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Issue Details

Issue #1185
Published May-July 1961
Cover Price 0.15 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?
Notes Indicia title is "SWEETIE PIE #1185." Code number is SWEETIE.PIE.O.S. #1185-614. Copyright 1961 by Newspaper Enterprise Assn. Based on the "Sweetie Pie" newspaper strip.

Cover Details

Characters Sweetie Pie; Lester
Genre children
Notes Indicia title is "SWEETIE PIE #1185." Code number is SWEETIE.PIE.O.S. #1185-614. Copyright 1961 by Newspaper Enterprise Assn. Based on the "Sweetie Pie" newspaper strip.

1 page Sweetie Pie story "The Bird Watcher"

Characters Sweetie Pie; Mrs. Simpson
Synopsis Sweetie Pie takes up bird-watching.
Genre children
Notes Inside front cover; black and white.

5 page Sweetie Pie story "Birds of a Feather"

Characters Sweetie Pie; Merton; Lester; Miss Fossle; Mr. Simpson; Mrs. Simpson
Synopsis Sweetie Pie gets in trouble for disrupting class with a "staring contest." Her teacher goes to Sweetie Pie's home, only to find her mother and father engaged in the same game.
Genre children

6 page Sweetie Pie story "Clothes Make the Dummy"

Characters Sweetie Pie; Lester; Gashouse Garrity; Mrs. Simpson; Mrs. Wilkins
Synopsis Sweetie Pie and Lester disguise a dressmaker's dummy as an Arabian sheik to get it past bully Gashouse Garrity without paying a toll.
Genre children

4 page Sweetie Pie story "Sweet Schultz"

Characters Sweetie Pie; Lester; Joey; Shultz (dog)
Synopsis Sweetie Pie tries to make the boys think her dog is ferocious, but the dog is hopelessly gentle.
Genre children

2 page Sweetie Pie story "Fancy Dancing"

Characters Sweetie Pie; Lester; Rudolph Minuet
Synopsis Sweetie Pie challenges her dancing instructor to a contest.
Genre children

4 page Sweetie Pie story "The Door Walker"

Characters Sweetie Pie; Mr. Simpson; Mrs. Simpson
Synopsis Mr. Simpson buys a used door. Sweetie Pie gets her head stuck in the peep hole.
Genre children

4 page Sweetie Pie story "The Queen Bee"

Characters Sweetie Pie; Lester; Joey
Synopsis Sweetie Pie imagines herself and the boys as bees. She's the queen bee, naturally.
Genre children

6 page Sweetie Pie story "The Worthy Cause"

Characters Sweetie Pie; Mrs. Simpson; Mrs. Glush; Donny
Synopsis Sweetie Pie and Donny collect bottles to raise money for the "Ailing Alligators" charity. Unfortunately the bottles they collect are the milk bottles left for the milkman.
Genre children

1 page Sweetie Pie story "Rubbish Removal"

Characters Sweetie Pie; Mr. Simpson; Mrs. Simpson
Synopsis Sweetie Pie uses the garbage disposal to get rid of the all the leaves in the yard.
Genre children

1 page Sweetie Pie story "The Glove"

Characters Sweetie Pie; Lester; Joey
Synopsis Sweetie Pie borrows Lester's baseball glove, but doesn't want to play ball with it.
Genre children
Notes Inside back cover; black and white.

1 page Sweetie Pie story "The Busybody"

Characters Sweetie Pie; Shultz (dog)
Synopsis Shultz keep running into things because he's always looking behind. Sweetie Pie solves the problem by putting a rear view mirror on his collar.
Genre children
Notes Back cover.