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| Children's Crusade for Children ad art is definitely by Sheldon Mayer! |
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| Publication | May 1940 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
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| Cover | The Nation's Comic Monthly |
| Featuring | Napoleon; Mescal Ike |
| Credits | Letters: Victor E. Pazmiño? |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Uncle Elby; Pa Piffle [Paw Piffle] |
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| Publisher advertisement | Join Today! Buck Rogers Solar Scouts (1 page) |
| Credits | Pencils: Dick Calkins | Inks: Dick Calkins | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Science Fiction | Characters: Anthony "Buck" Rogers |
| Notes | Inside front cover.
Promotional advertisement for the Buck Rogers Solar Scouts fan club, with coupon to fill out to join the club.
Indicia at bottom of the page. |
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| Cartoon | Head on His Shoulders |
| Credits | Letters: Hank Barrow? |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Cartoon | Can This Be Treason? |
| Credits | Letters: Hank Barrow? |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Willie; unnamed boy |
| Notes | Bottom portion of cartoon was expanded to fill the remainder of the bottom of the page below the advertisements. |
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| Advertisement | Fireworks |
| Featuring | Baltimore Fireworks Company, Inc. |
| Credits | Script:? (ad copy) | Letters:?; typeset |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
| Notes | Advertisement for fireworks from the Baltimore Fireworks Company, Inc. of Baltimore, Maryland.
Shares page with The Gay Thirties cartoons. |
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| Advertisement | Given Nothing to Buy |
| Featuring | Wilson Chemical Company, Inc. |
| Credits | Script:? (ad copy) | Pencils:? (illustration) | Inks:? (illustration) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
| Notes | Advertisement offering kids and opportunity to sell premium items like chrome cases and Cloverine Brand Salve from Wilson Chemical Company, Inc. of Tyrone, Pennsylvania.
Shares page with The Gay Thirties cartoons. |
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| Advertisement | Streamlined Bike for You! |
| Featuring | Crowell-Collier Publishing Company |
| Credits | Script:? (ad copy) | Pencils:? (comic art);? (illustration) | Inks:? (comic art);? (illustration) | Letters:?; typeset |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
| Notes | Advertisement with an illustration and a very basic comic panel to sell a prize catalog from Crowell-Collier Publishing Company of Springfield, Ohio.
Shares page with The Gay Thirties cartoons. |
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| Credits | Letters: Victor E. Pazmiño? |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | Four unrelated gag panels. |
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| Synopsis | Fun facts about movie stars and trivia about Hollywood. |
| Featuring | Star Flashes |
| Credits | Script: Charles Bruno (signed) | Pencils: Charles Bruno (signed) | Inks: Charles Bruno (signed) | Letters: Charles Bruno? |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction; Biography | Characters: Clark Cable; Mary Carlisle; Jane Withers; Gene Autry; Trigger; Shirley Temple |
| Notes | The 11/23 date was not removed from the Gene Autry portion of the cartoon. Artwork was reformatted from several Star Flashes comic panels. |
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| Advertisement | Free! Snake Triangle! |
| Featuring | The Mail Box Stamps for Collectors |
| Credits | Script:? (ad copy) | Pencils:? (illustrations) | Inks:? (illustrations) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
| Notes | Shares page with the
The Mail Box Stamps for Collectors is an advertisement section for stamp collectors. Advertisements are from the Seminole Stamp Company of Baltimore, Maryland and Potomac Stamp Company of Washington, D.C. |
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| Credits | Script: Paul Powell (credited) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Teen | Characters: Roy Powers; Rocky Jones; Chunky; The Commissioner; Conway |
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| Letters Page | Thrills Galore in Famous Funnies (1 page) |
| Featuring | Let's Get Into a Huddle! |
| Credits | Script: Stephen Douglas (signed) | Pencils: Stephen Douglas (signed) | Inks: Stephen Douglas (signed) | Letters: typeset; Stephen Douglas |
| Notes | Includes a short bit of information of artist M. E. Brady, and his then recent move to California and his mention in a local California newspaper. Also a short vignette of artist Bob Bliss and his recent mention in an unnamed major Boston newspaper.
