Issue | #799 |
Published | May 1957 |
Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
Pages | 36 |
Editing | ? |
Notes | Indicia title is "PRISCILLA'S POP, No. 799." Code number is PRIS.P.O.S. #799-575. Copyright 1957 by NEA Service, Inc. Based on the NEA newspaper strip "Priscilla's Pop" by Al Vermeer. |
Characters | Priscilla |
Genre | children |
Pencils | Al Vermeer ? |
Inks | Al Vermeer ? |
Letters | typeset |
Notes | Cover says "by Al Vermeer," but he may or may not have drawn it. |
Characters | Priscilla |
Synopsis | Priscilla is frightened while riding on a roller coaster with her father, but at the end of the ride is ready to ride it again. |
Genre | children |
Notes | Inside front cover; black and white. |
Characters | Priscilla; Lester; Jenny Lu; Hollyhock; Stuart; Hubert Pike |
Synopsis | Superintendent Pennleigh decides to appoint a student as school superintendent for a day. Priscilla gets the honor and does the duties in an unorthodox way. |
Genre | children |
Characters | Priscilla |
Synopsis | Priscilla's father "borrows" his neighbor's car when he thinks Priscilla has taken his car for a drive. |
Genre | children |
Characters | Priscilla |
Synopsis | When the TV set needs repairs, Priscilla goes to a auto repair shop and borrows some tools. While she's gone, her father gets a TV repairman to fix the set. Not knowing the set is fixed, Priscilla goes to work and undoes the recent repairs. Her father returns, finds the set doesn't work and drags the TV repairman back to fix it again. |
Genre | children |
Notes | The story narration at the bottom of each panel is told in rhyme, which was a device sometimes used in the newspaper strip. |
Characters | Priscilla; Lester; Oliver (dog); Jenny Lu; Hollyhock |
Synopsis | Lester prints up fake passes to the rodeo and sells one to Priscilla for a dime. Her father gives her a real pass and Priscilla realizes she was fooled. Later her friends follow her to the rodeo, expecting her to be bounced at the entrance. When she is admitted with the real pass, the rest of kids think she got in with the fake pass and try to use the fakes themselves, with unhappy results. |
Genre | children |
Characters | Priscilla; Carlyle |
Synopsis | Priscilla's mother sends her brother Carlyle to the theater to bring her home for dinner. Priscilla wants to see the movie again and convinces Carlyle to stay. Her father comes to get the pair and ends up staying to watch the movie. Priscilla's mother has dinner ready and ends up taking it to the theater for the family to eat. |
Genre | children |
Characters | Priscilla; Oliver (dog) |
Synopsis | Priscilla shovels the walk to a house, but finds a "For Rent" sign when she finishes the last of the shoveling. |
Genre | children |
Notes | Inside back cover; black and white. |
Characters | Priscilla |
Synopsis | Priscilla is driving her father to distraction by tooting on a horn; but the noise comes in handy when her parents are visited by a boring couple. |
Genre | children |
Notes | Back cover. The last panel is Dell's "A Pledge to Parents." |