Happy Jack
#1
([August 1957])
Decker,
1957 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Decker Publications Inc.
- Brand
-
Red Top Comics
- Editing
- ?
Helpful Happy
Happy Jack / comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Happy Jack; Smith
- Synopsis
- Jack "helps" his pal Smith with some home repairs.
- Reprints
-
from Dandy Comics (EC, 1947 series) #5 (November-December 1947)
-
Indexer Notes
Smith calls Happy "Andy" on page 6. On the other pages, "Happy" and "Jack" have been inserted into the dialogue balloons replacing the character's original name "Handy Andy."
[no title indexed]
Dog Daze / comic story / 0.5 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Wait here, Wilbur!
- Genre
- humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Wilbur; Wilbur's wife
- Synopsis
- Wilbur's wife goes into a beauty parlor for a makeover.
[no title indexed]
Sandy Squirrel and His Cousins / comic story / 0.5 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Oh, golly! We can't see!
- Genre
- humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Sandy Squirrel
- Synopsis
- A lady's hat blocks Sandy and his cousins' view of a movie screen.
School Daze
text story / 2 pages
- Genre
- humor
- Reprints
- from Moon Mullins (St. John, 1949 series) #7 (February 1949)
- in Abbott and Costello Comics (St. John, 1948 series) #12 (February 1951) which is reprinted
- in Little Eva (St. John, 1952 series) #27 (July 1956)
-
A Fisherman's Tale
comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- humor
Indexer Notes
No dialogue balloons, just text at the bottom of each panel. Text is in rhyme.
Thar's Gold in Them Thar Hills
The Space Bums / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- humor; science fiction
- Characters
- Thick; Thin; Flora; Dora
- Synopsis
- Thick and Thin, egged on by their girlfriends Flora and Dora, set off for Pluto to seek their fortune in their spaceship The Flying Herring. They land on "Pluto" and return to Earth with gold cylinders--only to discover these are fire extinguishers from the Hotel Statler in New York City.
Indexer Notes
This feature appeared in at least one other comic: Crusader from Mars (Ziff-Davis, 1952 Series) #2 (Fall 1952).
Who Am I?
Sparkie / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Hi, hello! This time I'm going to be a man who lived in the Old West--
- Genre
- children; western-frontier
- Characters
- Sparkie
- Synopsis
- Sparkie asks the reader to guess which historic character he's impersonating. The answer is William F. Cody, aka "Buffalo Bill."
Indexer Notes
This feature previously appeared in Big Jon and Sparkie 1 and Sparkie 2-4 (Ziff-Davis, 1951 Series) but this story does not appear to have been reprinted from any of those issues.
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
Happy Jack -
1.
Helpful Happy
Happy Jack -
2.
["Wait here, Wilbur!"]
Dog Daze -
3.
["Oh, golly! We can't see!"]
Sandy Squirrel and His Cousins -
4.
School Daze
-
5.
A Fisherman's Tale
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6.
Thar's Gold in Them Thar Hills
The Space Bums -
7.
Who Am I?
Sparkie
This issue was modified by, among others
- Jim Van Dore
- David Wilt
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