Punch and Judy Comics
#v3#2
(December 1947)
Hillman,
1944 Series
- Volume
- 3
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 52
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1947-10-20
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Hillman Periodicals Inc.
- Brand
-
A Hillman Publication
- Editing
- Ed Cronin (editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from 1946-1947 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
[no title indexed]
Punch and Judy / comic story / 12 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Hello, Uncle Tony!
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Punch; Judy; Uncle Tony; Mr. Chinstrap; April; May; June; Hermit; Ajax
- Synopsis
- Punch becomes a tourist attraction to draw customers to Mr. Chinstrap's Niagara Falls hotel.
[no title indexed]
Earl the Rich Rabbit / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Jack Kirby ?; Joe Simon ?
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby
- Inks
- Jack Kirby; Joe Simon ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Howard Ferguson
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I beg to report, Mawster Earl, we caught neighbor McSnargle in our carrot patch
- Genre
- humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Earl; McSnargle; Jeepers the butler; Mrs. McSnargle
- Synopsis
- McSnargle infiltrates Earl's fox hunt in an attempt to get a free fox-fur neckpiece for his wife.
[no title indexed]
Starry Eyes / comic story / 7 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Little Starry Eyes has been called away from Bobo's circus
- Genre
- children
- Characters
- Starry Eyes; Aunt Carrie; Uncle Henry; Lawyer Greech
- Synopsis
- Starry Eyes leaves the circus to visit her ailing Uncle Henry in Frog Hollow. Her mean Aunt Carrie and lawyer Greech scheme to eliminate Starry Eyes, who is Uncle Henry's heir.
Indexer Notes
This story ends in a semi-cliffhanger: Starry Eyes is rescued after one attempt on her life, but Aunt Carrie and Greech vow to "think of some NEW way to get rid of her."
[no title indexed]
Punch and Judy / comic story / 12 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Punch--why are you beating that poor straw doll?
- Genre
- humor; children; fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Punch; Judy; Uncle Tony; Tommy Timber; Whammy; Lilypad; Tough Stuff; Pinch; Officer Hooligan
- Synopsis
- Puppet-actor Tommy Timber arrives in town to make a movie. Punch is jealous and uses Tommy's magic typewriter to create characters for his own film, with disastrous results.
[no title indexed]
Fatsy the Teenage Pig / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Ah--as I enter the guzzle palace, I seem to find everyone busy.
- Genre
- humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Fatsy; Rollo Arsenic III "Little Poison"
- Synopsis
- Fatsy boasts he would be a better babysitter than any of his peers, but meets his match in the hyper-active Little Poison.
Indexer Notes
This feature was formerly called "Fatsy McPig" but the character has now been upgraded from a child (pig) to a teenager (pig).
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
Punch and Judy -
1.
["Hello, Uncle Tony!"]
Punch and Judy -
2.
["I beg to report, Mawster Earl, we caught neighbor McSnargle in our carrot patch"]
Earl the Rich Rabbit -
3.
["Little Starry Eyes has been called away from Bobo's circus"]
Starry Eyes -
4.
["Punch--why are you beating that poor straw doll?"]
Punch and Judy -
5.
Punch the Cloudbuster
Punch and Judy -
6.
["Ah--as I enter the guzzle palace, I seem to find everyone busy."]
Fatsy the Teenage Pig
This issue was modified by, among others
- Boris Ammerlaan
- Nick Caputo
- Steve Coates
- Jim Van Dore
- David Wilt
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