| Additional Information |
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| Publication | October 1939 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
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| Cover | The Nation's Comic Monthly |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Sam Smithers; Pigtails |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure |
| Notes | Inside front cover, full-page pin-up |
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| Comic Story | Drinking Fountain (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Uncle Elby is annoyed by a drinking fountain. |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Animal | Characters: Uncle Elby; Napoleon |
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| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | Four unrelated gag panels. |
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| Featuring | Artistic Artie |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Artistic Artie |
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| Featuring | Butty and Fatty |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Butty; Fatty |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure; Teen | Characters: Roy Powers; Chunky; Mr. Stratten; Mr. Mullett |
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| Credits | Letters: typeset |
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| Featuring | Nipper |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Nipper Tucker; Ruff Bumps; Algy Bray |
| Notes | The bottom tier is “Footprints on the Sands of Time”, by the same creator. |
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| Featuring | Footprints on the Sands of Time |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Bill |
| Notes | The bottom tier of the “Nipper” Sunday page, by the same creator. |
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| Synopsis | Sally turns Speed's proposal down and he's not very happy. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Aviation | Characters: Speed McCloud; Sally Young; Rick |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Harry Hollingsworth; Rudolph Rassendale (villain); Belinda Blinks |
| Notes | The bottom tier is "High-Gear Homer", by the same creator. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: High-Gear Homer |
| 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; Dr. Elias Huer; Killer Kane; Ardala |
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| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | Six unrelated daily gag panels. |
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| Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: The Lone Rider; Sheriff Hank Fletcher; Hutch Kruger (villain); Blackie |
| Notes | Reprint information from the Stripper's Guide blog (http://strippersguide.blogspot.com/2017_09_24_archive.html, retrieved 27 September 2017) based on research by Allan Holtz and Jeffrey Lindenblatt. |
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| Comic Story | Hitting the Trail! (1 page) |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Animal | Characters: Jitter |
| Notes | Four daily strips:
#1 - Hitting the Trail!
#2 - Dolly Won't Tell!
#3 - Where Did You Get That Hat?
#4 - Put 'em Up! |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Big Chief Wahoo; Princess Minnie-Ha-Cha; The Great Gusto |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure; Children | Characters: Dickie Dare; Dan Flynn; Joe; Captain Webb; Mike |
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| Synopsis | Phil confronts Patsy and breaks her trance. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Children | Characters: Patsy Cardigan; Uncle Phil Cardigan; Doctor Gorman |
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| Comic Story | South American Liberators (1 page) |
| Content | Genre: Historical |
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| Notes | Puzzle page |
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| Text Article | Readers' List (2 pages) |
| Featuring | The Pen Pal Page |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
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| Comic Story | Grocery Basket (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Uncle Elby sends Napoleon to fetch his groceries. Napoleon gives all the groceries to a tramp. |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Animal | Characters: Uncle Elby; Napoleon |
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| Featuring | Animals in the News |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Anthropomorphic-funny Animals |
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| Featuring | The Frog Pond Ferry |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Anthropomorphic-funny Animals | Characters: The Skipper |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure; Humor; Historical | Characters: Sir Oaky Doaks; Queen Elisabeth; King Cedric |
| 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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| Featuring | Seaweed Sam the Rhyming Rover |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Seaweed Sam; Prince Tiny |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Big Chief Wahoo; The Great Gusto |
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| Synopsis | Olly goes home for a vacation, but her plans have been spilled to the media. |
| Content | Genre: Drama | Characters: Olive Lane; Mayor Hy Tebbs; Florrie; Martha |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure; Aviation | Characters: Scorchy Smith; Krag; Mickey LaFarge; Jean LaFarge; Bogan |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Cam O'Flage; Sam Smithers |
| 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 (both unnamed here) |
| Notes | The bottom tier of the "Somebody's Stenog" Sunday page, by the same creator. |
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| Content | Genre: Non-fiction; Sports | Characters: Tom Black; Harry Greb |
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| Comic Story | Hold 'Er, Newt! (1 page) |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Western-frontier | Characters: Mescal Ike; Miss Sally; Pa Piffle; Young’un |
| Notes | Four daily strips:
#1 - Hold 'Er, Newt!
#2 - Muley Broadcasting!
#3 - Whats the Difference?
#4 - Food it is! |
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| Featuring | Magic Made Easy |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Animal | Characters: Uncle Elby; Napoleon |
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| Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
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| Synopsis | Heep wants the reward money for bringing Babe and Benjy back. But now the showboat is being repossessed. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Children | Characters: Dorothy "Babe" Bunting; Mrs. Bunting; Benjy Boles; Jake Heep' Lum Fetters; Pete |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Punky, Annabelle |
| Notes | Four daily gag panels. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Connie Kurridge; Uncle Phineas; Jack |
| Notes | The bottom tier is “The Wet Blanket”, by the same creator. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | The bottom tier of the "Connie" Sunday page, by the same creator. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | Six unrelated daily gag panels. |
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| Featuring | Queenie |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Queenie; Aunt Prunella; Colonel Chauncey Clambake; Lily the cook |
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| Text Story | Compass Rule (2 pages) |
| Credits | Script: V. Ostergaard (credited) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Ben Hervey; Bob Engels; Scully Dolin |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Homer Hoopee; Doctor Panelli |
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| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Synopsis | Napoleon hates hearing Uncle Elby play the banjo. |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Animal | Characters: Uncle Elby; Napoleon |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure; Humor | Characters: Spunky Dory |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Animal | Characters: Jitter |
| Notes | Inside back cover |
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