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Issue Details

Issue #1195
Published May-July 1961
Cover Price 0.15 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?
Notes Indicia title is "NATIONAL VELVET, No. 1195." Code number is N.V.O.S. #1195-614. Copyright 1961 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc. Based on the "National Velvet" TV series.

Cover Details - "National Velvet"

Characters Velvet Brown (as played by Lori Martin, photo); King (horse)
Genre Drama
Pencils ? (photo)
Inks ? (photo)
Colors ? (photo)
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Notes Indicia title is "NATIONAL VELVET, No. 1195." Code number is N.V.O.S. #1195-614. Copyright 1961 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc. Based on the "National Velvet" TV series.

1 page promo (ad from the publisher) "The Wonderful New Dell Comics Contest"

Characters Tarzan (cameo); The Rifleman (cameo); Little Lulu (cameo); Mickey Mouse (cameo); Bugs Bunny (cameo); Huckleberry Hound (cameo); Andy Panda (cameo); Charlie Chicken (cameo);
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Notes Inside front cover; black and white. Promo for contest asking readers to tell who their favorite Dell character is and why in 25 words or less.

11 page National Velvet story "Cloudburst"

Characters Velvet Brown; King (horse); Martha Brown; Herbert Brown; Edwina Brown
Synopsis Velvet takes King to search for her sister Edwina. They find the girl safe with friends after a cloudburst had overturned their car. Later Velvet and King have to swim a rain-swollen river to warn her father that a bridge is out.
Genre Drama
Pencils Jack Sparling
Inks Jack Sparling

9 page National Velvet story "The Broken Bridle"

Characters Velvet Brown; King (horse); Martha Brown; Donald Brown; Mi Taylor
Synopsis Velvet and King keep a tramp from stealing her mother's savings, which were kept in a sugar bowl.
Genre Drama
Pencils Jack Sparling
Inks Jack Sparling

2 page promo (ad from the publisher) "Trade at the Exciting, Amazing New Dell Trading Post"

Characters Huckleberry Hound (cameo); Woody Woodpecker (cameo); Mickey Mouse (cameo); Little Lulu (cameo); Tom (of Tom and Jerry) (cameo)
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Notes Centerfold. Promo for Dell Trading Post, which offers premiums for title strips from Dell Comics. Promo comes after page four of Sequence 3.

9 page National Velvet story "The Breaking Point"

Characters Velvet Brown; King (horse); Edwina Brown; Donald Brown; Mi Taylor; Martha Brown; Herbert Brown.
Synopsis Donald is furious when his father has to mend the stanchion on the bull's pen and can't take him fishing.
Genre Drama
Pencils Jack Sparling
Inks Jack Sparling

Half page Jumping-Jacks Shoes; Vaisey-Bristol Shoe Co. advertisement "Zingy! Dreamy!"

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Notes Illustrated ad for Jumping Jacks brand shoes. "The Jeeper" and "The Skeeter" styles are depicted. Vaisey-Bristol Shoe Co., Monett, Mo.

1 page National Velvet filler "The Steeplechase"

Synopsis Description of steeplechase horse racing.
Genre fact; sports
Pencils Jack Sparling
Inks Jack Sparling
Notes Inside back cover; black and white. The "National Velvet" logo is on the feature, but no characters appear.

1 page Twinkles; General Mills advertisement Start Your Day the "Storybook Way" with Twinkles

Characters Twinkles; Sanford; Wilbur
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Notes Back cover. Ad for Twinkles breakfast cereal. Premium is three sponge toys in the shape of the cereal's characters for 30 cents and one boxtop. General Mills, Minneapolis, Minn.