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Description
64 pages - removed Elmer and Bugs Bunny pages -non-PD
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Contains Walt Kelly (Seaman Sy Wheeler -pg19),
Frank Thomas (Hank and Lank -pg56),
and Pepsi and Pete by Rube Goldberg -pg11. |
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Admin Review
| Aimed at the armed forces, this might be risque to some readers. |
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Issue: #2
Published: March 1942, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 68, Editing:
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U. S. Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Notes: The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1942, New Series, Vol. 37, No. 3.
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| Cover (1 page) |
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| Credits: |
Pencils: ? (photograph) | Inks: ? (photograph) | Colours: ? (photograph) | Letters: typeset |
| Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword (1 page) |
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| Synopsis: |
The dancer carries a circular item reading the main contents of the issue, while the officer looks on delightedly ... and might be just about to leave a burn mark on her bottom with his cigar ... |
| Credits: |
Letters: typeset |
| Characters: |
A Girl Dancer A High Ranking Army Officer |
| Advertisement (1 page) |
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| Featuring: |
Pepsi and Pete |
| Synopsis: |
Pepsi and Pete scrub the ship's deck in a jiffy, so the sailor can come home to his mother. |
| Credits: |
Script: Rube Goldberg (signed) | Pencils: Rube Goldberg (signed) | Inks: Rube Goldberg (signed) |
| Genre: |
Humor |
| Characters: |
Pepsi Pete An Unnamed Sailor |
| Advertisement (1 page) |
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| Featuring: |
Buck and Chuck |
| Synopsis: |
The two servicemen change for their dates in record time, and one even has time to shave. |
| Characters: |
Buck Chuck |
| Cartoon (1 page) |
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| Genre: |
Humor |
| Advertisement (1 page) |
For self defense |
| Credits: |
Pencils: ? (spot illustrations) | Inks: ? (spot illustrations) | Letters: typeset |
| Comic Story (12 pages) |
It's Not Etiquette to Strike a Lady Who Is a Good Counter-Puncher |
| Featuring: |
Seaman Sy Wheeler |
| Synopsis: |
Sy has a date with Kitty, and Clarence has a blind date that turns out to be the lady wrestler. Due to certain highly implausible complications, Sy ends up being the one that has to deal with the lady wrestler. He gets kicked around by her, 'til Clarence "saves" the lady from Sy's abuse, and all ends in pure delight. |
| Credits: |
Script: Walt Kelly | Pencils: Walt Kelly | Inks: Walt Kelly |
| Genre: |
Humor |
| Characters: |
Sy Wheeler Clarence Kitty Unnamed Lady Wrestler |
| Cartoon (1 page) |
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| Featuring: |
Party Line |
| Genre: |
Humor |
| Advertisement (1 page) |
These rookies catch on ... |
| Credits: |
Pencils: ? (spot illustration) | Inks: ? (spot illustration) | Letters: typeset |
| Cartoon (1 page) |
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| Genre: |
Humor |
| Comic Story (7 pages) |
The Case of the Scalped Hermit |
| Featuring: |
Philo Vance |
| Synopsis: |
An old man has been murdered, scalped and shaved after death, and $25,000 has been drawn from his bank account after his death. Vance questions the suspects, and exposes the killer, just about to board a train out of town. |
| Genre: |
Detective-mystery |
| Characters: |
Philo Vance Sergeant Heath Skittles |
| Cartoon (1 page) |
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| Genre: |
Humor |
| Advertisement (1 page) |
All you pipe fans, Ahoy! |
| Credits: |
Letters: typeset |
| Text Story (1 page) |
Yoshio Matsuda -- of the Japanese Navy |
| Featuring: |
True Spy Stories |
| Credits: |
Pencils: ? (spot illustration) | Inks: ? (spot illustration) | Letters: typeset |
| Genre: |
Spy |
| Text Story (1 page) |
Thompson, the Masquerading Yeoman |
| Featuring: |
True Spy Stories |
| Credits: |
Pencils: ? (spot illustration) | Inks: ? (spot illustration) | Letters: typeset |
| Genre: |
Spy |
| Comic Story (10 pages) |
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| Featuring: |
Rimfire Ferguson |
| Synopsis: |
Beth Hardy and her father are sheep owners and get assaulted by a bunch of cow herders, led by Broder. Rimfire intrudes on the attack and scare off the villains, but they capture him and drive a flock of cattle stampeding towards Rimfire. Beth saves the day. |
| Genre: |
Western-frontier |
| Characters: |
Rimfire Ferguson Beth Hardy Broder |
| Text Story (2 pages) |
Dear Ethel |
| Synopsis: |
"Letter" from W.B. Bingle to his girl at home, Ethel, telling of events at army camp. |
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Pencils: ? (spot illustrations) | Inks: ? (spot illustrations) | Letters: typeset |
| Genre: |
Humor |
| Cartoon (1 page) |
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| Featuring: |
General Fuffle |
| Credits: |
Letters: typeset |
| Genre: |
Humor |
| Comic Story (8 pages) |
At Camp Anemic |
| Featuring: |
Hank and Lank |
| Synopsis: |
Hank and Lank want to sign up for service at Camp Anemic, but are ridiculed by the recruiting officer. They prevent the fifth columnists (all looking like Hitler) from stealing the plans for the army's new, super secret potato peeler, and are finally admitted - as sweepers in the donkey stalls. |
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Script: Frank Thomas | Pencils: Frank Thomas (signed) | Inks: Frank Thomas (signed) |
| Genre: |
Humor Superhero |
| Characters: |
Hank Lank Four Fifth Columnists |
| Cartoon (1 page) |
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| Featuring: |
General Fuffle |
| Credits: |
Script: Lichty (signed) | Pencils: Lichty (signed) | Inks: Lichty (signed) |
| Genre: |
Humor |
| Advertisement (1 page) |
Every time It's Chesterfield |
| Credits: |
Pencils: ? (spot illustration) | Inks: ? (spot illustration) | Letters: typeset |
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