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Issue Details

Issue #11
Published January 1971
Cover Price 0.15 USD
Pages 36
Editing Richard Goldwater

Cover Details - "What goes best with a long dress and a long scarf?"

Characters Bingo Wilkin; Samantha Smythe; Tough Teddy; Buddy Drumhead
Genre teen; humor
Pencils Dan DeCarlo
Inks Rudy Lapick
Letters Bill Yoshida

6 page That Wilkin Boy story "The Vicious Cycle"

Characters Bingo Wilkin; Samantha Smythe; Sampson Smythe; Tough Teddy; Willie Wilkin; Uncle Herman
Synopsis Mr. Smythe uses Teddy's motorcycle to show off his cycling ability, only to be one-upped by Uncle Herman.
Genre teen; humor
Script Frank Doyle
Pencils Dan DeCarlo
Inks Rudy Lapick
Colors Barry Grossman
Letters Bill Yoshida

1 page Li'l Jinx filler "Star Bright!"

Characters Li'l Jinx; Russ
Genre children; humor
Script Joe Edwards
Pencils Joe Edwards
Inks Joe Edwards
Letters Joe Edwards

1 page Teddy story "Muscle Tussle"

Characters Tough Teddy; Sampson Smythe
Synopsis Mr. Smythe compliments Teddy on being in good shape.
Genre teen; humor
Pencils Dan DeCarlo
Letters Bill Yoshida

6 page That Wilkin Boy story "A Day In the Life of a Fool"

Characters Bingo Wilkin; Samantha Smythe; Sampson Smythe; Sheila Smythe; Tough Teddy; Rebel
Synopsis Bingo vows that by the end of the day Mr. Smythe will love him like a son. Filled with typical Wilkin stubbornness and stick-to-itiveness, he spends the entire day ignoring Samantha and trying to make her father like him. By the end of the day, Mr. Smythe loves him and Samantha dumps him.
Genre teen; humor
Script Frank Doyle
Pencils Dan DeCarlo
Inks Rudy Lapick
Colors Barry Grossman
Letters Bill Yoshida
Notes In the splash panel, Rebel is reading the collected poems of John Keats.

5 page That Wilkin Boy story "The Beat Goes On"

Characters Bingo Wilkin; Samantha Smythe; Sampson Smythe; Willie Wilkin; Buddy Drumhead; Rebel
Synopsis Everyone keeps mistaking Buddy's incessant drumming for the sound of something breaking.
Genre teen; humor
Script Frank Doyle
Pencils Dan DeCarlo
Inks Rudy Lapick
Colors Barry Grossman
Letters Bill Yoshida

1 page letters page "Bingo Tells It Like It Is"

Characters Bingo Wilkin
Synopsis More advice to readers from Bingo.
Script Eda Edwards [as Bingo]
Pencils Joe Edwards
Inks Joe Edwards
Letters Joe Edwards

6 page That Wilkin Boy story "The Old Pro"

Characters Bingo Wilkin; Sampson Smythe; Willie Wilkin; Wilma Wilkin; Uncle Herman; Rebel
Synopsis Uncle Herman bores everyone with stories about his past as a professional baseball player.
Genre teen; humor
Script Frank Doyle
Pencils Dan DeCarlo
Inks Rudy Lapick
Colors Barry Grossman
Letters Bill Yoshida
Notes This story reveals that Herman is the brother of Bingo's mother, and therefore, as Willie says, "he is not -- I repeat, not a Wilkin!"