Price: 0.10 USD
Pages: 68
On-sale Date: 1937-09-15
Editing: Stephen Douglas (editor)

[no title indexed]

Sam Smithers / cover / 1 page


  • Genre:humor
  • Job Number:x
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:That'll keep 'em from getting a goal!
Characters:
Sam Smithers

Issue Data

Indexer Notes

Much of the content of this comic consists of newspaper strip reprints, either Sunday pages in their original format or five daily strips to the page. The dates of publication of these strips have, in practically all cases, been removed.

On sale date from the previous issue's “Let's Get into a Huddle” page.

[no title indexed]

Napoleon / illustration / 1 page


  • Genre:humor; animal
Characters:
Napoleon

Indexer Notes

Full page pin-up inside front cover.

[no title indexed]

Napoleon / comic story / 1 page


  • Genre:humor; animal
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Ah, yes, a riding habit!
Characters:
Napoleon; Uncle Elby
Reprints (0)

[no title indexed]

Goofie Gags / cartoon / 1 page


  • Genre:humor
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Hey, Mom, let's have our eggs scrambled today, huh?

Indexer Notes

Four unrelated gag panels.

[no title indexed]

Dizzy Dramas / comic story / 0.25 page

Script:
Joe Bowers (credited)
Pencils:
Joe Bowers (credited)
Inks:
Joe Bowers (credited)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?

  • Genre:humor
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:A penny for your thoughts
Reprints (0)

[no title indexed]

Such Is Life / cartoon / 0.25 page

Script:
Bo Brown (credited, signed)
Pencils:
Bo Brown (credited, signed)
Inks:
Bo Brown (credited, signed)
Colors:
?
Letters:
typeset

  • Genre:humor
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:You shouldn't have worn that air cushion!
Reprints (0)

[no title indexed]

Dumb-Bells / comic story / 0.25 page


  • Genre:humor
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:There's a mouse in the milk pail!
Reprints (0)

[no title indexed]

Roy Powers / comic story / 4 pages


  • Genre:teen; adventure; children; detective-mystery
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:I've got a plan! See that tree? That's where I'm heading!
Characters:
Roy Powers; Chunky; Rocky; Jack Stuart
Reprints (0)

[no title indexed]

Screen Odditiies / cartoon / 0.75 page


  • Genre:non-fiction
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Claire Dodd has a great liking for gloves.
Characters:
Claire Dodd; Peter Lorre; Henry Hathaway; Dick Arlen

[no title indexed]

Skyroads / comic story / 2 pages


  • Genre:adventure; aviation
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Where'd you learn to be so doggone acrobatic?
Characters:
Hurricane Hawk; Skid; Little Jerry; Professor Gory; Dagmar Collingway
Reprints (0)

[no title indexed]

Hairbreadth Harry / comic story / 0.8 page

Script:
F. O. Alexander (credited) (signed as Alexander)
Pencils:
F. O. Alexander (credited) (signed as Alexander)
Inks:
F. O. Alexander (credited) (signed as Alexander)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?

  • Genre:adventure; drama; humor
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Get set for a tumble, you two!
Characters:
Harry Hollingsworth; Rudolph Rassendale (villain); Belinda Blinks
Reprints (0)

Indexer Notes

The bottom tier is "High-Gear Homer", by the same creator.

[no title indexed]

High-Gear Homer / comic story / 0.2 page


  • Genre:humor
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Madam - I have here a very remarkable book -
Characters:
High-Gear Homer
Reprints (0)

Indexer Notes

The bottom tier of the "Hairbreadth Harry" Sunday page, by the same creator.

[no title indexed]

Buck Rogers / comic story / 4 pages


  • Genre:science fiction; adventure
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Buddy, Alura, Wilma, the Kaddockians and I had no sooner reached the surface when we learned of the approach of a gigantic war-machine.
Characters:
Buddy Deering; Princess Alura
Reprints (0)

[no title indexed]

Life's Like That / cartoon / 1 page

Script:
Fred Neher (credited)
Pencils:
Fred Neher (credited)
Inks:
Fred Neher (credited)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?

