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Issue Details

Issue #502
Published October 1953
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?
Notes Indicia title is "ROOTIE KAZOOTIE, No. 502." Code number is R.K.O.S. #502-5310. Copyright 1953 by Steven R. Carlin. Based on the "Rootie Kazootie" TV series.

Cover Details

Characters Rootie Kazootie; Polka Dottie
Genre children

1 page Rootie Kazootie story "Club Car"

Characters Rootie Kazootie; Polka Dottie
Synopsis Rootie won't let Dottie ride with him and the rest of the boys in their homemade racer; but she makes herself useful fixing them up after they crash into a tree.
Genre children
Pencils Dan Gormley
Inks Dan Gormley
Notes Inside front cover; black and white. Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)

6 page Rootie Kazootie story "Knights and Dragons"

Characters Rootie Kazootie; Gala-Poochie (dog); Polka Dottie
Synopsis Rootie uses the magic Kazootie to make Gala-Poochie big enough to ride on and then wishes he was back in the days of King Arthur and his Knights.
Genre fantasy
Pencils Dan Gormley
Inks Dan Gormley
Notes Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)

6 page Rootie Kazootie story "Pup in Boots"

Characters Rootie Kazootie; Gala-Poochie (dog)
Synopsis Rootie reads Poochie the story "Pup in Boots," about a puppy who was always scared before being given magic boots.
Genre fantasy
Pencils Dan Gormley
Inks Dan Gormley
Notes Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)

11 page Rootie Kazootie story "Rootie Kazootie's New Clubhouse"

Characters Rootie Kazootie; Gala-Poochie (dog); Mr. Deetle Dootle; Polka Dottie; Poison Zoomack
Synopsis Rootie builds a new clubhouse. He finds that it is over a tunnel that leads to an old house that is the hideout of Poison Zoomack
Genre children
Pencils Dan Gormley
Inks Dan Gormley
Notes Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)

5 page Rootie Kazootie story "Rootie Kazootie's Zany Zoo"

Characters Rootie Kazootie
Synopsis Rootie takes Junior Mash to visit his Zany Zoo, which has a hatchet-nosed Plorn, a Zizzle, a Prux, a Quirn, and a Glurk.
Genre fantasy
Pencils Dan Gormley
Inks Dan Gormley
Notes Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)

4 page Polka Dottie story "Ribbon Problem"

Characters Polka Dottie; Rootie Kazootie
Synopsis A boy keeps pulling the ribbon out of Dottie's hair.
Genre children
Pencils Lloyd White ?
Inks Lloyd White ?
Notes Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)

1 page Rootie Kazootie story "Bath for Gala-Poochie"

Characters Rootie Kazootie; Gala-Poochie (dog)
Synopsis Rootie has to give Gala-Poochie a bath, but Poochie gets the last laugh when Rootie has to take a bath himself.
Genre children
Pencils Dan Gormley
Inks Dan Gormley
Notes Inside back cover; black and white. Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)

1 page Rootie Kazootie story "The Apple Tree"

Characters Rootie Kazootie; Polka Dottie
Synopsis Dottie's idea to shake an apple tree to get an apple has unintended results.
Genre children
Pencils Dan Gormley
Inks Dan Gormley
Notes Back cover. Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)