(July-August 1943)
Dell,
1942 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 68
- Indicia Frequency
- Bi-Monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1943-05-28
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
- Editing
- Oskar Lebeck (editor)
[no title indexed]
cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Walt Kelly
- Inks
- Walt Kelly
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals; children
- Characters
- Jerry; Barney Bear; Our Gang
- Reprints
-
in Walt Kelly's Pogo (Hermes Press, 2014 series) #6 ([October] 2018)
-
- Keywords
- swords
[no title indexed]
Our Gang / foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Hello everybody!
- Genre
- children; humor
- Characters
- Our Gang (photograph); Tom; Jerry
- Synopsis
- A message from Tom and Jerry as they take a turn at being editors of this issue.
Indexer Notes
In black and red on inside front cover.
[no title indexed]
Our Gang / comic story / 8 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Well-hello there gang! Planting a victory garden?
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Our Gang [Mickey; Happy; Janet; Buckwheat; Froggie]; Feeney; Ham; Iggy; Mr. Tortoni, a fruit vendor
- Synopsis
- A rival gang (Feeney, Ham and Iggy) fool Our Gang into thinking that a magic water makes vegetables in no time at all.
- Reprints
[no title indexed]
Tom and Jerry / comic story / 8 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- All clear Tuffy -Tom Cat's nowhere in sight!
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Tom; Jerry; Tuffy; Dinah
- Reprints
- Keywords
- bathtubs; electric razors; flush toilets; soap; stereotyping of African Americans
in Indexer Notes
Pencils, inks, and letters credits from _John Stanley in the 1940s: A Comics Bibliography_, Frank M. Young, self-published, 2012. Previous indexer credited Dan Gormley with pencils and inks.
Gaylord Du Bois script credit as per page 76 Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books Sorted by Title compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott (1984). Gaylord Du Bois script identification by David Porta, February 2014.
[no title indexed]
Flip 'n' Dip / comic story / 8 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- If you young ones have finished dinner you can eat your bananas outdoors.
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Flip; Dip; Ma, Pa
Indexer Notes
Copyright by Oscar Lebeck.
Gaylord Du Bois script credit as per page 76 Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books Sorted by Title compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott (1984). Gaylord Du Bois script identification by David Porta, February 2014.
Billy Dollar
comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Oskar Lebeck (credited as Oscar Lebeck)
- Pencils
- Walt Kelly (credited)
- Inks
- Walt Kelly (credited)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Walt Kelly
- Genre
- humor; advocacy; children
- Characters
- Johnny; Johnny's father; Billy Dollar (a dollar bill)
- Synopsis
- Johnny's Dad takes his change and gives him a dollar bill which Johnny puts under his pillow at night. The dollar comes alive and explains how important it is to support the war effort.
Indexer Notes
Advocating the purchase of war stamps
Benny's Friend
Benny Burro / comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Benny; Stinky; a wolf
- Reprints
Summer
text story / 2 pages
- Script
- Jon Messmann (credited as John Messmann); William Brady
- Pencils
- ? (spot illustrations)
- Inks
- ? (spot illustrations)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Synopsis
- Poem and story about the season of Summer.
Barney Bear's Three Wishes
Barney Bear / comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Barney Bear; a magic lamp
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
PPrevious indexer credited the script to Gaylord Du Bois via flawed citation. See Note for Barney Bear in issue #2's index.
Social Sea Lions
text story / 3 pages
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
Indexer Notes
"As retold from the M.G.M. Pete Smith specialty"
An Adventure with the Half Jug Family
Bumbazine and Albert / comic story / 12 pages
- Genre
- humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Albert the Alligator; Bumbazine; Grampa Goat; the Half-Jug Folks
- Reprints
- in The Complete Pogo Comics (Eclipse, 1989 series) #1 (1989)
- in Walt Kelly's Pogo (Hermes Press, 2014 series) #6 ([October] 2018)
-
[Our Gang Victory Garden]
illustration / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Walt Kelly
- Inks
- Walt Kelly
- Colors
- ? (black and red)
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- children
- Characters
- Our Gang; Our Gang's goat
- Synopsis
- Full-page drawing of the Our Gang Victory Garden - find 20 mistakes.
Indexer Notes
On inside back cover.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
[no title indexed]
-
1.
["Hello everybody!"]
Our Gang -
2.
["Well-hello there gang! Planting a victory garden?"]
Our Gang -
3.
["All clear Tuffy -Tom Cat's nowhere in sight!"]
Tom and Jerry -
4.
["If you young ones have finished dinner you can eat your bananas outdoors."]
Flip 'n' Dip -
5.
Billy Dollar
-
6.
Benny's Friend
Benny Burro -
7.
Summer
-
8.
I Am the Merry Summer
-
9.
Barney Bear's Three Wishes
Barney Bear -
10.
Social Sea Lions
-
11.
An Adventure with the Half Jug Family
Bumbazine and Albert -
12.
[Our Gang Victory Garden]
-
13.
[V]
This issue was modified by, among others
- Alberto Becattini
- Nick Caputo
- Peter Croome
- Lionel English
- Gregory Fischer
- Katy Hayhurst
- Donald Dale Milne
- Dave Porta
- Mark Q
- Tony R. Rose
- Claus Simonsen
- Richard Smith
- Jim Van Dore
- Gary L. Watson (R.I.P.)
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