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Publication | June 1939 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
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Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Jitters; Big Chief Wahoo |
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Featuring | Frog Pond Ferry |
Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: The Skipper; Henrietta Hen |
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Featuring | Star Flashes |
Content | Genre: Non-fiction | Characters: J. Carroll Naish; Shirley Temple; Bill Robinson; Dick Powell; Frank McHugh |
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Content | Genre: Humor |
Notes | Four unrelated gag panels. |
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Featuring | There's A Town |
Content | Genre: Humor |
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Featuring | Butty and Fatty |
Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Butty; Fatty |
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Credits | Script: Paul Powell (credited) |
Content | Genre: Adventure; Teen | Characters: Roy Powers; Chunky; Rocky Jones; Mrs. Keeler; Phillip Jones |
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Featuring | Let's Get Into a Huddle! |
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Content | Genre: Science Fiction | Characters: Buddy Deering; Princess Alura; Dr. Elias Huer; Dercu; Avonna; Ganlo |
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Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Nipper Tucker; Ruff Bumps; Muriel |
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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Content | Genre: Adventure; Aviation | Characters: Speed McCloud; Murphy; Sally Young; Otto Smock; Director Baker |
Notes | New storyline and cast |
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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: Humor |
Notes | Six unrelated daily gag panels. |
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Featuring | War On Crime |
Content | Genre: Crime | Characters: Bill Weiss; Mrs. Weiss; Bob Eckert (villain) |
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Comic Story | Rain! Rain! Go Away! (1 page) |
Content | Genre: Humor; Animal | Characters: Jitter |
Notes | Four daily strips:
#1 - Rain! Rain! Go Away!
#2 - Play! Fiddle Play!
#3 - Anchored!
#4 - The End of the Tail! |
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Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Big Chief Wahoo; Pigtails; The Great Gusto |
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Synopsis | Dicky finds his lost dog, but the dog is seriously injured. |
Content | Genre: Adventure; Children | Characters: Dickie Dare; Dan Flynn; Wags; First Mate Starbuck; Captain WIng |
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Content | Genre: Adventure; Children | Characters: Patsy Cardigan; Uncle Phil Cardigan; Huck |
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Comic Story | Alaric - Part II (1 page) |
Content | Genre: Historical | Characters: Alaric; Stilcho; Honorious |
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Featuring | Funland |
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Featuring | The Pen Pal Page |
Credits | Pencils: Stephen Douglas | Inks: Stephen Douglas | Letters: typeset |
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Comic Story | New Shirt (1 page) |
Synopsis | Uncle Elby tries on a new shirt. |
Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Uncle Elby |
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Featuring | Animals in the News |
Content | Genre: Anthropomorphic-funny Animals |
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Featuring | Frog Pond Ferry |
Content | Genre: Humor; Anthropomorphic-funny Animals | Characters: The Skipper; Clara Cow |
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Content | Genre: Humor; Historical | Characters: King Cedric; Sir Oaky Doaks; The ex-King of Mulonnga |
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; Click; Penelope the Pink Pachyderm |
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Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Big Chief Wahoo; Princess Minnie Ha-Cha; The Great Gusto; Pigtails |
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Content | Genre: Drama | Characters: Olive Lane; Abe "A.G." Ginsberg; Erik Klotz; Don Martin; Lona Arbut; Mary |
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Synopsis | Scorchy discovers his girlfriend is marrying some one else. |
Content | Genre: Adventure; Aviation | Characters: Scorchy Smith; Betty; Ronnie |
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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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Cartoon | Thea Francis (1 page) |
Content | Genre: Non-fiction | Characters: Thea Francis |
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Content | Genre: Humor; Western-frontier | Characters: Mescal Ike; Miss Sally; Pa Piffle; Young’un |
Notes | Four daiiy strips on a single comic book page. |
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Featuring | Magic Made Easy |
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Comic Story | Lost Hat (1 page) |
Synopsis | Uncle Elby loses his hat while driving. |
Content | Genre: Humor; Animal | Characters: Napoleon; Uncle Elby |
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Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
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Synopsis | Babe and Beny are lost in the woods |
Content | Genre: Adventure; Children | Characters: Dorothy "Babe" Bunting; Benjy |
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Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Punky |
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Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Connie Kurridge; her father; Jack |
Notes | The bottom tier is “The Wet Blanket”, by the same creator. |
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Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Joe |
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 |
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Text Story | Vanishing Sky-Riders! (2 pages) |
Credits | Script: John A. Thorne (credited) | Letters: typeset |
Content | Genre: Adventure; Aviation | Characters: Tommy Walters; Rusty Dalton; Gregg |
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Credits | Job #: Homer finally gets home o |
Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Homer Hoopee; Cousin Egbert |
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Comic Story | Chasing a Cat (2 pages) |
Synopsis | Napoleon chases a black cat into Uncle Elby's car; then Napoleon thinks Elby has gone mad and rushes for the doctor. |
Content | Genre: Humor; Animal | Characters: Napoleon; Uncle Elby |
Notes | Two unrelated Sunday pages. |
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Comic Story | From The Desert (1 page) |
Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Spunky Dory; Duchess the goat |
Notes | This story began in the "Butty and Fatty" strip, but by now the two children have been eliminated. |
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