(September 1952)
- Price:
- 0.10 USD
- Pages:
- 36
- Indicia frequency:
- ?
- Indicia Publisher:
- Dell Publishing Co., Inc.
- Brand:
- A Dell Comic
- Editing:
- ?
- Format:
- Color; standard Golden Age and later Silver Age formats; saddle-stitched; newsprint; was an On-Going Series
Issue Notes
Indicia title is "RHUBARB, OWNER OF THE BROOKLYN BALL CLUB, No. 423". Code number is RHUBARB O.S. #423-529. Copyright 1952 by Doubleday and Company, Inc. "Based on the character "Rhubarb" created by H. Allen Smith."
[Press Conference]
[Rhubarb] / foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Don Gunn
- Inks:
- Don Gunn
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- humor; animal
- Characters:
- Rhubarb (cat)
- Synopsis:
- Rhubarb holds a press conference.
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover; black and white. Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)
Rhubarb
Rhubarb / comic story / 34 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Don Gunn
- Inks:
- Don Gunn
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- Don Gunn
Content Information
- Genre:
- humor; animal; sports
- Characters:
- Rhubarb (cat); T. J. Banner; Myra Banner; Eric Yeager; Polly Sickles; Doom (the butler)
- Synopsis:
- A millionaire who owns the Brooklyn Loons baseball team befriends a tough yellow tomcat that he names "Rhubarb" after the slang term for a baseball argument. Three years later, the man dies and leaves the bulk of his fortune and the ball club to Rhubarb. The Loons' press agent Eric Yeager is named legal guardian of the cat and a running sub-plot is his attempts to marry Polly Sickles, who is allergic to the cat. At the climax, Rhubarb, who has been the good luck charm for the baseball team during a winning streak, is kidnapped by some gangsters who plan on Brooklyn losing the championship game without their lucky mascot.
Indexer Notes
Story continues on inside back cover in black and white and concludes in color on back cover. Adaptation of 1951 movie "Rhubarb" based on book of same name by H. Allen Smith. Adaptation is fairly faithful to the movie until the very end, when several pages of storyline is condensed into four panels. A sequel to this story appears in Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #466 (April 1953). Pencils, inks, and letters credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)
- Merlin Haas
- Gene Reed
- Roger A. Budnick
- John P. Selegue
- Merlin Haas
- Ken Lemons
- Chris Launder
- Jim Walls
- Terry Vraspir
- Gary Perlman
- Jerry Hillegas
- Craig Delich
- James Ludwig
- Ray Bottorff Jr
- Kenneth Blair
- Mike Nielsen
- David Porta
- Matthew Torrance
- Ken Kwilinski
- Gary L. Watson
- Gregg Whitmore
- Max Capp
- Tony R. Rose
- Lou Mazzella
- Rodney Hinkle
- Jan Roar Hansen
- Donald Dale Milne
- Karl Wilcox
- Darrel McCann
- Peter Croome
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