Price: 0.10 USD
Pages: 68
On-sale Date: 1939-09-15
Editing: Stephen Douglas (editor, art director); William J. Pape (president); William B. Pape (treasurer)

The Nation's Comic Monthly

Somebody's Stenog / cover / 1 page


  • Genre:humor; drama
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Gosh! I see a hob-goblin!
Characters:
Sam Smithers; Pigtails

Issue Data

Indexer Notes

Printed in the U.S.A. by Eastern Color Printing Co., Waterbury, Connecticut.
Editorial and circulation offices, 50 Church Street, New York, New York.
General office, 61 Leavenworth Street, Waterbury, Connecticut.
Advertising representatives, Gilman, Nicholl and Ruthmann of New York, New York.

Much of the content of this comic consists of newspaper strip reprints, either Sunday or daily pages, reformatted to fit the comic book page. The dates of publication of these strips have been removed from the originals.

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

[no title indexed]

Connie / illustration / 1 page


  • Genre:adventure

Indexer Notes

Inside front cover, full-page pin-up

[Drinking Fountain]

Napoleon / comic story / 1 page


  • Genre:humor; animal
Characters:
Uncle Elby; Napoleon
Synopsis:
Uncle Elby is annoyed by a drinking fountain.
Reprints (0)

[no title indexed]

Goofie Gags / comic story / 1 page


  • Genre:humor
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Remember! I don't want any clock watchers around here!

Indexer Notes

Four unrelated gag panels.

[no title indexed]

Artistic Artie / cartoon / 0.2 page


  • Genre:humor
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Add up this 'figgerhead' and see what he amounts to...
Characters:
Artistic Artie

[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
Characters:
Butty; Fatty

[no title indexed]

Roy Powers / comic story / 4 pages


  • Genre:adventure; teen; children; detective-mystery
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:There are 2 big rolls of chicken wire by Clark's garage!
Characters:
Roy Powers; Chunky; Mr. Stratten; Mr. Mullett
Reprints (0)

[no title indexed]

Nipper / comic story / 0.8 page


  • Genre:humor; children
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Man! Man! Won't that make a swell lantern?
  • Keywords:Halloween
Characters:
Nipper Tucker; Ruff Bumps; Algy Bray
Reprints (0)

Indexer Notes

The bottom tier is “Footprints on the Sands of Time”, by the same creator.

[no title indexed]

Footprints on the Sands of Time / comic story / 0.2 page


  • Genre:humor
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Bill's mother sends him running to the Five and Ten...
Characters:
Bill
Reprints (0)

Indexer Notes

The bottom tier of the “Nipper” Sunday page, by the same creator.

[no title indexed]

Skyroads / comic story / 4 pages


  • Genre:adventure; aviation
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Give me the air - will she?
Characters:
Speed McCloud; Sally Young; Rick
Synopsis:
Sally turns Speed's proposal down and he's not very happy.
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:How rightly I have named this fair ground attraction...
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:Heck! I'm $10 shy!
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:Just as they prepared to leave the moon they had stolen, but which had gotten out of their control...
Characters:
Buddy Deering; Princess Alura; Dr. Elias Huer; Killer Kane; Ardala
Reprints (0)

[no title indexed]

Life's Like That / comic story / 1 page

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

  • Genre:humor; domestic; satire-parody
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:I put her on a diet so she could save on food and pay my bill.
Reprints (0)

Indexer Notes

Six unrelated daily gag panels.

[no title indexed]

Lightnin' and the Lone Rider / comic story / 2 pages


  • Genre:western-frontier
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:The Lone Rider surveys Hutch Kruger's cabin...
Characters:
The Lone Rider; Sheriff Hank Fletcher; Hutch Kruger (villain); Blackie
Reprints (1)

Indexer Notes

Reprint information from the Stripper's Guide blog (http://strippersguide.blogspot.com/2017_09_24_archive.html, retrieved 27 September 2017) based on research by Allan Holtz and Jeffrey Lindenblatt.

