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Issue Details

Issue #436
Published November 1952
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Notes Indicia title is "THE BROWNIES, No. 436". Code number is BROWNIES #436-5211. (No "O.S." in code number.) Copyright 1952 by Western Printing & Lithographing Co. Seventh of ten Brownies Four Colors.

Cover Details

Characters The Brownies
Genre fantasy
Pencils Don Gunn
Inks Don Gunn

1 page [The Brownies] story "Hobo Brownies meet on a road"

Characters The Brownies
Synopsis Two hobo Brownies meet on a road.
Genre fantasy
Pencils Don Gunn
Inks Don Gunn
Notes Inside front cover; black and white; pantomime story.

8 page The Brownies story "The False Duckling"

Characters The Brownies [Brainy; Wizard; Wobble]
Synopsis The Brownies find an egg, just as a duckling hatches out of it. The Brownies glue the egg back together with the Wizard inside, but before they can release him, the mother duck returns and takes control of the egg. When the Wizard breaks out of the egg, the duck thinks he is her baby. The other Brownies have to go find the real duckling to return it to its mother.
Genre fantasy
Pencils Don Gunn
Inks Don Gunn

10 page The Brownies story "The Brownies and the Splooks"

Characters The Brownies [Wizard; Brainy; Muddle; Droopy]; Splooks
Synopsis The Wizard warns the other Brownies that they should stay inside the day after Halloween to avoid goblins and witches. The rest ignore his advice and go exploring. They find the Splooks, who live underground and only go out on Halloween to scare people. The Splooks are frustrated when the Brownies aren't scared of them and take them to see the Grand Splook. They inadvertently insult the Grand Splook and have to flee back to the surface.
Genre fantasy
Pencils Don Gunn
Inks Don Gunn

8 page The Brownies story "The Brownies on Castaway Island"

Characters The Brownies [Brainy; Wobble; Muddle; Weeseed; Spindly]
Synopsis The Brownies launch a tin can submarine, but it gets caught on the back of a turtle and is taken to Castaway Island. There they find Jettison, a long-bearded Brownie who supposedly has been on the island for 600 years.
Genre fantasy
Pencils Don Gunn
Inks Don Gunn

6 page The Badkins story "Stealing Doughnuts"

Characters The Brownies [Brainy; Spindly; Wobble]; the Badkins
Synopsis The Badkins steal and eat all the Brownies' doughnuts. When they return for more baked goods, the pair is trapped in a glob of bread dough.
Genre fantasy
Pencils Don Gunn
Inks Don Gunn

1 page [The Brownies] story "Time for lunch"

Characters The Brownies
Synopsis The Brownies' cart is pulled by three bugs, but they try to pull the cart down a hole when it's the bugs' lunchtime.
Genre fantasy
Pencils Don Gunn
Inks Don Gunn
Notes Inside back cover; black and white; pantomime story.

1 page [The Brownies] story "A Change in Leaders"

Characters The Brownies
Synopsis A trumpet player is off-key, so the leader of the band changes places with him.
Genre fantasy
Pencils Don Gunn
Inks Don Gunn
Notes Back cover; color; pantomime story. Comic form, but no panel borders.