Frisky Fables #v3#8 [23]
(November 1947)

Novelty / Premium / Curtis, 1945 Series
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Volume
3
Price
0.10 USD
Pages
52
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1947-09-17
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
The Premium Group of Comics
Brand
Premium / PG
Editing
Robert Wheeler (credited as Robert D. Wheeler) (editor and general manager); Jane Spaulding Nye (credited) (managing editor); Mel Cummin (credited) (art director); 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.
FRISKY FABLES, Vol. 3, No. 8, November, 1947, published monthly by The Premium Group of Comics, a Division of The Premium Service Co. Inc., P. O. Box 1198, Independence Square, Philadelphia, Pa., editorial offices, 119 West 19th Street, New York 11, N. Y. Indexed from a scan from http://goldenagecomics.co.uk/.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Al Fago (signed)
Inks
Al Fago (signed)
Colors
?
Letters
?
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[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 1)

Friskytown News / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
? (illustration)
Inks
? (illustration)
Letters
typeset

Indexer Notes

On inside front cover.

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

Neddy Bear / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Al Fago (signed)
Inks
Al Fago (signed)
Colors
?
Letters
?
First Line of Dialogue or Text
Listen, folks...Neddy Bear is very sure there are no giants...
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[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 3)

cartoon / 0.5 page (report information)

Script
Milt Hammer (signed)
Pencils
Milt Hammer (signed)
Inks
Milt Hammer (signed)
Colors
?
Letters
?
First Line of Dialogue or Text
What's good for a guy with a bald head, huh??
Genre
humor; children

Indexer Notes

Two single panel gag comics. Below a half-page ad for Kellogg's Krumbles.

[The Milky Way] (Table of Contents: 4)

Tick, Tack and Toe / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script
? [as JCA] (signed)
Pencils
Al Eugster (credited as JCA)
Inks
Al Eugster (credited as JCA)
Colors
? [as JCA] (signed)
Letters
? [as JCA] (signed)
First Line of Dialogue or Text
Oh boy! Look at all that milk! Yum! Yum! Yum!
Genre
anthropomorphic-funny animals
Characters
Tick; Tack; Toe
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Indexer Notes

JCA stands for Jason Comic Art.

Al Eugster's art credit from his records given by Mark Mayerson at his archived webpage, "Al Eugster's Comic Book Work" (http://www.oocities.org/hollywood/boulevard/3131/comic.html, the archive from the Mayerson's defunct GeoCities website, retrieved 2 October 2020).

Title of the story was assigned by Eugster in his records to identify his work.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 5)

Diggy the Derrick / comic story / 3 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Charles W. Winter (signed)
Inks
Charles W. Winter (signed)
Colors
?
Letters
?
First Line of Dialogue or Text
We're going to work at a real swanky place today, Diggy!
Reprints

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 6)

Sniffy / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script
Milt Hammer (signed)
Pencils
Milt Hammer (signed)
Inks
Milt Hammer (signed)
Colors
?
Letters
?
First Line of Dialogue or Text
What I wouldn't give for a nice cool swim right now!
Genre
humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals

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

Bill and Koo / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
? [as JCA]
Inks
? [as JCA]
Colors
?
Letters
?
First Line of Dialogue or Text
What a beeootiful day! An' here we are working in an old cellar!
Reprints

Indexer Notes

JCA stands for Jason Comic Art.

Gordon the Tenor Frog (Table of Contents: 8)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script
Miriam Benedict
Pencils
? (illustration)
Inks
? (illustration)
Colors
?
Letters
?

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

Sniffy / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script
Milt Hammer (signed)
Pencils
Milt Hammer (signed)
Inks
Milt Hammer (signed)
Colors
?
Letters
?
First Line of Dialogue or Text
Aw, how could one little old peek hurt anybody?
Genre
humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 10)

Spunky / comic story / 6 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
Why look at the ground? The clouds are so pretty!
Genre
anthropomorphic-funny animals
Characters
Spunky; Spunky's mother
Synopsis
Because Spunky ignores his mother's advice to look before he leaps, he capsizes a canoe holding two men looking for gold. They make Spunky explore an abandoned mine, where he is threatened by a snake.
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[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 11)

Pidgy and the Magic Paint / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Harold Abbey (signed)
Inks
Harold Abbey (signed)
Colors
?
Letters
?
First Line of Dialogue or Text
What happened to the banana, Uncle Pidgy?
Reprints

The Dozing Darling! (Table of Contents: 12)

Dopsy Durvy / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
? [as JCA]
Inks
? [as JCA]
Colors
?
Letters
?
Reprints

Indexer Notes

JCA stands for Jason Comic Art.

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

Sniffy / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script
Milt Hammer (signed)
Pencils
Milt Hammer (signed)
Inks
Milt Hammer (signed)
Colors
?
Letters
?
First Line of Dialogue or Text
No bones, no nothing' today!
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. [no title indexed]
    Friskytown News
  3. 2. ["Listen, folks...Neddy Bear is very sure there are no giants..."]
    Neddy Bear
  4. 3. ["What's good for a guy with a bald head, huh??"]
  5. 4. [The Milky Way]
    Tick, Tack and Toe
  6. 5. ["We're going to work at a real swanky place today, Diggy!"]
    Diggy the Derrick
  7. 6. ["What I wouldn't give for a nice cool swim right now!"]
    Sniffy
  8. 7. ["What a beeootiful day! An' here we are working in an old cellar!"]
    Bill and Koo
  9. 8. Gordon the Tenor Frog
  10. 9. ["Aw, how could one little old peek hurt anybody?"]
    Sniffy
  11. 10. ["Why look at the ground? The clouds are so pretty!"]
    Spunky
  12. 11. ["What happened to the banana, Uncle Pidgy?"]
    Pidgy and the Magic Paint
  13. 12. The Dozing Darling!
    Dopsy Durvy
  14. 13. ["No bones, no nothing' today!"]
    Sniffy
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