Hitting the Trail!

Jitter / comic story / 1 page

Script:
Arthur Poinier (credited, signed)
Pencils:
Arthur Poinier (credited, signed)
Inks:
Arthur Poinier (credited, signed)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?

  • Genre:humor; animal
Characters:
Jitter
Reprints (0)

Indexer Notes

Four daily strips:

1 - Hitting the Trail!

2 - Dolly Won't Tell!

3 - Where Did You Get That Hat?

4 - Put 'em Up!

[no title indexed]

Big Chief Wahoo / comic story / 1 page

Script:
Allen Saunders (credited as Saunders)
Pencils:
Elmer Woggon (credited as Woggon) (signed as Wog)
Inks:
Elmer Woggon (credited as Woggon) (signed as Wog)
Colors:
?
Letters:

  • Genre:humor
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Sir, your rodeo is a frost!
Characters:
Big Chief Wahoo; Princess Minnie-Ha-Cha; The Great Gusto
Reprints (0)

[no title indexed]

Dickie Dare / comic story / 4 pages


  • Genre:adventure; children
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:There! The last box of food!
Characters:
Dickie Dare; Dan Flynn; Joe; Captain Webb; Mike
Reprints (0)

[no title indexed]

The Adventures of Patsy / comic story / 2 pages


  • Genre:adventure; children
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Patsy, give me that envelope!
Characters:
Patsy Cardigan; Uncle Phil Cardigan; Doctor Gorman
Synopsis:
Phil confronts Patsy and breaks her trance.
Reprints (0)

South American Liberators

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]

Funland / activity / 1 page


  • Genre:non-fiction

Indexer Notes

Puzzle page

Readers' List

The Pen Pal Page / text article / 2 pages

[Grocery Basket]

Napoleon / comic story / 1 page


  • Genre:humor; animal
Characters:
Uncle Elby; Napoleon
Synopsis:
Uncle Elby sends Napoleon to fetch his groceries. Napoleon gives all the groceries to a tramp.
Reprints (0)

[no title indexed]

Animals in the News / comic story / 0.33 page

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

  • Genre:humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Stray cats usually get more variety in foods

[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:The water is plenty rough today!
Characters:
The Skipper

[no title indexed]

Oaky Doaks / comic story / 4 pages


  • Genre:adventure; humor; historical
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:We gotta have these stairs fixed
Characters:
Sir Oaky Doaks; Queen Elisabeth; King Cedric
Reprints (0)

Indexer Notes

Script previously credited to Ralph Briggs Fuller, but William McCleery was the author from its beginning in 1935 to 1961.

[no title indexed]

Seaweed Sam the Rhyming Rover / comic story / 1 page


  • Genre:humor
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Our heroes are in Tiny's toy box!
Characters:
Seaweed Sam; Prince Tiny

[no title indexed]

Big Chief Wahoo / comic story / 1 page

Script:
Allen Saunders (credited as Saunders)
Pencils:
Elmer Woggon (credited as Woggon) (signed as Wog)
Inks:
Elmer Woggon (credited as Woggon) (signed as Wog)
Colors:
?
Letters:

  • Genre:humor
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:A room with running water, my good man!
Characters:
Big Chief Wahoo; The Great Gusto
Reprints (0)

[no title indexed]

Olly of the Movies / comic story / 2 pages


  • Genre:drama; humor
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Now for a quiet vacation
Characters:
Olive Lane; Mayor Hy Tebbs; Florrie; Martha
Synopsis:
Olly goes home for a vacation, but her plans have been spilled to the media.
Reprints (0)

[no title indexed]

Scorchy Smith / comic story / 2 pages


  • Genre:adventure; aviation
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Mon Dieu, the storm she ees at hand!
Characters:
Scorchy Smith; Krag; Mickey LaFarge; Jean LaFarge; Bogan
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:Just the price of a new topper
Characters:
Cam O'Flage; Sam Smithers
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:And besides - bla-bla
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]

Above the Crowd / comic story / 1 page

Script:
Stookie Allen (credited, signed)
Pencils:
Stookie Allen (credited, signed)
Inks:
Stookie Allen (credited, signed)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?

