(May 1955)
Pines,
1953 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1955-03-17
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Literary Enterprises Inc.
- Brand
-
Standard Comics
- Editing
- ?
Issue Notes
On sale date as given in the copyright application as listed in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Periodicals, January-June 1955, page 43, registration number B524990.
[no title indexed]
Dennis the Menace / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Hank Ketcham (signed as Ketcham)
- Inks
- Hank Ketcham (signed as Ketcham)
- Colors
- ?
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Dennis Mitchell; Henry Mitchell; Alice Mitchell
- Reprints
- Keywords
- shaving
in 
[no title indexed]
Dennis the Menace / cartoon / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Dennis Mitchell; Alice Mitchell; Henry Mitchell
- Reprints
- from Dennis the Menace daily (The Post-Hall Syndicate, Inc.) 1954-02-11 (upper left)
- 1954-03-01 (upper right)
- 1954-02-19 (bottom left)
- 1954-02-20 (bottom right)
Indexer Notes
Cartoon date information from Hank Ketcham's Complete Dennis the Menace (Fantagraphics, 2005 Series). Inside front cover.
Happy Birthday Dennis
Dennis the Menace / comic story / 9 pages
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Dennis Mitchell; Henry Mitchell; Alice Mitchell; Punky; Tommy Anderson; Dennis' friends
- Synopsis
- Dennis gets a surprise party for his birthday.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- birthday cake; drum; jack in the box; pin the tail on the donkey; sparklers
Phone-y Dennis
Dennis the Menace / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Dennis Mitchell; Alice Mitchell; Mr. Bixby; Miss Anderson; Miss Graves; office staff
- Synopsis
- Alice, with Dennis, goes to the telephone company's office to complain about a very large bill.
- Reprints
-
in The Best of Dennis the Menace (Hallden; Fawcett, 1959 series) #1 (Summer 1959) - in Dennis the Menace Giant (Hallden; Fawcett, 1958 series) #71 - Dennis the Menace Highlights (September 1969)
- in Dennis the Menace: The Cult-Classic Comicbooks by Al Wiseman & Fred Toole (NBM, 2015 series) #[nn] ([December] 2015)
-
- Keywords
- operators; Southampton England; telephone office
Charlie and the Big Cats
text story / 2 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Al Wiseman
- Inks
- Al Wiseman
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Al Wiseman (story title); typeset
- Genre
- adventure; animal; children
- Characters
- Charlie Weston; John Weston (father); George Markey; Big Mike (lion)
- Synopsis
- Charlie wants to travel with the circus but his father, who is a part owner, wants him to stay at home and in school.
- Keywords
- animal acts; cage; circus; lions; tigers
[no title indexed]
Punky / comic story / 4 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- When are you ever going to start talking right, Punky?
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Punky; Punky's mother; Pete (cat); George (goldfish)
- Synopsis
- Punky's mother doesn't understand him, however he can communicate with the cat and a canary.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- canary; cat; goldfish; laundry; rain; turtle
Indexer Notes
Each panel has a translation for Punky and the animals.
Dennis vs. Dentist
Dennis the Menace / comic story / 6 pages
Hey, Kids! Here's a Page You Can Color!
Dennis the Menace / activity / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Dennis Mitchell; Dennis' friends
- Synopsis
- Dennis is at a friend's birthday party.
- Reprints
- from Dennis the Menace daily (The Post-Hall Syndicate, Inc.) 1954-07-23, with simplification.
- Keywords
- birthday party
Indexer Notes
Color in a full page Dennis the Menace cartoon.
Going to the Dogs
Dennis the Menace / comic story / 4 pages
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Dennis Mitchell; Alice Mitchell; Henry Mitchell; Ruff; dog owners
- Synopsis
- Dennis, along with his father, enter Ruff in dog show.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- dog show; kennel club
[no title indexed]
Dennis the Menace / cartoon / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Dennis Mitchell; Alice Mitchell; Henry Mitchell; Ruff; Tommy Anderson
- Reprints
- from Dennis the Menace daily (The Post-Hall Syndicate, Inc.) 1954-02-03 (upper left)
- 1954-01-08 (upper right)
- 1954-01-25 (bottom left)
- 1954-01-23 (bottom right)
Indexer Notes
Cartoon date information from Hank Ketcham's Complete Dennis the Menace (Fantagraphics, 2005 Series). Inside back cover.
[Gerald's big ears are almost like wings]
Baby Ruth Candy / advertisement / 1 page
- Characters
- Gerald (giraffe)
- Keywords
- giraffe
Indexer Notes
Back cover advertisement for Curtiss Candy Company's Baby Ruth candy bar.
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Table of Contents
-
0.
[no title indexed]
Dennis the Menace -
1.
[no title indexed]
Dennis the Menace -
2.
Happy Birthday Dennis
Dennis the Menace -
3.
Phone-y Dennis
Dennis the Menace -
4.
Charlie and the Big Cats
-
5.
["When are you ever going to start talking right, Punky?"]
Punky -
6.
Dennis vs. Dentist
Dennis the Menace -
7.
Hey, Kids! Here's a Page You Can Color!
Dennis the Menace -
8.
Going to the Dogs
Dennis the Menace -
9.
[no title indexed]
Dennis the Menace -
10.
[Gerald's big ears are almost like wings]
Baby Ruth Candy
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- Bill Devine
- David B. Elson
- Andrew Krieg
- Mike Nielsen
- Allen Ross
- Jim Van Dore
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