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Issue Details

Issue #696
Published April 1956
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?
Notes Indicia title is "KRAZY KAT, No. 696." Code number is K.K.O.S. #696-564. Copyright 1956 by King Features Syndicate. Based on the "Krazy Kat" newspaper strip by George Herriman. Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).

Cover Details

Characters Krazy Kat; Ignatz Mouse
Genre funny animal
Pencils Dan Gormley
Inks Dan Gormley
Notes Indicia title is "KRAZY KAT, No. 696." Code number is K.K.O.S. #696-564. Copyright 1956 by King Features Syndicate. Based on the "Krazy Kat" newspaper strip by George Herriman. Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).

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

Characters George T. Delacorte (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 and U.S. Air Force personell. Promo includes Dell's "A Pledge to Parents."

8 page Krazy Kat story "The Brick Baker"

Characters Krazy Kat; Ignatz Mouse; Offissa Pupp
Synopsis When K. Kelly the brickmaker goes on vacation, Ignatz makes bricks of his own in Krazy's cook stove.
Genre funny animal
Pencils Dan Gormley
Inks Dan Gormley
Letters Dan Gormely
Notes Pencils, inks, and letters credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).

10 page Krazy Kat story "The Inheritance"

Characters Krazy Kat; Ignatz Mouse; Mister Meeyow; Uncle Tom
Synopsis Krazy's rich Uncle Tom is coming from the South to give Krazy his inheritance. Mister Meeyow poses as Uncle Tom to trick Krazy; then poses as Krazy to try to get the inheritance from Uncle Tom.
Genre funny animal
Pencils Dan Gormley
Inks Dan Gormley
Letters Dan Gormley
Notes Pencils, inks, and letters credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).

6 page Ignatz story "Wanted Posters"

Characters Krazy Kat; Ignatz Mouse; Offissa Pupp
Synopsis Offissa Pupp makes Krazy a deputy and orders him to post "Wanted" posters of Ignatz all over town.
Genre funny animal
Pencils Dan Gormley
Inks Dan Gormley
Letters Dan Gormley
Notes Pencils, inks, and letters credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).

8 page Krazy Kat story "Krazy Kat Strikes It Rich"

Characters Krazy Kat; Ignatz Mouse; Offissa Pupp
Synopsis Krazy and Ignatz go prospecting for uranium. Ignatz uses a geiger counter, while Krazy relies on a divining rod.
Genre funny animal
Pencils Dan Gormley
Inks Dan Gormley
Letters Dan Gormley
Notes Pencils, inks, and letters credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)

1 page Krazy Kat story "Help Wanted"

Characters Krazy Kat; Ignatz Mouse
Synopsis Krazy and Ignatz argue over who gets to answer a help wanted sign in a store window, but by the time they decide, the job is already filled.
Genre funny animal
Pencils Dan Gormley
Inks Dan Gormley
Letters Dan Gormely
Notes Inside back cover; black and white. Pencils, inks, and letters credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).

1 page Krazy Kat story "Bow and Arrow"

Characters Krazy Kat; Ignatz Mouse; Offissa Pupp
Synopsis Krazy ties a brick to an arrow and when Krazy fires the arrow from a bow, he hits himself with the brick.
Genre funny animal
Pencils Dan Gormley
Inks Dan Gormley
Notes Back cover; pantomime story. Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).