  • Genre:non-fiction; sports; biography
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Battling Odds!
Characters:
Tom Black; Harry Greb

Hold 'Er, Newt!

Mescal Ike / comic story / 1 page


  • Genre:humor; western-frontier
Characters:
Mescal Ike; Miss Sally; Pa Piffle; Young’un
Reprints (0)

Indexer Notes

Four daily strips:

1 - Hold 'Er, Newt!

2 - Muley Broadcasting!

3 - Whats the Difference?

4 - Food it is!

[no title indexed]

Magic Made Easy / activity / 1 page

[no title indexed]

Napoleon / comic story / 1 page


  • Genre:humor; animal
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:The instructions say - Grasp th' starting cord...
Characters:
Uncle Elby; Napoleon
Reprints (0)

[no title indexed]

There's a Town / 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:non-fiction
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Hamm, Germany...

[no title indexed]

Babe Bunting / comic story / 2 pages

Script:
Roy L. Williams (credited as Williams)
Pencils:
Roy L. Williams (credited as Williams)
Inks:
Roy L. Williams (credited as Williams)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?

  • Genre:adventure; children; drama
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Hi! Lum If you're goin to town - I'll give you a tow!
Characters:
Dorothy "Babe" Bunting; Mrs. Bunting; Benjy Boles; Jake Heep' Lum Fetters; Pete
Synopsis:
Heep wants the reward money for bringing Babe and Benjy back. But now the showboat is being repossessed.
Reprints (0)

[no title indexed]

Punky / comic story / 1 page


  • Genre:humor; children
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Who swiped the gum I left under this seat last June?
Characters:
Punky, Annabelle
Reprints (0)

Indexer Notes

Four daily gag panels.

[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:humor; adventure
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:If I don't do something to stop Uncle Phineas...
Characters:
Connie Kurridge; Uncle Phineas; Jack
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:Are you good at riddles?
Reprints (0)

Indexer Notes

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

[no title indexed]

Life's Like That / comic story / 1 page

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

  • Genre:humor; domestic; satire-parody
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Operator, can you gimme two nickels for a dime...
Reprints (0)

Indexer Notes

Six unrelated daily gag panels.

[no title indexed]

Queenie / comic story / 1 page


  • Genre:humor; children
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:I'm going to bake a cake all by myself...
Characters:
Queenie; Aunt Prunella; Colonel Chauncey Clambake; Lily the cook

text story / 2 pages

Script:
V. Ostergaard (credited)
Pencils:
?
Inks:
?
Colors:
?
Letters:
typeset

  • Genre:adventure
Characters:
Ben Hervey; Bob Engels; Scully Dolin

[no title indexed]

Homer Hoopee / comic story / 2 pages


  • Genre:adventure
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Homer's mind is groping for the memory of that treasure
Characters:
Homer Hoopee; Doctor Panelli
Reprints (0)

[no title indexed]

The Gay Thirties / comic story / 1 page


  • Genre:humor
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Didn't you write me you had to wash your own dishes...
Reprints (0)

[no title indexed]

Napoleon / comic story / 1 page


  • Genre:humor; animal
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Well, well, my old banjo!
Characters:
Uncle Elby; Napoleon
Synopsis:
Napoleon hates hearing Uncle Elby play the banjo.
Reprints (0)

[no title indexed]

Spunky Dory / 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:adventure; humor; western-frontier
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Come on pardner...
Characters:
Spunky Dory

[no title indexed]

Jitter / comic story / 1 page

Script:
Arthur Poinier (credited, signed)
Pencils:
Arthur Poinier (credited, signed)
Inks:
Arthur Poinier (credited, signed)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?

