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| This is my first "Animal Fables." What a strange comic! A funny-animal Human Torch (in a story that wasn't very funny)? A faun who wishes he could be evil to please his no-good elder? Very odd. |
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| "Take Fire!" is pretty close to "Flame On!" Also, the death of the main villain in the first story is sort of surprising (oops, spoiler). And I'd have thought that the "Red Ant" would have been depicted as a Communist, given the date of this comic, but no. The two Aesop's Fables stories are drawn in a very nice, realistic style.
Update: in "Mad Hatter" #1 (published in 1946, a year before this one), Freddy the Firefly DOES say "Flame On!" |
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| Additional Information |
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| Publication | July-August 1947 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: bi-monthly |
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| Featuring | Freddy Firefly |
| Content | Genre: Anthropomorphic-funny Animals | Characters: Freddy Firefly; Red Ant; Danny Demon (inset); Hector the Inspector (inset) |
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| Foreword/Afterword | The Funniest Animals of all Appear in Animal Fables (1 page) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Characters: Myrtle; Freddy Firefly; Danny Demon; Hector the Inspector |
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| Synopsis | Myrtle is kidnapped by red ants. |
| Featuring | Freddy Firefly |
| Content | Genre: Anthropomorphic-funny Animals | Characters: Freddy Firefly; Myrtle; Red Ant |
| Notes | The leader of the red ants is named Red Ant. |
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| Comic Story | The Dog and the Bone (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | The dog, Jonas Duffy, has a bone, but when he sees his reflection in the water he wants that bone as well. |
| Content | Genre: Anthropomorphic-funny Animals | Characters: Jonas Duffy |
| Notes | Illustrated Aesop's fable. |
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| Synopsis | Mr. Fiend gives Danny a can of itching powder and orders him to do a bad deed. |
| Featuring | Little Danny Demon |
| Content | Genre: Anthropomorphic-funny Animals; Children | Characters: Danny Demon; Porky Possum; Mr. Fiend |
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| Synopsis | Introducing Comics and his friends. |
| Featuring | Comics McCormick |
| Content | Genre: Children | Characters: Comics McCormick; Mary McCormick; Connie McCormick; Wilbur Wiggins; Ajax Johnson; Rosalie Brown; Officer Kelly; Susan Slate |
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| Publisher advertisement | Follow the Adventures of "Comics" McCormick (1 page) |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Fat; Slat |
| Notes | House ad for Fat and Slat #1. |
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| Synopsis | Slat wonders how Fat's uncle was connected to the police force. |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Fat; Slat |
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| Synopsis | Slat gets a job at McDummy's department store. |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Fat; Slat; Big Shot |
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| Synopsis | Slat has an idea to have the police watch Fat's dog. |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Big Shot; Fat; Slat |
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| Comic Story | The Wind and the Sun... (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Sun and the Wind see who can can make a traveler take off his coat. |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Sun; Wind |
| Notes | Retelling of an Aesop's fable. |
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| Text Story | The Herring-Bone Zebra (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | Charlie is hated because he has a herring-bone pattern instead of normal zebra stripes. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Anthropomorphic-funny Animals | Characters: Charlie Gibbons; John Thomas; Thomas John |
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| Synopsis | The Unknown puts out a call for suggestions on how to kill Hector the Inspector. |
| Featuring | Hector the Inspector |
| Content | Genre: Anthropomorphic-funny Animals | Characters: The Unknown; X-3; Hector the Inspector |
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| Publisher advertisement | Now On Sale Everywhere (1 page) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | House ad for Picture Stories from American History #4, Picture Stories from Science #1, and Picture Stories from World History #1 with order blank. |
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| Publisher advertisement | For the Finest, Read These Five Entertaining Comics! (1 page) |
| Credits | Pencils: various | Inks: various |
| Content | Characters: Freddy Firefly; Red Ant; Danny Demon; Hector the Inspector; Van Manhattan |
| Notes | House ad for Land of the Lost Comics #6, Animal Fables #5, Tiny Tot Comics #8, International Comics #3 and Dandy Comics #3.
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