Popular Comics
#144
(April-June 1948)
Dell,
1936 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- quarterly
- On-sale Date
- 1948-02-27
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
- Brand
-
A Dell Comic
- Editing
- ?
Issue Notes
Copyright, 1948, by Dell Publishing Co., Inc.
[no title indexed]
Spooky / comic story / 1 page
- Script
- Bill Holman (credited as Bill Scat Holman)
- Pencils
- Bill Holman (credited as Bill Scat Holman)
- Inks
- Bill Holman (credited as Bill Scat Holman)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Trick cameras
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
- Characters
- Spooky (a cat); Fenwick Flooky
- Reprints
- from Spooky newspaper strip (News Syndicate Co., Inc.) 1943
Indexer Notes
On inside front cover in black, white and red.
[no title indexed]
Tiny Tim / comic story / 24 pages
- Script
- Stanley Link (credited)
- Pencils
- Stanley Link (credited)
- Inks
- Stanley Link (credited)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- P.C.#144-484
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I've traveled enough for one day
- Genre
- adventure
- Characters
- Tiny Tim; Alice Giltwane [also as Alice Rockland]; David; Horace Giltwane; Mrs. Giltwane; Martha Rockland [also as Martha Hartmore (flashback)]; Dexter Thorndike; Mr. Graves; Jonathan Rockland; Mrs. Rockland; Bud; Mildred; Dan; Ruby
- Synopsis
- Tiny Tim helps bring a mother and daughter together and stops a loveless wedding.
- Reprints
- from Tiny Tim newspaper strip (Chicago Tribune, The) 1942
Chicken Killer
text story / 2 pages
- Characters
- Hattie Hoffnickle; John Wellman; Kenny Wellman; Cap (a dog); Bob Davies; Adolph (a dog)
Indexer Notes
Copr., 1948 by Robert S. Callender.
[no title indexed]
Calling All Cars / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- As the pedestrian is halfway across the street
- Genre
- crime; detective-mystery
- Characters
- Inspector Sparks; Officer Smulk; Officer Murphy; Officer Tallin; Sanchez Perez (villain, death); Boss Bullon (villain); Slimey (villain)
Indexer Notes
Copr., 1948 by Oskar Lebeck.
Call of the Wild
Spooky / comic story / 1 page
- Script
- Bill Holman (credited as Bill Scat Holman)
- Pencils
- Bill Holman (credited as Bill Scat Holman)
- Inks
- Bill Holman (credited as Bill Scat Holman)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
- Characters
- Spooky (a cat); Fenwick Flooky
- Reprints
- from Spooky newspaper strip (News Syndicate Co., Inc.) 1943
Indexer Notes
On inside back cover in black, white and red.
[no title indexed]
Spooky / comic story / 1 page
- Script
- Bill Holman (credited as Bill Scat Holman)
- Pencils
- Bill Holman (credited as Bill Scat Holman)
- Inks
- Bill Holman (credited as Bill Scat Holman)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Mechanical mice
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
- Characters
- Spooky (a cat); Fenwick Flooky
- Reprints
- from Spooky newspaper strip (News Syndicate Co., Inc.) 1943
Indexer Notes
Back cover.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
[no title indexed]
Tiny Tim -
1.
["Trick cameras"]
Spooky -
2.
["I've traveled enough for one day"]
Tiny Tim -
3.
Chicken Killer
-
4.
["As the pedestrian is halfway across the street"]
Calling All Cars -
5.
Call of the Wild
Spooky -
6.
["Mechanical mice"]
Spooky
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