(Summer 1944)

Ace Magazines, 1944 Series
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Volume
1
Price
0.10 USD
Pages
52
Indicia Frequency
quarterly
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Ace Books Inc.
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[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

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Genre
anthropomorphic-funny animals
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Monkeyshines Table of Contents (Table of Contents: 1)

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Genre
anthropomorphic-funny animals

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

Marmaduke Monk / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

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Louis Ferstadt ?
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Louis Ferstadt ?
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First Line of Dialogue or Text
Hey Marmaduke! This guy always hits high and far!
Genre
anthropomorphic-funny animals

Indexer Notes

Art identification by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr.

Let's All Play Golf (Table of Contents: 3)

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Synopsis
Move your pencil with closed eyes from hole to hole.

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

The Gingham Dog and the Calico Cat / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

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When the clock in the kitchen strikes twelve
Genre
anthropomorphic-funny animals

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

Carrottop Cabot the Rhyming Rabbit / comic story / 3 pages (report information)

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In Monkeyshine land, which is deep in the wood, lived a small rabbit---
Genre
anthropomorphic-funny animals

More Monkeyshines (Table of Contents: 6)

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Crossword puzzle + color the picture.

Watch Your Step (Table of Contents: 7)

Nutty Squirrel / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

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Hal Lockwood (signed)
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Hal Lockwood (signed)
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Genre
anthropomorphic-funny animals
Synopsis
Nutty Squirrel reads a copy of "Four Favorites" comics and decides to become a superhero like "The Sword, Magno, Cap'n Courageous and Lightnin'." He accidentally helps capture two gangsters.

Indexer Notes

This story frequently refers to "Four Favorites" and that magazine's lineup of superheroes. However,The Sword did not appear in "Four Favorites" (in addition to Magno, Lash Lightning and Captain Courageous, the fourth "favorite" was the Unknown Soldier).

The Song of Marmaduke Monk (Table of Contents: 8)

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anthropomorphic-funny animals
Synopsis
"Sing to the tune of 'Little Brown Jug'".

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

Slick Chick / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

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Ellis Chambers [as HC] (signed)
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Ellis Chambers [as HC] (signed)
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Slick Chick gets in the groove which provokes a fight
Genre
anthropomorphic-funny animals

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

Tuffy Bear / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

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Tuffy was a bear who always dreamed of sweet things to eat
Genre
anthropomorphic-funny animals

Making Monkeyshines with a Pencil (Table of Contents: 11)

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Connect-the-dots and Let's Draw.

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

Hillbilly Goat / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

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Louis Ferstadt ?
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Louis Ferstadt ?
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First Line of Dialogue or Text
Some people spend their life working... others spend their life playing
Genre
anthropomorphic-funny animals

Indexer Notes

Art identification by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr.

Marmaduke Monk Goes Visiting (Table of Contents: 13)

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anthropomorphic-funny animals

Indexer Notes

The hand-lettered text is riddled with lots of miniature illos.

The Puzzle Corner (Table of Contents: 14)

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Rebus and maze.

The Fable of the Fox and the Crow (Table of Contents: 15)

Aesop's Fables / comic story / 3 pages (report information)

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Pencils
Ed Goggin
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Ed Goggin
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Genre
anthropomorphic-funny animals

Indexer Notes

Art identification by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr.

Family Album (Table of Contents: 16)

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Solutions to maze, rebus and crossword and "Rearrange pictures by cutting them out".
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Table of Contents
  1. 0. [no title indexed]
  2. 1. Monkeyshines Table of Contents
  3. 2. ["Hey Marmaduke! This guy always hits high and far!"]
    Marmaduke Monk
  4. 3. Let's All Play Golf
  5. 4. ["When the clock in the kitchen strikes twelve"]
    The Gingham Dog and the Calico Cat
  6. 5. ["In Monkeyshine land, which is deep in the wood, lived a small rabbit---"]
    Carrottop Cabot the Rhyming Rabbit
  7. 6. More Monkeyshines
  8. 7. Watch Your Step
    Nutty Squirrel
  9. 8. The Song of Marmaduke Monk
  10. 9. ["Slick Chick gets in the groove which provokes a fight"]
    Slick Chick
  11. 10. ["Tuffy was a bear who always dreamed of sweet things to eat"]
    Tuffy Bear
  12. 11. Making Monkeyshines with a Pencil
  13. 12. ["Some people spend their life working... others spend their life playing"]
    Hillbilly Goat
  14. 13. Marmaduke Monk Goes Visiting
  15. 14. The Puzzle Corner
  16. 15. The Fable of the Fox and the Crow
    Aesop's Fables
  17. 16. Family Album
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Tillmann Courth
  • Daniel Martinez
  • Jim Van Dore
  • David Wilt
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