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Publication | November-December 1953 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: bi-monthly |
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Featuring | Nancy |
Credits | Script: Ernie Bushmiller (signed) | Pencils: Ernie Bushmiller (signed) | Inks: Ernie Bushmiller (signed) |
Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Nancy; Sluggo |
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Advertisement | Musical Whirling Angel Chimes (1 page) |
Featuring | Illinois Merchandise Mart |
Credits | Letters: typeset |
Notes | Inside front cover; black and white. Illustrated ad for musical chimes that are an "authentic replica of original 'Swedish Singing Angels' centerpiece." Cost is $1.98 plus postage from Illinois Merchandise Mart, Chicago, Ill. |
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Featuring | Nancy |
Credits | Script: Ernie Bushmiller | Pencils: Ernie Bushmiller | Inks: Ernie Bushmiller |
Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Nancy; Sluggo |
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Synopsis | A golfer carefully lines up a putt. And misses. |
Featuring | Divot Diggers |
Content | Genre: Humor; Sports |
Notes | Pantomime story. |
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Advertisement | Get a real Candid Camera for only 50¢ |
Featuring | Smith Brothers Cough Drops |
Notes | Illustrated ad for Jewel Sixteen camera available for 50 cents and one front box panel from Smith Brothers Wild Cherry Cough Drops. |
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Featuring | Nancy |
Credits | Script: Ernie Bushmiller | Pencils: Ernie Bushmiller | Inks: Ernie Bushmiller |
Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Nancy; Sluggo; Fritzi Ritz |
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Text Article | Fun with Toothpicks (1 page) |
Synopsis | Fun with toothpicks; Pull toys for toddlers; Home-grown dramatics |
Featuring | The Family Workshop |
Credits | Script: Dr. Ernest G. Osborne | Letters: typeset |
Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
Notes | Text article with illustrated header. Article for parents describing activities they can do with their children. |
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Comic Story | Kings, Kids, and Crocodiles-Wow! (4 pages) |
Synopsis | A stranger, who has taken over Squee-Jee Island, has tied up the Captain and the Inspector and threatens to cut off their beards unless Mama gets the king's crown off of a crocodile's head. |
Featuring | The Captain and the Kids |
Credits | Script: R. Dirks | Pencils: R. Dirks | Inks: R. Dirks |
Content | Genre: Humor; Jungle | Characters: Der Captain; Der Inspector; Mama; Hans; Fritz; |
Notes | Part of a continuing story. |
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Activity | Are You a Cartoonist? (1 page) |
Synopsis | Hans and Fritz capture a rabbit in a box, but the rabbit uses the box as a weapon against a lion. |
Featuring | [The Captain and the Kids] |
Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Hans; Fritz |
Notes | Hans and Fritz are drawn without faces in all but the last panel and readers are invited to drawn in their faces to complete the strip. |
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Text Article | Voodoo-Land (2 pages) |
Synopsis | Facts about Haiti and the practice of Voodoo there. |
Featuring | Stamp Tips |
Credits | Letters: typeset |
Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
Notes | About half of the two pages is devoted to small classified-style ads offering stamps on approval or other items. |
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Featuring | Nancy |
Credits | Script: Ernie Bushmiller | Pencils: Ernie Bushmiller | Inks: Ernie Bushmiller |
Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Nancy; Sluggo; Fritzi Ritz; Jerry |
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Synopsis | When Preacher Pinkerly falls ill, gold is found on the ground under his partially-constructed church and it is reduced to rubble by men who file a claim on the land. |
Featuring | Casey Ruggles |
Credits | Script: Warren Tufts | Pencils: Warren Tufts | Inks: Warren Tufts |
Content | Genre: Western-frontier | Characters: Casey Ruggles |
Notes | Reprint dates are from "Warren Tufts Retrospective" (Western Wind, 1980). Some panels from the daily strips were dropped. The complete story ran from July 7 to August 29, 1952. |
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Advertisement | The new way to enjoy sports, movies, plays, television (1 page) |
Featuring | International Binocular Co. |
Credits | Letters: typeset |
Notes | Illustrated ad for Spektoscopes, binoculars that are worn like eyeglasses. Imported from Germany. Cost is $1.98 from International Binocular Co., New York, N.Y. |
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Advertisement | Look at these 4 wonder bargains! (1 page) |
Featuring | Novelty Mart |
Credits | Letters: typeset |
Notes | Inside back cover; black and white. Illustrated ad for electric movie projector; "Happy, the Cowboy" ventriloquist dummy; sewing machine; (each for $2.98); and life-like "Sandy" doll for $3.98 from Novelty Mart, New York, N.Y. |
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Advertisement | Baby Ruth would be marked Grade A (1 page) |
Featuring | Curtiss Candies |
Credits | Letters: typeset |
Notes | Back cover. Illustrated ad for Baby Ruth candy bars. Curtiss Candies. |
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