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Issue Details

Issue #65
Published March 1963
Cover Price 0.12 USD
Pages 36
Notes The cover has a date stamp of "Feb" on it. The October, 1962 "Statement of Ownership, Management, and Circulation" is included in this issue. The average circulation for the previous 12 months was 495,279.

Cover Details - "Junior Astronaut Special!"

Characters Dennis Mitchell
Genre children; humor
Pencils Owen Fitzgerald
Inks Owen Fitzgerald
Notes The cover has a date stamp of "Feb" on it. The October, 1962 "Statement of Ownership, Management, and Circulation" is included in this issue. The average circulation for the previous 12 months was 495,279.

1 page text article "The Cookie Jar"

Synopsis "Jay North Blasts Off!" - Jay North, television's "Dennis the Menace" , led the famous Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade in New York City. Riding in this huge rocket, he is also helping to "blast off" the U.S. Treasury campaign for the sale of Savings Bonds and Savings Stamps to help our country's Space Program.
Letters Typeset

5 page Dennis the Menace story "Dennis in Orbit"

Characters Dennis Mitchell; Henry Mitchell; Alice Mitchell
Genre children; humor
Script Fred Toole
Pencils Owen Fitzgerald
Inks Owen Fitzgerald

2 page Dennis the Menace story "1963"

Characters Dennis Mitchell; Joey McDonald
Genre children; humor
Script Fred Toole
Pencils Owen Fitzgerald
Inks Owen Fitzgerald

2 page Dennis the Menace story "Day by Day with Dennis"

Synopsis Reprints of 7 daily Dennis the Menace cartoons.
Genre humor
Script Hank Ketcham
Pencils Hank Ketcham
Inks Hank Ketcham
Letters Hank Ketcham

4 page Shorty story "Shorty's Tall Stories"

Synopsis Shorty tells a tall tale about how he invented igloos.
Genre children; humor

2 page activity "Puzzle Pages"

Synopsis Quizzes and the Mystery Square.
Letters Typeset

9 page Dennis the Menace story "Pitter Patter Painter"

Characters Dennis Mitchell; Alice Mitchell; Henry Mitchell
Genre children; humor
Script Fred Toole
Pencils Owen Fitzgerald
Inks Owen Fitzgerald

8 page Dennis the Menace story "Happy Chinese New Year"

Characters Dennis Mitchell; Alice Mitchell; Henry Mitchell
Genre children; humor
Script Fred Toole
Pencils Owen Fitzgerald
Inks Owen Fitzgerald

1 page advertisement "Be a Junior Astronaut"

Synopsis An ad to buy United States savings stamps for the space program.

1 page Dennis the Menace story "Space Kid"

Characters Dennis Mitchell; Joey McDonald
Genre children; humor
Script Fred Toole
Pencils Owen Fitzgerald
Inks Owen Fitzgerald
Notes Printed on the back cover.