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| Date | | Number: 127 | Lang: English (en) | |||
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| Name | Popular Comics 127 | Published |
| Publication | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 52 | Frequency: monthly |
| Cover | Anchor Management / 1 page |
| Synopsis | Skidoo drops anchor... after tying Felix's tail to the other end of the rope. |
| Letters | typeset |
| Genre | Humor; Anthropomorphic-funny Animals |
| Characters | Skidoo the Mouse; Chief Cash U. Nutt |
| Colors | Western Publishing Production Shop |
| Comic Story | A Hat Unraveled / Smokey Stover (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Smokey starts his journey home with more hat than he arrives with. |
| Genre | Humor |
| Characters | Smokey Stover; Chief Cash U. Nutt; Cookie Stover |
| Script | Bill Holman (signed) |
| Pencils | Bill Holman (signed) |
| Inks | Bill Holman (signed) |
| Colors | Western Publishing Production Shop |
| Letters | Bill Holman (signed) |
| First Line | That was your fire siren on the phone, Smoke - she wants you to pick up a package at "Nook and Cranny's" on the way home! |
| Notes | Black, white, and red on inside front cover. |
| Comic Story | Food Fighters / Felix the Cat (12 pages) |
| Synopsis | Felix and Skidoo battle over food... and also because they are cat and mouse. |
| Genre | Humor; Anthropomorphic-funny Animals |
| Characters | Felix the Cat; Skidoo the Mouse; constable; Flub the Pup |
| Script | Otto Messmer (see notes) |
| Pencils | Otto Messmer (see notes) |
| Inks | Otto Messmer (see notes) |
| Colors | Western Publishing Production Shop |
| Letters | Otto Messmer (see notes) |
| First Line | Time to water the lawn! |
| Notes | Though credited to Pat Sullivan, the work here is largely by Otto Messmer, but with some panels added by Dell staff artists - presumably to facilitate the formatting of this collection of 1945 Felix daily newspaper strip reprints by Otto Messmer to the pages of a comic book. These added panels are easy to identify as both the art and lettering is noticeably different from Messmer's work. |
| Story | Smilin' Jack (9 pages) |
| Synopsis | Jack and Cindy survive a fiery plane crash, resulting from sabotage. Someone with ill-intent removes a critical page from Jack's copy of the "Weekly Notice to Airmen" warning of a test of anti-aircraft fire in the area Jack has plotted to fly through. Though he and Downwind Jaxon manage to maneuver away from the danger zone at the last minute, a stray shell hits Jack's plane. |
| Genre | Adventure; Aviation |
| Characters | Smilin' Jack; Cindy Cider; Downwind Jaxon; Mr. Brotherly; Fuzzwuzz; anti-aircraft gunners |
| Script | Zack Mosley |
| Pencils | Zack Mosley |
| Inks | Zack Mosley |
| Colors | Western Publishing Production Shop |
| Letters | Boody Rogers |
| First Line | Jack, can I have a day off -- |
| Notes | A running joke involving the character of Downwind Jaxon is that his face is never seen. He is usually drawn with his back to the reader with only a hint of his profile. In these segments, the gag is carried further still when Downwind dons a pajama top which he pulls over his face and, when reacting to the stray shell hit, he reacts instinctively by putting a hand over his face. |
| Comic Story | Day In, Knight Out / Smokey Stover (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Smokey's suggestion that the Chief wear a suit of armor to a masquerade ball results in unexpected problems. |
| Genre | Humor |
| Characters | Smokey Stover; Chief Cash U. Nutt; Spooky (cat) |
| Script | Bill Holman (signed) |
| Pencils | Bill Holman (signed) |
| Inks | Bill Holman (signed) |
| Colors | Western Publishing Production Shop |
| Letters | Bill Holman (signed) |
| First Line | Hey, Smokey - I just got an invitation to a masquerade ball - what kind of a costume shall I wear? |
| Notes | The first of five consecutive Smokey Stover strip reprints strung together to look like a five-page story, and the only strip of the five to retain its feature logo. The four subsequent entries are stripped of their logos to create the illusion of a five-page story, though there is no throughline of continuity among the strips. |
| Comic Story | Bell of the Bowl / Smokey Stover (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Smokey uses an impromptu fruit bowl for a big batch of fresh fruit. |
| Genre | Humor |
| Characters | Smokey Stover; Chief Cash U. Nutt; Spooky (cat) |
| Script | Bill Holman |
| Pencils | Bill Holman |
| Inks | Bill Holman |
| Colors | Western Publishing Production Shop |
| Letters | Bill Holman |
| First Line | Smoley hoke! - It's slower around here than a turtle with rheumatism - we ain't had one alarm all day! |
| Notes | No feature logo for this strip. |
| Comic Story | An Alarming Discovery / Smokey Stover (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Smokey and the Chief discover why the fire bell keeps ringing when there are no fires in town. |
| Genre | Humor |
| Characters | Smokey Stover; Chief Cash U. Nutt; Spooky (cat) |
| Script | Bill Holman |
| Pencils | Bill Holman |
| Inks | Bill Holman |
| Colors | Western Publishing Production Shop |
| Letters | Bill Holman |
| First Line | Bouncing belfries! Another alarm - This sure is our busy day! |
| Notes | No feature logo for this strip. Middle left page of centerfold. |
