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Issue Details

Issue #1
Published September-October 1959
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Larry Nadle (Editor); Sol Harrison (Art Editor)
Notes All credits for this issue thanks to Jerry Bails Who's Who, www.bailsprojects.com.

Cover Details

Characters Jimmy Rodgers; 4 Little Chicks; Eydie Gorme
Genre celebrity
Pencils ? (photo)
Inks ? (photo)
Colors ? (photo)
Notes All credits for this issue thanks to Jerry Bails Who's Who, www.bailsprojects.com.

1 page Pat Boone foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "Always your boy..."

Genre celebrity
Script ? [as Pat Boone]
Pencils ? (photo)
Inks ? (photo)
Colors ? (none)
Letters typeset
Notes On inside front cover. A letter from Pat with black & white photo.

1 page foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "Contents Page"

4 page Pat Boone biography (nonfictional) "The Pat Boone Story - The Beginning Years"

Genre celebrity
Script Pat Boone
Pencils ? (illoes)
Inks ? (illoes)
Colors ? (illoes)
Letters typeset

1 page story "Alice's Album"

Genre gags
Script Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Pencils Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Inks Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Letters Henry Boltinoff

1 page Jimmie Rodgers biography (nonfictional) "Out of a Honeycomb Comes the Sweet Wine of Success"

Genre celebrity
Script Larry Nadle?
Pencils ? (illo)
Inks ? (illo)
Colors ? (illo)
Letters typeset
Notes Second page of article shares page with "Hollywood Roundup."

8 page Pat Boone story "A Teen-Ager's Dilemma!"

Synopsis Lynn wants to go see Pat Boone at the state fair and wants her guy Ken to ask her. Carol wants Ken to ask her. Lynn's so upset she doesn't want to see Ken, so Bette makes up a story that she's gone to audition to sing with Pat Boone. Once he gets the whole story, Pat saves the day and allows Lynn to save face.
Genre celebrity
Script Larry Nadle
Pencils Bob Oksner
Inks Bob Oksner
Letters typeset?

2 page illustration "Pat's Pin-ups"

Letters typeset

2 page story "Teen's Eye View"

Genre gags
Script Mort Drucker?
Pencils Mort Drucker (signed)
Inks Mort Drucker (signed)
Letters typeset

Half page Pat Asks a Question filler "Do you approve of steady dating?"

Letters typeset
Notes On left-half of page.

Half page Shirley Boone's Favorite Recipes activity "A Way to a Man's Heart"

Pencils ? (illo)
Inks ? (illo)
Colors ? (illo)
Letters typeset
Notes On right-half of page.

1 page Eydie Gorme biography (nonfictional) "Live Wire"

Genre celebrity
Script Larry Nadle?
Pencils ? (illo)
Inks ? (illo)
Colors ? (illo)
Letters typeset
Notes Second page shares page with "Record Roundup."

4 page Pat Boone story "4 Little Chicks"

Characters Shirley Boone
Synopsis The Boones have babysitter problems.
Genre celebrity
Script Larry Nadle
Pencils Bob Oksner
Inks Bob Oksner
Letters typeset?

Half page text article "Record Roundup"

Letters typeset?
Notes Shares the page with the end of the Eydie Gorme text feature.

Half page text article "Hollywood Roundup"

Letters typeset
Notes Shares page with Jimmy Rodgers text feature.

Half page A Boone Cartoon filler

Genre gags
Script Pat Boone
Pencils Pat Boone (signed)
Inks Pat Boone (signed)
Letters typeset?

Half page Fan Club News letters page

Letters typeset

1 page Pat Boone Fan Club filler "Prexies on Parade"

Letters typeset
Notes Presidents of the fan clubs.

1 page text article "Time Out for Teens"

Script Larry Nadle?
Pencils Bob Oksner? (illoes)
Inks Bob Oksner? (illoes)
Letters typeset

1 page letters page "It's Great to Be a Teen-Ager"

Letters typeset

1 page Boone's Corner - Letters to Pat Boone letters page

Letters typeset

1 page Pat Boone filler "On the Spot with Pat and His Guests"

Characters Dinah Shore; Nick Todd; Tab Hunter; Don Ameche; Tyree Glenn
Pencils ? (photo)
Inks ? (photo)
Letters typeset
Notes On inside back cover.

1 page Pat Boone illustration "Always Your Boy"

Genre celebrity
Pencils ? (photo)
Inks ? (photo)
Colors ? (photo)
Notes On back cover.