Some funny lines in here but mostly unfocused, diagrammatic stories with rushed art. Who is the "Roscoe Bear" artist? There's the makings of an interesting art style there, rendered with a 1910s pen and ink technique.
What really caught my attention is the "Green Coupon" scam. This is right up there with Kooba Kola, though unlike Kooba the coupons actually exist. Take the telescope: 600 coupons or $1.25 plus 100 coupons. The ad lists eight titles carrying the coupons--which appear to me suspiciously UNgreen--and each book apparently contains one coupon. A quick calculation shows that you'd have to buy 75 copies of each title to collect 600 coupons. You'd spend $60 on the comics, a helluva lot of money for a 1940s adult, much less a kid...plus you'd be stuck with 600 lousy comics. Okay, you decide to fork over the $1.25 and collect only 100 coupons. That only requires you to by 12 copies each of four titles and 13 each of the other four. You "only" spend $10 on the comics; with the cash you're out $11.25. According to DollarTimes, that'd be the equivalent of $161.01 in 2021 money. AND you're stuck again with a hundred Fox comics.
I'm just guessing, but I suspect ol' Vic didn't have to part with too many of those telescopes--if they existed at all.
Link to the book: *** Link No Longer Exists: Cosmo Cat #3 ***
