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Issue Details

Issue #823
Published August 1957
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
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Notes Indicia title is "TIMMY, No. 823." Code number is TIMMY O.S. #823-578. Copyright 1957 by Chicago Tribune-New York News Syndicate, Inc. Based on the "Timmy" newspaper strip by Howard Sparber. Second of four Timmy Four Color issues.

Cover Details

Characters Timmy; Hanky
Genre children
Letters typeset

1 page Timmy story "Teaching Timmy to Hit a Baseball"

Characters Timmy
Synopsis Timmy's father tries to teach him how to hit a baseball.
Genre children
Notes Inside front cover; black and white; pantomime story.

8 page Timmy story "The Big Deal"

Characters Timmy; Hanky
Synopsis Timmy and Hanky go to their father's office, where they "help" him with his work.
Genre children

7 page Timmy story "The Upper Crust"

Characters Timmy; Hanky; Jane Ellen
Synopsis Timmy and Hanky spend the day at their rich friend Jane Ellen's house, turning it into a shambles.
Genre children

8 page Timmy story "Fun on the Frontier"

Characters Timmy; Hanky
Synopsis Timmy tells Hanky a story about how the pioneers lived.
Genre children

3 page Timmy story "Backyard Bonanza"

Characters Timmy; Hanky
Synopsis Timmy's father thinks he's struck oil in the back yard, but it's just a broken pipe from the fuel oil tank for the furnace.
Genre children

5 page Timmy story "The Dog-Sitters"

Characters Timmy; Hanky
Synopsis Timmy and Hanky start a dog-sitting business.
Genre children

Half page Smokey Stover promo (ad from the publisher) "When the fire is thisaway..."

Characters Smokey Stover (cameo)
Letters typeset
Notes Promo for Smokey Stover Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #827. Repro of cover is depicted.

1 page Timmy story "The Painless Dentist"

Characters Timmy
Synopsis Timmy goes to a "painless" dentist.
Genre children
Notes Inside back cover; black and white.

1 page Timmy story "The Trade-In"

Characters Timmy; Hanky
Synopsis Timmy and Hanky try to use their wind-up toy car as a trade-in on a larger kid-size car.
Genre children
Notes Back cover. The last panel is Dell's "A Pledge to Parents."