Price: 0.10 USD
Pages: 52
On-sale Date: 1949-03-15
Editing: ?
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Dickie Dare / cover / 1 page

Script:
Pencils:
Stephen Douglas (signed as SAD)
Inks:
Stephen Douglas (signed as SAD)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:humor; children; adventure
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Dickie may be "Home on the Range"...
Characters:
Dickie Dare

Issue Data

Indexer Notes

On-sale date from previous issue's "Let's Get Into a Huddle" page.

[no title indexed]
(Table of Contents: 1)

Buck Rogers / comic story / 6 pages

Script:
Dick Calkins (credited)
Pencils:
Rick Yager (credited)
Inks:
Rick Yager (credited)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:science fiction; adventure
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Hah! We've got old Huer hogtied! Hopelessly trapped on Moon Tantoris!

[no title indexed]
(Table of Contents: 2)

Steve Roper / comic story / 8 pages

Script:
Pencils:
Elmer Woggon (signed as Woggon)
Inks:
Elmer Woggon (signed as Woggon)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:drama; adventure
  • Feature Logo:Steve Roper and Wahoo
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:While the organist plays the prelude music...
Characters:
Steve Roper; Big Chief Wahoo; Papa Knight; Whip Coils; Chuck Fellon; Sable Knight
Reprints (0)
  • from Steve Roper and Wahoo daily (Publishers Syndicate)

Few Days to Spring
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Let's Get into a Huddle! / letters page / 1 page

Script:
?
Letters:
typeset
  • Genre:non-fiction

[no title indexed]
(Table of Contents: 4)

Famous Funnies Patterns / activity / 1 page

Script:
?
Pencils:
?
Inks:
?
Colors:
?
Letters:
typeset
  • Genre:non-fiction
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:1822; 1752; 8272

[no title indexed]
(Table of Contents: 5)

Dickie Dare / comic story / 6 pages

Script:
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:adventure; children
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:It's land!
Characters:
Dickie Dare; Dan Flynn; Chop Fooey
Reprints (0)
  • from Dickie Dare daily (AP Newsfeatures [Associated Press])

[no title indexed]
(Table of Contents: 6)

Napoleon / comic story / 1 page

Script:
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:humor; animal
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Those fellows in the boat are laughing at me, Napoleon...
Characters:
Napoleon; Uncle Elby
Reprints (0)
  • from Napoleon and Uncle Elby Sunday (Lafave Newspaper Features)

Blind Flight
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text story / 2 pages

Script:
Claude Dunnagan (credited as C. Dunnagan)
Pencils:
Alex Toth (signed as AT) (2 spot illustrations)
Inks:
Alex Toth (signed as AT) (2 spot illustrations)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:adventure
Characters:
Jim Tilley; Mrs. Tilley; Mr. Tilley; Doc Jones
Synopsis:
Jim Tilley flies home in blizzard conditions to see his father, who is seriously ill. When he arrives he discovers the illness is apendicitis, so he flies his father to a hospital, despite the Arctic conditions, and saves his life.

[The Flower Pot]
(Table of Contents: 8)

Napoleon / comic story / 1 page

Script:
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
  • Genre:humor; animal
Characters:
Napoleon
Reprints (0)
  • from Napoleon and Uncle Elby Sunday (Lafave Newspaper Features)

Indexer Notes

Pantomime story.

[no title indexed]
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Bobby Sox / comic story / 6 pages

Script:
Pencils:
Marty Links (credited)
Inks:
Marty Links (credited)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:humor; teen
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:It's about time I sorted out some of this junk...
Characters:
Bobby Sox; Alvin
Reprints (0)
  • from Bobby Sox newspaper strip (Consolidated News Features)

    Reprint consists of 4 Sundays and 8 daily panels (over 2 pages).

[no title indexed]
(Table of Contents: 10)

Napoleon / comic story / 1 page

Script:
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:humor; animal
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Golly, Napoleon, we've been becalmed...
Characters:
Napoleon; Uncle Elby
Reprints (0)
  • from Napoleon and Uncle Elby Sunday (Lafave Newspaper Features)

[no title indexed]
(Table of Contents: 11)

Pen Pal Page / activity / 1 page

Script:
?
Letters:
typeset
  • Genre:non-fiction

[no title indexed]
(Table of Contents: 12)

Scorchy Smith / comic story / 6 pages

Script:
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:adventure; aviation
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Great Scott, Scorch...
Characters:
Scorchy Smith; Gerda; Lang
Reprints (0)
  • from Scorchy Smith daily (AP Newsfeatures [Associated Press])

Indexer Notes

Willard worked on the strip between 1946 and 1954.

[no title indexed]
(Table of Contents: 13)

Oaky Doaks / comic story / 6 pages

Script:
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:adventure; historical; humor
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:At last, Oaky and Merlin...
Characters:
Sir Oaky Doaks; Merlin; King Neptune; Morgana Le Fey; Princess Elaine; King Arthur
Reprints (0)
  • from Oaky Doaks daily (AP Newsfeatures [Associated Press])

[no title indexed]
(Table of Contents: 14)

Napoleon / comic story / 1 page

Script:
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:humor; animal
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:And now Aunt Emma's painted one of Napoleon...
Characters:
Napoleon; Uncle Elby
Reprints (0)
  • from Napoleon and Uncle Elby Sunday (Lafave Newspaper Features)
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Table of Contents ToC
    Table of Contents
  1. ["Dickie may be "Home on the Range"..."]
    Dickie Dare
  2. ["Hah! We've got old Huer hogtied! Hopelessly trapped on Moon Tantoris!"]
    Buck Rogers
  3. ["While the organist plays the prelude music..."]
    Steve Roper
  4. Few Days to Spring
    Let's Get into a Huddle!
  5. ["1822; 1752; 8272"]
    Famous Funnies Patterns
  6. ["It's land!"]
    Dickie Dare
  7. ["Those fellows in the boat are laughing at me, Napoleon..."]
    Napoleon
  8. Blind Flight
  9. [The Flower Pot]
    Napoleon
  10. ["It's about time I sorted out some of this junk..."]
    Bobby Sox
  11. ["Golly, Napoleon, we've been becalmed..."]
    Napoleon
  12. [no title indexed]
    Pen Pal Page
  13. ["Great Scott, Scorch..."]
    Scorchy Smith
  14. ["At last, Oaky and Merlin..."]
    Oaky Doaks
  15. ["And now Aunt Emma's painted one of Napoleon..."]
    Napoleon
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  • Daniel Thingvold
  • Len Wolinsky
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