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Issue Details

Issue #516
Published November 1953
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?
Notes Indicia title is "DOUBLE TROUBLE with GOOBER, No. 516." Code number is GOOBER O.S. #516-5311. Copyright 1953 by King Features Syndicate, Inc. Based on the "Double Trouble" newspaper strip by Bill MacLean. Third of four Double Trouble with Goober Four Color issues.

Cover Details

Characters Goober
Genre children
Pencils Bill MacLean (signed)
Inks Bill MacLean (signed)

1 page Goober story "Not So Nutty After All"

Characters Goober; Jeannie; Johnnie
Synopsis Jeannie and Johnnie go to the woods to hunt for nuts, while Goober finds it simpler to use a vending machine.
Genre children
Script Bill MacLean
Pencils Bill MacLean
Inks Bill MacLean
Letters Bill MacLean ?
Notes Inside front cover; black and white.

12 page Goober and his "Double Trouble" Pals story "Monkey Business"

Characters Goober; Jeannie; Johnnie; their parents
Synopsis Goober, Jeannie, and Johnnie fix up an old broken wind-up record player to use as a hand-organ. With Goober playing the part of a monkey and Jeannie and Johnnie singing "Here We Go 'Round the Mulberry Bush," the trio attract a crowd downtown. They are taken to the police station for not having an organ grinder's license, but end up performing on the Police Athletic League television program.
Genre children
Script Bill MacLean (signed)
Pencils Bill MacLean (signed)
Inks Bill MacLean (signed)
Letters Bill MacLean ?

10 page Goober story Goober Puts the Freeze on His "Double Trouble" Pals

Characters Goober; Jeannie; Johnnie; Measles (dog);
Synopsis Goober gets Jeannie and Johnnie to crank his ice-cream freezer for him.
Genre children
Script Bill MacLean
Pencils Bill MacLean
Inks Bill MacLean
Letters Bill MacLean

6 page Goober story "Blow Wind - Blow Some More"

Characters Goober; Johnnie
Synopsis Goober and Johnnie take some old newspapers in for scrap, but on the way a strong wind scatters the papers over the neighborhood, with some surprising results.
Genre children
Script Bill MacLean
Pencils Bill MacLean
Inks Bill MacLean
Letters Bill MacLean
Notes Just one "Double Trouble" twin in this story. Jeannie does not appear.

4 page Measles story "Fun, Food, and Frolic"

Characters Measles (dog)
Synopsis Measles goes to the woods to get some exercise.
Genre humor
Script Bill MacLean
Pencils Bill MacLean
Inks Bill MacLean
Letters Bill MacLean

1 page Goober story "Knock-Out"

Characters Goober; Jeannie; Johnnie
Synopsis Jeannie pretends to knock out Johnnie with a boxing glove in order to fool Goober.
Genre children
Script Bill MacLean
Pencils Bill MacLean
Inks Bill MacLean
Letters Bill MacLean
Notes Inside back cover; black and white.

1 page Goober story "The Skating Race"

Characters Goober; Jeannie; Johnnie
Synopsis Goober and Johnnie have an ice-skating race.
Genre children; sports
Script Bill MacLean
Pencils Bill MacLean
Inks Bill MacLean
Letters Bill MacLean
Notes Back cover.