G.I. Joe
#29
(March 1954)
Ziff-Davis,
1951 Series
- Volume
- 4
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Ziff-Davis Publishing Company
- Brand
- A Ziff-Davis Comic
- Editing
- Herbert W. Rogoff
[no title indexed]
Service Fun / cartoon / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I said "chest out", Snodgrass!
- Genre
- humor; military
Indexer Notes
On inside front cover.
Ugly Otis
G.I. Joe / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- war
- Characters
- Pvt. Joe Burch; Sgt. Mulvaney; Pvt. Alvin Otis [Ugly Otis]; Pvt. Reilly [Ready-Money]
- Synopsis
- Alvin Otis was far from handsome, and to make matters worse, he was far from intelligent.
Indexer Notes
Irv Novick is credited to both pencils and ink on G.I. Joe, bur inking uncertain.
What a Picnic
The Yardbirds / comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Dan DeCarlo [as DeCarlo-Lapick] (signed)
- Inks
- Rudy Lapick [as DeCarlo-Lapick] (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Pvt. Windy Bragg; Pvt. Whitey Hicks; Sgt. Gruff; Colonel Stone
- Synopsis
- The Yardbirds and their girls are on a picnic in a dummy village used for target practice.
[no title indexed]
Dear Gertrude / letters page / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Somewhere in Korea
- Genre
- war
- Characters
- Pvt. Sam Cosgrove; Gertrude Cosgrove; Pvt. Orville Cot
Indexer Notes
Not an ordinary Letters page, but a continuing story told by means of letters from a G.I. to wife at home.
Helmet 779
comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- war
- Characters
- Helmet 779; Pvt. Tom Grainger; Pvt. Flip Ruskin; Pvt. Ed Foley
- Synopsis
- The story of a helmet with the number 779, and its users.
[no title indexed]
G.I. Joe's Pen Pals / letters page / 3.5 pages
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Our G.I.'s in Korea...
The Reluctant Warrior
G.I. Joe / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- war
- Characters
- Pvt. Joe Burch; Sgt. Mulvaney; Pvt. Cornelius Hoolihan [Weepy]; Pvt. Carpuccio
Indexer Notes
Uncertain, but some ears and hands could point to Drucker, and he is credited to G.I. Joe in the 50's.
Tell Me What You Want...
Stuart Greetings / advertisement / 1 page
- Synopsis
- Selling Stuart Greeting Cards can earn you money in your spare time.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
Bigger and Better...
G.I. Joe -
1.
["I said "chest out", Snodgrass!"]
Service Fun -
2.
Ugly Otis
G.I. Joe -
3.
What a Picnic
The Yardbirds -
4.
["Somewhere in Korea"]
Dear Gertrude -
5.
Helmet 779
-
6.
["Our G.I.'s in Korea..."]
G.I. Joe's Pen Pals -
7.
Borrow Money By Mail!
State Finance Company -
8.
Helping Hand
Pvt. Dopey -
9.
The Reluctant Warrior
G.I. Joe -
10.
Tell Me What You Want...
Stuart Greetings -
11.
["Say, I must be hungry!"]
Private Humor -
12.
[no title indexed]
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- Steinar Ådland
- Michael Hoskin
- Tony R. Rose
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