The Adventures of Bob Hope #43

(February-March 1957)

[We'll ripple your body with muscles...] (Table of Contents)

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Ad for The National Sports Council

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Inside front cover; black and white

[Right! for sixty-five thousand dollars!] (Table of Contents)

Bob Hope / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

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Script:

Cal Howard?

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Owen Fitzgerald

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Graham Place?

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Genre:

humor

Characters:

Bob Hope; Mrs. Peabody; Carolyn Spooner; Professor Spooner

Synopsis:

Bob Hope hopes to become a contestant on "The $65,000 Question" to make money. He accidentally strikes Carolyn Spooner with his yo-yo. She takes him to the lab of her father, who puts him into a time machine and sends him into the future. He encounters his rich, grateful landlady, Mrs. Peabody.

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celebrity

[Take it from a champion race driver] (Table of Contents)

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Ad for ANF Roadmaster bicycles

Cartoon Criss-Cross (Table of Contents)

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Combination crossword puzzle and acrostic

Wildroot Cream-Oil gives you confidence (Table of Contents)

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Wildroot Cream-Oil ad with single-panel cartoon

Winter sports champions of the world (Table of Contents)

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Genre:

non-fiction

Synopsis:

Feature on 1956 Winter Olympics

[But why should I hit you, Mr. Hope...] (Table of Contents)

Bob Hope / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

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Script:

Cal Howard?

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Owen Fitzgerald

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Graham Place?

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Genre:

humor

Characters:

Bob Hope; Mrs. Peabody; Carolyn Spooner; Professor Spooner

Synopsis:

[continued] Bob Hope returns from the future. Professor Spooner accidentally sends him into the past.

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celebrity

Buy Daisy fun with your Christmas money! (Table of Contents)

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Ad for Daisy Manufacturing Company's air rifles

[Ah! I'm beginning to come in for a landing...] (Table of Contents)

Bob Hope / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

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Script:

Cal Howard?

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Owen Fitzgerald

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Graham Place?

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Characters:

Bob Hope; cave girl; cave man

Synopsis:

[continued] Bob Hope lands in the prehistoric past and encounters dinosaurs, a sexy cave girl and a cave man.

[Hi, Peg! I hear you have a date with Bill Williams tomorrow!] (Table of Contents)

Peg / filler / 0.5 page (report information)

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Script:

Henry Boltinoff

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Henry Boltinoff

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Henry Boltinoff

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Henry Boltinoff

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Genre:

humor

Characters:

Peg

Synopsis:

Peg's friend chews bubble gum to keep Bill Williams from kissing her.

[We love those cough drops...] (Table of Contents)

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Ad for Smith Brothers Wild Cherry cough drops

[Ooogoo! Ooogoo Boogoo!] (Table of Contents)

Bob Hope / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

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Script:

Cal Howard?

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Owen Fitzgerald

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Graham Place?

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Genre:

humor

Characters:

Bob Hope; Mrs. Peabody; Carolyn Spooner; Professor Spooner; cave girl; cave man

Synopsis:

[continued] Bob Hope is avoids the cave man's club by ducking for his yo-yo. The cave girl knocks out the cave man and saves Bob from a pterodactyl. Bob insults her by suggesting that they "boop-boop-a-doop". She punches him and he lands back in Professor Spooner's lab. He fails to get on "The $65,000 Question", so Mrs. Peabody chases him with a club to get her rent.

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celebrity

[Father's a regular dreamboat to let me wear his shirts!] (Table of Contents)

Peg / filler / 2 pages (report information)

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Script:

Henry Boltinoff

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Henry Boltinoff

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Henry Boltinoff

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Henry Boltinoff

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Genre:

humor

Characters:

Peg; Peg's father; Clara (Peg's mother); Mr. Jones

Synopsis:

Peg wears all of her father's shirts, so he doesn't have one for a meeting with a client, Mr. Jones. Mr. Jones's daughter has also worn all his shirts.

100 Toy Soldiers $1.25 (Table of Contents)

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Ad for 100 Toy Soldiers from Josely Co.

Do you want spending money? (Table of Contents)

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Ad for selling motto plaques from Stephens Credit Sales

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Inside back cover; black and white

Junior Space Pilots on the beam! (Table of Contents)

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Ad for selling White Cloverine Salve from Wilson Chemical Co.

Indexer Notes

Art style looks like a Bazooka Joe cartoon; back cover