| Comic Story | Shoe Enough / Smokey Stover (1 page) |
| Synopsis | A free circus ticket in exchange for a shoeshine seems like a good deal to Smokey. |
| Genre | Humor |
| Characters | Smokey Stover; Earl Stover; Spooky (cat); head circus clown |
| Script | Bill Holman |
| Pencils | Bill Holman |
| Inks | Bill Holman |
| Colors | Western Publishing Production Shop |
| Letters | Bill Holman |
| First Line | Hey, son - Look - The circus is in town! |
| Notes | No feature logo for this strip. Middle right page of centerfold. |
| Comic Story | The Foo Recruits / Smokey Stover (1 page) |
| Synopsis | The Chief's new firefighting recruits leave something to be desired. |
| Genre | Humor |
| Characters | Smokey Stover; Chief Cash U. Nutt; Lyman Jooce; Clem Jooce; Spooky (cat) |
| Script | Bill Holman |
| Pencils | Bill Holman |
| Inks | Bill Holman |
| Colors | Western Publishing Production Shop |
| Letters | Bill Holman |
| First Line | Smokey, meet th' Jooce Brothers - Lyman and Clem - They're the new firemen I hired! |
| Notes | No feature logo for this strip. |
| Story | Terry and the Pirates (9 pages) |
| Genre | Adventure |
| Characters | Terry Lee; Burma; Colonel Wolff |
| Script | Milton Caniff (signed) |
| Pencils | Milton Caniff (signed) |
| Inks | Milton Caniff (signed) |
| Colors | Western Publishing Production Shop |
| Letters | Frank Engli |
| First Line | The way some of the Chinese in this construction crew get together, I know they must be hatching a scheme... |
| Comic Story | Dope Smugglers / Gang Busters (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | A jacked-up dope fiend falls to his death beneath the wheels of a moving subway train, while another, behind the wheel of an automobile, clips a pedestrian and crashes through a storefront window. These events and others like them lead Inspector Blake and Sneed to investigate and bring down a ring smuggling illegal drugs into the country. |
| Genre | Crime |
| Characters | Inspector Blake; Sneed (Inspector Blake's assistant); subway dope fiend; Mike (subway cop); Pat (subway cop); driving dope fiend; arresting officer; police sergeant; Old Bess; unnamed drug kingpin; police lab tech; crew of drug smuggling ship |
| Colors | Western Publishing Production Shop |
| First Line | A Midtown subway station. |
| Notes | Story opens in a 50th Street Station of the New York City Subway, of which there are two. It could be that of the "1 Broadway Local" or the "C 8th Avenue Local". An approaching train reads "Local" "Chambers St", of which there are three Chambers Street stations - on the aforementioned 1 and C lines, as well as the "6 Lexington Avenue Local". The comic itself refers to its narcotic-addicted characters as "dope fiends". The two subway cops in this story are named Mike and Pat. Four issues later, in the Gang Busters story in issue #131, two railroad employees are also named Mike and Pat. |
| Text Story | Charro Days (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | Twelve-year old Buddy Wayne dreams of riding his pony, Hidalgo, in the Grand Charro Days Parade, but is discouraged by his scornful older brother Carter, who threatens have the parade committee bar the underage hopeful. Buddy decides to crash the parade and hope for the best. |
| Letters | typeset |
| Genre | Western-frontier |
| Characters | Buddy Wayne; Hidalgo (Buddy's pony); Carter Wayne (Buddy's older brother); president of Charro Days |
| Colors | Western Publishing Production Shop |
| First Line | The moment that the row of big cedars cut off his view of the ranch, Buddy Wayne reined in his pony. |
| Notes | Story is "Copr. 1946 by R.S. Callender". |
| Story | Gasoline Alley (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | Angela makes Mr. Chigger miserable and, in turn, Mr. Chigger makes his office staff miserable. |
| Genre | Humor |
| Characters | Skeezix; Sally Snipe; Wilmer; Mr. Chigger; Horace; Nina; Angela (Mr. Chigger's separated wife) |
| Script | Frank King (signed) |
| Pencils | Frank King (signed) |
| Inks | Frank King (signed) |
| Colors | Western Publishing Production Shop |
| First Line | Wallet! Cut out that whistling! |
| Comic Story | Mercy Mission / The Gumps (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | Uncle Bim sends a mercy plane carrying medical personnel to the South Pacific to retrieve Kain Budd who is "suffering from immersion and shock". |
| Genre | Adventure |
| Characters | Uncle Bim; Chester; Rose; Martin (Uncle Bim's chauffeur); Captain Biggers (captain of the S.S. Mer); Doc; Kain Budd; Duke (mercy plane pilot); Jack (mercy plane co-pilot); crewmen of the S.S. Mer; radio man |
| Script | Gus Edson (signed) |
| Pencils | Gus Edson (signed) |
| Inks | Gus Edson (signed) |
| Colors | Western Publishing Production Shop |
| First Line | Unidentified sole survivor of the sinking of the S.S. Neptunia incoherently mumbling over and over... |
| Notes | Story consists of two Sunday strips. One on the inside back cover in black, white, and red. The other on the back cover in color. As Uncle Bim watches his mercy plane take off on its mission, at the end of the first strip, he reflects on the times of World War II when the strip was first published. UNCLE BIM: "It is satisfying indeed to see an airplane in these troubled times on a mission of mercy instead of one of destruction - Godspeed, my friends!" |
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