The Adventures of Bob Hope #89

(October-November 1964)

Smoking Is For Squares (Table of Contents)

public service announcement / 1 page (report information)

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Paulette Breen [Miss American Teenager]; Bob; Bob's friend

Synopsis:

Bob's friends insist he should try smoking, but Paulette Breen talks them out of it.

Keywords:

beauty queen; cigarette; smoking; teen; tobacco

Indexer Notes

"Published as a public service in cooperation with the National Social Welfare Assembly, coordinating organization for national health, welfare and recreation agencies of the U.S." Paulette Breen is "winner of the Palisades Amusement Park National Contest."

A Comedy Of Eras (Table of Contents)

Bob Hope / comic story / 6.66 pages (report information)

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Genre:

humor

Characters:

Bob Hope; Harvard Harvard III; Tuesday Wednesday; Professor Blinkly; Captain Wednesday

Synopsis:

Tuesday Wednesday enlists Bob to help recover her stolen Golden Gazelle statuette, which conceals a map to vast treasures. Bob uses the Professor's time machine to visit the statuette's earlier owner, Captain Wednesday, as Wednesday takes off for World War I aerial combat.

Keywords:

biplane; dog; time travel; World War I

Indexer Notes

Part 1 of a book-length story. The name of Tuesday Wednesday riffs on the name of Tuesday Weld, a popular sex symbol of the day.

["Tootsie Rolls go on and on after other candy is gone!"] (Table of Contents)

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Ad for Tootsie Roll

["Well, that's finished."] (Table of Contents)

Homer / comic story / 0.5 page (report information)

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humor

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Homer; rich kid

Synopsis:

A rich kid hires Homer to wash and wax his Matchbox model car.

Keywords:

model car

["Nothing else is Silly Putty"] (Table of Contents)

Batman / advertisement / 0.5 page (report information)

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Batman (cameo)

Synopsis:

Ad for Silly Putty

Indexer Notes

Batman in the Infantino style

["Tra la la"] (Table of Contents)

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L.C. (Lucky Charms) Leprechaun (advertising character); kids

Synopsis:

Ad for Lucky Charms cereal form General Mills; kids trap the leprechaun and steal his Lucky Charms.

Indexer Notes

Half of the ad is a comic story.

Aviator Bob, The Chicken Eagle (Table of Contents)

Bob Hope / comic story / 2.66 pages (report information)

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Genre:

humor

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Bob Hope; Harvard Harvard III; Captain Wednesday; Baron von Fluglemop

Synopsis:

Bob and Harvard get tangled up in World War I aerial combat, saved only by Harvard's machine-gunning skill. Learning that Wednesday's great-great grandfather owned the statuette, they set their time control to December 26, 1776, when Nigel crossed the Delaware with Washington.

Keywords:

biplane; dog; time travel; World War I

Indexer Notes

Part 2 of a book-length story

["What makes a Tootsie Pop so special?"] (Table of Contents)

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Ad for Tootsie Pop

["Boys and girls!"] (Table of Contents)

Superman / advertisement / 0.5 page (report information)

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Superman (cameo)

Synopsis:

Admission and discount coupons for any of 21 amusement parks nationwide

Indexer Notes

Superman in the Wayne Boring style

["Use coupon below and Bob Hope will be delivered to you regularly"] (Table of Contents)

Bob Hope / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.5 page (report information)

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Bob Hope

Synopsis:

Promo with order coupon for subscriptions to any of four DC titles

A Ridiculous St. Nick-Ulous (Table of Contents)

Bob Hope / comic story / 13.66 pages (report information)

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Bob Hope; Harvard Harvard III; George Washington; Kelly (Nigel); Hessian soldiers; Cleopatra; Mark Antony; Tuesday Wednesday

Synopsis:

Washington convinces Bob to infiltrate the Hessian camp disguised as Mrs. Santa Claus, leaving time-bomb cuckoo clocks. Learning that Antony gave the statuette to Cleopatra, Bob and Harvard travel through time to the Battle of Actium. Cleopatra shows Bob the treasure's location, in exchange for which he and Harvard attack Octavian's fleet with horrible-smelling blue cheese. Returning to 1964, Bob and Harvard learn that Cleopatra honored them with giant statues... but the statues and the treasure are now beneath an artificial lake on the Nile.

Keywords:

American Revolution; Egypt; New Jersey; Romans; time travel; Trenton

Indexer Notes

Part 3 of a three-part book-length story. The damming of the Nile echoes the controversial dam that flooded the site of the temple of Abu Simbel at the time. The entire issue springboards from the current movie spectacular "Cleopatra," starring Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and Rex Harrison -- although Antony in the story has the face of Marlon Brando.

["Are Cheerios your favorite cereal, Bullwinkle?"] (Table of Contents)

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Rocky the Flying Squirrel; Bullwinkle the Moose

Synopsis:

Ad, in comic story form, for Cheerios cereal from General Mills

Keywords:

whale

["I like chocolate fudge best!"] (Table of Contents)

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Ad for Tootsie Roll Fudge

How's Trix? (Table of Contents)

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Trix Rabbit (advertising character)

Synopsis:

Ad, in comic story form, for Trix cereal from General Mills

Keywords:

cowboy

["Hello, little girl,"] (Table of Contents)

Bebe / comic story / 0.25 page (report information)

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Genre:

humor; children

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Bebe; zookeeper

Synopsis:

Bebe is shocked to learn that a kangaroo is a native of Australia... her uncle married such a native.

Keywords:

kangaroo; zoo

["Bob's partial to gags about dogs."] (Table of Contents)

Bob's Gag Bag / text article / 0.5 page (report information)

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Genre:

humor

Synopsis:

Gags relating to Bob Hope

["100 Magnets"] (Table of Contents)

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Ad, with order coupon, for 100 magnets from Magnets

Keywords:

magnet

["132 Roman Soldiers"] (Table of Contents)

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Synopsis:

Ad, with order coupon, for toy soldiers from Roman War Soldiers

Keywords:

Romans; Rome; war

["204 Revolutionary War Soldiers"] (Table of Contents)

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Ad, with order coupon, for toy soldiers from Revolutionary War Soldiers

Keywords:

American Revolution; Revolutionary War; War of Independence

["100 Toy Soldier Set"] (Table of Contents)

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Ad, with order coupon, for toy soldiers from 100 Toy Soldiers

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war

["Brother, can YOU spare a dime?"] (Table of Contents)

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Ben Rebhuhn; Bill Butler

Synopsis:

Ad, with order coupon, for American Body Building Club

Keywords:

body building

["Boys, Girls, Men, Women"] (Table of Contents)

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Synopsis:

Ad, with order coupon, for selling Christmas cards from Wallace Brown, Inc.

Keywords:

Christmas