Sad Sack Comics
#227
(July 1972)
Harvey,
1949 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.25 USD
- Pages
- 52
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Harvey Publications Inc.
- Brand
-
Harvey Comics [Figurine]
- Editing
- Leon Harvey (credited) (editor, vice president); Alfred Harvey (credited) (managing editor, president)
[no title indexed]
Sad Sack / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; military
- Characters
- Sad Sack; Sadie Sack; Sarge; Slob Slobinski; Muttsy
Rat Race
Sad Sack / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- humor; military
- Characters
- Sad Sack; Slob Slobinski
- Synopsis
- Sack and Slob go to a run-down waterfront restaurant that is actually a front for illegal betting.
Right On!
Sad Sack / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; military
- Characters
- Sad Sack; Sarge
- Synopsis
- Sack drops a load of tomatoes on Sarge.
Sick Humor
Sad Sack / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; military
- Characters
- Sad Sack; Slob Slobinski; Sarge
- Synopsis
- Sack and Slob play a practical joke on Sarge.
Case is Cracked
Sad Sack / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- humor; military
- Characters
- Sad Sack; Roscoe; Sarge; Colonel
- Synopsis
- Sack accompanies intelligence agent parrot Roscoe on an assignment.
Teacher
Sad Sack / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; military
- Characters
- Sad Sack; Lieutenant Packrat; Sarge
- Synopsis
- Lieutenant Packrat tries to give Sack a pep talk.
Bad Timing
Sad Sack / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; military
- Characters
- Sad Sack; Slob Slobinski
- Synopsis
- Sack has two clocks, but realizes he needs a third one.
Charting the Course!
Sad Sack / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- humor; military
- Characters
- Sad Sack; Slob Slobinski; General Rockjaw; Lieutenant Packrat
- Synopsis
- General Rockjaw makes the mistake of enlisting Sack's help for an army propaganda TV special.
Just Right
Sad Sack / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; military
- Characters
- Sad Sack; Cookie; Sarge
- Synopsis
- Cookie whips up a special soup for the new Mexican-American platoon.
Counterpart
Sad Sack / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; military
- Characters
- Sad Sack; Sarge
- Synopsis
- Sarge unknowingly saves Sack from a gale-force wind.
Solid
Sad Sack / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; military
- Characters
- General Rockjaw; Lieutenant Packrat; Sad Sack
- Synopsis
- The General and the Lieutenant discuss a new type of metal.
Guessing
Sad Sack / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; military
- Characters
- Sad Sack
- Synopsis
- Sack wonders what his horoscope means.
Test Pilot
Sad Sack / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- humor; military
- Characters
- Sad Sack; Lieutenant Packrat
- Synopsis
- Lieutenant Packrat is supervising tests of new weapons, but Sack keeps getting in the way.
Forget It!
Sad Sack / text story / 1.5 pages
- Genre
- humor; military
- Characters
- Sad Sack; Sarge
- Synopsis
- Sarge sends Sack to the infirmary, but the mountain of paperwork he has to fill out makes him feel even worse.
Indexer Notes
On two 3/4-pages.
[no title indexed]
statement of ownership / 0.25 page
- Script
- Leon Harvey (credited) (vice president)
- Letters
- typeset
Clothes Make the Man!
Sad Sack / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- humor; military
- Characters
- Sad Sack; Lieutenant Packrat; Mrs. Rockjaw; General Rockjaw
- Synopsis
- Sad Sack is pressed into service as a butler at Mrs. Rockjaw's tea; this leads to him being mistaken for an ambassador.
Rest
Sad Sack / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; military
- Characters
- Sad Sack
- Synopsis
- It's Sunday, and Sad Sack is bored.
Zonko
Sad Sack / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; military
- Characters
- Sad Sack
- Synopsis
- A blow to the head leaves Sack disoriented.
Good Show
Sad Sack / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; military
- Characters
- Lieutenant Packrat; General Rockjaw; Sad Sack
- Synopsis
- Projectionist Sack plays the reels in the wrong order.
Big Deal
Sad Sack / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; military
- Characters
- Sad Sack
- Synopsis
- Sack falls for a radio advertisement.
Mighty Low
Sad Sack / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; military
- Characters
- Sad Sack; Lieutenant Packrat
- Synopsis
- Sack is feeling lower than an ant.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
Sad Sack -
1.
Rat Race
Sad Sack -
2.
Right On!
Sad Sack -
3.
Sick Humor
Sad Sack -
4.
Case is Cracked
Sad Sack -
5.
Teacher
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6.
Bad Timing
Sad Sack -
7.
Charting the Course!
Sad Sack -
8.
Just Right
Sad Sack -
9.
Counterpart
Sad Sack -
10.
Solid
Sad Sack -
11.
Guessing
Sad Sack -
12.
Test Pilot
Sad Sack -
13.
Forget It!
Sad Sack -
14.
[no title indexed]
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15.
Clothes Make the Man!
Sad Sack -
16.
Rest
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17.
Zonko
Sad Sack -
18.
Good Show
Sad Sack -
19.
Big Deal
Sad Sack -
20.
Mighty Low
Sad Sack -
21.
Save Face
Sad Sack
This issue was modified by, among others
- Joey Beretta
- Katy Hayhurst
- Jean-Francois Masse
- Mike Nielsen
- Daniel Thingvold
- Len Wolinsky
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