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Issue Details

Issue #11
Published May-June 1944
Frequency Bi-Monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 52
Editing ?

Cover Details

Characters Our Gang
Genre children
Pencils Walt Kelly
Inks Walt Kelly

1 page filler

Synopsis List of the winners of the November-December contest, who won a 25-cent war stamp or a 10-cent war stamp.
Letters typeset
Notes On the inside front cover.

12 page Our Gang story "Shipwrecked on a apparently uninhabited island..."

Genre children
Pencils Walt Kelly
Inks Walt Kelly

8 page Flip and Dip story "Oh, look Flip I wonder what that can be..."

Notes Copyright 1944 by Oskar Lebeck.

6 page Tom and Jerry story "Sailing Sailing over the Bounding Main"

Genre Funny Animals

8 page Barney Bear and Benny Burro story "The Mysterious Groans"

Characters Barney Bear; Benny Burro
Synopsis Barney and Benny come to a western town whose inhabitants are fleeing because of mysterious groans that are coming from a huge "horn" hollowed out of a mountain by a madman.
Genre funny animals
Script Carl Barks
Pencils Carl Barks
Inks Carl Barks
Letters Carl Barks
Notes Art submitted on December 16, 1943. The first story with Barney and Benny as a team. They never appeared together in animated cartoons until "Half-Pint Palomino," a 1953 MGM cartoon directed by Dick Lundy. Notes and synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (M. Lilien, 1982).

2 page text story "Wanted - A Master!"

Genre Funny Animals
Pencils ? (illustrations)
Inks ? (illustrations)
Colors ? (illustrations)
Letters typeset
Notes "Retold from the Pete Smith MGM specialty."

6 page Johnny Mole story "In a cozy little house under the ground..."

Genre Funny Animals

6 page Happy Hound, Detective [Droopy] story "The Prisoner's Mother"

Characters Happy Hound [Droopy]
Synopsis Happy apathetically captures the wolf prisoner again, then lets him visit his "mother," actually a disguised hoodlum.
Genre funny animal
Script Carl Barks
Pencils Carl Barks
Inks Carl Barks
Letters Carl Barks
Notes Art submitted on October 30, 1943. Barks submitted this as an eight-page story; it was reduced to six by rearranging and altering the panels so that more could be accommodated on a page. Notes and synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (M. Lilien, 1982).

1 page Bertie filler

Genre Funny Animals
Notes On the inside back cover, in yellow tones.

1 page Tom and Jerry filler "A Cat Fish Tale"

Genre Funny Animals
Notes On the back cover.