(1962)

Dell, 1942 Series
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Price:
0.15 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 "Yak Yak, No. 1348." No code number. Copyright 1962 by Western Printing & Lithographing Co.


[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Yak Yak / cover / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Pencils:
Jack Davis (painting) (signed)
Inks:
Jack Davis (painting) (signed)
Colors:
Jack Davis (painting) (signed)
Letters:
typeset

Content Information

Genre:
humor

Indexer Notes

Subtitled "A Pathology of Humor" on cover.


Sufferin Pain Reliever (Table of Contents)

comic story / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:
Jack Davis
Pencils:
Jack Davis
Inks:
Jack Davis
Letters:
typeset

Content Information

Genre:
humor
Synopsis:
Parody of ad for Bufferin pain releiver.

Indexer Notes

Inside front cover; black and white.


[Table of Contents] (Table of Contents)

foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:
?
Pencils:
Jack Davis (signed)
Inks:
Jack Davis (signed)
Colors:
?
Letters:
typeset

Indexer Notes

Listed as "Volume 1, No. 2."


TV for All (Table of Contents)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:
Jack Davis
Pencils:
Jack Davis
Inks:
Jack Davis
Colors:
?
Letters:
typeset

Content Information

Genre:
humor
Characters:
Matt Gunn; Lester Dog
Synopsis:
Adventures of a "singing private eye spy cowboy world traveler and wrestler from Cartoonland."

Indexer Notes

Caricatures of Alfred Hitchcock, Fidel Castro, and Nikita Khrushchev.


[Take Me to Your Leader] (Table of Contents)

A Yak Yak / filler / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:
Jack Davis
Pencils:
Jack Davis
Inks:
Jack Davis
Colors:
?
Letters:
typeset

Content Information

Genre:
humor
Synopsis:
A short space alien reacts violently when he's laughed at by a beatnik.

Skin-Diving (Table of Contents)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:
Jack Davis
Pencils:
Jack Davis
Inks:
Jack Davis
Colors:
?
Letters:
typeset

Content Information

Genre:
humor
Synopsis:
Satire about skin-diving.

[The Caddy] (Table of Contents)

A Yak Yak / filler / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:
Jack Davis
Pencils:
Jack Davis
Inks:
Jack Davis
Colors:
?
Letters:
typeset

Content Information

Genre:
humor; sports
Synopsis:
A clumsy golfer hits his caddy with his golf club.

It Could Be Wurst (Table of Contents)

text story / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:
Jack Davis ?
Pencils:
Jack Davis
Inks:
Jack Davis
Colors:
?
Letters:
typeset

Content Information

Genre:
humor
Synopsis:
A satire on the story of the Dutch boy and the hole in the dike.

[Hair Restorer] (Table of Contents)

A Yak Yak / filler / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:
Jack Davis
Pencils:
Jack Davis
Inks:
Jack Davis
Colors:
?
Letters:
typeset

Content Information

Genre:
humor
Synopsis:
A street peddler selling hair grower disguises himself by using some of his product.

A Yak Yak Prediction (Table of Contents)

illustration / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:
Jack Davis
Pencils:
Jack Davis
Inks:
Jack Davis
Colors:
?
Letters:
typeset

Content Information

Genre:
humor
Characters:
Nikita Khrushchev
Synopsis:
Fake editorial cartoon concerning Russian Premier Nikita Krushchev.

Indexer Notes

Two-page drawing across the centerfold.


How to Identify Road-Nuts! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:
Jack Davis
Pencils:
Jack Davis
Inks:
Jack Davis
Colors:
?
Letters:
typeset

Content Information

Genre:
humor
Synopsis:
Different types of bad drivers.

[Snake-bite Medicine] (Table of Contents)

A Yak Yak / filler / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:
Jack Davis
Pencils:
Jack Davis
Inks:
Jack Davis
Colors:
?
Letters:
typeset

Content Information

Genre:
humor
Synopsis:
A mountaineer is only allowed to drink moonshine when he's bit by a snake.

Romance/Realism (Table of Contents)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:
Jack Davis
Pencils:
Jack Davis
Inks:
Jack Davis
Colors:
?
Letters:
typeset

Content Information

Synopsis:
A series of contrasts between the romantic view of the world and stark realism.

Hysterical Historical Quizzical Quiz (Table of Contents)

comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:
Jack Davis
Pencils:
Jack Davis
Inks:
Jack Davis
Colors:
?
Letters:
typeset

Content Information

Genre:
humor
Synopsis:
A quiz involving historical events, with fake answers.

Belief It or Not! (Table of Contents)

filler / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:
Jack Davis
Pencils:
Jack Davis
Inks:
Jack Davis
Colors:
?
Letters:
Jack Davis ?

Content Information

Genre:
humor
Synopsis:
Parody of the "Believe It or Not" newspaper panel.

[The Lion Tamer] (Table of Contents)

A Yak Yak / filler / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:
Jack Davis
Pencils:
Jack Davis
Inks:
Jack Davis
Colors:
?
Letters:
typeset

Content Information

Genre:
humor
Synopsis:
A lion takes the lion-tamer's chair and sits in it.

Status Midget (Table of Contents)

filler / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:
Jack Davis
Pencils:
Jack Davis
Inks:
Jack Davis
Letters:
typeset

Content Information

Genre:
humor
Synopsis:
Parody ad for Status Midget sports car.

Indexer Notes

Inside back cover; black and white.


[Man in the Moon] (Table of Contents)

illustration / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Pencils:
Jack Davis (painting?)
Inks:
Jack Davis (painting?)
Colors:
Jack Davis (painting?)

Indexer Notes

Back cover. Resolution of situation from front cover. Mostly monochrome blue, may be a water-color painting.


Editing

Table of Contents

  1. 1. Sufferin Pain Reliever
  2. 2. [Table of Contents]
  3. 3. TV for All
  4. 4. [Take Me to Your Leader]
    A Yak Yak
  5. 5. Skin-Diving
  6. 6. [The Caddy]
    A Yak Yak
  7. 7. It Could Be Wurst
  8. 8. [Hair Restorer]
    A Yak Yak
  9. 9. A Yak Yak Prediction
  10. 10. How to Identify Road-Nuts!
  11. 11. [Snake-bite Medicine]
    A Yak Yak
  12. 12. Romance/Realism
  13. 13. Hysterical Historical Quizzical Quiz
  14. 14. Belief It or Not!
  15. 15. [The Lion Tamer]
    A Yak Yak
  16. 16. Status Midget
  17. 17. [Man in the Moon]
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