Issue | #114 |
Published | November-December 1953 |
Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
Pages | 36 |
Editing | ? |
Characters | Nancy; Sluggo |
Genre | humor |
Script | Ernie Bushmiller (signed) |
Pencils | Ernie Bushmiller (signed) |
Inks | Ernie Bushmiller (signed) |
Letters | typeset |
Notes | Inside front cover; black and white. Illustrated ad for musical chimes that are an "authentic replica of original 'Swedish Singing Angels' centerpiece." Cost is $1.98 plus postage from Illinois Merchandise Mart, Chicago, Ill. |
Characters | Nancy; Sluggo |
Genre | humor |
Script | Ernie Bushmiller |
Pencils | Ernie Bushmiller |
Inks | Ernie Bushmiller |
Reprinted | from Nancy (United Features Syndicate) daily newspaper strips. |
Synopsis | A golfer carefully lines up a putt. And misses. |
Genre | sports |
Notes | Pantomime story. |
Notes | Illustrated ad for Jewel Sixteen camera available for 50 cents and one front box panel from Smith Brothers Wild Cherry Cough Drops. |
Characters | Nancy; Sluggo; Fritzi Ritz |
Genre | humor |
Script | Ernie Bushmiller |
Pencils | Ernie Bushmiller |
Inks | Ernie Bushmiller |
Reprinted | from Nancy (United Features Syndicate) daily newspaper strips. |
Synopsis | Fun with toothpicks; Pull toys for toddlers; Home-grown dramatics |
Genre | fact |
Script | Dr. Ernest G. Osborne |
Letters | typeset |
Notes | Text article with illustrated header. Article for parents describing activities they can do with their children. |
Characters | Der Captain; Der Inspector; Mama; Hans; Fritz; |
Synopsis | A stranger, who has taken over Squee-Jee Island, has tied up the Captain and the Inspector and threatens to cut off their beards unless Mama gets the king's crown off of a crocodile's head. |
Genre | humor; jungle |
Script | R. Dirks |
Pencils | R. Dirks |
Inks | R. Dirks |
Notes | Part of a continuing story. |
Reprinted | from The Captain and the Kids (United Features Syndicate) newspaper strips? |
Characters | Hans; Fritz |
Synopsis | Hans and Fritz capture a rabbit in a box, but the rabbit uses the box as a weapon against a lion. |
Genre | humor |
Notes | Hans and Fritz are drawn without faces in all but the last panel and readers are invited to drawn in their faces to complete the strip. |
Synopsis | Facts about Haiti and the practice of Voodoo there. |
Genre | fact |
Letters | typeset |
Notes | About half of the two pages is devoted to small classified-style ads offering stamps on approval or other items. |
Characters | Nancy; Sluggo; Fritzi Ritz; Jerry |
Genre | humor |
Script | Ernie Bushmiller |
Pencils | Ernie Bushmiller |
Inks | Ernie Bushmiller |
Reprinted | from Nancy (United Features Syndicate) daily newspaper strips. |
Characters | Casey Ruggles |
Synopsis | When Preacher Pinkerly falls ill, gold is found on the ground under his partially-constructed church and it is reduced to rubble by men who file a claim on the land. |
Genre | western |
Script | Warren Tufts |
Pencils | Warren Tufts |
Inks | Warren Tufts |
Notes | Reprint dates are from "Warren Tufts Retrospective" (Western Wind, 1980). Some panels from the daily strips were dropped. The complete story ran from July 7 to August 29, 1952. |
Reprinted | from Casey Ruggles (United Features Syndicate) daily newspaper strips from August 1952. |
Letters | typeset |
Notes | Illustrated ad for Spektoscopes, binoculars that are worn like eyeglasses. Imported from Germany. Cost is $1.98 from International Binocular Co., New York, N.Y. |
Letters | typeset |
Notes | Inside back cover; black and white. Illustrated ad for electric movie projector; "Happy, the Cowboy" ventriloquist dummy; sewing machine; (each for $2.98); and life-like "Sandy" doll for $3.98 from Novelty Mart, New York, N.Y. |
Letters | typeset |
Notes | Back cover. Illustrated ad for Baby Ruth candy bars. Curtiss Candies. |