(August-September 1944)

Dell, 1942 Series
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Price
0.10 USD
Pages
52
Indicia Frequency
Bi-Monthly
On-sale Date
1944-07-14
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
Brand
A Dell Magazine
Editing
Oskar Lebeck (editor)

Issue Notes

Copyright 1944, by Oskar Lebeck.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Pogo; Uncle Wiggily / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Walt Kelly
Inks
Walt Kelly
Colors
?

Genre
anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
Characters
Uncle Wiggily Longears; Albert
Reprints

Why the Butterfly has Beautiful Wings (Table of Contents: 1)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Walt Kelly
Inks
Walt Kelly
Colors
?
Letters
typeset

Indexer Notes

On inside front and back covers in black, white and red. Copyright, 1916, Whitman Pub. Co.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 2)

Uncle Wiggily / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script
Gaylord Du Bois (credited as Howard R. Garis)
Pencils
H. R. McBride
Inks
H. R. McBride
Colors
?
Letters
?

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Nurse Jane makes wonderful doughnuts.
Genre
anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
Characters
Uncle Wiggily Longears; Sammy Littletail; Susie Littletail; Nurse Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy; Tommy Tortoise; Daddy Longlegs; Old Lady Spider; Burglar Fox (villain)
Synopsis
Uncle Wiggily searches for his fortune.

Indexer Notes

Copyright 1944 Howard R. Garis.

Gaylord Du Bois writer credit per Gaylord Du Bois, page 4, Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books Sorted by Title compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott (Michigan State University Libraries 1985) 203 leaves ; 28 cm. -- Photocopy of computer printout. -- Call no.: PN6727.D77 A2S35 1985, which states: "Uncle Wiggly. 12p. For Animal Comics #11. Paid Jan. 12, 1944."

Hubbell R. McBride art credit per Michael Barrier, page 71, "Funnybooks" (UCPress 2015), which states, "The 'Uncle Wiggly' stories were drawn by Hubbell R. McBride, who was, like his Western colleagues Arthur Jameson and George Kerr, a veteran illustrator---in McBride's case, of Liberty magazine's covers."

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 3)

Hector the Henpecked Rooster / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script
John Stanley
Pencils
Rube Grossman
Inks
Rube Grossman
Colors
?
Letters
?

First Line of Dialogue or Text
A telegram!
Genre
anthropomorphic-funny animals
Characters
Hector the Henpecked Rooster; Mrs. Bertha Henpeck; Peep; Rupert (first appearance)
Synopsis
Mrs. Henpeck's brother comes to visit.

Indexer Notes

Copr. 1944 by Famous Studios.

Albert Holds that Tigah (Table of Contents: 4)

Pogo / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script
Walt Kelly
Pencils
Walt Kelly
Inks
Walt Kelly
Colors
?
Letters
?

Feature Logo
Albert the Alligator
Genre
anthropomorphic-funny animals
Characters
Albert; Pogo; Bumbazine; Missus Rackety Coon; Dee-Lishus
Reprints

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 5)

Blackie / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Tom Golden
Inks
Tom Golden
Colors
?
Letters
?

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Ugh! I'm starving!
Genre
anthropomorphic-funny animals
Characters
Blackie; The Wolf

Indexer Notes

Copr. 1944 by Famous Studios.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 6)

Cilly Goose / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Otto Feuer
Inks
Otto Feuer
Colors
?
Letters
?

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Twenty-nine, thirty, thirty-one
Genre
anthropomorphic-funny animals
Characters
Cilly Goose

Indexer Notes

Copr. 1944 by Famous Studios.

Lion Trouble (Table of Contents: 7)

Raggedy Animals / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script
Gaylord Du Bois (sourced)
Pencils
George Kerr
Inks
George Kerr
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
anthropomorphic-funny animals; fantasy-supernatural
Characters
Eddie Elephant [E.E.]; Little Brown Bear [L.B.]; Maisie Moocow [M.M.]; Rory Lion [R.L.]; Sunny Bunny [S.B.]

Indexer Notes

Copr. 1944 by Johnny Gruelle Co.

The gag of Rory Lion's head half protruding through the window, but too big to permit access, while his roars frighten everyone, none of whom can identity the jaws? It echoes the plight of Dackel the Dachshund in Oskar Lebeck's Clementina the Flying Pig as adapted in Dell Junior Treasury. Lebeck was Du Bois's editor, collaborater, and good friend; the gag may have been homage ... or swiped, or cliché. (Dackel is stuck half-in / half-outside a hole in the burrow home, whose occupant fears the howls coming from Dackel in the dark are those of a ghost.)

Train Tickets (Table of Contents: 8)

Elephunnies / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script
Walt Kelly
Pencils
Walt Kelly
Inks
Walt Kelly
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
anthropomorphic-funny animals

Indexer Notes

Back cover.

Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. [no title indexed]
    Pogo; Uncle Wiggily
  2. 1. Why the Butterfly has Beautiful Wings
  3. 2. ["Nurse Jane makes wonderful doughnuts."]
    Uncle Wiggily
  4. 3. ["A telegram!"]
    Hector the Henpecked Rooster
  5. 4. Albert Holds that Tigah
    Pogo
  6. 5. ["Ugh! I'm starving!"]
    Blackie
  7. 6. ["Twenty-nine, thirty, thirty-one"]
    Cilly Goose
  8. 7. Lion Trouble
    Raggedy Animals
  9. 8. Train Tickets
    Elephunnies
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Alberto Becattini
  • Nick Caputo
  • Peter Croome
  • Gregory Fischer
  • Merlin Haas
  • Morbus Iff
  • Clint Maxwell
  • Mike Nielsen
  • Dave Porta
  • Jonathan Sari