Our Gang Comics
#17
(May-June 1945)
Dell,
1942 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 52
- Indicia Frequency
- Bi-monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1945-03-30
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
- Brand
-
A Dell Magazine
- Editing
- Oskar Lebeck
[Painted Out]
Barney Bear / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Barney Bear
Indexer Notes
In black and red on inside front cover
[Professor Gravy and His Lions]
Our Gang / comic story / 12 pages
- Job Number
- O. G. #17-455
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Our Gang [Buckwheat; Froggie; Red; Janet]; Professor Hector Hannibal Horatio Gravy; Tammany (tiger); Lancelot (lion); Janet's mother; Janet's father
- Reprints
in [Ants for Supper]
Flip and Dip / comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Flip; Dip; Pa; Ma
Indexer Notes
Du Bois writer credit per 1945 Copyright Entries, Pamphlets.
[The Playroom]
Tom and Jerry / comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Tom; Jerry; Tuffy
[Squirrels and Wolves]
Wuff the Prairie Dog / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Wuff; Wuff's mother; a squirrel
Tom the Winner
[Tom and Jerry] / text story / 2 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Dan Gormley (spot illustrations)
- Inks
- Dan Gormley (spot illustrations)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Tom; Jerry; Tuffy
[The Divining Rod]
Barney Bear and Benny Burro / comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Barney Bear; Benny Burro
- Synopsis
- Barney inherits ten thousand acres of desert land and a divining rod, which leads him not to water but to oil, then gold, and finally diamonds--all of which he trades away for something to drink.
- Reprints
-
in Barks Bear Book (Editions Enfin, 1979 series) (2ème trimestre 1979) -
in Tom & Jerry (Semic, 1979 series) #2/1984 (uke 9 1984) which is reprinted - in Tom & Jerry (Semic, 1979 series) #12/1995 (uke 50 1995)
-
in Bruno Björn och Benny Burro (Epix, 1991 series) #[nn] - Vargatider (1992)
-
Indexer Notes
Art submitted on January 6, 1945. Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (M. Lilien, 1982).
Barney's address given as Cottontail Lane, Pigweeds-on-the-Springhouse, California (pg. 1, frame 4)
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
[no title indexed]
Our Gang -
1.
[Painted Out]
Barney Bear -
2.
[Professor Gravy and His Lions]
Our Gang -
3.
[Ants for Supper]
Flip and Dip -
4.
[The Playroom]
Tom and Jerry -
5.
[Squirrels and Wolves]
Wuff the Prairie Dog -
6.
Tom the Winner
[Tom and Jerry] -
7.
[The Divining Rod]
Barney Bear and Benny Burro -
8.
[Bug Haven Fire Department]
Johnny Mole -
9.
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- Alberto Becattini
- Merlin Haas
- Dave Porta
- Claus Simonsen
- Jim Van Dore
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