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Issue Details

Issue #3
Published December 1953 - January 1954
Cover Price $0.10
Pages 36
Editing Sol Cohen

Cover Details

Characters Spotty the Pup
Synopsis Spotty the Pup advertises his telescope with a sandwich board. His accomplice is about to smack a customer in the head with a bat.
Genre Funny Animal

1 page Spotty the Pup story "Hair Scare!"

Characters Spotty the Pup; Skooch
Synopsis Spotty and Skooch are afraid of getting scalped by Indians. Skooch gets a haircut instead.
Genre Funny animal
Notes Inside front cover

8 page Spotty the Pup story "A Star is Born!"

Characters Spotty the Pup; Slicker Fox; Madame Fifi
Synopsis Spotty the Pup and Slicker Fox consult Madame Fifi, a fortune-teller. She tells them that there is a job for a dog or fox in Hollywood. They drive to Hollywood. Spotty gets an acting job as a fox. Slicker takes his place and gets beat up doing stunts. Spotty is fired when the director decides he wants to use a dog instead of a fox.
Genre Funny animal

8 page Spotty the Pup story "Doctor X!"

Characters Spotty the Pup; Dolly [his girl friend]; Doctor X
Synopsis Spotty and Dolly visit a wax museum, but the figures are real people (funny animals) made into living wax figures by Doctor X, a mad scientist. Doctor X turns Dolly into a wax figure, then accidentally turns Spotty into a monster. Doctor X escapes by shrinking himself with Rapid Reducer. With Restorer formula, Spotty saves himself, Dolly and the other captives, then captures Doctor X in a mouse hole.
Genre Funny animal

2 page Egbert Rabbit text story "Egbert's First Lesson"

Characters Egbert Rabbit; Margie [his girl friend]
Synopsis Egbert and Margie take skiing lessons and accidentally catch four thieves.
Genre Funny animal
Letters Typeset

8 page Spotty the Pup story "The Phantom Riders!"

Characters Spotty the Pup; Dolly [his girl friend]
Synopsis The Phantom Gang have spooked the western town of Red Gulch by robbing banks, then escaping on a clear plastic road in the sky. Spotty and Dolly capture them by staining their horses' hooves with printers' ink and following them to their hideout.
Genre Funny Animal
Notes Story is based on the idea of the popular song, "Ghost Riders in the Sky".

6 page Dilly the Pig story "Dilly's Dizzy Day!"

Characters Dilly the Pig; Pansy [Dilly's girl friend]; Perry [Pansy's nephew]
Synopsis Pansy makes Dilly baby-sit her nephew Perry, who makes all kinds of trouble. Eventually Perry washes his clothes while he is still wearing them, and Dilly hangs him on a clothes line to dry.
Genre Funny animal

1 page National Schools advertisement "Get shop-method home training"

Synopsis Radio-Television and Automotive-Diesel training courses
Letters Typeset
Notes Inside back cover

1 page American Specialty Co. advertisement "I'll give you a watch, air rifle..."

Synopsis Earn prizes by selling Christmas cards and seals
Letters Mostly typeset
Notes Back cover; 4-panel comic strip in ad