New Funnies #74

(April 1943)

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table of contents / 1 page (report information)

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Characters

Andy Panda; Raggedy Ann; Raggedy Andy; Li'l Eight Ball; a brownie; Felix the Cat; Billy Bee; Bonny Bee; Oswald; Mr. Twee Diddle

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Andy Panda / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script

Gaylord Du Bois (sourced)

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First Line of Dialogue or Text

Hello Hynie! What're you crying about?

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor

Characters

Andy Panda; Hynie, a circus hyena; Bazim; Simp; Slinky Slade

Indexer Notes

All non-animals depicted as real people.

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Raggedy Ann / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script

Gaylord Du Bois (sourced)

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George Kerr (sourced)

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George Kerr (sourced)

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First Line of Dialogue or Text

Aren't there any more ladyfingers at all, Raggedy Ann?

Genre

humor; children; fantasy-supernatural

Characters

Raggedy Ann; Raggedy Andy; Grampie Hoppy Toad; Sunny Bunny; Grinny Bear; a flock of fairies

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Li'l Eight Ball / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

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First Line of Dialogue or Text

Dere, dat ought to bring a lot af payin' customers in!

Genre

humor

Characters

Li'l Eight Ball; Bulldog, a bandit

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The Brownies / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

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No, that's all there is, I guess.

Genre

humor; fantasy-supernatural

Characters

The Brownies; two poor children

Indexer Notes

Easter related story.

On Cannibal Island (Table of Contents: 6)

Felix the Cat / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

Pat Sullivan (credited)

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Otto Messmer

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Otto Messmer

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Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Felix the Cat; a tribe of cannibals

Indexer Notes

Racial stereotype.

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Billy and Bonny Bee / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

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Frank Thomas (signed)

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Frank Thomas (signed)

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First Line of Dialogue or Text

The beehive bakery is filled with the delicious aroma of fresh bee bread ...

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Billy Bee; Bonny Bee; bee nurses; Barney Bee; Tippy Termite

Tadpole (Table of Contents: 8)

text story / 3 pages (report information)

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[Birthday Thief] (Table of Contents: 9)

Oswald the Rabbit / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script

Gaylord Du Bois

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First Line of Dialogue or Text

Here's the best hatchet in my store, Oswald ... and cheap at the price!

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Oswald (a child-like rabbit); Hi-yah Wahoo (a child-like Red Indian friend); Mrs. Possum (a motherly store proprietress); Toby Bear (a bear-child friend who likes to fish); Maggie Lou (a doll child friend); Mister Grizzly Bear

Synopsis

Hi-yah, taking offense, intends to boycott Oswald's proposed change of venue for his birthday party. Hi-yah praises his own hunting skill after he lifts Grizzly's seemingly abandoned bearskin coat of fur and recovers his own canoe filled with Toby and Oswald's catch of fish, but after he makes off with Mrs. Possum's birthday cakes he is found out with his swag and mends his ways, like a naughty child yielding to his peers' morally authorotative implied threat of force by aggrieved Grizzly.

Reprints

• in Omar Super-Book of Comics (Western, 1944 series) #20 ([April 30], 1946)

Keywords

American Indian; children; culture; language; Native American; tepee; tipi

Indexer Notes

Du Bois script credit as per page 75, Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books, Sorted by Title, compiled by Randal W. Scott (1985).

Du Bois's didacticism is on display here, as the generic Amercan Indian, Hi-ya Wahoo, calls his domicile a tipi, while protagonist Oswald, of mainstream culture, calls it a tepee. The variant spellings are an example of Du Bois's recurring didactic themes of both language and culture. It demonstrates respect for different cultures, and subtlely insinuates into the minds of his young readers an association of the spelling, tipi, with the Red Indian, and the dignity of his culture.

As in other Du Bois strips and stories from this period written for younger children, there is no real malice or villainy, only hurt feelings, petulance, selfishness, and the impish mischief of a misbehaving child. And, as in many of his stories in the genre, a party and theft of food are central to the narrative.

The spelling of Hi-yah is changed from previous indexer's Hi-Yah following suit from Du Bois's Little Beaver text stories in which the supporting Navajo character's name in typeset is Po-ko. And for the pun. Hi-ya, pal.

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Mister Tweedeedle / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script

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Justin Gruelle

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Justin Gruelle

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First Line of Dialogue or Text

Hello children.

Genre

fantasy-supernatural

Characters

Mr. Twee Deeddle; Dicky, Dolly, and their dog, Micky; Mr. Miller; Bertha Bunny; Humpty Dumpty; Olly Owl; old miser Meany; a flock of woodpeckers; Minie and Moe (Meany's cronies)

Keywords

Easter

Indexer Notes

Easter related story.

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promo (ad from the publisher) / pages (report information)

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promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)