HA HA COMICS, published monthly and copyright, 1948, by Creston Publicatoins Corp., 420 DeSoto Ave., St. Louis 7, Missouri. Editorial Offices, 45 West 45th Street, New York 19, N. Y. Richard E. Hughes, Editor; Frederick H. Iger, Business Manager. Subscriptions (12 issues), $1.20; single copies, $.10; foreign postage extra. Entered as second class matter at the Post Office at St. Louis, Mo. No. 59, November, 1948, Printed in U.S.A.
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- Ad for Lovmee Shoes
Inside front cover
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- Ken Hultgren
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- Ken Hultgren
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- R
- Genre:
- Funny animals
- Characters:
- Izzy; Dizzy; Piggybank G. Hoggans; Uncle Looie; Jake
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- Izzy and Dizzy (bear cubs) use their magic lamp to help Uncle Looie defeat the cheater, Piggybank G. Hoggans, in the Rod and Reel Club's fishing contest.
Irregular shaped panel borders throughout the book.
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- Funny animals
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- Rodney Rabbit
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- Rodney Rabbit learns a lesson about doing his own work when he tries to steal a winter home from a porcupine.
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- Jack Bradbury ?
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- Jack Bradbury
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- Jack Bradbury
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- Genre:
- Funny animals
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- Mr. Square; Officer O'Rooney; Mr. Lucre; Slippery Sam
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- Slippery Sam tricks Mr. Square, a key-making dog, into helping him rob the Last National Bank. Mr. Square foils the robbery by inadvertently locking Sam in the vault and gets a huge reward from Mr. Lucre, the bank owner.
Originally credited here to "Ken Hultgren?", changed to Jack Bradbury because it appears on a website created by his son (http://jbrad.org/spgm-1.4.7/index.php?spgmGal=Mr_Square).
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- Ken Hultgren?
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- Genre:
- Funny animals
- Characters:
- Sam; Sam's dad
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- Sam's dad (a mouse) gets beaten up by Herkimer Ground Hogg's dad.
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- Funny animals
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- Squirrely
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- Squirrely wants to meet some new animal friends, so he leaves Mr. Jones's Woods and releases wild animals from the zoo. After creating havoc, the zoo animals are recaptured.
Artwork doesn't look like Ken Hultgren's.
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- Funny animals
- Characters:
- Charles the Cat; Clyde
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- Charles the Cat tries to mail himself to visit his rich sister in Boston, but forgets to put postage on the box.
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- Ken Hultgren
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- Ken Hultgren?
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- Genre:
- Funny animals
- Characters:
- Robespierre; Jasmine
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- Robespierre tries to figure out what kind of dog he is. Jasmine, a skunk, joins The Alley Scavengers and is disguised as a raccoon and an elephant.
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- Ken Hultgren?
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- Genre:
- Funny animals
- Characters:
- "Doc" E. Z. Duzit; Ethelbert; Barkdale
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- "Doc" E. Z. Duzit tries to stop the foxhounds from chasing a fox by disguising himself as a fox, a hound and a kangaroo.
"Doc" E. Z. Duzit uses snuff to create a cloud of dust while he disguises himself.
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- Funny animals
- Characters:
- Grizzle [Bear]; Chief of Police (bulldog); Norbert the Gorilla; Mr. Pig; Mr. Squirrel
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- The bees capture Grizzle the bear by luring him to the top of a tree with honey, then cutting the tree down.
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- Ken Hultgren?
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- Genre:
- Funny animals
- Characters:
- Shilly Mouse; Shally Mouse; Chauncey Cat
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- Shilly Mouse goes to visit his cousin at Haymow Farm. While he is gone, his cousin, a white mouse, shows up and Shally Mouse and Chauncey Cat think that he is Shilly's ghost.
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- Ad for rubber masks from Rubber-For-Molds, Inc.
Illustrated
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- Ad for body-building courses from Jowett Institute of Physical Culture
Inside back cover; illustrated with cartoon strip
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- Ad for weight reduction from The "Spot Reducer" Co.
Back cover; illustrated with photos of satisfied customers, Mary Martin and Miss Nancy Mace