Four Color #553

(April 1954)

[Four gags] (Table of Contents)

Cleo / filler / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Jerry Walter

Pencils:

Linda Walter

Inks:

Linda Walter

Letters:

Linda Walter ?

Content Information

Genre:

children

Characters:

Susie Q. Smith; Cleo Smith

Synopsis:

Four one-panel gags involving Susie's sister Cleo.

Indexer Notes

Inside front cover; black and white. Four one-panel gags, possibly newspaper strip reprints.

[Beauty Contest] (Table of Contents)

Susie Q. Smith / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Jerry Walter

Pencils:

Linda Walter

Inks:

Linda Walter

Colors:

?

Letters:

Linda Walter ?

Content Information

Genre:

teen

Characters:

Susie Q. Smith; Legs O'Hara; Muscles Maloney; Hutch Hopkins; Owlie Olson; Hairbrush; Cleo Smith; Butterfly (dog)

Synopsis:

Susie and Legs compete in a beauty contest to be the mascot of the Boys' Club.

[Crazy About Olives] (Table of Contents)

Cleo / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Jerry Walter

Pencils:

Linda Walter

Inks:

Linda Walter

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

children

Characters:

Cleo Smith

Synopsis:

Cleo is using olives as ammunition for her sling-shot.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Every Dog Has His Say / letters page / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Jerry Walter

Pencils:

Linda Walter

Inks:

Linda Walter

Colors:

?

Letters:

Linda Walter ?

Content Information

Genre:

teen

Characters:

Susie Q. Smith; Hutch Hopkins

Synopsis:

Illustrated letters from teen girls complaining about teen boys; and vice versa.

Indexer Notes

Letters from Frances Yanna, Auburn, Mich.; Barbara Bivens, Evansville, Ind.; Eddie Norvind, Swissvale, Pa.; and Willard Lutz, Marietta, Ohio. These may be newspaper strip reprints.

Baby Sitter's Nightmare (Table of Contents)

Horrible Horace and Awful Arthur / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Jerry Walter

Pencils:

Linda Walter

Inks:

Linda Walter

Colors:

?

Letters:

Linda Walter ?

Content Information

Genre:

children

Characters:

Horrible Horace White; Awful Arthur White; Susie Q. Smith

Synopsis:

Susie gets more than she bargained for when she plays cowboy with the boys.

[Susie Learns to Play Baseball] (Table of Contents)

Susie Q. Smith / comic story / 15 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Jerry Walter

Pencils:

Linda Walter

Inks:

Linda Walter

Colors:

?

Letters:

Linda Walter

Content Information

Genre:

teen; sports

Characters:

Susie Q. Smith; Hutch Hopkins; Hairbrush; Cleo Smith; Butterfly (dog); Muscles Maloney; Owlie Olson; Smiley; Wolf Wilson

Synopsis:

Thinking Hutch prefers playing baseball to seeing her, Susie gets Wolf Wilson to teach her baseball; but Wolf has some other lessons on his mind.

[Club Initiation] (Table of Contents)

Cleo / comic story / 3 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Jerry Walter

Pencils:

Linda Walter

Inks:

Linda Walter

Colors:

?

Letters:

Linda Walter ?

Content Information

Genre:

children

Characters:

Cleo Smith; Susie Q. Smith; Cousin Clyde

Synopsis:

Cleo and her friends make Cousin Clyde stay in their clubhouse at night to prove he's not scared of ghosts.

My Diary (Table of Contents)

Susie Q. Smith / filler / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Jerry Walter

Pencils:

Linda Walter

Inks:

Linda Walter

Letters:

Linda Walter ?

Content Information

Genre:

teen

Characters:

Susie Q. Smith; Hungry Harris; Legs O'Hara; Caz Kelly; Butterfly (dog); Hutch Hopkins

Synopsis:

Seven one-panel gags; one for each day of the week.

Indexer Notes

Inside back cover; black and white; continues on back cover in color. Possibly reprinted from newspaper strips.