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Anyone know if Frank Godwin drew the Roy Powers strip reprinted in this issue? It sure looks like him to me. |
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Publication | August 1939 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
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Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: King Cedric; Uncle Elby |
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Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: The Lone Rider |
Notes | Promo piece for new series beginning the next issue. |
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Comic Story | Fishing (1 page) |
Synopsis | Napoleon keeps interfering with Uncle Elby's fishing. |
Content | Genre: Humor; Animal | Characters: Napoleon; Uncle Elby |
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Content | Genre: Humor |
Notes | Four unrelated gag panels. |
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Featuring | Artistic Artie |
Content | 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; Rocky Jones; Mrs. Keeler; Phillip Jones |
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Content | Genre: Science Fiction | Characters: Buddy Deering; Princess Alura; Dr. Elias Huer; Dercu; Avonna; Killer Kane; Ardala |
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Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Nipper Tucker; Ruff Bumps; Muriel; Algy Bray |
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Synopsis | Doc Redfern tries to examine the children in the Maya village, but the medicine man says no. |
Content | Genre: Adventure; Aviation | Characters: Speed McCloud; Billy Hill; Murphy; Sally Young; Doc Redfern |
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Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Harry Hollingsworth; Rudolph Rassendale (villain); Belinda Blinks |
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Content | Genre: Humor |
Notes | Six unrelated daily gag panels. |
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Synopsis | The FBI round up the last members of the Tri-State Gang, most of whom get the chair. |
Featuring | War On Crime |
Content | Genre: Crime | Characters: Mais; Legenza; Marie Legenza; Farrell; Wiley; Eckert |
Notes | Final episode. |
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Comic Story | Now Shoot! (1 page) |
Content | Genre: Humor; Animal | Characters: Jitter |
Notes | Four daily strips:
#1 - Now Shoot!
#2 - All Steamed Up!
#3 - Blamed Again!
#4 - Stopping Traffic! |
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Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Big Chief Wahoo; Pigtails; The Great Gusto |
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Synopsis | Dickie and the crew wash up on an island that is pretty close to bare rock. |
Content | Genre: Adventure; Children | Characters: Dickie Dare; Dan Flynn; Old Joe |
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Synopsis | Phil is concerned by Patsy's very strange behavior. She acts as if she's been hypnotized (which she has). |
Content | Genre: Adventure; Children | Characters: Patsy Cardigan; Uncle Phil Cardigan; Huck |
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Comic Story | The Barbary Pirates (1 page) |
Content | Genre: Non-fiction; Historical | Characters: Captain Bainbridge; Captain Prebble; Lieutenant Richard Somers |
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Featuring | The Pen Pal Page |
Credits | Letters: typeset |
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Comic Story | House Burgled (1 page) |
Synopsis | Uncle Elby's house is burgled and Napoleon does a poor job of tracking the thief. |
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 |
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Synopsis | Queen Elisabeth insists she is going to marry Oaky. |
Content | Genre: Adventure; Humor; Historical | Characters: King Cedric; Sir Oaky Doaks; Queen Elisabeth |
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, Jibby; Click; Prince Tiny |
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Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Big Chief Wahoo; Princess Minnie Ha-Cha; The Great Gusto |
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Synopsis | Klotz is found dead at a party. All of the guests are interviewed by the police. Click and Cluck also investigate. |
Content | Genre: Drama | Characters: Olive Lane; Mary Davis; Helen Wood; Lona Arbut; Don Martin; Click; Cluck |
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Synopsis | Scorchy and Mickey stop her father from signing away his land to Krag. |
Content | Genre: Adventure; Aviation | Characters: Scorchy Smith; Heinie Himmelstoss; Lafarge; Mickey Lafarge; Rufus Krag; Broge |
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Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Cam O'Flage; Sam Smithers; Mame |
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Cartoon | Capt. Albert W. Stevens (1 page) |
Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
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Comic Story | All Mopped Up! (1 page) |
Content | Genre: Humor; Western-frontier | Characters: Mescal Ike; Miss Sally; Pa Piffle; Young’un |
Notes | Four daily strips:
#1 - All Mopped Up!
#2 - Muley Gets Inspiration!
#3 - Pa Feeds Them!
#4 - Wrong Way, Pa! |
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Comic Story | Golfing (1 page) |
Synopsis | Napoleon brings a hockey stick to Uncle Elby for golfing. |
Content | Genre: Humor; Animal | Characters: Napoleon; Uncle Elby |
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Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
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Synopsis | Benjy and Babe escape from the Heeps after Jake steals their money. |
Content | Genre: Adventure; Children | Characters: Dorothy "Babe" Bunting; Benjy Boles; Jake Heep; Molly Heep |
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Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Punky; Uncle Martin |
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Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Connie Kurridge; Alec Smart; Mr. Worthington; Billy |
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Content | Genre: Humor |
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Featuring | Queenie |
Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Queenie; Aunt Prunella; Colonel Chauncey Clambake; Jitters |
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Text Story | Valley of Doom (2 pages) |
Credits | Letters: typeset |
Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Swen Harvey; Crag Harvey |
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Synopsis | Obregado offers Homer fifty grand if he can remember where the buried treasure is. |
Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Homer Hoopee; Cousin Egbert |
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Cartoon | Leaving Him High and Dry (1 page) |
Content | Genre: Humor |
Notes | Five unrelated daily gag panels. |
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Comic Story | Mattress Delivery (1 page) |
Synopsis | Napoleon helps Uncle Elby carry his new mattress into the house. |
Content | Genre: Humor; Animal | Characters: Napoleon; Uncle Elby |
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Comic Story | From the Desert... (1 page) |
Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Spunky Dory; Duchess the goat |
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Featuring | Star Flashes |
Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
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Content | Genre: Humor |
Notes | On back cover. Evidently an alternative front cover. |
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