  • Genre:humor; animal
Characters:
Jitter
Reprints (0)

Indexer Notes

Inside back cover

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Table of Contents ToC
    Table of Contents
  1. The Nation's Comic Monthly
    Somebody's Stenog
  2. [no title indexed]
    Connie
  3. [Drinking Fountain]
    Napoleon
  4. ["Remember! I don't want any clock watchers around here!"]
    Goofie Gags
  5. ["Add up this 'figgerhead' and see what he amounts to..."]
    Artistic Artie
  6. [no title indexed]
    Butty and Fatty
  7. ["There are 2 big rolls of chicken wire by Clark's garage!"]
    Roy Powers
  8. [no title indexed]
    Let's Get into a Huddle!
  9. ["Man! Man! Won't that make a swell lantern?"]
    Nipper
  10. ["Bill's mother sends him running to the Five and Ten..."]
    Footprints on the Sands of Time
  11. ["Give me the air - will she?"]
    Skyroads
  12. ["How rightly I have named this fair ground attraction..."]
    Hairbreadth Harry
  13. ["Heck! I'm $10 shy!"]
    High-Gear Homer
  14. ["Just as they prepared to leave the moon they had stolen, but which had gotten out of their control..."]
    Buck Rogers
  15. ["I put her on a diet so she could save on food and pay my bill."]
    Life's Like That
  16. ["The Lone Rider surveys Hutch Kruger's cabin..."]
    Lightnin' and the Lone Rider
  17. Hitting the Trail!
    Jitter
  18. ["Sir, your rodeo is a frost!"]
    Big Chief Wahoo
  19. ["There! The last box of food!"]
    Dickie Dare
  20. ["Patsy, give me that envelope!"]
    The Adventures of Patsy
  21. South American Liberators
    High Lights of History / Highlights of History
  22. [no title indexed]
    Funland
  23. Readers' List
    The Pen Pal Page
  24. [Grocery Basket]
    Napoleon
  25. ["Stray cats usually get more variety in foods"]
    Animals in the News
  26. ["The water is plenty rough today!"]
    The Frog Pond Ferry
  27. ["We gotta have these stairs fixed"]
    Oaky Doaks
  28. ["Our heroes are in Tiny's toy box!"]
    Seaweed Sam the Rhyming Rover
  29. ["A room with running water, my good man!"]
    Big Chief Wahoo
  30. ["Now for a quiet vacation"]
    Olly of the Movies
  31. ["Mon Dieu, the storm she ees at hand!"]
    Scorchy Smith
  32. ["Just the price of a new topper"]
    Somebody's Stenog
  33. ["And besides - bla-bla"]
    The Back-Seat Driver
  34. ["Battling Odds!"]
    Above the Crowd
  35. Hold 'Er, Newt!
    Mescal Ike
  36. [no title indexed]
    Magic Made Easy
  37. ["The instructions say - Grasp th' starting cord..."]
    Napoleon
  38. ["Hamm, Germany..."]
    There's a Town
  39. ["Hi! Lum If you're goin to town - I'll give you a tow!"]
    Babe Bunting
  40. ["Who swiped the gum I left under this seat last June?"]
    Punky
  41. ["If I don't do something to stop Uncle Phineas..."]
    Connie
  42. ["Are you good at riddles?"]
    The Wet Blanket
  43. ["Operator, can you gimme two nickels for a dime..."]
    Life's Like That
  44. ["I'm going to bake a cake all by myself..."]
    Queenie
  45. Compass Rule
  46. ["Homer's mind is groping for the memory of that treasure"]
    Homer Hoopee
  47. ["Didn't you write me you had to wash your own dishes..."]
    The Gay Thirties
  48. ["Well, well, my old banjo!"]
    Napoleon
  49. ["Come on pardner..."]
    Spunky Dory
  50. [no title indexed]
    Jitter
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