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Issue Details

Issue #31
Published 1943
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 60
Editing ?
Notes Indicia title is "MOON MULLINS, No. 31." No code number. Copyright 1938 by Chicago Tribune-N.Y. News Syndicate, Inc.

Cover Details

Characters Moon Mullins; Kayo
Genre humor

3 page Moon Mullins story "What if he was asleep? They could have woke him up and taken him home!"

Characters Moon Mullins; Kayo; Lord Plushbottom; Mr. Crawfish; Mrs. Crawfish
Synopsis Mr. and Mrs. Crawfish want Kayo to live with them.
Genre humor
Script Frank Willard
Pencils Frank Willard
Inks Frank Willard
Notes Story begins on the inside front cover in black, red, and white.
Reprinted from Moon Mullins (Chicago Tribune-N.Y. News Syndicate) daily strips from 1938

4 page Moon Mullins story "Oh oh - There's that plain clothes cop I had that argument with..."

Characters Moon Mullins; Kayo; Lord Plushbottom; Emmy; Mr. Crawfish; Mrs. Crawfish
Synopsis Mr. and Mrs. Crawfish throw a party and hire Moon to help out.
Genre humor
Script Frank Willard
Pencils Frank Willard
Inks Frank Willard
Reprinted from Moon Mullins (Chicago Tribune-N.Y. News Syndicate) daily strips from 1938

4 page Moon Mullins story "What's this? Our old chum Plushbottom squandering a nickel..."

Characters Moon Mullins; Lord Plushbottom; Emmy
Synopsis Emmy accuses Lord Plushbottom of seeing another woman and he gets upset and leaves. Emmy and Moon hunt for him.
Genre humor
Script Frank Willard
Pencils Frank Willard
Inks Frank Willard
Reprinted from Moon Mullins (Chicago Tribune-N.Y. News Syndicate) daily strips from 1938

4 page Moon Mullins story "Gee! I thought there was somethin' screwy about that-"

Characters Moon Mullins; Emmy; Kayo; Lord Plushbottom; Dotty; Ambrose Plushbottom
Synopsis Kayo comes home from the Crawfishes. Emmy finds Lord Plushbottom living in a hotel with his cousin, Sir Ambrose P.T.M. Plushbottom.
Genre humor
Script Frank Willard
Pencils Frank Willard
Inks Frank Willard
Reprinted from Moon Mullins (Chicago Tribune-N.Y. News Syndicate) daily strips from 1938

4 page Moon Mullins story "What? Are you ashamed of me?"

Characters Moon Mullins; Lord Plushbottom; Emmy; Kayo; Dotty; Ambrose Plushbottom
Synopsis Cousin Ambrose has a dinner party and Emmy discloses that Lord Plushbottom is almost broke. That sabotages Lord Plushbottom's plan to ask Ambrose for a loan. Meanwhile Kayo and Dotty have a crush on each other, but Dotty's mother doesn't approve of her playing with Kayo.
Genre humor
Reprinted from Moon Mullins (Chicago Tribune-N.Y. News Syndicate) daily strips from 1938

4 page Moon Mullins story "Dotty! Good gosh! Wot do you suppose I come all th' way out here..."

Characters Emmy; Kayo; Dotty; Ambrose Plushbottom; Moon Mullins; Lord Plushbottom; Mamie; Willie
Synopsis Dotty and her parents are having a picnic, but didn't take Kayo. Kayo goes to the country anyway and ends up at the same spot as Dotty and her parents. Dotty falls off a log into a creek and Kayo saves her.
Genre humor
Reprinted from Moon Mullins (Chicago Tribune-N.Y. News Syndicate) daily strips from 1938

4 page Moon Mullins story "Why don't I ever learn to keep that blooming mouth of mine shut?"

Characters Moon Mullins; Lord Plushbottom; Emmy; Mamie; Willie; Kayo; Dotty
Synopsis Mamie and Willie return to the Plushbottom residence.
Genre humor
Script Frank Willard
Pencils Frank Willard
Inks Frank Willard
Reprinted from Moon Mullins (Chicago Tribune-N.Y. News Syndicate) daily strips from 1938

4 page Moon Mullins story "Those? Them's flowers and a note of apology for Mamie's conduct..."

Characters Moon Mullins; Willie; Ambrose Plushbottom; Lord Plushbottom
Synopsis Moon goes to visit Cousin Ambrose's maid on a night Ambrose is having a dinner party.
Genre humor
Script Frank Willard
Pencils Frank Willard
Inks Frank Willard
Reprinted from Moon Mullins (Chicago Tribune-N.Y. News Syndicate) daily strips from 1938

4 page Moon Mullins story "Say, you guys aint cops!"

Characters Moon Mullins; Kayo; Ambrose Plushbottom; Lord Plushbottom; Emmy; Kayo; Dotty; Willie; Mamie
Synopsis Cousin Ambrose is going back to England.
Genre humor
Script Frank Willard
Pencils Frank Willard
Inks Frank Willard
Reprinted from Moon Mullins (Chicago Tribune-N.Y. News Syndicate) daily strips from 1938

4 page Moon Mullins story "Gee! You had oughta been home, Mamie..."

Characters Moon Mullins; Mamie; Willie; Kayo
Synopsis Willie tries to convince the insurance company he has injured his back. Mamie goes to visit her Uncle Juke and Aunt Jennie.
Genre humor
Script Frank Willard
Pencils Frank Willard
Inks Frank Willard
Reprinted from Moon Mullins (Chicago Tribune-N.Y. News Syndicate) daily strips from 1938

4 page Moon Mullins story "Gee! We wasn't expectin' you back so soon, Mamie"

Characters Moon Mullins; Mamie; Willie; Kayo; Lord Plushbottom; Emmy
Synopsis Cousin Ambrose sends Lord Plushbottom a check for $1,500 so that he and Kayo can come to England to visit.
Genre humor
Script Frank Willard
Pencils Frank Willard
Inks Frank Willard
Reprinted from Moon Mullins (Chicago Tribune-N.Y. News Syndicate) daily strips from 1938

4 page Moon Mullins story "Let's go cash that check yer cousin Ambrose sent us..."

Characters Moon Mullins; Lord Plushbottom; Emmy; Kayo; Mamie
Synopsis Lord Plushbottom, Emmy, and Kayo get ready for their trip to England.
Genre humor
Script Frank Willard
Pencils Frank Willard
Inks Frank Willard
Reprinted from Moon Mullins (Chicago Tribune-N.Y. News Syndicate) daily strips from 1938

4 page Moon Mullins story "And I had only enough to buy three round-trip tickets"

Characters Moon Mullins; Lord Plushbottom; Emmy; Mamie; Willie
Synopsis Emmy spends Cousin Ambrose's check on clothes and a fur coat.
Genre humor
Script Frank Willard
Pencils Frank Willard
Inks Frank Willard
Reprinted from Moon Mullins (Chicago Tribune-N.Y. News Syndicate) daily strips from 1938

8 page Moon Mullins story "Say sailor, I was just readin' yer advertisement out there..."

Characters Moon Mullins; Lord Plushbottom; Emmy; Willie; Mamie; Kayo; Dotty; Ambrose Plushbottom; Uncle Stymie
Synopsis Lord Plushbottom, Emmy, and Kayo make the trip to England where they are met by Cousin Ambrose, his wife, Dotty, and Uncle Stymie.
Genre humor
Script Frank Willard
Pencils Frank Willard
Inks Frank Willard
Notes Story continues on inside back cover in black, red, and white and concludes on back cover in color.
Reprinted from Moon Mullins (Chicago Tribune-N.Y. News Syndicate) daily strips from 1938