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| Publication | March 1937 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Wash Tubbs |
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| Featuring | You Wouldn't Believe It |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction | Characters: Betsy Anna |
| Notes | On inside front cover.
© McClure Newspaper Syndicate listed on page. |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Wash Tubbs; Bud; Captain Easy; Joe Picket; Willie Zarat (villain) |
| Notes | Dialogue re-written on all the strip reprints. |
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| Content | Genre: Crime | Characters: Officer Frederick Hirsch (death); Billie Dunn (villain); Fats Durlinger (villain); Two-Gun Crowley [Francis Crowley] (villain) |
| Notes | Per Catalog of Copyright Entries, In the Name of the Law [Big Little Books, 1100 Second Series] (Whitman, 1936 series) # 1155 was published on February 15, 1937, which would have been near the same time this issue was released. Art work is the same as in the Big Little Book, but modified to be in color, adding word balloons, and minus illustrative detail. The art was probably prepared at same time and altered as needed.
Date of publication from the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 1, Group 2, Pamphlets, Leaflets, Contributions to Newspapers or Periodicals, etc., Lectures, Sermons, Addresses for Oral Delivery, Maps, 1937, New Series, Volume 34, Number 3, page 237. |
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| Cartoon | Cowboy Comics (1 page) |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Western-frontier |
| Notes | 4 single panel cartoons, titled No Sale; The Cold Shoulder; The Close Relation; The Dawn Rusher |
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| Credits | Script: Lillian I. Christensen? |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Sombrero Pete; Don Buena; Senorita Angeles; Pinto (a dog); Black Diablos Gang (villains) |
| Notes | Per Catalog of Copyright Entries, Sombrero Pete [Big Little Books, 1100 Second Series] (Whitman, 1936 series) # 1136 was published on March 2, 1936. Art work is the same as in the Big Little Book, but modified to be in color, adding word balloons, and minus illustrative detail. Date of publication from Catalog too.
Also per Catalog of Copyright Entries, Lillian I. Christensen is listed as the author of the Big Little Book and possibly this story too. (Per Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 1, Group 2, Pamphlets, Leaflets, Contributions to Newspapers or Periodicals, etc., Lectures, Sermons, Addresses for Oral Delivery, Maps, 1936, New Series, Volume 33, Number 3, page 255; via Art Lortie GCD-Chat post October 19, 2018 (https://archive.org/details/catalogofcopyri331li/page/254, retrieved 21 October 2018). |
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| Comic Story | Gunfighter's Range (4 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Tom Mix; Tony (a horse); Steve; Ted Barton |
| Notes | Story may have been adapted from one of the Tom Mix Whitman Publishing Big Little Books. |
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| Activity | Contact Telegraphy (1 page) |
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| Text Article | Boy Martyr of Costa Rica; Slave Who Defied the Foreign Legion (1 page) |
| Featuring | Adventure Stamps |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
| Notes | Page includes 2 strips plus some stamp advertisements. |
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| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Erik Noble; Cyclone Kenny; Monte Miller; Van Zelm |
| Notes | Story was adapted from the 1934 Whitman Publishing Big Little Book "Erik Noble and the Forty-Niners", which was written by Lloyd Edwin Smith and illustrated by B. F. McNaughton. Art work is the same as in the Big Little Book, but modified to be in color, adding word balloons, and minus illustrative detail.
Date of original publication of Big Little Book from the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 1, Group 2, Pamphlets, Leaflets, Contributions to Newspapers or Periodicals, etc., Lectures, Sermons, Addresses for Oral Delivery, Maps, 1934, New Series, Volume 31, Number 12, page 1016. |
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| Comic Story | Lone Marshal and the Border Rustlers (4 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Lone Marshal; Lobo (a horse); Dad Cordell; Mary Cordell; Tim Crawford; Vajo; Dan Russell (villain); Klem Russell (villain) |
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| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Tom Beatty; Gerald Dale; Herman; Jerry (villain); Scar Corvin (villain); Spike (villain) |
| Notes | Story reprinted and altered probably from Tom Beatty Ace of the Service # 723 (the only Tom Beatty Big Little Book published before 1934, next not published until 1937). Art work is probably the same as in the Big Little Book, but modified to be in color, adding word balloons, and minus illustrative detail.
Date of original publication of Big Little Book from the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 1, Group 2, Pamphlets, Leaflets, Contributions to Newspapers or Periodicals, etc., Lectures, Sermons, Addresses for Oral Delivery, Maps, 1934, New Series, Volume 31, Number 12, page 1026. |
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| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Prairie Bill Gardner; Ben Howell; Dan Farley; Louis De Monte; Nancy Howell; Ricardo |
| Notes | Art reprinted from the 1934 Whitman Publishing Big Little Book "Prairie Bill and the Covered Wagon", which was written by G. P. Alkire and illustrated by Hal Arbo. Art work is the same as in the Big Little Book, but modified to be in color, adding word balloons, and minus illustrative detail.
