friend); Goosey Gander (a father goose); Toddler (Gander's child, a gosling); Waddle (Gander's child, a gosling); Mrs. Twisty-Tail Pig (a mother sow); Curly (her son, a piglet); Floppy (her other son, a piglet); Officer (a bulldog uniformed motorcycle police); bather (an elephant) |
| Notes | Writer credit per Du Bois Account Books.
"A fox in lamb's clothes," says Nurse Jane (p.4, pl.2), describing the kidnapper to the Officer. Du Bois, a lay preacher licensed by the Church of the Nazarene, takes the story's premise from the phrase "a wolf in sheep's clothing," based on the words of Jesus of Nazareth in the Gospel of Matthew 7:15. ▶ Fox is inspired to his deceit by the children's own expression of their desire, commented on by the Bugs: "That's the way it is---The more people have the more..." "---They want!" The Bugs at various points serve as Greek Chorus, messenger angels, inept guardian angels, and comic foils. They are Providence in the guise of the lowest. After acting as the essential agents who enable salvation of the children and apprehension of the criminal, Mr Bug asks his wife, "Would you be proud of me if I was smart like Uncle Wiggily?" She replies, "Of course not... You're only a bug." ▶ All the children are shut in the refrigerator that locks shut with a snap-latch handle, which the Bugs are too small to open. The closed refrigerator is a death-trap in which the children are slowly freezing, and, later, nearly cooked by the conflagration. (Too often children playing carelessly did get trapped and die by asphyxiation in old abandoned snap-latch refrigerators in dumps.) ▶ The Bugs initially attempt to free the children from the fridge by attaining to the latch. They construct a ladder out of straws from the broom. Little engineering projects like this are found in other Du Bois stories, e.g. when Young Hawk devises a keel constructing a dugout canoe. |
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| Synopsis | Hector loses the house to Herman in a poker game. |
| Content | Genre: Anthropomorphic-funny Animals | Characters: Hector the Henpecked Rooster; Mrs. Bertha Henpeck; Herman |
| Notes | Copr. 1944 by Famous Studios. |
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| Comic Story | Ol' Albert Decides Yuletide and Time Waits for No 'Gator (10 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Anthropomorphic-funny Animals | Characters: Albert; Pogo; Bumbazine; Uncle Antler |
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| Synopsis | A bum tries to take advantage of Cilly Goose. |
| Content | Genre: Anthropomorphic-funny Animals | Characters: Cilly Goose |
| Notes | Copr. 1944 by Famous Studios. |
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| Content | Genre: Anthropomorphic-funny Animals | Characters: Blackie; Blinkey; Dinkey; Winthrop Wolf; Willy Boo |
| Notes | Copr. 1944 by Famous Studios. |
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| Comic Story | Shoot the Bull Moose (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | S.B. enlists L.B. to gather wild strawberries for shortcake. Wrinkles arrives with new springs in his legs, offering to carry. The gang is frightened by the roar of a bull moose and sight of his antlers---E.E. in disguise, pranking them. A pop-gun is taken up in defense, with a spring being provided by Wrinkles from a leg, with strawberries for ammo. E.E., hit, thinks the red berry juice is his blood, runs crying mama. M.M. intercedes, makes shortcake, and everyone feasts at her table on strawberry shortcake! |
| Content | Genre: Anthropomorphic-funny Animals | Characters: Little Brown Bear [L.B.]; Sunny Bunny [S.B.]; Wrinkles (the camel with wrinkled knees); Eddie Elephant [E.E.]; Maisie Moocow [M.M.] |
| Notes | Licensed feature using animal characters from Johnny Gruelle's Raggedy Ann universe. Copyright now lapsed. Writer credit per Du Bois Account Books. Using food as ammunition echoes Du Bois's Uncle Wiggily story from last issue, in which cherry pies are thrown in defense. Centrality of food is common in Du Bois's stories for little children. |
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| Synopsis | An elephant and a monkey on a beach. |
| Content | Genre: Anthropomorphic-funny Animals |
| Notes | 1944 Copyright Walt Kelly. Back cover. |
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