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Little Max Comics
Date | Number: 22 | Lang: English (en)
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PublicationApril 1953 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: bi-monthly
NotesDistributor's typeset initials PDC appear under the title. The words "By Ham Fisher" appear. Fisher was the creator of the Joe Palooka newspaper strip in which Little Max first appeared, but most likely the artwork is by assistants or licensees.
 
SynopsisCasey and Little Max are sledding downhill. Their sled hits a rock and sends them flying.
ContentGenre: Humor; Children | Characters: Casey; Little Max
NotesDistributor's typeset initials PDC appear under the title. The words "By Ham Fisher" appear. Fisher was the creator of the Joe Palooka newspaper strip in which Little Max first appeared, but most likely the artwork is by assistants or licensees.
 
CreditsLetters: typeset
ContentCharacters: Bill; Bill's dad; mayor; editor
NotesAd for Daisy Defender Repeater air rifle (BB gun) from Daisy Manufacturing Company. Coupon for booklet on "How to Start a Junior Air Rifle Club" booklet. Part of the ad is a comic story featuring Bill and his supporters starting their club. Inside front cover.
 
Comic StoryFunny Bunny (6 pages)
SynopsisLittle Max dresses in a bunny costume for Joe Palooka's Easter party, given for neighborhood children. Max, who never speaks, surreptitiously arranges for his good friend Alice to find the golden egg and win a prize.
ContentGenre: Humor; Children | Characters: Little Max; Joe Palooka; Ann Palooka; Alice
NotesMax is a mute or "mime" character; readers follow his thought balloons, including childishly mixed-up words.
 
CreditsLetters: typeset
ContentCharacters: W Schrop; C Auberry
NotesAd, with order coupon, for motor vehicle repair books from MoToR Book Dept.
 
Comic StorySee Worthy (2 pages)
SynopsisAlice lends Little Max an umbrella, but he needs to hold it so low that he can't see. He collides with another pedestrian and tears a hole in the fabric. Now he has a window so he can see without getting wet.
ContentGenre: Humor; Children | Characters: Little Max; Alice
 
Comic StoryWater Boy (2 pages)
SynopsisCasey and Little Max agree to water the animals in exchange for circus tickets. Casey says he'll do Max a favor and take the horses as there are more of them -- but the camels, of course, need many more buckets to satisfy them. The ringmaster says Casey must be at work every night, but Max is excused; camels go without water for a week.
ContentGenre: Humor; Children | Characters: Little Max; Casey; ringmaster
 
Text StoryHumphrey at the Fair (1 page)
SynopsisHumphrey and his sister go to the fair, where Humphrey consumes gargantuan amounts of food. He naively tries a rigged weight-lifting game and wins easily because of his huge size. The crowd recognizes that the game is rigged; they chase off the barker and his accomplice, and give Humphrey all the prizes. He just wants to get home because he's hungry.
CreditsLetters: typeset
ContentGenre: Humor | Characters: Humphrey; Pruney; barker; Lou
NotesSpot illustration of Humphrey at the fair. Humphrey and his sister speak in comic "rustic" dialect.
 
Comic StoryStrictly from Hunger (2 pages)
SynopsisHumphrey eats massive amounts of food, then dreams he's eating a three-foot stack of pancakes.
ContentGenre: Humor | Characters: Humphrey; Pruney
NotesComic book published in 1953, but wall calendar says 1950.
 
SynopsisPud's friends bet that he can't make his way through the maze in five minutes. He gives them all Dubble Bubble gum, then threads his way through by listening to the sound of their bubbles popping.
ContentCharacters: Pud; Pud's friends
NotesAd, in comic story form, for Dubble Bubble Gum from Frank H. Fleer Corp.
 
CreditsLetters: typeset
ContentGenre: Adventure | Characters: Terry Lee
NotesAd for free Terry and the Pirates comic books in every carton of Canada Dry Ginger Ale. "Available Feb 2, 1953". "36-Page, Full-size Pocket Edition! All New, All in Color! Not Available Anywhere Else!" "There are 3 different books". Ad shows three books in horizontal format.
 
ContentCharacters: Blondie; Dagwood; Daisy; Little Audrey; Baby Huey; Little Max; Alice; Casper; Sad Sack; Horace; Joe Palooka
NotesPromo for Harvey titles: Dagwood; Blondie; Daisy; Little Audrey; Baby Huey; Little Max; Casper the Friendly Ghost; Sad Sack; Horace & Dotty Dripple; and Joe Palooka Comics (Joe Palooka's Adventures).
 
CreditsLetters: typeset
NotesAd, with order coupon, for 70-piece Space Patrol play set from Space Squadron.
 
Advertisement"Now you can fly a real jet plane!" (1 page)
CreditsLetters: typeset
NotesAd, with order coupon, for Jetex Javelin working model jet airplane kit.
 
Comic StoryThe Funny Mummy (4 pages)
SynopsisLittle Max tries to catch a fly, but gets all wrapped up in fly tape. Posing as a mummy, he wins a prize at Alice's costume party.
ContentGenre: Humor; Children | Characters: Little Max; Alice; Joe Palooka
 
Comic StoryWho's Who at the Zoo (4 pages)
SynopsisJoe takes Max and Alice to the children's zoo.
ContentGenre: Humor; Children | Characters: Little Max; Alice; Joe Palooka
 
Comic StorySunday Coat (2 pages)
SynopsisDot drapes the dog around her neck to give her coat a fur collar.
ContentGenre: Humor; Children | Characters: Little Dot; Dot's dog
NotesLater that same year Harvey introduced a redesigned Dot; that version is more familiar than the original as used here.
 
ActivityLittle Max Makes Easter Eggs (1 page)
SynopsisLittle Max demonstrates how to make Easter eggs.
ContentCharacters: Little Max
 
Text StoryThe Jumping Frog
SynopsisBret Harte brings his champion frog to Nevada for a competition. Mark Twain helps a competitor fill the frog with birdshot.
CreditsLetters: typeset
ContentCharacters: Bret Harte; Mark Twain; Bill
NotesSupposed background for Mark Twain's story, "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County."
 
CreditsLetters: typeset
NotesStatement of Ownership. Leon Harvey (Editor); Alfred Harvey (Managing Editor); Robert B. Harvey (Business Manager).
 
CreditsLetters: typeset
ContentCharacters: Zenobia; Queen Christiana; Indian captive
NotesAd, with order coupon, for Doubleday Dollar Book Club.
 
CreditsLetters: typeset
NotesAd, with order coupon, for joke books from Stravon Publishers.
 
AdvertisementScram! You Skinny scarecrow! (1 page)
CreditsPencils:? (photograph) | Inks:? (photograph) | Letters: typeset
ContentCharacters: Roger Hirsch; John Sill; Felipe Mendoza; Jobie Jackson; George F Jewett
NotesAd, with order coupon, for information on body building from Jowett Institute of Physical Training. The photographed body builders include Hispanic, African American, and white non-Hispanic. Inside back cover.
 
CreditsLetters: typeset
ContentCharacters: Dick Tracy; Arthur Godfrey
NotesAd, with order coupon, for selling seed packets from American Seed Co. Back cover.
 
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