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Issue Details

Issue #691
Published April 1956
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?
Notes Indicia title is "DOTTY DRIPPLE AND TAFFY, No. 691." Code number is DOT.D.O.S. #691-564. Copyright 1956 by Publisher's Syndicate. Based on the "Dotty Dripple" newspaper strip.

Cover Details

Characters Taffy; Pepper (dog)
Letters typeset

1 page promo (ad from the publisher) "Another Outstanding Award for Dell Comics"

Characters George T. Delacorte, Jr. (photo); Major General Lucas V. Beau, USAF (photo); Col. Draper F. Henry, USAF (photo); Hon. John I. Lerom, Ast. Sec. USAF (photo); Col. C. Short, USAF (photo)
Synopsis Promo for Dell Comics featuring citation given Dell Publishing by the Civil Air Patrol, an auxiliary of the U.S. Air Force, for promoting interest in aviation and flying.
Pencils ? (photos)
Inks ? (photos)
Letters typeset
Notes Inside front cover; black and white. Photo of Dell publisher George T. Delacorte, Jr. and U.S. Air Force personnel. Promo includes Dell's "A Pledge to Parents."

8 page Dotty Dripple and Taffy story "Taffyella"

Characters Taffy; Dotty Dripple
Synopsis Taffy dreams she is Cinderella.

8 page Dotty Dripple and Taffy story "Turn About"

Characters Taffy; Pepper (dog); Dotty Dripple
Synopsis When Pepper gets in trouble for chasing cats, Taffy puts a cat's mask on him and he starts to think he's a cat.

8 page Dotty Dripple and Taffy story "The Taffy Pull"

Characters Taffy; Horace Dripple; Mr. Jerkimer; Dotty Dripple (cameo)
Synopsis When her father and his boss Mr. Jerkimer fall asleep after drinking coffee with sleeping powder in it, Taffy has to think up a way to fool a client who is coming to the office on business.

8 page Dotty Dripple and Taffy story "The Banquet"

Characters Taffy; Wilbert; Horace Dripple; Dotty Dripple; Mr. Jerkimer; Mrs. Jerkimer
Synopsis Horace's boss, Mr. Jerkimer, and his wife come to the Dripple's house for dinner. Taffy inadvertently serves them some appetite suppressing pills as pre-meal candy and the pair can't eat the dinner Dotty has prepared. The children take the dinner to the house of a poor boy they had met earlier that day.

1 page Dotty Dripple and Taffy story "Bottles for Ice Cream"

Characters Taffy
Synopsis Taffy carefully takes some bottles in to redeem for the deposit so she can get an ice cream cone.
Notes Inside back cover; black and white; pantomime story.

1 page Dotty Dripple and Taffy story "Misfortune"

Characters Taffy
Synopsis Taffy gets a fortune from a weighing machine that says she is kind to her elders. However, when she helps an old lady across the street, she gets her dress splashed by a passing car.
Notes Back cover; pantomime story. The last panel is Dell's "A Pledge to Parents."