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| Publication | July 1939 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
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| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Drama; Sports | Characters: Slats Scrapple |
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| Featuring | Tip Top Comics |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | House ad for Tip Top Comics.
On inside front cover, with indicia at bottom. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Comic Story | The Beasts of Tarzan (4 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Jungle | Characters: Jane Clayton; Nikolas Rokoff |
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| Synopsis | Two riddles with answers and an illustration. |
| Featuring | Guess Whats-? |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | On same page as Frankie Doodle, two ads, and a promo. |
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| Synopsis | How to draw things by tracing around a penny or nickel. |
| Featuring | Frankie Doodle |
| Notes | On same page as Guess Whats-?, two ads, and a promo. |
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| Advertisement | Fireworks for the 4th of July |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | On same page as Guess Whats-?, Frankie Doodle, another ad, and a promo. |
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| Advertisement | Rolls Developed |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | On same page as Guess Whats-?, Frankie Doodle, another ad, and a promo. |
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| Synopsis | House ad for:
Comics on Parade subscriptions,
Tip Top Comics,
Comics on Parade exhibit at Macy's Toyland in the New York Worlds' Fair. |
| Featuring | United Feature Comic Group |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | On same page as Guess Whats-?, Frankie Doodle, and two ads. |
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| Text Story | On The Cinder Track - Chapter 1 (3 pages) |
| Featuring | Wayne Webster |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Sports |
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| Comic Story | Richard Barthelmess (3 pages) |
| Featuring | Roads of Romance |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction; Biography |
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| Content | Genre: Drama |
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| Content | Genre: Western-frontier |
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| Synopsis | Looy and Dilbury escape from captivity but are then set adrift in a lifeboat with sailor Joe. They make landfall and offer to join a band of Arabs led by a young woman. |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Looy; George Dilbury; Joe; Ali; Mustapha Ben Akbar |
| Notes | 4 Sunday pages, each with a separate logo. However, the story is a single continuity (although it appears there is at least one episode missing between the first and second page). The character of Joe is an early version of Dibble's later character "El Bombo" who had his own strip in the 1940s. Only the first page has a credit. |
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| Activity | Rolling Can (1 page) |
| Featuring | How To Make It |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
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| Text Article | In Russia |
| Synopsis | Part of a continuing discussion of the postage stamps of Russia; in particular the 1913 set commemorating the tercentenary of the Romanoff dynasty. |
| Featuring | Stampin' Around |
| Credits | Pencils:? (photograph) | Inks:? (photograph) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
| Notes | On same two pages as stamp ads. |
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| Credits | Pencils:? (photograph) | Inks:? (photograph) | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Variety of ads for supplying stamps to collectors. On same two pages as Stampin' Around. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Content | Genre: Sports |
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| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Featuring | Billy Make-Believe |
| Content | Genre: Adventure |
| Notes | Spread across the top 2/3 of 4 pages, with How to Make It on the bottoms. |
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| Featuring | How to Make It |
| Notes | Spread across the bottom 1/3 of 4 pages, with Billy Make-Believe on the tops. |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure |
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| Featuring | The Pet Club |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
| Notes | Awards this month went to:
Peggy Dunn of San Jose, California,
Sheila Seiden of New York, New York, and
Charles Black of Beverly Hills, California. |
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| Featuring | Menagerie Mailbag |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
| Notes | Letters from Margaret Benson, Harlan Kirch, Joyce E. Dubbe, Ann C. Heck, Buck Harsh, Virginia F. Patterson, Harold A. Handley Jr., Virginia Brown, anonymous, Victor Selman, Anna Teray, Henry Lucey, Fredrick Manley, David Rose, Yvonne Turner, Jean Anne Short, Vivian Gallagher, and Bonnie Jean Boldosier. |
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| Featuring | For Junior Readers |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | A ½-page strip, Freddie and Fritz, and a ½-page of fashion cutouts (paper dolls). |
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| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Featuring | Little Mary Mix-Up |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure; Fantasy |
| Notes | Spread across the top 2/3 of 2 pages, with Knurl the Gnome on the bottoms. |
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| Featuring | Knurl the Gnome |
| Content | Genre: Fantasy | Characters: Knurl; Oka |
| Notes | Spread across the bottom 1/3 of 2 pages, with Alice in Wonderland on the tops. |
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| Synopsis | Ma lends Danny's autographed Babe Ruth baseball to some neighbourhood kids, then Danny has to climb into a stranger's house to retrieve it. |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Domestic | Characters: Danny Dingle; Mrs. Dingle |
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| Synopsis | Danny makes a spectacle of himself after losing a bet. |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Danny Dingle; Nellie; Nellie's father |
| Notes | Top half of page. |
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| Synopsis | Dub doesn't learn his martial arts lesson very well. |
| Featuring | Dub Dabs |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Dub |
| Notes | Bottom half of page. |
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| Synopsis | Pa tells his wife he needs $100 to "purchase an insurance for your support" in the event of his death. Given the cash, he buys a cigar-making machine: "If I pop off, you're all ready for business." |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Pa Dingle; Ma Dingle |
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| Content | Genre: Domestic |
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| Content | Genre: Drama | Characters: Abbie Scrapple; Slats Scrapple; Becky Groggins; Gilbert Twytch |
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| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Advertisement | Just Out the Fastest Loading Air Rifle in History! (1 page) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Ad for Daisy Lightning-Loader Carbine.
On inside back cover. |
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| Credits | Pencils:? (photograph) | Inks:? (photograph) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Characters: Jane Withers; Joe "Flash" Gordon |
| Notes | Ad for booklet "Bicycling for Health and Pleasure" from Cycle Trades of America, featuring celebrity endorsements.
On back cover. |
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