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| Publication | October-November 1948 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: bi-monthly |
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| Featuring | Nancy |
| Credits | Pencils: Ernie Bushmiller (signed) | Inks: Ernie Bushmiller (signed) |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Nancy; Sluggo Smith; Poochie; unnamed dog catcher |
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| Featuring | Surplus Sales |
| Credits | Letters:?; typeset |
| Notes | Joliet, IL, company offers for $1 plus postage, C.O.D., a 52-inch-square plastic tarp with transparent top, 'made for gas warfare protection,' citing all sorts of domestic and recreational civilian uses. |
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| Featuring | Nancy |
| Credits | Script: Ernie Bushmiller (credited) | Pencils: Ernie Bushmiller (credited) | Inks: Ernie Bushmiller (credited) | Letters: Ernie Bushmiller (credited) |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Children | Characters: Nancy; Sluggo Smith; Fritzi Ritz; Pussycat; Goo Goo the Mind Reader |
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| Comic Story | From Perfume Salesman to Pugilist! (12 pages) |
| Synopsis | At Ella's behest, unemployed Waite takes a job as a perfume salesman, but coming home from his first day smelling like the product earns him catcalls as he passes a neighborhood gym. So, Waite clocks the offender, named Rocky, only to learn his now-bruised bully is the sparing partner of a big-time boxer. Rocky's humiliation gets him fired, and when Waite stands in for the job, he KOs the Champ, too! This seemingly puts Waite in line for a $50,000 prize fight, but he's more concerned with having so quickly just put two other men out of work. |
| Featuring | Ella Cinders |
| Credits | Script: Charlie Plumb | Pencils: Fred Fox (signed) |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Ella Cinders; Waite Lifter; Mr. Bolex (a perfume store owner); Champ (a boxer); Rocky (Champ's sparing partner); Kay Owen (Champ's 'occasional heart-throb') |
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| Text Article | Leaves as Hobbies (1 page) |
| Featuring | The Family Workshop |
| Credits | Script: Dr. Ernest G. Osborne (credited) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
| Notes | This article promotes active play to compliment comic book reading, such as collecting and scrapbooking leaves, installing coat hooks, and making use of old tin cans. |
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| Notes | This ad promotes one-shot publications The Captain and the Kids Special Fall Issue, United Presents Curly Kayoe Special Fall Issue, and Fritzi Ritz Comics Special Fall Issue, with reproductions of the respective covers. |
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| Featuring | Kellogg's Krumbles |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | This ad for the Battle Creek, MI, cereal company promotes the dog pictures found in boxes of Kellogg's Krumbles — 'A picture in every package!' — and offers an album in which to save the pictures, to be had by mailing in 10¢ and one box top. |
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| Text Article | News and Notes (2 pages) |
| Featuring | Stamp Tips |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
| Notes | The column about stamp news runs down the inner third of two opposing pages, and is surrounded on the outer two-thirds of either side by a host of classified ads selling stamps and stamp collecting paraphernalia. |
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| Comic Story | Life on a Yacht! (They Can Have It) (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | Typical Katzenjammer hilarity aboard a steamer ship, with a supposed doctor arriving from a makeshift raft to help try and keep the Captain's temper in check for the sale of his health. |
| Featuring | The Captain and the Kids |
| Credits | Script: Rudolph Dirks [as R. Dirks] (credited) | Pencils: Rudolph Dirks [as R. Dirks] (credited) | Inks: Rudolph Dirks [as R. Dirks] (credited) | Letters: Rudolph Dirks [as R. Dirks] (credited) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Humor; Children | Characters: Hans; Fritz; The Captain; The Inspector; Mama: Dr. J. W. Quack (introduction); unnamed ship's captain; unnamed ships' cook |
| Notes | The ship's cook in this story is portrayed for laughs as a Chinese stereotype. |
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| Featuring | Dink O'Day |
| Credits | Pencils: Bernard Dibble | Inks: Bernard Dibble |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Sports | Characters: Dink O'Day; Banger; Gu Gu |
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| Featuring | Strange as It seems |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
| Notes | This feature is an illustrated panel featuring a variety of incredible facts. |
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| Credits | Pencils:? (clip art) | Inks:? (clip art) | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | A column of classified ads includes:
* Boys! Build this real electric motor for only 25¢, Gary W. Moore, Inc. of Walthem, MA,
* Song poems wanted, Five Star Music Masters of Boston,
* American & National League ball club emblems, Travelers International Club of Cleveland,
* 3 in 1 air pistol, Johnson Smith & Co. of Detroit,
* Vacutex blackhead remover, Ballco Products Co. of NewYork City,
* How to make money with simple cartoons, Cartoonists' Exchange of Pleasant Hill, OH. |
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| Synopsis | When 16-year-old Belle Scragg arrives home from 'refawm school' she sets her sights on marrying L'il Abner, but fails Mammy's tests of manhood. |
| Featuring | Li'l Abner |
| Credits | Script: Al Capp (credited) | Pencils: Al Capp (credited) | Inks: Al Capp (credited) | Letters: Al Capp (credited) |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Li'l Abner Yokum; Mammy Yokum; Pappy Yokum; The Skraggs; Sech Langwidge; Belle Scregg |
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| Comic Story | Mammy Does a Good Turn! (4 pages) |
| Synopsis | When an old peer who struck it rich prepares to marry up an even higher rung on the ladder, Mammy travels to the city to remind the cohort of her humble Dogpatch roots. |
| Featuring | Li'l Abner |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Mammy Yokum; Available Jones; Th' Dowager Missus Dawgbert Decomposingham (neé Miss Moosemouth McGoon); Vice Admiral Gropingham |
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| Synopsis | Four 1-panel jokes. |
| Featuring | Back Home Again |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Credits | Pencils:?;? (photograph) | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Mail Mart Inc. of New York City offers the projector at the 'smash value' of $6.98. |
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| Bobby Shelby Gets a Job (1 page) |
| Synopsis | In this comic strip-style ad, Bobby Shelby gets a newspaper delivery job to help save for college, and finds the work a breeze thanks to his Shelby bicycle with the exclusive ShockEase front tire fork that 'absorbs bumps and jolts.' |
| Featuring | The Shelby Cycle Company |
| Credits | Letters:?; typeset |
| Content | Characters: Bobby Shelby; Mr. Shelby; Mr. Jones (head of circulation at the Daily Gazette) |
| Notes | This ad includes a coupon to send away the Shelby, Ohio, company for a free copy of, "How to Be An Expert Bike Rider." |
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| Featuring | American Specialty Co. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | This ad displays the many prizes — including a Dick Tracy Camera and a Daisy Red Ryder 1,000-shot carbine air rifle ('a real he-man's gun') — that can be earned from the Lancaster, PA, company by selling 40 Christmas card packs. |
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