Comics on Parade
#v2#12 (24)
(March 1940)
United Feature,
1938 Series
- Volume
- 2
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 64
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- United Feature Syndicate Inc.
- Editing
- ?
[no title indexed]
Grin and Bear It / cartoon / 1 page
- Genre
- humor
- Reprints
- from Grin And Bear It newspaper strip (United Feature Syndicate)
Wayne Webster and the Silver Streak
text story / 3 pages
Indexer Notes
This is the last of 5 chapters
[no title indexed]
Looy dot Dope / cartoon / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Ah! One more sign to print and my task is finished!
- Characters
- George Dilbury; Mrs. Dilbury
- Synopsis
- Dilbury attempts to shame his wife into treating him better by picketing outside their house. She joins the picket line herself, with some complaints of her own.
[no title indexed]
Looy Dot Dope / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Ah--here's a typical day's doings!
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- George Dilbury; Looy; Sgt. Slattery; El Greco Gilhooey
- Synopsis
- Dilbury reads about a "typical day" from his diary: a day which winds up with both Looy and Dilbury in jail.
[no title indexed]
Looy Dot Dope / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- O--young Lochinvar is come out of the west...
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Looy; Marie Zwitzl; Mr. Zwitzl
- Synopsis
- Inspired by a poem, Looy tries to carry Marie away "bodily," but her father has other ideas.
Stampin' Around in Salvador
activity / 2 pages
Indexer Notes
A column on stamps with ads. No credits, and no feature title
[no title indexed]
Grin and Bear It / cartoon / 1 page
- Reprints
- from Grin And Bear It newspaper strip (United Feature Syndicate)
[no title indexed]
Danny Dingle / comic story / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- And whatever you do -- Dingle -- keep insurance agents out of my office...
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Danny Dingle; Mr. Maloney; Pa Dingle; Ma Dingle
- Synopsis
- Danny's boss Maloney doesn't want to be disturbed by an insurance salesman, so Danny keeps the man out (but winds up buying multiple policies for his boss). Danny and Pa Dingle concoct a scheme to buy soap for a nickel a bar and sell them for ten cents (but they don't have a nickel to invest in their first bar).
Indexer Notes
Two separate Sunday (?) strips with a logo on each page, but the story is continued between the two.
[no title indexed]
Alice / comic story / 3 pages
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
Indexer Notes
The bottom 1/3 of each page is a separate feature, Knurl the Gnome, by the same artist
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
[no title indexed]
Tailspin Tommy -
1.
[no title indexed]
Tailspin Tommy -
2.
[no title indexed]
Abbie an' Slats -
3.
[no title indexed]
Grin and Bear It -
4.
[no title indexed]
Jasper -
5.
Wayne Webster and the Silver Streak
-
6.
Bad Luck to Break Mirror
How it Began -
7.
The Bird of Warning
Twice Told Tales -
8.
[no title indexed]
The Captain and the Kids -
9.
["Ah! One more sign to print and my task is finished!"]
Looy dot Dope -
10.
["Ah--here's a typical day's doings!"]
Looy Dot Dope -
11.
["O--young Lochinvar is come out of the west..."]
Looy Dot Dope -
12.
The Son of Tarzan
Tarzan -
13.
Stampin' Around in Salvador
-
14.
[no title indexed]
Ella Cinders -
15.
[no title indexed]
Grin and Bear It -
16.
[no title indexed]
Dynamite Dunn -
17.
[no title indexed]
Nancy -
18.
[no title indexed]
Little Mary Mixup -
19.
["And whatever you do -- Dingle -- keep insurance agents out of my office..."]
Danny Dingle -
20.
[no title indexed]
The Boomers -
21.
[no title indexed]
Unbelievable - But True -
22.
[no title indexed]
Alice -
23.
[no title indexed]
Broncho Bill -
24.
[no title indexed]
Cynical Susie -
25.
[no title indexed]
Li'l Abner -
26.
[no title indexed]
Billy Make Believe
This issue was modified by, among others
- Clint Maxwell
- Donald Dale Milne
- Keith Alan Morgan
- David Wilt
- Len Wolinsky
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