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Issue Details

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.

Cover Details - "Priscilla's Pop"

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.

1 page Priscilla's Pop story "The Roller-Coaster"

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.

10 page Priscilla's Pop story "Bored of Education"

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

5 page Priscilla's Pop story "Driving Pop Wild"

Characters Priscilla
Synopsis Priscilla's father "borrows" his neighbor's car when he thinks Priscilla has taken his car for a drive.
Genre children

6 page Priscilla's Pop story "A Good Bet on the TV Set"

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.

5 page Priscilla's Pop story "The Printed Word"

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

6 page Priscilla's Pop story "A Hungry Audience"

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

1 page Priscilla's Pop story "Shoveling Surprise"

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.

1 page Priscilla's Pop story "Horn Solution"

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."