  • Genre:humor
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:I'll give you a dollar if you fix it...

Indexer Notes

Six unrelated gag panels.

[no title indexed]

War on Crime / comic story / 4 pages


  • Genre:crime
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:How d'ya like that, Harry?
Characters:
Alvin Karpis; J. Edgar Hoover
Reprints (0)

[no title indexed]

Dickie Dare / comic story / 2 pages


  • Genre:adventure; children
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Take that rat-face!
Characters:
Dickie Dare; Lily; Dan Flynn; Wags; Walla-Walla
Reprints (0)

[no title indexed]

The Adventures of Patsy / comic story / 2 pages


  • Genre:adventure
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Just press this first button and they'll do whatever you say!
Characters:
Patsy; The Phantom Magician [Phil Cardigan]; Thimble; Queen Sylvia; Kogg
Reprints (0)

The End of Alexander

Script:
J. Carroll Mansfield (credited, signed)
Pencils:
J. Carroll Mansfield (credited, signed)
Inks:
J. Carroll Mansfield (credited, signed)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?

  • Genre:historical; non-fiction; history
Characters:
Alexander the Great
Reprints (0)

[no title indexed]

Funland / activity / 1 page


  • Genre:non-fiction

[no title indexed]

Napoleon / comic story / 1 page

Script:
Clifford McBride (credited, signed)
Pencils:
Clifford McBride (credited, signed)
Inks:
Clifford McBride (credited, signed)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?

  • Genre:humor; animal
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:You say my dog is acting peculiarly...
Characters:
Uncle Elby; Napoleon
Reprints (0)

Football Proves a Breath-Taking Game

The Gay Thirties / cartoon / 0.5 page


  • Genre:humor; children
Reprints (0)

Above the Crowd / cartoon / 1 page


  • Genre:non-fiction; biography
Reprints (0)

[no title indexed]

Animals in the News / comic story / 0.33 page

Script:
M. E. Brady (signed as MEB)
Pencils:
M. E. Brady (signed as MEB)
Inks:
M. E. Brady (signed as MEB)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?

  • Genre:humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Dog charged with biting boy is arrested...

[no title indexed]

The Frog Pond Ferry / comic story / 0.67 page

Script:
M. E. Brady (signed as MEB)
Pencils:
M. E. Brady (signed as MEB)
Inks:
M. E. Brady (signed as MEB)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?

  • Genre:humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:That little hard working Artie Ant...
Characters:
The Skipper; Artie Ant

[no title indexed]

Oaky Doaks / comic story / 4 pages


  • Genre:humor; historical; adventure
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Oaky, I think I'm losing my mind!
Characters:
Sir Oaky Doaks; King Cedric; Empress Sheela
Reprints (0)

Indexer Notes

The panels are relettered, with some amended and abridged text.

[no title indexed]

Seaweed Sam the Rhyming Rover / comic story / 1 page


  • Genre:humor
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Poor Sam!
Characters:
Seaweed Sam

Introducing Cleopatra

Script:
J. Carroll Mansfield (credited, signed)
Pencils:
J. Carroll Mansfield (credited, signed)
Inks:
J. Carroll Mansfield (credited, signed)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?

  • Genre:historical; non-fiction; history
Characters:
Cleopatra
Reprints (0)

[no title indexed]

Olly of the Movies / comic story / 2 pages

Script:
Julian Ollendorff (credited as Julian Ollendorf) (signed as Ollendorff)
Pencils:
Julian Ollendorff (credited as Julian Ollendorf) (signed as Ollendorff)
Inks:
Julian Ollendorff (credited as Julian Ollendorf) (signed as Ollendorff)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?