Date of original publication of Big Little Book from the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 1, Group 2, Pamphlets, Leaflets, Contributions to Newspapers or Periodicals, etc., Lectures, Sermons, Addresses for Oral Delivery, Maps, 1934, New Series, Volume 31, Number 12, page 955. |
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| Activity | OH-1 (3 pages) |
| Featuring | Model Plane |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction; Aviation |
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| Content | Genre: Crime | Characters: G-Man Jim; Ellen Swan; Joseph; Officer Grogan; Officer Weiss; Scar Baldwin; The Masked Czar (villain) |
| Notes | Story may have been adapted from one of the G-Man Whitman Publishing Big Little Books. |
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| Cartoon | Cowboy Comics (1 page) |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Western-frontier |
| Notes | Four single panel cartoons, titled Heroes Are Made-Not Born; Water Tight; Heroes Are Made-Not Born; Old Faithful |
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| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Arizona Kid |
| Notes | Per Catalog of Copyright Entries, Arizona Kid on the Bandit Trail [Big Little Books, 1100 Second Series] (Whitman, 1936 series) # 1192 was published on April 7, 1936. That book was written by Peter K. Maple and illustrated by Hal Arbo. Art work is the same as in the Big Little Book, but modified to be in color, adding word balloons, and minus illustrative detail. It was probably prepared at same time and altered as needed.
Date of original publication of Big Little Book from the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 1, Group 2, Pamphlets, Leaflets, Contributions to Newspapers or Periodicals, etc., Lectures, Sermons, Addresses for Oral Delivery, Maps, 1936, New Series, Volume 33, Number 8, page 885. |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure; Medical | Characters: Myra North; Curly [Prince Adrian]; Colonel Zoria (villain); Rosan (villain) |
| Notes | © 1936 by NEA Service, Inc. on panels. |
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| Cartoon | Cowboy Comics |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Western-frontier |
| Notes | Two single panel cartoons, titled The Hide Away; The Dead March |
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| Advertisement | Hey Fellows! |
| Featuring | Hecker Products Corp. |
| Credits | Script:? (ad copy) |
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| Text Story | Ford of the Foreign Legion [Part 1] (2 pages) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Historical | Characters: Ford; Lt. Louis Poiret |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure; Aviation | Characters: Chuck Carson; Jarvis; Sparks; Winsie Atkins; Mr. Kent (villain) |
| Notes | Per Catalog of Copyright Entries, Flying the Sky Clipper with Winsie Atkins [Big Little Books, 1100 Second Series] (Whitman, 1936 series) # 1108 was published on September 19, 1936. Art work is the same as in the Big Little Book, but in color, added word balloons, and minus illustrative detail. It was probably prepared at same time and altered as needed.
Publication date from Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 1, Group 2, Pamphlets, Leaflets, Contributions to Newspapers or Periodicals, etc., Lectures, Sermons, Addresses for Oral Delivery, Maps, 1936, New Series, Volume 33, Number 3, page 1299 (https://archive.org/details/catalogofcopyri331li/page/254, retrieved 21 October 2018). |
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| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Sheriff Terry Dean; Mayor Miller; Sheriff Whitney (death); Ben Thompson (villain); Bill Thompson (villain) |
| Notes | Per Catalog of Copyright Entries, Shooting Sheriffs (called Shooting Sheriffs of the Wild West) [Big Little Books, 1100 Second Series] (Whitman, 1936 series) # 1195 was published on September 19, 1936. Art work is the same as in the Big Little Book, but in color, added word balloons, and minus illustrative detail.
Per Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 1, Group 2, Pamphlets, Leaflets, Contributions to Newspapers or Periodicals, etc., Lectures, Sermons, Addresses for Oral Delivery, Maps, 1936, New Series, Volume 33, Number 3, page 1238; via Art Lortie GCD-Chat post October 19, 2018 (https://archive.org/details/catalogofcopyri331li/page/254, retrieved 21 October 2018). |
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| Advertisement | New Pocket Radio |
| Featuring | Little Giant Radio |
| Credits | Script:? (ad copy) |
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| Content | Genre: Spy | Characters: Doctor Doom; Baron De Klabe; Mark Cameron; Roark; Sonia; The Falcon (villain) |
| Notes | Per Catalog of Copyright Entries, International Spy, Doctor Doom Faces Death at Dawn [Big Little Books, 1100 Second Series] (Whitman, 1936 series) # 1148 was published on March 18, 1937, which would be about a couple months after this issue was released. Art work is the same as in the Big Little Book, but modified to be in color, adding word balloons, and minus illustrative detail. It was probably prepared at same time and altered as needed.
Date of publication from the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 1, Group 2, Pamphlets, Leaflets, Contributions to Newspapers or Periodicals, etc., Lectures, Sermons, Addresses for Oral Delivery, Maps, 1937, New Series, Volume 34, Number 5, page 528. |
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| Advertisement | New! Pocket Radio |
| Featuring | Tinytone Radio |
| Credits | Script:? (ad copy) |
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| Comic Story | Coast Guard and the Rajah's Ransom (3 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Jerry Minton; Limpy Connors; Pop Berley; Scar-Ear Vint (villain) |
| Notes | Story may have been adapted from the 1936 Whitman Publishing Big Little Book "S.O.S. Coast Guard", which was written by William Engle and illustrated by Henry E. Vallely. |
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| Advertisement | Talk-Sing-Play (1 page) |
| Credits | Script:? (ad copy) |
| Notes | On inside back cover. |
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| Advertisement | Well of the Padres His Living Tomb (1 page) |
| Featuring | National Carbon Co. |
| Credits | Script:? (ad copy) |
| Content | Characters: E. P. Lyle III; Mr. Tyson |
| Notes | Back cover. |
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