Gay Comics
#40
(October 1949)
Marvel,
1944 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1949-07-10
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- U.S.A. Comic Magazine Corp.
- Brand
-
Marvel Comic [round logo]
- Editing
- Stan Lee (editor)
Issue Notes
The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Vol. 3, Part 2, No. 2, Periodicals, 1949, p. 198, Copyright number: B216761.
[no title indexed]
Millie the Model / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee (signed as Stan Lee)
- Pencils
- Dan DeCarlo (signed as Dan DeCarlo) (see notes)
- Inks
- Rudy Lapick ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- 6198
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Are you sure we should have sailed today?
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Millie Collins; Clicker
- Synopsis
- Miller and Clicker meet Robinson Crusoe.
Indexer Notes
No character is called by name in this story.
Dan DeCarlo’s signature appears on page 6, panel 6.
[no title indexed]
Nellie the Nurse / comic story / 7 pages
- Job Number
- 6021
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- There, won't Snazzy be surprised when he comes to visit me tonight ...
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Nellie: Snazzy; Mr. Jones
- Synopsis
- Nellie needs to crack a walnut for Snazzy's cake.
Calamity Jane Rides Again
text story / 2 pages
- Job Number
- 6029
- Reprints
-
in Nellie the Nurse Comics (Marvel, 1945 series) #27 (April 1951)
-
[no title indexed]
Tessie the Typist / comic story / 7 pages
- Job Number
- 3975
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Skidsy! Are you sick?
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Tessie; Skidsy; Mr. Creeply; Tom; Mrs. Piffnpoof
Indexer Notes
Skidsy is sick, so Tessie plans to do his job at the newspaper office for him.
[no title indexed]
Lana / comic story / 5 pages
- Job Number
- 6101
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- 'Night Honey!
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Lana; Mickey
- Synopsis
- Lana is staying late at the theater to study her lines, even though the theater is haunted.
Indexer Notes
A rare example of Bill Williams not inking his own pencils.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
[Sightseeing Tours]
Millie the Model -
1.
["Are you sure we should have sailed today?"]
Millie the Model -
2.
["There, won't Snazzy be surprised when he comes to visit me tonight ..."]
Nellie the Nurse -
3.
Calamity Jane Rides Again
-
4.
["Skidsy! Are you sick?"]
Tessie the Typist -
5.
["'Night Honey!"]
Lana
This issue was modified by, among others
- Henry Andrews
- David Bruce
- Rob Johnson
- Steven Rowe
- Per Sandell
- Jim Van Dore
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