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| It was good to see the very first Abby an' Slats strips. I never wanted to read the strip before because I didn't know what the concept was. |
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| Additional Information |
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| Publication | April 1938 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure; Humor |
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| Featuring | Danny |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | On the inside-front cover. |
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| Content | Genre: Drama | Characters: Abbie Scrapple; Sally Scrapple; Aubrey Eustace (Slats) Scrapple; Jasper Hagstone |
| Notes | Origin story.
Spinster Abbie Scrapple (an old-fashioned, ungainly, but always reliable relic of the past) and her sister Sally (a sweet cookie left on life's shelf) arrive in Crabtree Corners to meet her orphaned cousin Aubrey Eustace (Slats). |
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| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Comic Story | Tarzan of the Apes (5 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Jungle |
| Notes | Origin story. |
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| Text Story | Wayne Webster of Waverly Prep - Chapter One (3 pages) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Drama; Sports |
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| Comic Story | James Cagney (3 pages) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
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| Featuring | Jest di-Jest |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Content | Genre: Western-frontier |
| Notes | Origin story. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | The top 2/3 of four pages. |
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| Featuring | Colonel Wowser |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Activity | Invisible Imp (1 page) |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
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| Activity | Thia Is Doris (1 page) |
| Featuring | For Junior Readers |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Non-fiction |
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| Content | Genre: Drama; Sports |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Domestic |
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| Content | Genre: Adventure; Fantasy |
| Notes | The top 2/3 of 4 pages. |
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| Comic Story | A Rubber-Band Machine Gun (1.33 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
| Notes | The bottom 1/3 of four pages. |
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| Text Article | In Malta (1 page) |
| Featuring | Stampin' Around |
| Credits | Pencils:? (photo) | Inks:? (photo) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
| Notes | Includes stamp ads. |
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| Content | Genre: Anthropomorphic-funny Animals |
| Notes | The bottom 2/3 of three pages. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | The top 1/3 of three pages. |
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| Content | Genre: Drama; Children |
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| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | The top 2/3 of three pages. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Children |
| Notes | The bottom 1/3 of two pages. |
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| Comic Story | Fairs |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction; History |
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| Comic Story | Rain-Making |
| Featuring | If You Want to Know |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction; Math & Science |
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| Comic Story | Tobacco |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction; History |
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| Comic Story | Four and Twenty Blackbirds Baked in a Pie |
| Featuring | If You Want to Know |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction; History |
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| Content | Genre: Drama |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Domestic |
| Notes | The top 1/2 of two pages. |
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| Featuring | Dub Dabs |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | The bottom 1/2 of two pages. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: The Duchess of Bopshire [Bessie Hunks] (Li'l Abner's aunt); Mimi Van Pett |
| Notes | Origin story.
Colored reprints of the first Abner dailies. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Animal |
| Notes | Four 1-panel jokes.
The inside-back cover. |
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