Camp Comics
#1
(February 1942)
Western,
1942 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 68
- Indicia Frequency
- Monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1941-12-01
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Whitman Publishing Company
- Editing
- ?
Issue Notes
The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1942, New Series, Vol. 37, No. 3.
[Fun Thrills Entertainment]
foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page
Indexer Notes
Four girls holding placards showing the main ingredients of the issue. Printed in black and blue on inside front cover.
[no title indexed]
Rusty O'Reilly / comic story / 12 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Reckless, adventure-loving Rusty O'Reilly...
- Genre
- adventure
- Characters
- Rusty O'Reilly (introduction); Betsy Saunders; Madam Q (spy queen); Zandusi
- Synopsis
- Rusty by mistake gets handed a roll of spy microfilm, intended for Madam Q, who is looking exactly like Rusty. Rusty and Betsy go to the lair of Zandusi claiming to be Madam Q and a new spy recruit. Paratroopers save their lives at the last minute.
[no title indexed]
Seaman Sy Wheeler / comic story / 7 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The Navy is our first line of defense!
- Genre
- humor; military
- Characters
- Seaman Sy Wheeler (introduction); Clarence (Sy's friend); Kitty (first girlfriend); Betty (second girlfriend); Herman Preevy (Kitty's fiancé); Paul Poozle (Betty's fiancé); Angelo (bear); Angelo's bear tamer
- Synopsis
- Sy gets his girl's name tattooed on his chest, and when she gets engaged to another man, he has the tattoo changed to the name of his next girlfriend. When the first girlfriend returns to Sy, desperate measures are needed. Clarence tries using hair tonic on Sy's chest in order to hide the tattoo under a mat of chest hairs.
- Reprints
in [no title indexed]
Rimfire Ferguson / comic story / 10 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Fork yore broncs, coks...
- Genre
- drama; western-frontier
- Characters
- Rimfire Ferguson (introduction); Scotty Burke (Rimfire's pal); Cole Darrow; Ruth Gaynor; Dan Darrow (Ruth's uncle)
- Synopsis
- Rimfire and Scotty stay the night at Cole Darrow's place. Rimfire chases an intruder, turning out to be Ruth looking for her uncle's will that is stashed away at Darrow's house.
[no title indexed]
Party Line / cartoon / 2 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Charles Saxon (signed as Chuck Saxon)
- Inks
- Charles Saxon (signed as Chuck Saxon)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I've been dancing with a sergeant ...
- Genre
- humor; erotica
- Synopsis
- Six more or less scantily clad young women delivering double entendres about servicemen on the phone.
How the Fighting Giants Won Their Name
comic story / 4 pages
- Genre
- war
- Synopsis
- Account of the 38th U.S. Infantry, 3rd Division and their defense of the bank of the Marne in July 1918.
Indexer Notes
Uniforms of the German soldiers and officers look more like the ones used in WWII than WWI.
Dear Joe
Camp Girl / text story / 3 pages
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- "Good" advice to servicemen about how to act in army camp.
[no title indexed]
cartoon / 0.5 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Oh, hello Margie - no we haven't anything special ...
- Genre
- humor
Indexer Notes
Two cartoons about servicemen and pretty girls.
The Sooper Sweeps, or, How To Keep Our City Clean
Hank and Lank / comic story / 11 pages
- Script
- Frank Thomas ?
- Pencils
- Frank Thomas (signed)
- Inks
- Frank Thomas (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- humor; superhero
- Characters
- Hank; Lank (introduction and origin for both); the Spirit of All Comic Avengers; "Grade A Gorilla"; the town's mayor
- Synopsis
- The gangster chief "Grade A Gorilla" corners all the milk in town so that the babies have none. The protagonists, having gained sooper powers by boiling old superhero comics in a large pot, save the day by making milk fountains, and moreover convincing the gangsters to reform.
Indexer Notes
The Spirit of All Comic Avengers looks a lot like Batman. He presents the protagonists with a Captain Marvel-like magic word: "Xntz!"
[no title indexed]
cartoon / 0.5 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- If there's anything I hate worse than a quitter ...
- Genre
- humor
Indexer Notes
Two cartoons about servicemen and pretty girls.
[no title indexed]
Bugs Bunny; Elmer Fudd / comic story / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Th' Army doctor said I was a little wunt...
- Genre
- humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Elmer Fudd; Bugs Bunny; an unnamed army doctor
- Synopsis
- Elmer wants to pass the army's medical exam, and Bugs helps him out.
Roughin' It by Samuel Clemens
comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Samuel Clemens [Mark Twain]; Ballou (friend of Clemens'); Ollendorf (friend of Clemens'); Arkansas (villain)
- Synopsis
- Clemens and his two friends get thrown out of a tavern, and decide instead to spend the night with their horses; but the stable is getting washed away by a river. They save the horses' lives and try to get to the next town, but none of them knows the way in the blizzard that blows up.
Indexer Notes
Adapted in part from Mark Twain's ROUGHING IT.
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
["and please ... see that he confines his maneuvers to the army!"]
-
1.
[Fun Thrills Entertainment]
-
2.
["Reckless, adventure-loving Rusty O'Reilly..."]
Rusty O'Reilly -
3.
["Darling, if you don't come to me at 3 oclock [sic!] ..."]
Pepsi and Pete -
4.
["The Navy is our first line of defense!"]
Seaman Sy Wheeler -
5.
["Fork yore broncs, coks..."]
Rimfire Ferguson -
6.
Rita Hayworth reveals ...
-
7.
["I've been dancing with a sergeant ..."]
Party Line -
8.
How the Fighting Giants Won Their Name
-
9.
Dear Joe
Camp Girl -
10.
How to keep peace
-
11.
["Oh, hello Margie - no we haven't anything special ..."]
-
12.
The Sooper Sweeps, or, How To Keep Our City Clean
Hank and Lank -
13.
["Of all the !!! That's the tenth car to pass up ..."]
-
14.
["If there's anything I hate worse than a quitter ..."]
-
15.
["Th' Army doctor said I was a little wunt..."]
Bugs Bunny; Elmer Fudd -
16.
$100.00 cash
-
17.
Roughin' It by Samuel Clemens
-
18.
["I thought the army was mechanized!"]
-
19.
28% less nicotine
This issue was modified by, among others
- Del Gruber
- Clint Maxwell
- Lou Mougin (R.I.P.)
- Tony R. Rose
- Claus Simonsen
- Jim Van Dore
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