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Publication | January 1940 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
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Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Hairbreadth Harry; Rudolph Rassendale (image only); Sam Smithers |
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Featuring | Buck Rogers |
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Comic Story | New Year's Resolutions (1 page) |
Content | Genre: Humor; Animal | Characters: Napoleon; Uncle Elby |
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Content | Genre: Humor |
Notes | Four unrelated gag panels. |
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Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Spunky Dory |
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Credits | Script: Paul Powell (credited) |
Content | Genre: Adventure; Teen | Characters: Roy Powers; Chunky; The Man in the Green Spectacles; Mr. Porter; the Sheriff; the General |
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Featuring | Let's Get Into a Huddle |
Credits | Letters: typeset |
Notes | On sale date for the next issue is January 16. |
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Content | Genre: Adventure; Aviation | Characters: Speed McCloud; Mickey; Franco (henchman) |
Notes | Each daily strip has three panels of story and a final panel entitled "Wing Tips", which offers facts regarding airplanes. |
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Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Harry Hollingsworth; Rudolph Rassendale (villain); Belinda Blinks; Cap'n Fogg |
Notes | The bottom tier is "High-Gear Homer", by the same creator. |
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Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: High-Gear Homer; Henry |
Notes | The bottom tier of the "Hairbreadth Harry" Sunday page, by the same creator. |
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Content | Genre: Science Fiction | Characters: Buddy Deering; Princess Alura |
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Comic Story | Some Haul! (1 page) |
Content | Genre: Humor; Animal | Characters: Jitter |
Notes | Four daily strips:
#1 - Some Haul!
#2 - It's a Good Game!
#3 - Painter - De Luxe!
#4 - Who Gets the Bath? |
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Featuring | Sergeant Stony Craig and His U. S. Marines |
Content | Genre: Adventure; Military | Characters: Sergeant Stony Craig; Klondike Devlin (villain); Private Fink; Private Wise; Private Hazard; Kobo |
Notes | Dickson drew this strip between 1937 and 1940, so these reprints fall between those dates. |
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Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Big Chief Wahoo; Princess Minnie-Ha-Cha; Pigtails; The Great Gusto |
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Content | Genre: Adventure; Children | Characters: Dickie Dare; Dan Flynn; Kit Karson; Joe (a talking gorilla) |
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Content | Genre: Adventure; Children | Characters: Patsy Cardigan; Saito; Uncle Phil Cardigan; Sandy McSpinach; Mr. Bludd; Miss O'Donna |
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Featuring | Funland |
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Featuring | Dare-Devils of Destiny |
Content | Genre: Non-fiction; Aviation | Characters: Lt. Ralph Talbot; Sgt. Robert G. Robinson |
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Featuring | Penpal Page |
Credits | Letters: typeset |
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Synopsis | A fhief tries to steal luggage from Napoleon while Elby buys a train ticket. |
Content | Genre: Humor; Animal | Characters: Napoleon; Uncle Elby |
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Featuring | Animals in the News |
Content | Genre: Humor; Anthropomorphic-funny Animals |
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Featuring | Frog Pond Ferry |
Content | Genre: Humor; Anthropomorphic-funny Animals | Characters: The Skipper; Cousin Kwacky |
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Content | Genre: Adventure; Historical | Characters: Sir Oaky Doaks; King Cedric; The Prime Minister; Dilby the Spy; Sandra Pasha |
Notes | Script previously credited to Ralph Briggs Fuller, but William McCleery was the author from its beginning in 1935 to 1961. |
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Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Seaweed Sam; Prince Tiny; Uncle Carlo; The Bubble Man |
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Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Big Chief Wahoo; Pigtails; The Great Gusto |
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Content | Genre: Drama | Characters: Olive Lane; Brad Nelson; Irma Hunkatin; Maxie |
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Content | Genre: Adventure; Aviation | Characters: Scorchy Smith; Krag; Smith; The Dutchman; Boge; Mickey Lafarge; Himmelstoss |
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Comic Story | Blessed Events |
Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Sam Smithers; Cam O'Flage; Mame Doodle; The Count |
Notes | The bottom tier is “The Back-Seat Driver”, by the same creator. |
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Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: John Smith; Mrs. Smith |
Notes | The bottom tier of the "Somebody's Stenog" Sunday page, by the same creator. |
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Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: The Lone Rider [Jim Larrimore]; Sheriff Hank Fletcher; Kit Fletcher; Ma Hawkins |
Notes | Kirby illustrates the top two tiers on page one, and Robbins the remainder of the two pages.
Reprint information from the Stripper's Guide blog (http://strippersguide.blogspot.com/2017_09_24_archive.html, retrieved 27 September 2017) based from research by Allan Holtz and Jeffrey Lindenblatt. |
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Content | Genre: Non-fiction | Characters: Leonard Seppala |
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Content | Genre: Animal | Characters: Napoleon; Uncle Elby; Dr. T. Herringbone |
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Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Big Chief Wahoo; The Great Gusto; Princes Minnie-Ha-Cha; Tony the barber |
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Content | Genre: Adventure; Children | Characters: Dorothy "Babe" Bunting; Mary Mole |
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Comic Story | The Old Fishing Hole! (1 page) |
Content | Genre: Humor; Western-frontier | Characters: Mescal Ike; Miss Sally; Pa Piffle; Young’un |
Notes | Four daily strips:
#1 - The Old Fishing Hole!
#2 - Gone But Not Forgotten!
#3 - Get a Hook!
#4 - Just a Catfish! |
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Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Connie Kurridge; her mother; Jack; The Emperor of the Moon [Uncle Phineas] |
Notes | An homage to Little Nemo in Slumberland.
The bottom tier is “The Wet Blanket”, by the same creator. |
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Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Miss Braney; Mister Simper |
Notes | The bottom tier of the "Connie" Sunday page, by the same creator. |
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Content | Genre: Humor |
Notes | Six unrelated gag panels. |
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Featuring | Queenie |
Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Queenie; Susie; Aunt Prunella |
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Text Story | Spy Snare (2 pages) |
Credits | Script: H. F. J. Campbell (credited) | Pencils:? [as HTC] (signed) | Inks:? [as HTC] (signed) | Letters: typeset |
Content | Characters: Jimmy Powers; Mr. Smith; Steve; Carl |
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Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Homer Hoopee; Senor Obregardo; Dr. Panelli; Rosita |
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Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Jerry; James; Bertie |
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Synopsis | Ferrying luggage to station, Elby misses his train. |
Content | Genre: Humor; Animal | Characters: Napolwon; Uncle Elby |
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Featuring | Screen Oddities |
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Credits | Script: Harold A. Moore | Letters: typeset |
Notes | 50 Church St New York, NY
Harold A Moore, editor
business office: 61 Leavenworth ST Waterbury, CT
Owners: Eastern Color Printing, Waterbury American-Republican, E. Robert Stevenson, Eric A. Paper, James H. Darcey, R.H. Dupuy, William B. Pape, George Janosik |
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Featuring | Daisy Carbine |
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