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Issue Details

Issue #1034
Published September-November 1959
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?
Notes Indicia title is "NANCY AND SLUGGO SUMMER CAMP, No. 1034." Code number is N.+S. SUM. C. O.S. #1034-599. Copyright 1959 by United Feature Syndicate.

Cover Details - "Nancy and Sluggo Summer Camp"

Characters Nancy; Sluggo
Genre children

Half page Sluggo story "The Sign Painter"

Characters Sluggo; Mr. Simply
Synopsis Sluggo gets in trouble for writing "Sluggo was here" on various objects.
Genre children
Notes Inside front cover; black and white; pantomime story.

Half page Nancy story "The Huntress"

Characters Nancy
Synopsis Nancy goes hunting for turtles but gets more than she bargained for.
Genre children
Notes Inside front cover; black and white; pantomime story.

4 page Nancy story "Off to Camp"

Characters Nancy; Aunt Fritzi; Sluggo; Mr. McOnion; Mrs. McOnion
Synopsis Sluggo is the only neighborhood kid who can't afford to go to summer camp. After being splattered by mudballs by Sluggo (who's trying to put one in orbit), Mr. McOnion pays Sluggo's fare to camp to get rid of him for the summer.
Genre children

4 page Nancy story "Camp Fafomama"

Characters Nancy; Sluggo; Oona Goosepimple; Nosey Rosie; Mr. Simply
Synopsis Sluggo is made a camp monitor and gives Nancy and her friends 200,000 demerits for calling him names.
Genre children
Notes Camp Fafomama is wordplay on "Far from Mama."

4 page Nancy story "The Bank Holdup"

Characters Sluggo; Mr. Simply
Synopsis Sluggo gets revenge on his cabinmates for playing tricks on him.
Genre children

6 page Nancy story "The Muddy Lake"

Characters Nancy; Sluggo; Nosey Rosie; Mr. Simply
Synopsis Sluggo uses a spray gun full of detergent to wash off some boys' Indian warpaint. They chase him to the lake where he falls in and the detergent turns the lake into a huge mass of bubbles.
Genre children

2 page Nancy story "The Ghost Story"

Characters Nancy; Sluggo; Nosey Rosie; Oona Goosepimple; Mr. Simply
Synopsis Oona scares the whole camp with a ghost story.
Genre children

4 page Nancy story "Roughing It with Rollo"

Characters Nancy; Sluggo; Rollo; Crumbly
Synopsis Rollo's servant Crumbly saves him when Rollo's boat gets too close to the falls.
Genre children

4 page Nancy story "The Bear Scare"

Characters Nancy; Lana; Nosey Rosie; Mr. Simply
Synopsis Nancy and Lana are scared stiff as boards when they see a bear in the woods.
Genre children

4 page Nancy story "A Midnight Stroll"

Characters Nancy; Nosey Rosie; Oona Goosepimple; Lana; The Yo-Yos
Synopsis Nancy follows Oona through a secret door under a bush in the forest. It takes her to a passage, guarded by the Yo-Yos, which ends in the fireplace of Oona's house.
Genre children
Notes Last panel is Dell's "A Pledge to Parents." Part of series featuring Oona and the Yo-Yos, which always end with an ambiguous resolution about whether the story was a dream or was real.

Half page Pee Wee story "The Champion"

Characters Pee Wee; Mr. Simply
Synopsis Pee Wee is a champion knot-tier, but can't remember to tie his shoes.
Genre children
Notes Inside back cover; black and white; pantomime story.

Half page Nosey Rosie story "The Ant Eater"

Characters Nosey Rosie
Synopsis Anthropomorphic ants mistake Rosie for an ant-eater.
Genre children
Notes Inside back cover; black and white.

1 page Nancy story "The Caterpillar Scare"

Characters Nancy
Synopsis After observing a caterpillar, Nancy is startled when she sees a half-dozen children carrying a canoe, with only their legs visible.
Genre children
Notes Back cover; color; pantomime story.