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| Name | Camp Comics 1 | Published |
| Publication | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 68 | Frequency: Monthly |
| Notes | The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1942, New Series, Vol. 37, No. 3. |
| Cover | 1 page |
| Pencils | ? (photo) |
| Inks | ? (photo) |
| Colors | ? (photo) |
| First Line | and please ... see that he confines his maneuvers to the army! |
| Foreword/Afterword | Fun Thrills Entertainment (1 page) |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | Four girls holding placards showing the main ingredients of the issue. Printed in black and blue on inside front cover. |
| Story | Rusty O'Reilly (12 pages) |
| Synopsis | Rusty by mistake gets handed a roll of spy microfilm, intended for Madam Q, who is looking exactly like Rusty. Rusty and Betsy go to the lair of Zandusi claiming to be Madam Q and a new spy recruit. Paratroopers save their lives at the last minute. |
| Genre | Adventure |
| Characters | Rusty O'Reilly (introduction); Betsy Saunders; Madam Q (spy queen); Zandusi |
| First Line | Reckless, adventure-loving Rusty O'Reilly... |
| Advertisement | "Pepsi", the Pepsi-Cola Cop (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Pepsi and Pete save the private on kitchen duty by coring twenty boxes of apples with a machine gun. |
| Genre | Humor |
| Characters | Pepsi; Pete; an unnamed private |
| Script | Rube Goldberg (signed) Rube Goldberg (signed) |
| Pencils | Rube Goldberg (signed) Rube Goldberg (signed) |
| Inks | Rube Goldberg (signed) Rube Goldberg (signed) |
| First Line | Darling, if you don't come to me at 3 oclock [sic!] ... |
| Story | Seaman Sy Wheeler (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Sy gets his girl's name tattooed on his chest, and when she gets engaged to another man, he has the tattoo changed to the name of his next girlfriend. When the first girlfriend returns to Sy, desperate measures are needed. Clarence tries using hair tonic on Sy's chest in order to hide the tattoo under a mat of chest hairs. |
| Genre | Humor; Military |
| Characters | Seaman Sy Wheeler (introduction); Clarence (Sy's friend); Kitty (first girlfriend); Betty (second girlfriend); Herman Preevy (Kitty's fiancé); Paul Poozle (Betty's fiancé); Angelo (bear); Angelo's bear tamer |
| Script | Walt Kelly |
| Pencils | Walt Kelly |
| Inks | Walt Kelly |
| First Line | The Navy is our first line of defense! |
| Story | Rimfire Ferguson (10 pages) |
| Synopsis | Rimfire and Scotty stay the night at Cole Darrow's place. Rimfire chases an intruder, turning out to be Ruth looking for her uncle's will that is stashed away at Darrow's house. |
| Genre | Drama; Western-frontier |
| Characters | Rimfire Ferguson (introduction); Scotty Burke (Rimfire's pal); Cole Darrow; Ruth Gaynor; Dan Darrow (Ruth's uncle) |
| First Line | Fork yore broncs, coks... |
| Advertisement | Rita Hayworth reveals ... / Royal Crown Cola (1 page) |
| Pencils | ?; ? (photograph) |
| Inks | ?; ? (photograph) |
| Letters | typeset |
| Characters | Rita Hayworth |
| Notes | Placed between pages 4 and 5 of the Rimfire Ferguson story. |
| Story | Party Line (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | Six more or less scantily clad young women delivering double entendres about servicemen on the phone. |
| Genre | Humor; Erotica |
| Pencils | Charles Saxon (signed) |
| Inks | Charles Saxon (signed) |
| First Line | I've been dancing with a sergeant ... |
| Comic Story | How the Fighting Giants Won Their Name (4 pages) |
| Synopsis | Account of the 38th U.S. Infantry, 3rd Division and their defense of the bank of the Marne in July 1918. |
| Genre | War |
| Notes | Uniforms of the German soldiers and officers look more like the ones used in WWII than WWI. |