  • Genre:adventure
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Here's a lady to see you, Skip!
Characters:
Olive Lane; Skip Allen; Lona; Buddy; Lala Palooza; Abe "A. G." Ginsberg
Reprints (0)

[no title indexed]

Scorchy Smith / comic story / 2 pages


  • Genre:adventure; aviation
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:A nice, new, big juicy bomber for my first victory!
Characters:
Scorchy Smith; "Knucks" Maddox (villain); Devitt; Pudge
Reprints (0)

[no title indexed]

Somebody's Stenog / comic story / 0.8 page

Script:
A. E. Hayward (credited, signed)
Pencils:
A. E. Hayward (credited, signed)
Inks:
A. E. Hayward (credited, signed)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?

  • Genre:humor; drama
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:The boss' wife has taken up riding!
Characters:
Cam O'Flage; Sam Smithers; Mame
Reprints (0)

Indexer Notes

The bottom tier is “The Back-Seat Driver”, by the same creator.

[no title indexed]

The Back-Seat Driver / comic story / 0.2 page


  • Genre:humor
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:We'd better take the lower road...
Characters:
John Smith; Mrs. Smith [both unnamed here]
Reprints (0)

Indexer Notes

The bottom tier of the "Somebody's Stenog" Sunday page, by the same creator.

[no title indexed]

Bobby / comic story / 1 page

Script:
S. M. Iger (credited, signed)
Pencils:
S. M. Iger (credited, signed)
Inks:
S. M. Iger (credited, signed)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?

  • Genre:humor; children
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Daddy says I should save my pennies for a rainy day...
Characters:
Bobby; Mister Gottrocks

[no title indexed]

Mescal Ike / comic story / 1 page


  • Genre:humor; western-frontier
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Miss Sally says supper's ready!
Characters:
Mescal Ike; Miss Sally; Pa Piffle
Reprints (0)

[no title indexed]

Magic Made Easy / activity / 1 page

[Pin the Tail on the Donkey]

Napoleon / comic story / 1 page

Script:
Clifford McBride (credited, signed)
Pencils:
Clifford McBride (credited, signed)
Inks:
Clifford McBride (credited, signed)
Colors:
?

  • Genre:humor; animal
Characters:
Uncle Elby; Napoleon
Synopsis:
Blindfolded for a game of pin the tail on the donkey, Uncle Elby pins Napoleon instead.
Reprints (0)

Indexer Notes

pantomime; wordless comic

[no title indexed]

There's A Town / cartoon / 0.2 page

Script:
M. E. Brady (signed as MEB)
Pencils:
M. E. Brady (signed as MEB)
Inks:
M. E. Brady (signed as MEB)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?

  • Genre:humor

Indexer Notes

Gag panel suggested by Thos. Gallimore, Brooklyn, N. Y.

[no title indexed]

Butty and Fatty / comic story / 0.8 page

Script:
M. E. Brady (signed as MEB)
Pencils:
M. E. Brady (signed as MEB)
Inks:
M. E. Brady (signed as MEB)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?

  • Genre:humor; children
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:It's a letter for Grandpop from his old war buddy...
Characters:
Butty; Fatty; Grandpop; Spunky Dory

[no title indexed]

Babe Bunting / comic story / 2 pages


  • Genre:adventure; children; drama
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Babe Bunting, where have you been?
Characters:
Dorothy "Babe" Bunting; Mrs. Crumpet; Mary Mole; Miss Young; Zenas; Grandma Rakestraw
Reprints (0)

[no title indexed]

Punky / cartoon / 1 page


  • Genre:humor; children
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Punky! Don't you dare shoot the truant officer!
Characters:
Punky; his father

Indexer Notes

Four unrelated gag panels.

[no title indexed]

Connie / comic story / 0.8 page

Script:
Frank Godwin (credited) (signed as Godwin)
Pencils:
Frank Godwin (credited) (signed as Godwin)
Inks:
Frank Godwin (credited) (signed as Godwin)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?

