Price: 0.10 USD
Pages: 68
On-sale Date: 1937-05-15
Editing: ?

[no title indexed]

S'matter Pop? / cover / 1 page


  • Genre:humor
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Don't worry, Pop, I'm not superstitious!

Issue Data

Indexer Notes

Almost all of the content of this comic consists of newspaper strip reprints modified to fit comic book format. 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]

Alec and Itchy / comic story / 0.5 page

Script:
Jimmy George (credited as George)
Pencils:
Merle Mulholland (credited as Mulholland) (signed as Mulholland)
Inks:
Merle Mulholland (credited as Mulholland) (signed as Mulholland)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?

  • Genre:humor; children
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Whatta you gonna be when ya get big?
Characters:
Alec; Itchy

Indexer Notes

from Alec and Itchy daily (Register and Tribune Syndicate)

[no title indexed]

Goofie Gags / cartoon / 1 page


  • Genre:humor
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:I haven't bumped into the kid all evening!

Indexer Notes

Four unrelated gag panels.

[no title indexed]

Screen Oddities / cartoon / 0.7 page


  • Genre:non-fiction
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Walter King can write with both hands at the same time.

[John Dillinger]

War on Crime / comic story / 4 pages


  • Genre:drama; crime
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Reassured by his facial and fingerprint alterations...
Characters:
John Dillinger; Jean Delaney; Tommy Carroll; Mrs. Anna Sage; Sgt Zarrovitch; James J. Probasco; Marie Conforti; Homer Van Meter
Synopsis:
John Dillinger is shot down outside a movie house and the F.B.I. begin the round up of his criminal associates.

Indexer Notes

True crime story

from War on Crime daily (The Ledger Syndicate)

[no title indexed]

Napoleon / comic story / 1 page


  • Genre:humor; animal
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:We've got to pitch our tent before dark...
Characters:
Napoleon; Uncle Elby
Reprints (0)

Bored By Work

cartoon / 0.7 page


  • Genre:non-fiction

[no title indexed]

Skyroads / comic story / 2 pages


  • Genre:adventure; aviation
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:The little wheeless scout ship roared back to the air-liner...
Characters:
Hurricane Hawk; Skid; Little Jerry
Reprints (0)

[no title indexed]

Let's Get Into a Huddle! / letters page / 1 page

[no title indexed]

Queenie / comic story / 1 page


  • Genre:children
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Gee, it's pourin'!
Characters:
Queenie
Synopsis:
Queenie climbs into the painting of a rural scene hanging over the mantlepiece.

[no title indexed]

Hairbreadth Harry / comic story / 0.8 page


  • Genre:adventure; drama; humor
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:I dropped my fork!
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:That dame has been looking around for an hour!
Characters:
High-Gear Homer
Reprints (0)

Indexer Notes

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

[no title indexed]

Buck Rogers / comic story / 4 pages


  • Genre:science fiction; adventure
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:On Mura-- Buddy and Alura were rescued from a Muran priestess--
Characters:
Buddy Deering; Princess Alura
Reprints (0)

[no title indexed]

Strange as It Seems / comic story / 0.7 page


  • Genre:non-fiction
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Fireless steam locomotives are used in Wales.

[no title indexed]

Above the Crowd / comic story / 1 page


  • Genre:non-fiction; biography
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Bumped!

[no title indexed]

Fisher's History of Boxing / comic story / 0.2 page


  • Genre:sports; non-fiction; biography; history
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Gene arrived at the Paris Island marines barracks...
Characters:
Gene Tunney
Reprints (0)

Indexer Notes

The top tier of the “Joe Palooka” Sunday page, by the same creators.

[no title indexed]

Joe Palooka / comic story / 0.8 page


  • Genre:sports
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:I say, jolly of you chaps to come shootin' you'll find it toppin.
Characters:
Joe Palooka; Knobby Walsh
Reprints (0)

Indexer Notes

The top tier is “Fisher’s History of Boxing”, by the same creators.

[no title indexed]

Dickie Dare / comic story / 2 pages


  • Genre:adventure; children
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Stand by to pick up that girl
Characters:
Dickie Dare; Dan Flynn; Lily Lovelle; Cranky
Synopsis:
Dan rescues famous film star Lily Lovelle from drowning.
Reprints (0)

[no title indexed]

Beau Geste / comic story / 2 pages

Script:
P. C. Wren (credited) (original author)
? (adaption)
Pencils:
Walt Depew (credited as B. W. Depew)
Inks:
Walt Depew (credited as B. W. Depew)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?

