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| Publication | September 14, 1961 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: every two weeks during the school year |
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| Featuring | The Champ and the Pirates |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Humor |
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| Synopsis | Three activities. A crossword puzzle in the shape of a submarine; a rebus story; a drawing of a bear and a sign post that asks you to figure what color the bear is and where the sign post is. |
| Featuring | Treasure Chest's Puzzle Page |
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| Synopsis | Frumson Wooters, the new boatswain for The Resolute, arrives today at the Yacht Club. The ship's crew is dressed in pirate garb and will be sailing from Long Island, NY to Pirate's Cove, Florida. One of the crew welcomes Frumson aboard with a salute from a small cannon, not knowing that Frumson had filled it with cherry pits, bannan peels and a turkey leg bone, which makes a mess of a longboat under repair. Jimmy and Frumson walk the deck with a toolbag, not realizing tacks are spilling out from a hole in the bag. The barefoot deckhands scream out in pain after stepping on the tacks. |
| Featuring | The Champ and the Pirates |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Humor | Characters: Frumson (The Champ) Wooters; Capt. Bascome; Mr. Keelson; Jimmy; |
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| Synopsis | Directions for making different types of aprons. |
| Featuring | Patsy Planner |
| Content | Genre: Domestic | Characters: Patsy Planner |
| Notes | Patsy Manners' name changed to Patsy Planner starting with this issue.
Script credit from Jerry Bails. |
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| Comic Story | The Big Game (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | We are introduced to the cast of characters we will be seeing regularly throughout the year in this game of life. Usually, the entire story focuses around a central theme, but in this installment, each panel or two, features a separate situation for our attention. A lady's package fall out of her bag as two boys watch and one suggest they help her. Fred is annoyed at his mom, when he and Jim go to Fred's house and his mom tells them they'll have to prepare dinner for themselves because Aunt Kate is very sick. Some of the girls gossip about Marge always wearing the same old jacket. |
| Featuring | The Little Things |
| Content | Characters: Mr. Foster; Mrs. Foster; Joan Foster; Jim Foster; Fred; Paul; Peter; John; Phil; Cindy; Pat; Helen; Susan; Marge |
| Notes | An ongoing series, whereby a situation is set up in 4 pages with no resolution and the reader is asked to judge what the right thing to do is in the given situation. One text page of 20 true/false questions about the story you just read follows, along with 2 discussion questions. There is another text page which discusses the moral implications of both sides of the story. The correct answers to the questions are upside-down on the bottom of the page and you can tally your score on a scoresheet.
The word balloons used in this series stand out and call attention to themselves, as they are not rounded in shape, but oddly shaped, having anywhere from 6 to 9 sides. |
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| Synopsis | There are over 75 mistakes on this page. How many can you find? The scene is Blubeard the pirate burying his treasure on Long Island in 1491 with a group of other pirates. |
| Featuring | T.C. Super Puzzle Page |
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| Comic Story | Objects in Motion (3 pages) |
| Synopsis | A look at objects in motion and two simple experiments you can perform at home. One experiment demonstrates inertia and the other demonstrates force of motion. |
| Featuring | Treasure Chest Experimental Station |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Anthropomorphic-funny Animals; Math & Science | Characters: Dr. Gunther Q. Mouse; Murphy |
| Notes | In some issues, the mouse is referred to as Doctor and sometimes as Professor. |
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| Synopsis | Chuck is back in Steeltown and runs into Tony Laport, who tells him he just sold his bike because he's leaving town and there are no streets or roads where they're going. Tony and his mom joined a group of people who are going to move to Alaska and be modern pioneers. Chuck finds out the newspaper he works for was sold and he's out of a job, so he figures this would be a great opportunity for him to join the group and go to Alaska. He trades his station wagon in for a tow truck and the group heads out for Alaska, nearly 3,000 miles away. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Chuck White; Tony Laport; Wilson Browne; Bill Becker; Jones; Kirk; Sally; Father Carroll |
| Notes | Max Pine was an alias of Frank Moss, per 2006 interview with Frank Borth: "You can find out in reading your things he also uses the word Max Pine as a substitute for him because he didn't want them to think he was writing everything in the place..." http://cuislandora.wrlc.org/islandora/object/cuislandora%3A40849 |
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| Comic Story | The Proof is in the Print (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | The history of fingerprinting being used as a method of identification and the men who were most involved in classifying and naming the features of various types of fingerprints. |
| Content | Genre: Crime; Math & Science | Characters: Sgt. Reilly; Chu Lin; Professor Johannes E. Purkinje; Commissioner Herschel; Francis Galton; Edward Henry |
| Notes | On the last page, there is a fingerprint form for the reader to make a set of their own fingerprints for each finger of the left and right hand, plain prints of the four fingers of the left and right hand and both thumbs together.
On the splash panel, the artist credit is listed as, "Illustrated by-" and then there is just a single fingerprint to identify the artist. No name listed, but it appears to be that of Reed Crandall. |
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| Comic Story | Weight Lifting (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Pierre lifts a barbell but collapses when a bird lands on it. |
| Featuring | Pierre |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Pierre |
| Notes | Pantomime gag strip told in 6 panels.
On inside back cover. |
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| Featuring | The Champ and the Pirates |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Humor |
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