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Publication | August 1936 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
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Content | Characters: Dick Tracy; Moon Mullins; Little Orphan Annie |
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Content | Genre: Drama | Characters: Brickley; Sneezix; The Major |
Notes | inside cover |
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Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Uncle Mort; Aunt Evvy |
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Content | Genre: Adventure |
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Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Smitty |
Notes | The footer to this Sunday page is Herby, by the same creator. |
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Comic Story | Herby Throws Baseball Glove to Make Catch |
Synopsis | Herby catches a baseball by throwing his glove into the air. |
Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Herby |
Notes | This is the footer to the Smitty Sunday page, by the same creator. |
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Content | Genre: Adventure |
Notes | 0.8 x 4 |
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Notes | from Little Orphan Annie Sunday (Chicago Tribune-N.Y. News Syndicate, Inc.) 1935-08-25 - 1935-09-15 |
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Content | Genre: Humor; Children |
Notes | The Sunday page is shared with Skippy, by the same creator. |
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Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Skippy |
Notes | The Sunday page is shared with Always Belittlin', by the same creator. |
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Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
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Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Dick Tracy; Pat; Blake; Toby Townley |
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Content | Genre: Children; Western-frontier | Characters: Little Joe; The General |
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Content | Genre: Humor; Teen | Characters: Lillums; Poppy Lemuel; Mom |
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Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Pinhead Duffy; Mrs. Duffy |
Notes | This strip shared a Sunday page with Daisybelle, by the same creator. |
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Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Daisybelle |
Notes | This strip shared a Sunday page with Reg'lar Fellers, by the same creator. |
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Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Bronc Peeler; Coyote Pete; Miss Jean; The Parson |
Notes | The bottom half of the Sunday page is On the Range, by the same creator.
The newspaper strip ran between 1934-10-07 and 1938. |
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Content | Genre: Western-frontier |
Notes | The top half of the Sunday page is Bronc Peeler, by the same creator.
The newspaper strip ran between 1934-10-07 and 1938. |
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Featuring | Nugent's Originals |
Notes | puzzles |
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Content | Genre: Adventure; Aviation | Characters: Smilin' Jack' The Professor |
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Featuring | Let's Draw Cartoons |
Notes | how-to |
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Content | Genre: Humor; Children |
Notes | The Sunday page is shared with Skippy, by the same creator. |
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Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Skippy |
Notes | The Sunday page is shared with Always Belittlin', by the same creator. |
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Content | Genre: Drama | Characters: Chester Gump; Chief Bessuk; Koodloo |
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Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Lovey Dovey |
Notes | The footer to this Sunday page is Texas Slim, by the same creator. |
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Content | Genre: Humor; Western-frontier | Characters: Texas Slim |
Notes | This is the footer to the Lovey Dovey Sunday strip, by the same creator. |
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Content | Genre: Humor |
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Content | Genre: Humor |
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Content | Genre: Humor |
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Content | Genre: Humor; Children |
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Comic Story | The Heathen Waits (1 page) |
Content | Genre: Humor |
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Content | Genre: Humor; Children |
Notes | The footer to this Sunday page is Herby, by the same creator. |
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Comic Story | Baseball Hits Herby in the Fac |
Synopsis | Herby tries to catch a baseball but it hits him in the face. |
Featuring | Herby |
Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Herby |
Notes | This is the footer to the Smitty Sunday page, by the same creator. |
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Featuring | The Popular Stamp Club |
Credits | Letters: typeset |
Notes | hobby |
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Content | Genre: Humor; Children |
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Content | Genre: Humor; Children |
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Content | Genre: Humor |
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Content | Genre: Humor; Children |
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Content | Genre: Humor |
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Content | Genre: Humor |
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Comic Story | No Appetite! (1 page) |
Content | Genre: Humor; Animal |
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Comic Story | Knickers, Longies - Or Art? (1 page) |
Synopsis | When Scribbly's mother forces him to wear knickers, he tricks her into buying him the smock that he wanted. |
Content | Genre: Humor; Teen | Characters: Scribbly Jibbet; Mrs. Jibbet (introduction, Scribbly's mother); "Dinky" Jibbet (introduction, Scribbly's younger brother, unnamed while at Dell Comics, see Notes below); Rose (introduction, Mrs. Jibbet's friend); Ving Parker (famous cartoonist, mentioned only, appears next issue) |
Notes | Scribbly's kid brother is unnamed throughout the entire Dell Comics run, acquiring the name "Dinky" only after moving to DC Comics. However, readers did suggest the nickname "Dinky" for him in The Funnies (1936 series) #15 and #16.
This story states that Scribbly is still in grade school. |
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Featuring | Real Magic |
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Content | Genre: Drama |
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Content | Genre: Humor |
Notes | Movie scenes |
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Content | Genre: Humor; Children |
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Featuring | Nugent's Originals |
Notes | puzzles |
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Content | Genre: Humor; Children |
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Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Skippy |
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Featuring | Let's Draw Cartoons |
Credits | Letters: typeset |
Notes | how-to |
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Text Story | Bertie & Bertha's Big Bang! (2 pages) |
Featuring | Bertie |
Credits | Letters: typeset |
Content | Genre: Children |
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Featuring | Real Magic |
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Content | Genre: Adventure; Military | Characters: Don Winslow |
Notes | 0.7 x 3 |
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Content | Genre: Military |
Notes | 0.3 x 3 |
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Content | Genre: Western-frontier |
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Content | Genre: Western-frontier |
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Comic Story | The Fighting Cowboy (1 page) |
Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Tom Mix |
Notes | Per info in Michael Barrier's Funnybooks The Improbable Glories of the Best American Comic Books, Gaylord Du Bois likely adapted the Big Little Book story for comics which would have been one of Du Bois' earliest comic book assignments. |
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Text Story | The Vanishing Heiress (conclusion) (2 pages) |
Featuring | From the Notes of Maj. Cosmo Strange, D.S.O. |
Credits | Letters: typeset |
Content | Genre: Detective-mystery |
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Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
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Content | Genre: Humor; Children |
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Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Skippy |
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Content | Genre: Adventure |
Notes | 0.3 x 2 |
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Content | Genre: Adventure; Science Fiction |
Notes | 0.7 x 2 |
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Content | Genre: Humor |
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Content | Genre: Humor |
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Content | Genre: Humor |
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Content | Genre: Humor |
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Content | Genre: Children |
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Content | Genre: Adventure; Aviation |
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Comic Story | Smokey Sits Behind a Pole |
Synopsis | Smokey is seated behind a pole at the movie theater. He uses his fire axe to chop down the pole. |
Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Smokey Stover |
Notes | Title was formerly just "Smokey". |
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Content | Genre: Western-frontier |
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