  • Genre:adventure
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:We've got to hand it to Lejaune
Characters:
Beau Geste; Adjutant Lejaune; Digby Geste; John Geste; Schwartz; Boldini
Synopsis:
Beau and others of the legion detachment are posted to Fort Zinderneuf. When the commandant falls ill, the sadistic Lejaune is laced in command, and makes the legionnaires' lives miserable. Several factions of men plan to kill Lejaune.
Reprints (0)

[no title indexed]

Scorchy Smith / comic story / 2 pages


  • Genre:adventure; aviation
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:We sure had you wrong in this case, Warburton, I'm very sorry!
Characters:
Scorchy Smith; Warburton; Gus; Brook
Reprints (0)

[no title indexed]

Adventures of Patsy / comic story / 2 pages


  • Genre:adventure; superhero
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:The Phantom Magician's feat demands that a wild rhinoceros be turned loose in the big arena!
Characters:
Patsy; Phantom Magician; Thimble
Reprints (0)

[no title indexed]

"Good Deed" Dotty / comic story / 0.2 page


  • Genre:humor; children
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Those awful bullfrogs down in the marsh...
Characters:
"Good Deed" Dotty
Reprints (0)

Indexer Notes

The top tier of the "Dixie Dugan" Sunday page, by the same creators.

[no title indexed]

Dixie Dugan / comic story / 0.8 page


  • Genre:humor
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Oh - aren't you all going to the bridge party?
Characters:
Dixie Dugan
Synopsis:
Dixie and three of her friends heap scorn on those who are off to play bridge on such a gorgeous summer day. Unfortunately, various natural features and posters remind them of the game, and when they come to a bridge they succumb to the inevitable, sit down and deal the cards.
Reprints (0)

Indexer Notes

The top tier is "Good Deed" Dotty, by the same creators.

[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:There won't be any more passengers...
Characters:
The Skipper; Gorgonzola Mouse

[no title indexed]

Napoleon / comic story / 1 page


  • Genre:humor; animal
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:So you liked that ice cream, did you!
Characters:
Napoleon; Uncle Elby
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:Is that Mr. McFooey calling tonight?
Characters:
Holly; her father; McFooey
Reprints (0)

Indexer Notes

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

Something Practical

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
Characters:
Aloysius P. McGinis; Clarice McGinis; Eddie
Reprints (0)

Indexer Notes

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

[no title indexed]

Butty and Fatty / 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; children
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Yessir! I'm going to stay in the house...
Characters:
Butty; Fatty; Grandpop

[no title indexed]

Little Brother / comic story / 0.2 page


  • Genre:humor; children
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Oh-h Eddie!
Characters:
Little Brother
Reprints (0)

Indexer Notes

The top tier of "The Bungle Family" Sunday page, by the same creator.

Another Friendly Trick

The Bungle Family / comic story / 0.8 page

Script:
H. J. Tuthill (credited) (signed as Tuthill)
Pencils:
H. J. Tuthill (credited) (signed as Tuthill)
Inks:
H. J. Tuthill (credited) (signed as Tuthill)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?

  • Genre:humor
Characters:
George Bungle; Josephine Bungle; Louis Slinker; Emma Slinker
Reprints (0)

Indexer Notes

The top tier is "Little Brother", by the same creator.

[no title indexed]

Ned Brant of Carter / comic story / 2 pages


  • Genre:sports
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:I'm going to let you proceed in your own way!
Characters:
Ned Brant; Coach Dave Meegan; Depta; Gary
Reprints (0)

[no title indexed]

Oaky Doaks / comic story / 2 pages


  • Genre:adventure; humor; historical
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:I want to see Princess Mercedes please.
Characters:
Sir Oaky Doaks; Princess Mercedes; King Cedric
Reprints (0)

[no title indexed]

Funland / activity / 1 page


  • Genre:non-fiction

Indexer Notes

Puzzle page

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
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:Olly and Lala find that their money will last them...
Characters:
Olive Lane; Abe "A.G." Ginsberg; Lala Palooza; Buddy; Skip Allen
Reprints (0)

[no title indexed]

Connie / comic story / 0.8 page

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

  • Genre:drama; adventure
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Letter for you, Miss Connie...
Characters:
Connie Kurridge; The Impersonator
Synopsis:
Connie is confronted by the villainous Impersonator, who ties her to a chair. A bomb will explode in one minute, but her chair falls sideways. In true "Little Nemo" fashion she wakes up on the floor.
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've just finished my lecture and I'd like to read it to you!
Reprints (0)

Indexer Notes

The bottom tier of the "Connie" 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:No, you can't have any more cookies tonight...
Characters:
Bobby

[no title indexed]

Nippie / comic story / 0.2 page

Script:
Lank Leonard (credited, signed)
Pencils:
Lank Leonard (credited, signed)
Inks:
Lank Leonard (credited, signed)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?