States next issue #71 will be released on May 14th (1940). |
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| Comic Story | Cavaliers and Roundheads |
| Credits | Letters: J. Carroll Mansfield? |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction; History | Characters: Charles I; James I; Duke of Buckingham |
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| Featuring | Would You Believe It......? |
| Credits | Script: J. Carroll Mansfield | Pencils: J. Carroll Mansfield | Inks: J. Carroll Mansfield | Letters: J. Carroll Mansfield? |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction; History | Characters: Man o' War; Napolen Bonaparte; Louis Bonaparte; Hortense Beauharnais |
| Notes | The Would You Believe It......? is a topper (footer) to Highlights of History comic strip listed in the previous sequence. |
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| Cartoon | Perseverance |
| Featuring | Historic Ships...... |
| Credits | Script: J. Carroll Mansfield (signed) | Pencils: J. Carroll Mansfield (signed) | Inks: J. Carroll Mansfield (signed) | Letters: J. Carroll Mansfield? |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction; History |
| Notes | The Historic Ships...... is a topper (footer) to Highlights of History comic strip listed in the second sequence previous to this one. |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure; Aviation | Characters: Baron von Gluck; Speed McCloud; Baker; Billy Hill |
| Notes | Last panel of each daily strip includes "Wing Tips", short factoids about flying.
Dick Calkins is credited on the original comic strip, not on the reprint, but he passed the strip over to Keaton in 1933. |
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| Credits | Letters: F. O. Alexander? |
| 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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| Credits | Letters: F. O. Alexander? |
| 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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| Credits | Script: Rick Yager [as Dick Calkins] (signed) | Pencils: Rick Yager [as Dick Calkins] (signed) | Inks: Rick Yager [as Dick Calkins] (signed) |
| Content | Genre: Science Fiction | Characters: Buddy Deering; Princess Alura; Klawgor; Tigaw; Fangar |
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| Comic Story | 18 (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Jitter helps a a caddy to a woman playing golf |
| Credits | Letters: Arthur Poinier? |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Animal; Sports | Characters: Jitter; unnamed red-haired woman |
| Notes | Comic is almost wordless. |
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| Featuring | Sergeant Stony Craig |
| Credits | Script: Frank Rentfrow (credited) |
| Content | Genre: Military | Characters: Sergeant Stony Craig; Jeremy Blade; Devlin; Wise; Fink |
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| Credits | Letters: Elmer Woggon? |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Big Chief Wahoo; Princess Minnie Ha-Cha; Pigtails; unnamed kids; Kelly (greenhouse owner); Ammonia (Wahoo's horse) |
| Notes | Last panel is called "Indian Slango" listing period gags on Native American slang. Dialogue edited out of the reprint at the bottom of the "Indian Slango" panel. |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure; Children | Characters: Dickie Dare; Dan Flynn: Wags; Mike |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure; Children | Characters: Patsy Cardigan; Uncle Phil Cardigan; Georgia; her father, the Colonel |
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| Comic Story | Uncle Elby and Napoleon Get Back at Speed Boaters (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Napoleon and Uncle Elby's quiet time fishing is ruined by the splashing waters from two people in a speed boat. Elby buys an engine for his boat from a Marine store and fills up a tub of water. They chase down the boaters and Elby dumps the tub and water on them causing them to crash on the shore. Now they can return to their fishing. |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Animal | Characters: Napoleon; Uncle Elby |
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| Featuring | Daredevils of Destiny |
| Credits | Script: Frank Rentfrow (credited) |
| Content | Genre: Biography; Military | Characters: Private Albert Smith; Machinist Mate P. M. Phelps |
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| Featuring | The Pen Pal Page |
| Credits | Pencils:? (logo art) | Inks:? (logo art) | Letters: typeset |
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| Credits | Letters: Clifford McBride? |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Animal | Characters: Napoleon; Uncle Elby |
| Notes | Only first panel has dialogue, remainder of the strip is wordless. |
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| PSA | Children's Crusade for Children (1 page) |
| Content | Genre: Advocacy |
| Notes | Public service announcement to encourage donations for helping refugee children during the period of April 22 to 30, 1940. |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure; Humor; Historical | Characters: Sir Oaky Doaks; King Cedric; Princess Osha; Kashn Kari; Lulu |
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| Featuring | Seaweed Sam the Rhyming Rover |
| Credits | Letters: Victor E. Pazmiño? |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Seaweed Sam; Prince Tiny |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Big Chief Wahoo; The Great Gusto; Princess Minnie-Ha-Cha; unnamed male sales clerk; unnamed female sales clerk; unnamed female customer |
| Notes | Last panel includes "Chief Wahoo's Dizzy Dictionary." |
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| Credits | Letters: Julian Ollendorff? |
