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Issue Details

Issue #561
Published May 1954
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?
Notes Indicia title is "The Nearsighted MR. MAGOO and GERALD McBOING BOING, No. 561." Code number is MAGOO O.S. #561-545. Copyright 1954 by Columbia Pictures Corporation.

Cover Details

Characters Mr. Magoo
Genre humor

1 page The Nearsighted Mr. Magoo story "Baaa-d Manners"

Characters Mr. Magoo
Synopsis Magoo gets a rude answer when he asks a goat for directions.
Genre humor
Notes Inside front cover; black and white.

9 page The Nearsighted Mr. Magoo story "Sloppy Jalopy"

Characters Mr. Magoo; Waldo
Synopsis Magoo takes a used car salesman on a wild test ride.
Genre humor
Script Don Sheppard
Notes Script credit for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)

10 page The Nearsighted Mr. Magoo story "Mighty Moe"

Characters Mr. Magoo; Waldo
Synopsis Magoo and Waldo go deep-sea fishing.
Genre humor
Script Don Sheppard
Notes Script credit for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)

8 page Gerald McBoing Boing story "Gerald Goes to the Grocery"

Characters Gerald McBoing Boing
Synopsis Gerald's parents send him to the grocery store, where the grocer has to decipher Gerald's sound effects to know what he wants.
Genre humor

5 page The Nearsighted Mr. Magoo story "Trip to Hoboken"

Characters Mr. Magoo
Synopsis Magoo mistakes the Hudson River Ferry to Hoboken for an ocean liner.
Genre humor
Script Don Sheppard
Notes Script credit for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)

1 page The Nearsighted Mr. Magoo story "Billboard Drive-In Theater"

Characters Mr. Magoo; Waldo
Synopsis Magoo mistakes a large billboard for a drive-in theater screen.
Genre humor
Notes Inside back cover; black and white.

1 page The Nearsighted Mr. Magoo story "Pinball Oddball"

Characters Mr. Magoo
Synopsis Magoo mistakes a pinball machine for a penny candy machine.
Genre humor
Notes Back cover.