  • Genre:humor; children
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Gee, Nippie you'd better not pick them water lilies -
Characters:
Nippie
Reprints (0)

Indexer Notes

The top tier of the "Mickey Finn" Sunday page, by the same creator.

[no title indexed]

Mickey Finn / comic story / 0.8 page

Script:
Lank Leonard (credited, signed)
Pencils:
Lank Leonard (credited, signed)
Inks:
Lank Leonard (credited, signed)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?

  • Genre:humor
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:You've been buyin' a lot of this lump sugar lately, Mickey...
Characters:
Mickey Finn
Reprints (0)

Indexer Notes

The top tier is "Nippie", by the same creator.

[no title indexed]

Mescal Ike / comic story / 1 page


  • Genre:humor; western-frontier
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Now who can that be?
Characters:
Mescal Ike; Pa Piffle; Miss Sally
Reprints (0)

[no title indexed]

Jane Arden / Lena Pry / comic story / 4 pages

Script:
Monte Barrett (credited)
Pencils:
Russell Ross (credited as Russell E. Ross) (signed as Ross)
Inks:
Russell Ross (credited as Russell E. Ross) (signed as Ross)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?

  • Genre:adventure
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Jane is stunned by news of a revolution in Anderia
Characters:
Jane Arden; Princess Tania; Count Moritz
Reprints (0)

Indexer Notes

Four Sunday pages, each consisting of a "Jane Arden" continuity (0.5), a "Lena Pry" stand alone story (0.33) and a "Jane Arden's Wardrobe" fashion page (0.17).

[no title indexed]

Butty and Fatty / 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; children
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Hi Fatty, old sockerino!
Characters:
Butty; Fatty; Grandpop

[no title indexed]

Flight / comic story / 1 page


  • Genre:non-fiction; aviation
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Retractable power plants

[no title indexed]

Babe Bunting / comic story / 2 pages


  • Genre:adventure; children; drama
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Babe and Roger Weston return to find Mrs.Crumpet anxiously awaiting them...
Characters:
Dorothy "Babe" Bunting; Mrs. Crumpet; Roger Weston
Reprints (0)

[no title indexed]

Strange as It Seems / comic story / 1 page


  • Genre:non-fiction
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:A shoe shop in Portland Ore

[no title indexed]

Toddy / comic story / 1 page

Script:
George Marcoux (credited) (signed as Marcoux)
Pencils:
George Marcoux (credited) (signed as Marcoux)
Inks:
George Marcoux (credited) (signed as Marcoux)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?

  • Genre:humor; children
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:I'm gettin' a nickel for this!
Characters:
Toddy; Miss Brown; Mr. Stan; Dinney
Reprints (0)

The Boy Who Was Afraid

text story / 2 pages


  • Genre:adventure
Characters:
Skipper Alf Grimm; First Mate Perkins; Billy Rogers

Indexer Notes

The illustration is signed but the surname is impossible to read - "Barney H....".

[no title indexed]

Homer Hoopee / comic story / 2 pages


  • Genre:adventure
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:I'm gonna be in the movies- Ain't I Aunt Helen?
Characters:
Homer Hoopee; Hector
Reprints (0)

[no title indexed]

Magic Made Easy / activity / 1 page

[no title indexed]

Seaweed Sam the Rhyming Rover / comic story / 1 page


  • Genre:humor
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Well, Sam is still on the island inhabited by cavemen and monsters!
Characters:
Seaweed Sam

[no title indexed]

Fisher's History of Boxing / comic story / 0.2 page


  • Genre:sports; non-fiction; biography; history
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Gene was matched to fight a Frenchman named Marchand...
Characters:
Gene Tunney
Reprints (0)

Indexer Notes

The top tier of the “Joe Palooka” Sunday page, by the same creators.

[no title indexed]

Joe Palooka / comic story / 0.8 page


  • Genre:sports
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:I'm out at the Permoter's in Surrey.
Characters:
Joe Palooka; Knobby Walsh
Reprints (0)

Indexer Notes

The top tier is “Fisher’s History of Boxing”, by the same creators.