| Content | Genre: Drama | Characters: Olive Lane; Irma Hunkatin; Maxie |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure; Aviation | Characters: Scorchy Smith; Himmelstoss; Mickey Lafarge |
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| Comic Story | Queen of the May |
| Credits | Letters: Alfred Earle Hayward? |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Sam Smithers; Cam O'Flage; unnamed Bonbon College co-eds; unnamed Bonbon college dean; unnamed police officer; unnamed judge |
| Notes | The bottom tier is “The Back-Seat Driver”, by the same creator. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: John Smith; Mary 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: Western-frontier | Characters: Jim Larrimore; Pat; reggie van Smyth; The Panther (villain); Ramon (henchman); Luis (henchman) |
| 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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| Credits | Letters: Benjamin D. Allen? |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction; Biography | Characters: Captain A. L. Kahn |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Animal | Characters: Napoleon; Uncle Elby |
| Notes | The first four panels were reprinted in Napoleon and Uncle Elby daily (Lafave Newspaper Features [Arthur J. Lefave]) 1941-07-02 with slightly altered dialogue. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Big Chief Wahoo; Dixie Down ["Butch" Mahoney] (blacksmith); Gravyface; Tubby; unnamed kids; Oscar the Octopus |
| Notes | Last panel includes an Oscar the Octopus gag panel. Dialogue edited out of the reprint at the bottom of the "Oscar the Octopus" panel. |
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| Credits | Letters: Roy L. Williams? |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Children | Characters: Dorothy "Babe" Bunting; Benjy Boles; Mary Moles; Mrs. Crumpet; Zenas |
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| Comic Story | Now For a Vacation! (1 page) |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Western-frontier | Characters: Mescal Ike; Miss Sally; Pa Piffle; Young’un |
| Notes | Four daily strips:
#1 - Now For a Vacation!
#2 - What's Talk Anyway!
#3 - Maybe He's Undersize?
#4 - Safe at Home Plate! |
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| Credits | Letters: Frank Godwin? |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Connie Kurridge; Uncle Phineas; Sammy Bradshaw |
| Notes | The bottom tier is “The Wet Blanket”, by the same creator. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: John; his wife |
| Notes | The bottom tier of the "Connie" Sunday page, by the same creator. |
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| Credits | Letters: Fred Neher? |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Squeaky |
| Notes | Six unrelated daily gag panels, one of which feature a boy named Squeaky. |
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| Featuring | Little Jackie Hornet |
| Credits | Letters: M. E. Brady? |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Little Jackie Hornet |
| Notes | Little Jackie Hornet is a topper to Butty and Fatty comic strip listed in the next sequence. |
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| Featuring | Butty and Fatty |
| Credits | Letters: M. E. Brady? |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Butty; Fatty |
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| Text Story | Pearler's Three (2 pages) |
| Credits | Pencils:? (illustrations) | Inks:? (illustrations) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Ben Tomerson; Jim Endicott |
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| Credits | Letters: Fred Locher? |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Humor | Characters: Homer Hoopee; Jo-Jo (a monkey); Helen Hoopee; Mr. Bilker; Ed Goofus |
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| Featuring | Funland Everybody's Playmate |
| Credits | Script: Art Nugent [as A. W. Nugent] (signed) | Pencils: Art Nugent [as A. W. Nugent] (signed) | Inks: Art Nugent [as A. W. Nugent] (signed) | Letters: Art Nugent? |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
| Notes | Puzzle and activity page. |
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| Comic Story | Aesop's Fables (1 page) |
| Credits | Letters: Clifford McBride? |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Animal | Characters: Napoleon; Uncle Elby; Willie |
| Notes | Except for one panel, this comic is mostly wordless. |
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| Featuring | Magic Made Easy |
| Credits | Script: Stephen A. Douglas [as S. D.] (signed) | Pencils: Stephen A. Douglas [as S. D.] (signed) | Inks: Stephen A. Douglas [as S. D.] (signed) | Letters: Stephen A. Douglas?; typeset |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
| Notes | Activity page of magic tricks. |
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| Comic Story | Scout Manual, Wood Craft, Campers Guide (1 page) |
| Credits | Letters: Arthur Poinier? |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Animal | Characters: Jitter |
| Notes | Inside back cover. |
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| Advertisement | Announcing the Sensational New Daisy 1000-Shot Red Ryder Carbine (1 page) |
| Featuring | Red Ryder; Daisy Manufacturing Company |
| Credits | Script:? (ad copy) | Pencils: Fred Harman (Red Ryder characters, signed);? (illustrations) | Inks: Fred Harman (Red Ryder characters, signed);? (illustrations) | Letters:?; typeset |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction | Characters: Red Ryder; Little Beaver |
| Notes | Back cover.
Advertisement using Red Ryder characters promoting the 1000-Shot Red Ryder Carbine Daisy Air Refile from the Daisy Manufacturing Company of Plymouth, Michigan. |
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