Price: ?
Pages: 36
On-sale Date: 1967
Editing: Alice Nielsen Cobb (managing editor); Chase Craig (editor); Del Connell (editor); Tom McKimson (art director)
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The Yankee Doodle Dummies
(Table of Contents)

The Three Stooges / cover / 1 page

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  • Genre:humor; historical
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The Three Stooges [Moe Howard (photo); Larry Fine (photo); Curly-Joe DeRita (photo)]
Synopsis:
The Three Stooges are fife and drummers in the American Colonial Period.
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Indexer Notes

Contains the exact interior content of The Three Stooges (Western, 1962 Series) #36 (September 1967), including non-character related editorial features and ads. Cover is modified to present the "Top Comics" logo, rather than the "Gold Key" brand and the typical "The Three Stooges" series title logos. Beyond that, the cover illustration is also the same.

No cover price is displayed on the issue, leaving some flexibility in the cover price charged. Merchants have been known to place "19¢" (or other price) stickers on the covers of such books, which normally sold for 12¢.

Gold Key - The World Famous Comics
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Gold Key Comics / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.5 page

Exclusive Fun Products by Mail!
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Regency Mail Order Novelties / advertisement / 0.5 page

The Yankee Doodle Dummies
(Table of Contents: 3)

The Three Stooges / comic story / 21 pages

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  • Genre:humor; historical
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The Three Stooges [Moe Howard; Larry Fine; Curly-Joe DeRita]; Paul Revere; Samuel Adams; various patriots; various Redcoats; British magistrate; Silas (patriot); Ephram Skinner (fur trader); lots of skunks; Robert Newman (patriot); Mrs. Newman (patriot); three high-ranking British officers
Synopsis:
In 1773, arriving in Boston from England, the Stooges blunder through the Boston Tea Party, get thrown in jail, are sprung by patriots, help Paul Revere on his famous ride after first mixing up the lights in the church tower, unleash a wagon load of skunks on the Redcoats, and finally steer the British forces into a marsh to win the battle. They even get to lead the parade, "because [they] don't know which end of a musket the trigger is on!"
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Indexer Notes

Story is interrupted between pages 14 and 15 for four pages of Gold Key Comics Club material comprising the centerfold.

The story title and splash panel caption (the latter in the form of a tattered, unfurled parchment) get the reader in a "Stooge-frame-of-mind" from the get-go:

TITLE: "The Yankee Doodle Dummies*" (with trailing asterisk)

CAPTION 1: "The Time... 1773! The Place...Boston! The Heroes... Guess who!"
CAPTION 2: "*Any similarity to historical fact is purely a big fat boo-boo on our part." (with leading asterisk)

Can You Create a Monster?
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Gold Key Comics Club / illustration / 1 page

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Readers are invited to submit drawings of monsters for possible publication. Six reader-contributed drawings of monsters are printed.

The Joke's on You
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Gold Key Comics Club / text article / 1 page

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Gold Key Kid

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Jokes and riddles submitted by readers. Middle left page of centerfold.

What's Your Line?
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Gold Key Comics Club / activity / 1 page

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Readers are invited to submit gag captions for a series of provided single-panel cartoon illustrations. Two finished examples are provided. Middle right page of centerfold.

Readers Complete the Comic
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Gold Key Comics Club / illustration / 1 page

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Readers provide the third and final panel illustration to a three-panel cartoon. Six reader submissions are included.

Dear Stooges:
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The Three Stooges / text story / 1 page

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  • Genre:humor
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The Three Stooges [Moe Howard; Larry Fine; Curly-Joe DeRita]
Synopsis:
The Three Stooges answer readers' letters.

Indexer Notes

A presumably faux letter column hosted by the Stooges themselves, who print readers' letters and answer them. All of the "letters" are perfect straight lines that are set up for the Stooges to reply with snappy one-liners. For example...

"Dear Curly-Joe: My girl friend doesn't like me because my shoes squeak. I can't afford a new pair, so what shall I do? -- George Tuttle."

"Dear George: Tell her you have music in your sole! N-Yuk! N-Yuk!"

It shall be assumed that these questions and answers are editorially produced until decisively proven otherwise.

The Little Monsters Meet the Abominable Blue Blob
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The Little Monsters / comic story / 4 pages

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  • Genre:humor; horror-suspense
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The Little Monsters ['Orrible Orvie; Awful Annie]; Mildew Monster (Papa); Demonica Monster (Mama); The Abominable Blue Blob; passing motorist; Orvie's pet spider
Synopsis:
Ordered to "go scare somebody else for a change" after scaring their parents, the kids decide to find the legendary Abominable Blue Blob (a creature so horrible it scares the fearsome fellow monster Eerie McFearsin) and scare it!

Indexer Notes

The Monster Family's recurring foe, Eerie McFearsin, is mentioned but does not appear in this story.

The name Eerie McFearsin is a good joke in itself, given that it contains the words "eerie", "fear", and "sin".

Can You Complete the Comic?
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Gold Key Comics Club / illustration / 1 page

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Readers are invited to submit their completed versions of a third and final panel illustration to a three-panel cartoon. Three such cartoons are presented, sans third and final panel.

Famous Name Prizes or Cash...from Olympic
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Olympic Sales / Olympia Sales Cards / advertisement / 1 page

Boys, Girls, Men, Women
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Wallace Brown Greeting Cards / advertisement / 1 page

Nationally Famous Prizes at No Cost to You!
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Junior Sales Club of America Cards / advertisement / 1 page

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Table of Contents ToC
    Table of Contents
  1. The Yankee Doodle Dummies
    The Three Stooges
  2. Gold Key - The World Famous Comics
    Gold Key Comics
  3. Exclusive Fun Products by Mail!
    Regency Mail Order Novelties
  4. The Yankee Doodle Dummies
    The Three Stooges
  5. Can You Create a Monster?
    Gold Key Comics Club
  6. The Joke's on You
    Gold Key Comics Club
  7. What's Your Line?
    Gold Key Comics Club
  8. Readers Complete the Comic
    Gold Key Comics Club
  9. Dear Stooges:
    The Three Stooges
  10. The Little Monsters Meet the Abominable Blue Blob
    The Little Monsters
  11. Can You Complete the Comic?
    Gold Key Comics Club
  12. Famous Name Prizes or Cash...from Olympic
    Olympic Sales / Olympia Sales Cards
  13. Boys, Girls, Men, Women
    Wallace Brown Greeting Cards
  14. Nationally Famous Prizes at No Cost to You!
    Junior Sales Club of America Cards
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