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Table of Contents ToC
    Table of Contents
  1. ["Don't worry, Pop, I'm not superstitious!"]
    S'matter Pop?
  2. ["Whatta you gonna be when ya get big?"]
    Alec and Itchy
  3. ["I haven't bumped into the kid all evening!"]
    Goofie Gags
  4. ["Walter King can write with both hands at the same time."]
    Screen Oddities
  5. [John Dillinger]
    War on Crime
  6. ["We've got to pitch our tent before dark..."]
    Napoleon
  7. Bored By Work
  8. ["The little wheeless scout ship roared back to the air-liner..."]
    Skyroads
  9. [no title indexed]
    Let's Get Into a Huddle!
  10. ["Gee, it's pourin'!"]
    Queenie
  11. ["I dropped my fork!"]
    Hairbreadth Harry
  12. ["That dame has been looking around for an hour!"]
    High-Gear Homer
  13. ["On Mura-- Buddy and Alura were rescued from a Muran priestess--"]
    Buck Rogers
  14. ["Fireless steam locomotives are used in Wales."]
    Strange as It Seems
  15. ["Bumped!"]
    Above the Crowd
  16. ["Gene arrived at the Paris Island marines barracks..."]
    Fisher's History of Boxing
  17. ["I say, jolly of you chaps to come shootin' you'll find it toppin."]
    Joe Palooka
  18. ["Stand by to pick up that girl"]
    Dickie Dare
  19. ["We've got to hand it to Lejaune"]
    Beau Geste
  20. ["We sure had you wrong in this case, Warburton, I'm very sorry!"]
    Scorchy Smith
  21. ["The Phantom Magician's feat demands that a wild rhinoceros be turned loose in the big arena!"]
    Adventures of Patsy
  22. ["Those awful bullfrogs down in the marsh..."]
    "Good Deed" Dotty
  23. ["Oh - aren't you all going to the bridge party?"]
    Dixie Dugan
  24. ["There won't be any more passengers..."]
    The Frog Pond Ferry
  25. ["So you liked that ice cream, did you!"]
    Napoleon
  26. ["Is that Mr. McFooey calling tonight?"]
    "Holly" of Hollywood
  27. Something Practical
    Keeping Up With the Joneses
  28. ["Yessir! I'm going to stay in the house..."]
    Butty and Fatty
  29. ["Oh-h Eddie!"]
    Little Brother
  30. Another Friendly Trick
    The Bungle Family
  31. ["I'm going to let you proceed in your own way!"]
    Ned Brant of Carter
  32. ["I want to see Princess Mercedes please."]
    Oaky Doaks
  33. [no title indexed]
    Funland
  34. Oracles
    High Lights of History / Highlights of History
  35. ["Olly and Lala find that their money will last them..."]
    Olly of the Movies
  36. ["Letter for you, Miss Connie..."]
    Connie
  37. ["I've just finished my lecture and I'd like to read it to you!"]
    The Wet Blanket
  38. ["No, you can't have any more cookies tonight..."]
    Bobby
  39. ["Gee, Nippie you'd better not pick them water lilies -"]
    Nippie
  40. ["You've been buyin' a lot of this lump sugar lately, Mickey..."]
    Mickey Finn
  41. ["Now who can that be?"]
    Mescal Ike
  42. ["Jane is stunned by news of a revolution in Anderia"]
    Jane Arden / Lena Pry
  43. ["Hi Fatty, old sockerino!"]
    Butty and Fatty
  44. ["Retractable power plants"]
    Flight
  45. ["Babe and Roger Weston return to find Mrs.Crumpet anxiously awaiting them..."]
    Babe Bunting
  46. ["A shoe shop in Portland Ore"]
    Strange as It Seems
  47. ["I'm gettin' a nickel for this!"]
    Toddy
  48. The Boy Who Was Afraid
  49. ["I'm gonna be in the movies- Ain't I Aunt Helen?"]
    Homer Hoopee
  50. [no title indexed]
    Magic Made Easy
  51. ["Well, Sam is still on the island inhabited by cavemen and monsters!"]
    Seaweed Sam the Rhyming Rover
  52. ["Gene was matched to fight a Frenchman named Marchand..."]
    Fisher's History of Boxing
  53. ["I'm out at the Permoter's in Surrey."]
    Joe Palooka
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