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Issue Details

Issue #1016
Published August 1959
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?
Notes Indicia title is "SMOKEY THE BEAR NATURE STORIES, No. 1016." Code number is SMOKEY N.C. #1016-598. (No O.S. in code number and N.C. (Nature Comics?) instead of N.S.) Copyright 1959 by Western Printing and Lithographing Co. Sixth of eight Smokey the Bear Four Colors.

Cover Details - "Smokey the Bear Nature Stories"

Characters Smokey the Bear; Little Smokey; Specs; Gimp
Genre funny animal; adventure
Pencils ? (painting)
Inks ? (painting)
Colors ? (painting)

1 page Smokey the Bear filler "A Forest Ranger's Duties"

Characters Smokey the Bear; Little Smokey
Synopsis Facts about the duties of a forest ranger in the National Forests.
Genre fact
Notes Inside front cover; black and white.

16 page Smokey the Bear story "The Fiery Trap"

Characters Smokey the Bear; Little Smokey; Specs; Gimp (villain)
Synopsis Smokey, Little Smokey, and Specs the raccoon are out inspecting emergency fire stations in the forest when they come across an illegal trapline. Gimp, a villain bear, rolls a boulder toward Smokey, then plans on leaving in his truck with his poached animal skins. Smokey chases Gimp in his jeep. Gimp goes off the mountain road and the fiery crash starts a forest fire. Gimp helps fight the fire, but then escapes. Smokey chases him and the two have a showdown on a log in the river.
Genre funny animal; adventure

1 page Smokey the Bear filler "The Grizzly Bear"

Characters Smokey the Bear; Little Smokey; Specs
Synopsis Facts about grizzly bears, narrated by Smokey.
Genre funny animal; fact
Notes Sunday newspaper reprint?

1 page Smokey the Bear filler "How to Raise Tropical Fish"

Characters Smokey the Bear; Little Smokey; Specs
Synopsis Facts about raising tropical fish in an aquarium.
Genre funny animal; fact
Notes Sunday newspaper reprint?

1 page Smokey the Bear filler "Wild Turkey"

Characters Smokey the Bear; Little Smokey; Specs
Synopsis Facts about wild turkeys.
Genre funny animal; fact
Notes Sunday newspaper reprint?

1 page Smokey the Bear filler "How to Make Animal Track Plaster Casts"

Characters Smokey the Bear; Little Smokey; Specs
Synopsis The procedure for making a plaster cast of an animal track.
Genre funny animal; fact
Notes Sunday newspaper reprint?

1 page Smokey the Bear filler "Frogs and Toads"

Characters Smokey the Bear; Little Smokey; Specs
Synopsis Facts about frogs and toads.
Genre funny animal; fact
Notes Sunday newspaper reprint?

1 page Smokey the Bear filler "How to Collect Butterflies"

Characters Smokey the Bear; Little Smokey; Specs
Synopsis How to collect butterflies for display.
Genre funny animal; fact
Notes Sunday newspaper reprint?

1 page Smokey the Bear filler "The Bald Eagle"

Characters Smokey the Bear; Little Smokey; Specs
Synopsis Facts about bald eagles.
Genre funny animal; fact
Notes Sunday newspaper reprint?

1 page Smokey the Bear filler "How to Make an Ant House"

Characters Smokey the Bear; Little Smokey; Specs
Synopsis How to make a house to observe ants.
Genre funny animal; fact
Notes Sunday newspaper reprint?

8 page Smokey the Bear story "The Mysterious Intruder"

Characters Smokey the Bear; Little Smokey; Specs
Synopsis The forest service airlifts beavers to build dams in the forest. Something scares the beavers away and as Smokey, Little Smokey, and Specs investigate, they find peccaries, coyotes, and pronghorn deer fleeing a mysterious intruder, which turns out to be a jaguar.
Genre funny animal; adventure

1 page filler "The Moose"

Synopsis Facts about the moose.
Genre animal
Notes Inside back cover; black and white.

1 page filler "Animals of North America"

Synopsis Brief facts about bighorn sheep, box turtles, flying squirrels, pocket gophers, raccoons, and porcupines.
Genre fact
Letters typeset
Notes Back cover; color. Panels with typeset text underneath.
Reprinted in Walt Disney Comics Digest (Gold Key, 1968 series) #42