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| Date | | Number: 9 | Lang: English (en) | |||
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| Name | Calling All Kids 9 | Published |
| Publication | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 52 | Frequency: monthly | Editing: Beatrice Lewi |
| Cover | 1 page |
| Letters | typeset |
| Characters | Twinkle; Marco Polar Bear; Bobby Beaver; Pug |
| Illustration | Calling All Kids (1 page) |
| Letters | typeset |
| Characters | Twinkle; King Numpit; Wellington Wolf |
| Notes | Inside front cover. Parts of panels from the issue with the note "turn the pages to find these friends in color." |
| Story | Twinkle (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Twinkle gets Jack Frost to help the Caterpillar family when the stream threatens to flood their house. |
| Pencils | Vic Herman ? |
| Genre | Fantasy |
| Characters | Twinkle; Eliot Caterpillar; Mr. West Wind; Jack Frost |
| First Line | Twinkle is wondering what is going on among his Earth friends... |
| Comic Story | Thumbelina (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | A fairy gives a lonely old woman a seed that grows a bloom that contains a tiny girl. A beetle steals Thumbelina away, but abandons her. She seeks refuge in the house of Mrs. Field Mouse, who tries to get her to marry wealthy Mr. Mole. Thumbelina saves a nearly frozen swallow and when spring comes, the bird flies her to the kingdom of the flowers where she marries the King and lives happily ever after. |
| Genre | Fantasy |
| Characters | Thumbelina; Mrs. Field Mouse; Mr. Mole; the Swallow; The King |
| Comic Story | Marco Polar Bear and the Mexican Jumping Beans / Marco Polar Bear (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Marco and Bobby take their magic linoleum rug to Mexico, where they learn facts about the country and its people. |
| Genre | Anthropomorphic-funny Animals |
| Characters | Marco Polar Bear; Bobby Beaver |
| Text Story | The Kingdom That Was Damp (3 pages) |
| Synopsis | King Numpit of Gnomeland has to find a way to buy a drier cave when his subjects protest living in their damp underground kingdom. |
| Letters | typeset |
| Characters | King Numpit; Snickerchee; Humptee the Hobgoblin |
| Script | Christine Gittings |
| Notes | Text story with illustrations. |
| Publisher advertisement | What Do You Like? (1 page) |
| Letters | typeset |
| Activity | Marco's Puzzle Page / Marco Polar Bear (1 page) |
| Characters | Marco Polar Bear; Bobby Beaver |
| Notes | Half the page is a coloring puzzle, the other half is a "find the hidden image" cartoon. |
| Advertisement | Toy Revue (2 pages) |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | Centerfold. "Review" of nine toys with illustration, description, price and company. Unclear if this is a shopping guide for parents or are paid advertisements. |
| Comic Story | Wellington Wolf Goes to the Circus (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | Wellington hitches a ride on a circus train to their winter quarters in Florida, but after getting worked over by the circus animals decides he'd rather go back north. |
| Feature | Wellington Wolf |
| Genre | Anthropomorphic-funny Animals |
| Characters | Wellington Wolf |
| Notes | Bottom one-sixth of pages two and three of the story are mail-in coupons for subscriptions to Calling All Kids (page 2) and six Parents' Magazine Press comics titles (page 3). |
| Comic Story | The Little Tin Soldier (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | A tin soldier admires a paper doll. The soldier is blown off the window sill where he ends up swallowed by a fish that is caught and brought back to his original home. The boy of the house decides he doesn't want the dirty soldier and throws it into the fire. The wind blows the paper doll into the fire and they perish together. Freckles, a little boy who is the narrator, then tells a version of the tale that has a happier ending. |
| Feature | Wonder Tales |
| Genre | Fantasy |
| Characters | Freckles (host); Ann |
| Activity | Critter Page (2 pages) |
| Script | Ellen Simon |
| Pencils | Ellen Simon |
| Inks | Ellen Simon |
| Notes | Suggestions for making animals from scraps such as thread spools and pipe cleaners. |
| Comic Story | The Brave Heroes / Pug and Curly (4.5 pages) |
| Synopsis | The squirrels, Pug and Curly, use a doll buggy to retrieve a girl's doll that has fallen down the hill. However, the squirrels then need to be rescued from the runaway buggy by the girl's father. |
| Characters | Pug; Curly |
| Activity | Do You Know? / Marco Polar Bear |
| Letters | typeset |
| Characters | Marco Polar Bear; Bobby Beaver |
| Notes | Riddles submitted by readers Rodney Larson; Marilyn Brynes; Kim Irvine; Bob Frazier; and Martha Anne Cameron. |
| Publisher advertisement | I Want to Come to Your House (1 page) |
| Feature | Parents' Magazine Press |
| Letters | typeset |
| Characters | Marco Polar Bear; Bobby Beaver |
| Notes | Promo for subscriptions to Calling All Kids; Polly Pigtails, True Comics; Calling All Boys; Calling All Girls; and Varsity magazine. With mail-in coupon. |
| Comic Story | No Title (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | Buffkin tries to help on his Uncle Clem's farm, but always gets in trouble. |
| Feature | Buffkin |
| Genre | Children |
| Characters | Buffkin; Uncle Clem; Rueben the Scarecrow |
| Pencils | Edd Ashe |
| Inks | Edd Ashe |
| First Line | Poor Buffkin! He's always doing the wrong thing... |
| Notes | Edd Ashe identified as artist of this feature by Jerry Bails. |
| Publisher advertisement | Just the Kind of Stories You Like Best! (1 page) |
| Feature | Parents' Institute, Inc. |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | Inside back cover. Promo for the What-Every-Child-Should-Know Library in six volumes. $8 cash with mail-in coupon or $1 per month for nine months. |
| Advertisement | What a Hit! / Baby Ruth (1 page) |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | Back cover. Ad for Baby Ruth candy bars from Curtiss Candy Company. |
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