  • Genre:humor; adventure
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Here comes Willy with his camera...
Characters:
Connie Kurridge; Willy
Reprints (0)

Indexer Notes

The bottom tier is “The Wet Blanket”, by the same creator.

[no title indexed]

The Wet Blanket / comic story / 0.2 page


  • Genre:humor; domestic
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:I was very prominent in Washington society!
Reprints (0)

Indexer Notes

The bottom tier of the "Connie" Sunday page, by the same creator.

[no title indexed]

Life's Like That / cartoon / 1 page

Script:
Fred Neher (credited)
Pencils:
Fred Neher (credited)
Inks:
Fred Neher (credited)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?

  • Genre:humor; domestic; satire-parody
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Watch him break the world's broad-jump record this time
Reprints (0)

Indexer Notes

Six unrelated gag panels.

[no title indexed]

Queenie / comic story / 1 page


  • Genre:humor; children
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Queenie - take these eggs to Colonel Clambake...
Characters:
Queenie; Aunt Prunella; Colonel Chauncey Clambake

A Real Champion

text story / 2 pages


  • Genre:drama; children
Characters:
Richie Sands; Jimmy Carr; Sheriff Lem Briggs; Martha

[no title indexed]

Homer Hoopee / comic story / 2 pages


  • Genre:adventure
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:You've got to pull yourself together...
Characters:
Homer Hoopee
Reprints (0)

[no title indexed]

"Holly" of Hollywood / comic story / 0.2 page

Script:
Pop Momand (credited)
Pencils:
Pop Momand (credited)
Inks:
Pop Momand (credited)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?

  • Genre:humor
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Bring me my check - quick!
Characters:
Holly
Reprints (0)

Indexer Notes

The top tier of the “Keeping Up With the Joneses” Sunday page, by the same creator.

Justice - Blind Justice

Keeping Up With the Joneses / comic story / 0.8 page

Script:
Pop Momand (credited, signed)
Pencils:
Pop Momand (credited, signed)
Inks:
Pop Momand (credited, signed)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?

  • Genre:humor
Reprints (0)

Indexer Notes

The top tier is “”Holly” of Hollywood”, by the same creator.

[no title indexed]

Napoleon / comic story / 1 page

Script:
Clifford McBride (credited) (signed as McBride)
Pencils:
Clifford McBride (credited) (signed as McBride)
Inks:
Clifford McBride (credited) (signed as McBride)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?

  • Genre:humor; animal
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:My barber's away - so I guess I'll go in here!
Characters:
Uncle Elby; Napoleon; Geo. Jabber
Reprints (0)

[no title indexed]

Animals in the News / comic story / 0.33 page

Script:
M. E. Brady (signed as MEB)
Pencils:
M. E. Brady (signed as MEB)
Inks:
M. E. Brady (signed as MEB)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?

  • Genre:humor
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Trainer says turtles make better housepets than cats

[no title indexed]

The Frog Pond Ferry / comic story / 1 page

Script:
M. E. Brady (signed as MEB)
Pencils:
M. E. Brady (signed as MEB)
Inks:
M. E. Brady (signed as MEB)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?

  • Genre:humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Gee, there's Nutsy Squirrel's wife...
Characters:
The Skipper; Mrs. Nutsy Squirrel

[no title indexed]

