Issue | #175 |
Published | July-August 1952 |
Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
Pages | 36 |
Editing | ? |
Characters | Nancy; Sluggo |
Genre | humor |
Letters | typeset |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
Synopsis | Short facts or definitions about whaling, workhouses, mechanical toys, ghosts casting no shadows, and other topics. |
Genre | fact |
Letters | typeset |
Notes | Text with illustrated header and small illustration. |
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. |
Letters | typeset |
Notes | Illustrated ad for 1,000 piece fireworks set for $4.95 shipped by railway express from Ace Fireworks Company, Maywood, Calif. |
Letters | typeset |
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. |
Characters | Mr. Peanut (cameo) |
Letters | typeset |
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. |