(April 1957)
- Price:
- 0.10 USD
- Pages:
- 36
- Indicia frequency:
- ?
- Indicia Publisher:
- Dell Publishing Co., Inc.
- Brand:
- Dell
- Editing:
- ?
- Format:
- Color; standard Golden Age and later Silver Age formats; saddle-stitched; newsprint; was an On-Going Series
Issue Notes
Indicia title is "MORTY MEEKLE, No. 793." Code number is MORTY M.O.S. #793-574. Copyright 1957 by NEA Service, Inc. Based on the NEA newspaper strip "Morty Meekle" (later re-titled "Winthrop") by Dick Cavalli.
[Over-Exercised]
Morty Meekle / comic story / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
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- Pencils:
- ?
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- ?
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Content Information
- Genre:
- humor
- Characters:
- Morty Meekle; Jill Wortle
- Synopsis:
- Morty is told to exercise, but over-does it.
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover; black and white.
Flying High
Morty Meekle / comic story / 6 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- ?
- Inks:
- ?
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- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- humor
- Characters:
- Morty Meekle; Jill Wortle; Winthrop Wortle
- Synopsis:
- Winthrop wants to invent a flying machine. Morty helps.
Love's Labor Lost
Morty Meekle / comic story / 8 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- ?
- Inks:
- ?
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- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- humor
- Characters:
- Morty Meekle; Jill Wortle; Mr. Wortle: Mr. Boomer
- Synopsis:
- Mr. Wortle and Mr. Boomer try to use a Bohemian love potion called Shushkataniabopnik to get Morty to propose to Jill.
Plane Figures
Morty Meekle / comic story / 6 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- ?
- Inks:
- ?
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- humor
- Characters:
- Morty Meekle; Jill Wortle; Winthrop Wortle; Mr. Wortle; Mrs. Wortle.
- Synopsis:
- Morty folds Winthrop's math homework into a paper airplane and has to chase it down, causing lots of damage in the process.
Of Moose and Men
Morty Meekle / comic story / 6 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- ?
- Inks:
- ?
- Colors:
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- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- humor
- Characters:
- Morty Meekle; Jill Wortle; Mr. Wortle; Winthrop Wortle
- Synopsis:
- Morty gets a moose head stuck on his head.
Indexer Notes
The title is a take-off on the title of the 1937 novel "Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck.
Feeding Time
Morty Meekle / comic story / 6 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- ?
- Inks:
- ?
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- humor
- Characters:
- Morty Meekle; Jill Wortle; Winthrop Wortle
- Synopsis:
- Winthrop causes havoc at the zoo when Morty and Jill take him with them.
[Overdone Shoeshine]
Morty Meekle / comic story / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- ?
- Inks:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- humor
- Characters:
- Morty Meekle; Jill Wortle
- Synopsis:
- Morty's shoes are ruined by an incompetent shoe-shiner.
Indexer Notes
Inside back cover; black and white.
[Choice Menu]
Morty Meekle / comic story / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- ?
- Inks:
- ?
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- humor
- Characters:
- Morty Meekle
- Synopsis:
- Morty can't decide what to order at a restaurant.
Indexer Notes
Back cover. The sixth panel is Dell's "A Pledge to Parents," in the middle of the story.
Editing
Table of Contents
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1.
[Over-Exercised]
Morty Meekle -
2.
Flying High
Morty Meekle -
3.
Love's Labor Lost
Morty Meekle -
4.
Plane Figures
Morty Meekle -
5.
Of Moose and Men
Morty Meekle -
6.
Feeding Time
Morty Meekle -
7.
[Overdone Shoeshine]
Morty Meekle -
8.
[Choice Menu]
Morty Meekle
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- Merlin Haas
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- 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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