Frisky Fables #v2#11 [14]
(February 1947)

Novelty / Premium / Curtis, 1945 Series
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Volume
2
Price
0.10 USD
Pages
52
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1946-12-18
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Novelty Press Division of the Premium Service Co. Inc.
Editing
Robert Wheeler (credited as Robert D. Wheeler) (editor); Jane Spaulding Nye (credited) (managing editor); Mel Cummin (credited) (art director); Helen Schmid (credited as Helen Doig Schmid) (associate editor); Al Fago (credited as Alfred V. Fago) (art consultant)

Issue Notes

On-sale date is publication date in Catalog of Copyright Entries, 1946-1947 Periodicals, page 149.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Al Fago (signed)
Inks
Al Fago (signed)
Colors
?
Letters
typeset
Genre
humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals
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Friskytown News (Table of Contents: 1)

letters page / 1 page (report information)

Letters
typeset

Indexer Notes

Inner front page

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 2)

Neddy / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Al Fago (signed)
Inks
Al Fago (signed)
Colors
?
Letters
?
First Line of Dialogue or Text
Oh, Squire! Look at all that snow!
Genre
humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals
Reprints

[Falling Flower Pot] (Table of Contents: 3)

Sniffy / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Milt Hammer (signed)
Inks
Milt Hammer (signed)
Colors
?
Letters
?
Genre
humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 4)

Dobsy Durvy / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Jason Comic Art (signed as JCA)
Inks
Jason Comic Art (signed as JCA)
Colors
?
Letters
?
First Line of Dialogue or Text
C'mon, boys! We're off to rob the rich!
Genre
humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals

The Coatless Tree (Table of Contents: 5)

text story / 1 page (report information)

Script
Mickey Marks (credited as Mickey Klar Marks)
Letters
typeset
Genre
humor

[Zany Debunks a Ghost] (Table of Contents: 6)

Zany Giraffe / comic story / 3 pages (report information)

Script
Mickey Marks (credited as Mickey Klar Marks)
Pencils
Jim Adams (signed)
Inks
Jim Adams (signed)
Colors
?
Letters
?
First Line of Dialogue or Text
The valley is haunted!
Genre
humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Writing credit from Martin O'Hearn at http://martinohearn.blogspot.com/2019/05/mickey-klar-markss-zany-giraffe.h…
Title is from Marks's papers, archived at University of Southern Mississippi.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 7)

Lee O'Lion / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Al Stahl (signed as Bruce Baker)
Inks
Al Stahl (signed as Bruce Baker)
Colors
?
Letters
?
First Line of Dialogue or Text
Imagine those kids falling for those yarns about little folks and fairies
Genre
humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals

[Buy a Sunlamp for Health] (Table of Contents: 8)

Sniffy / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Milt Hammer (signed)
Inks
Milt Hammer (signed)
Colors
?
Letters
?
Genre
humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals
Reprints

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 9)

Spunky / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Jason Comic Art (signed as JCA)
Inks
Jason Comic Art (signed as JCA)
Colors
?
Letters
?
First Line of Dialogue or Text
Well, if it isn't Spunky, the apple of my eye
Genre
humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals
Characters
Spunky; Spunky's mother
Synopsis
Spunky unknowingly teams up with a robber.
Reprints

The Walking Pin Cushion (Table of Contents: 10)

text story / 0.75 page (report information)

Script
?
Letters
typeset
Genre
humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals

Indexer Notes

Last quarter of page is "Statement of the Ownership"

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 11)

Icicle Ike / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Al Fago (signed)
Inks
Al Fago (signed)
Colors
?
Letters
?
First Line of Dialogue or Text
Phew! Gosh, I wish I was back at the south pole...
Genre
humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals
Reprints

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 12)

Chucky and Bub / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Marty Taras (signed)
Inks
Marty Taras (signed)
Colors
?
Letters
?
First Line of Dialogue or Text
Six months from today these seeds will be delicious vegetables...
Genre
humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 13)

Diggy the Derrick / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Charles W. Winter (signed)
Inks
Charles W. Winter (signed)
Colors
?
Letters
?
First Line of Dialogue or Text
Throughout the morning, Diggy hid his aches and pains...
Genre
humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals
Editing
Issue at my.comics.org
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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. [no title indexed]
  2. 1. Friskytown News
  3. 2. ["Oh, Squire! Look at all that snow!"]
    Neddy
  4. 3. [Falling Flower Pot]
    Sniffy
  5. 4. ["C'mon, boys! We're off to rob the rich!"]
    Dobsy Durvy
  6. 5. The Coatless Tree
  7. 6. [Zany Debunks a Ghost]
    Zany Giraffe
  8. 7. ["Imagine those kids falling for those yarns about little folks and fairies"]
    Lee O'Lion
  9. 8. [Buy a Sunlamp for Health]
    Sniffy
  10. 9. ["Well, if it isn't Spunky, the apple of my eye"]
    Spunky
  11. 10. The Walking Pin Cushion
  12. 11. ["Phew! Gosh, I wish I was back at the south pole..."]
    Icicle Ike
  13. 12. ["Six months from today these seeds will be delicious vegetables..."]
    Chucky and Bub
  14. 13. ["Throughout the morning, Diggy hid his aches and pains..."]
    Diggy the Derrick
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  • Pat Conolly
  • Tillmann Courth
  • Michael Hoskin
  • Clint Maxwell
  • Jim Van Dore
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