Additional Information |
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Publication | January-February 1947 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: bi-monthly |
Notes | The characters on the cover don't really resemble the characters in the stories inside. Fox was known to combine characters from different features into a single cover illustration. |
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Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Dotty Doakes; Peter Poke |
Notes | The characters on the cover don't really resemble the characters in the stories inside. Fox was known to combine characters from different features into a single cover illustration. |
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Synopsis | Promo ad for Green coupons, found inside 7 Fox comic titles. |
Notes | Inside front cover, black-and-white. |
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Synopsis | Bookish high school student Peter tries to join the football team to impress fellow student Claire. He becomes the water boy but is pressed into action and helps win the big game. |
Credits | Letters: typeset |
Content | Genre: Humor; Teen | Characters: Peter Poke; Claire; Coach |
Notes | Story is told in individual drawings on each page (but not in panels). There are no dialogue balloons or boxed captions, all text is printed adjacent to the drawings. Text is rhyming. |
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Comic Story | Bobby Sox and the Three Bears (10 pages) |
Synopsis | Papa Bear runs a juke joint called the Bear Down. Bobby Sox arrives to babysit Just Plain Bear, then discovers he's been kidnaped by T. Worthington Wolf. Bobby and Papa Bear ride Harry the Horse to Wolf's house, saving Just Plain Bear from becoming the villain's dinner. |
Content | Genre: Humor; Anthropomorphic-funny Animals | Characters: Bobby Sox; Papa Bear; Mama Bear; Just Plain Bear; Harry the Horse; T. Worthington Wolf |
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Text Story | Percy in the Haunted House (2 pages) |
Credits | Script: Al Huston | Letters: typeset |
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Synopsis | Newspaper editor Uppercase promises to give Gloria a job if she can take a photo of reclusive Snodgrass Crabtree. She stumbles across the man at the zoo and snaps his photo, only to discover she forgot to wind the film and got a bizarre double-exposure. |
Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Gloria; Mr. Uppercase; Snodgrass Crabtree |
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Synopsis | Two unrelated gag cartoons.
Only appearance of the "Well I Never!" feature. |
Featuring | Well I Never! |
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Synopsis | Walter causes his boss to spill soup on his trousers. The boss sends Walter to have them cleaned, but when customers arrive at the restaurant, the boss has to substitute as the waiter and conceal his trouser-less state. |
Credits | Script:? [as J. L. Keen] | Letters: typeset |
Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Walter; Boss |
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Synopsis | Dotty decides to take a vacation to get a rest, but her vacation leaves her more exhausted than ever. |
Credits | Letters: typeset |
Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Dotty Doakes |
Notes | As with the Peter Poke story in this issue, this story is told in a no-panel, no dialogue-balloon or caption style, with multiple drawings and text on each page. The text is rhyming. |
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Synopsis | Promo ad showing the prizes that can be redeemed using Green coupons from 7 Fox comics. |
Credits | Letters: typeset |
Notes | Back cover. |
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