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Issue Details

Issue #74
Published June 1945
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Helen Meyer ?
Notes Indicia title is "MARGE'S LITTLE LULU, No. 74." Code number is L.L.O.S. 74-456. Copyright 1945 by Marjorie H. Buell. Little Lulu's first comic book appearance. The character had appeared in magazine cartoons by Marge Henderson Buell since 1935.

Cover Details

Characters Little Lulu
Genre children
Pencils John Stanley
Inks John Stanley

1 page Little Lulu story "Lulu on skates"

Characters Little Lulu
Synopsis Lulu has trouble roller-skating and grabs a man's tie to get a safe landing.
Genre children
Script John Stanley
Pencils John Stanley
Inks John Stanley
Notes Inside front cover; black, red, and white; pantomime story. Story has 12 panels.
Reprinted In Marge's Little Lulu and Tubby Annual (Dell, 1953 Series) #1 (March 1953)

10 page Little Lulu story "The Costume Party"

Characters Little Lulu; Mrs. Moppet (Lulu's mother, first appearance); Tubby Tompkins (first appearance); Elsie Jones; Mrs. Jones; Walter
Synopsis Lulu dresses as an angel for Elsie Jones' birthday party, but it's her mother's idea, not hers.
Genre children
Script John Stanley
Pencils John Stanley
Inks John Stanley
Reprinted In Marge's Little Lulu and Tubby Annual (Dell, 1953 Series) #1 (March 1953)

1 page Little Lulu story "A Bone To Pick"

Characters Little Lulu
Synopsis Lulu's dog persists in hiding a bone under the rug.
Genre children
Script John Stanley
Pencils John Stanley
Inks John Stanley
Notes Pantomime story; Story has 24 panels.

1 page Little Lulu story "One, Two, Three, Kick!"

Characters Little Lulu; Tubby Tompkins
Synopsis Tubby's football flies in through an open window. Lulu tries to kick it out, but breaks the glass.
Genre children; sports
Script John Stanley
Pencils John Stanley
Inks John Stanley
Notes Pantomime story. Story has 12 panels.

10 page Little Lulu story "Little Lulu at the Beach"

Characters Little Lulu; Tubby Tompkins
Synopsis Lulu and Tubby have a series of misadventures at the beach.
Genre children
Script John Stanley
Pencils John Stanley
Inks John Stanley
Reprinted in Smithsonian Book of Comic-Book Comics, A (Smithsonian Institution / Harry N Abrams, 1981 series) #[nn]; in Marge's Little Lulu and Tubby Annual (Dell, 1953 series) #2

1 page Little Lulu story "Jingle Bells"

Characters Little Lulu
Synopsis Lulu tries to shake a coin out of her piggy bank in time to catch the ice cream man.
Genre children
Script John Stanley
Pencils John Stanley
Inks John Stanley
Notes Pantomime story. Story has 16 panels. Junkman's cart is labeled "Junkie"

8 page Little Lulu story "Little Lulu Minds Alvin"

Characters Little Lulu; Mrs. Moppet; Tubby Tompkins; Alvin [Alvin James] (first appearance); Mrs. James (first appearance; Alvin's mother); Mr. Gripe (first appearance)
Synopsis Lulu has to baby-sit Alvin. She and Tubby take him to the zoo, where Alvin steals a lion's lunch.
Script John Stanley
Pencils John Stanley
Inks John Stanley
Notes Alvin does not talk.

1 page Little Lulu story "Rockabye Baby"

Characters Little Lulu
Synopsis Lulu takes her pet frog to the pet show in a baby carriage.
Genre children
Script John Stanley
Pencils John Stanley
Inks John Stanley
Notes Pantomime story. Story has 12 panels.

1 page Little Lulu story "Giving the Dog a Bath"

Characters Little Lulu
Synopsis Lulu tries several ways to get her dog into a tub of water, but ends up falling in it herself.
Genre children
Script John Stanley
Pencils John Stanley
Inks John Stanley
Notes Inside back cover; black, red, and white; pantomime story. Story has 12 panels.

1 page Little Lulu story "Fetching the Stick"

Characters Little Lulu
Synopsis Lulu's dog will only fetch the stick when he feels like it.
Genre children
Script John Stanley
Pencils John Stanley
Inks John Stanley
Notes Back cover; pantomime story. Story has 12 panels.