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Issue Details

Issue #175
Published July-August 1952
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?

Cover Details

Characters Nancy; Sluggo
Genre humor

1 page Rich Bros. Fireworks Co. advertisement "Fireworks"

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Notes Inside front cover; black and white. Illustrated ad for fireworks. $4.95 and $5.95 assorted sets. Available by railroad express from Rich Bros. Fireworks Co., Sioux Falls, S.D.

8 page Nancy story "Girls are so conceited--Always looking in mirrors"

Characters Nancy; Sluggo
Synopsis Girls are conceited; collecting alarm clocks; bouncing a ball; bed without supper; painting the keyhole; finding a picnic spot; the rich man's swimming pool; on Aunt Martha's farm.
Genre humor
Script Ernie Bushmiller
Pencils Ernie Bushmiller
Inks Ernie Bushmiller
Reprinted from Nancy (United Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper pages.

1 page Major Mars; Popsicle advertisement "Mystery on Mercury"

Characters Major Mars
Synopsis Major Mars uses his rocket ring to thwart a Venusian scheme to use Mercury as a base of operations.
Genre science fiction
Notes Illustrated ad in comic form for Popsicle frozen confections. Premium is Rocket Ring that will print photos with the sun's rays. Cost is 25 cents and one bag from Popsicle, Fudgesicle, Creamsicle, or Dreamsicle. Joe Lowe Corporation, New York, N.Y. Ad comes after page four of sequence one.

9 page The Captain and the Kids story "O.K..Napoleum Here comes der nature lesson..."

Characters Hans; Fritz; Mama; Der Captain; Der Inspector;
Synopsis The goat and the walrus; the vacuum cleaner; An ape steals pirate treasure (multi-page); drawing pictures on cows; a bird steals Mama's market basket; moonlight fishing.
Genre humor; jungle
Script R. Dirks
Pencils R. Dirks
Inks R. Dirks
Reprinted from The Captain and the Kids (United Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper pages.

2 page Stamp Tips text article "Tomas Estrada Palma"

Synopsis Biography of Cuban patriot Tomas Estrada Palma.
Genre bio
Notes Text with color logo and no illustration. About one-half of each page consists of small classified-type ads for stamps to be sent on approval. Sequence comes after page six of sequence four.

1 page text article "How It Began!"

Synopsis Short facts or definitions about whaling, workhouses, mechanical toys, ghosts casting no shadows, and other topics.
Genre fact
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Notes Text with illustrated header and small illustration.

10 page Tarzan story "Tarzan drifted about his beloved Congo, reveling in the wild, free life."

Characters Tarzan
Synopsis Tarzan is captured by Gunnar Milo, who is using natives as slave labor in a copper mine he has acquired by deception, and is put to work in the mine.
Genre jungle
Notes Three tiers of panels per page. Apparently reformatted Sunday pages?
Reprinted from Tarzan (United Features Syndicate) newspaper pages.

1 page Ace Fireworks Company advertisement "Get the Most and the Best from the Biggest!"

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Notes Illustrated ad for 1,000 piece fireworks set for $4.95 shipped by railway express from Ace Fireworks Company, Maywood, Calif.

1 page Pickwick Co. advertisement "Learn to Dance.."

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Notes Inside back cover; black and white. Illustrated ad for illustrated book on dance instruction for $1.98 plus postage from Pickwick Co., New York, N.Y.

1 page Novelty Mart advertisement "Uncle Bernie's Fun Shop"

Characters Mr. Peanut (cameo)
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Notes Back cover. Illustrated ad for "magic money machine" trick; Mr. Peanut character bank; model car; "Ginger" doll; and "Happy the Cowboy" ventriloquist dummy. Novelty Mart, New York, N.Y.