| Text Story | Dear Joe (3 pages) |
| Synopsis | "Good" advice to servicemen about how to act in army camp. |
| Feature | Camp Girl |
| Pencils | ? (spot illustrations) |
| Inks | ? (spot illustrations) |
| Letters | typeset |
| Genre | Humor |
| Advertisement | How to keep peace / Barbasol Shaving Cream |
| Letters | typeset |
| Cartoon | No Title |
| Genre | Humor |
| First Line | Oh, hello Margie - no we haven't anything special ... |
| Notes | Two cartoons about servicemen and pretty girls. |
| Comic Story | The Sooper Sweeps, or, How To Keep Our City Clean / Hank and Lank (11 pages) |
| Synopsis | The gangster chief "Grade A Gorilla" corners all the milk in town so that the babies have none. The protagonists, having gained sooper powers by boiling old superhero comics in a large pot, save the day by making milk fountains, and moreover convincing the gangsters to reform. |
| Genre | Humor; Superhero |
| Characters | Hank; Lank (introduction and origin for both); the Spirit of All Comic Avengers; "Grade A Gorilla"; the town's mayor |
| Script | Frank Thomas ? |
| Pencils | Frank Thomas (signed) |
| Inks | Frank Thomas (signed) |
| Notes | The Spirit of All Comic Avengers looks a lot like Batman. He presents the protagonists with a Captain Marvel-like magic word: "Xntz!" |
| Advertisement | GEM Clog-Pruf Razor and Blades |
| Synopsis | The two soldiers are thumbing a ride, but are picked up only when the not-so-well shaven one hides in the bushes. |
| Characters | Two unnamed soldiers; a woman driver |
| First Line | Of all the !!! That's the tenth car to pass up ... |
| Cartoon | No Title |
| Genre | Humor |
| First Line | If there's anything I hate worse than a quitter ... |
| Notes | Two cartoons about servicemen and pretty girls. |
| Story | Bugs Bunny (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | Elmer wants to pass the army's medical exam, and Bugs helps him out. |
| Genre | Humor; Anthropomorphic-funny Animals |
| Characters | Elmer Fudd; Bugs Bunny; an unnamed army doctor |
| Script | Walt Kelly ? Walt Kelly ? |
| Pencils | Walt Kelly Walt Kelly |
| Inks | Walt Kelly Walt Kelly |
| First Line | Th' Army doctor said I was a little wunt... |
| Publisher advertisement | $100.00 cash (1 page) |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | Contest inquiring about reader's favorite stories in the present issue. Contest open solely to men of the armed forces, and entry coupon to be filled out with Name, Camp or Base, and State. |
| Comic Story | Roughin' It by Samuel Clemens (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | Clemens and his two friends get thrown out of a tavern, and decide instead to spend the night with their horses; but the stable is getting washed away by a river. They save the horses' lives and try to get to the next town, but none of them knows the way in the blizzard that blows up. |
| Genre | Western-frontier |
| Characters | Samuel Clemens [Mark Twain]; Ballou (friend of Clemens'); Ollendorf (friend of Clemens'); Arkansas (villain) |
| Script | Mark Twain (original story) |
| Notes | Adapted in part from Mark Twain's ROUGHING IT. |
| Cartoon | No Title (1 page) |
| Genre | Humor |
| First Line | I thought the army was mechanized! |
| Notes | Five cartoons about servicemen. Printed in black and blue on inside back cover. |
| Advertisement | 28% less nicotine / Camel Cigarettes (1 page) |
| Pencils | ? (photographs) |
| Inks | ? (photographs) |
| Colors | ? (photographs) |
| Letters | typeset |
| Characters | Paul Wilcox, Ryan School of Aeronautics, San Diego |
| Notes | On back cover. |
| The data in the additional content section is courtesy of the Grand Comics Database under a Creative Commons Attribution License. More details about this comic may be available in their page here | |