Screen Oddities / cartoon / 1 page


  • Genre:non-fiction
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Myrna Loy was honored by having the world's...
Characters:
Myrna Loy; S. S. Van Dine; Josef von Sternberg; Marion Davies; Richard Dix; Ken Maynard; Nelson Eddy; Jean Parker; Otto Kruger; Lynn Overman; Carole Lombard; William Powell; Mary Ellis
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Table of Contents ToC
    Table of Contents
  1. ["That'll keep 'em from getting a goal!"]
    Sam Smithers
  2. [no title indexed]
    Napoleon
  3. ["Ah, yes, a riding habit!"]
    Napoleon
  4. ["Hey, Mom, let's have our eggs scrambled today, huh?"]
    Goofie Gags
  5. ["A penny for your thoughts"]
    Dizzy Dramas
  6. ["You shouldn't have worn that air cushion!"]
    Such Is Life
  7. ["There's a mouse in the milk pail!"]
    Dumb-Bells
  8. ["I've got a plan! See that tree? That's where I'm heading!"]
    Roy Powers
  9. They're Off!
    Let's Get into a Huddle!
  10. ["Claire Dodd has a great liking for gloves."]
    Screen Odditiies
  11. ["Where'd you learn to be so doggone acrobatic?"]
    Skyroads
  12. ["Get set for a tumble, you two!"]
    Hairbreadth Harry
  13. ["Madam - I have here a very remarkable book -"]
    High-Gear Homer
  14. ["Buddy, Alura, Wilma, the Kaddockians and I had no sooner reached the surface when we learned of the approach of a gigantic war-machine."]
    Buck Rogers
  15. ["I'll give you a dollar if you fix it..."]
    Life's Like That
  16. ["How d'ya like that, Harry?"]
    War on Crime
  17. ["Take that rat-face!"]
    Dickie Dare
  18. ["Just press this first button and they'll do whatever you say!"]
    The Adventures of Patsy
  19. The End of Alexander
    High Lights of History / Highlights of History
  20. [no title indexed]
    Funland
  21. ["You say my dog is acting peculiarly..."]
    Napoleon
  22. Football Proves a Breath-Taking Game
    The Gay Thirties
  23. Trader Horn
    Above the Crowd
  24. ["Dog charged with biting boy is arrested..."]
    Animals in the News
  25. ["That little hard working Artie Ant..."]
    The Frog Pond Ferry
  26. ["Oaky, I think I'm losing my mind!"]
    Oaky Doaks
  27. ["Poor Sam!"]
    Seaweed Sam the Rhyming Rover
  28. Introducing Cleopatra
    High Lights of History / Highlights of History
  29. ["Here's a lady to see you, Skip!"]
    Olly of the Movies
  30. ["A nice, new, big juicy bomber for my first victory!"]
    Scorchy Smith
  31. ["The boss' wife has taken up riding!"]
    Somebody's Stenog
  32. ["We'd better take the lower road..."]
    The Back-Seat Driver
  33. ["Daddy says I should save my pennies for a rainy day..."]
    Bobby
  34. ["Miss Sally says supper's ready!"]
    Mescal Ike
  35. [no title indexed]
    Magic Made Easy
  36. [Pin the Tail on the Donkey]
    Napoleon
  37. [no title indexed]
    There's A Town
  38. ["It's a letter for Grandpop from his old war buddy..."]
    Butty and Fatty
  39. ["Babe Bunting, where have you been?"]
    Babe Bunting
  40. ["Punky! Don't you dare shoot the truant officer!"]
    Punky
  41. ["Here comes Willy with his camera..."]
    Connie
  42. ["I was very prominent in Washington society!"]
    The Wet Blanket
  43. ["Watch him break the world's broad-jump record this time"]
    Life's Like That
  44. ["Queenie - take these eggs to Colonel Clambake..."]
    Queenie
  45. A Real Champion
  46. ["You've got to pull yourself together..."]
    Homer Hoopee
  47. ["Bring me my check - quick!"]
    "Holly" of Hollywood
  48. Justice - Blind Justice
    Keeping Up With the Joneses
  49. ["My barber's away - so I guess I'll go in here!"]
    Napoleon
  50. ["Trainer says turtles make better housepets than cats"]
    Animals in the News
  51. ["Gee, there's Nutsy Squirrel's wife..."]
    The Frog Pond Ferry
  52. ["Myrna Loy was honored by having the world's..."]
    Screen Oddities
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