Army and Navy Hot Shots

(1945)

[Linda Darnell] (Table of Contents: 1)

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On inside front cover.

[Title Page and Credits] (Table of Contents: 2)

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Unusual for Harvey humor digests of the time, lists the names of all the artists in this issue.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 3)

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Going... going...

Genre

humor

Synopsis

A woman treats one boyfriend's proposal as an auction, hoping her second boyfriend will intervene.

Reprints

• in Army & Navy Fun Parade (Harvey, 1951 series) #98 (March-April 1960)

After Dark Howls (Table of Contents: 4)

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[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 5)

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O. K. - how much do you weigh?

Genre

humor

Synopsis

A sailor makes a suggestive remark to a candy salesgirl.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 6)

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Bo Brown (signed as Bo Brown)

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I've already got a girl in this port, baby, but you can be her stand-in!

Genre

humor

Synopsis

A sailor offers a woman to be a stand-in for the girl he already has at the port.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 7)

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You brute! This was mother's wedding gift to us!

Genre

humor

Synopsis

After a wife breaks a wedding gift over her husband's head she blames him for the damage.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 8)

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Did you hear about the gob who fell asleep on his watch?

Genre

humor

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 9)

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Want to really get warmed up, soldier?

Genre

humor; sports

Synopsis

A woman watching a football player suggests another way he could "warm up."

Reprints

• in Hello Buddies [Annual] (Harvey, 1948 series) #[nn-B] ([1948])
• in Fun Parade (Harvey, 1947 series) #40 (December 1948)

Keywords

football

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 10)

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Is Janie expecting you?

Genre

humor

Synopsis

Janie's mother greets a man with a ladder at her window.

Reprints

• in Hello Buddies (Harvey, 1942 series) #98 (March 1960)

Camp Pains (Table of Contents: 11)

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[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 12)

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So what's in the regulations against it?

Genre

humor

Synopsis

A sailor hired a scrubwoman to do his deck swabbing.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 13)

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It's a fascinating murder.

Genre

humor

Synopsis

In a mystery novel Scotland Yard is so baffled they turn the case over to the local police.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 14)

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Gene Rowls (signed as Gene Rowls)

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Will ya play ball with us?

Genre

humor

Synopsis

A little boy mistook his brother's comments about a woman's curves as referring to the baseball pitch.

Cheerful Earfulls (Table of Contents: 15)

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[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 16)

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You take the large economy size.

Genre

humor

Synopsis

A sailor refers to a large woman as "the large economy size."

Indexer Notes

Refers to 1940s food advertisements such as Grape Nut Flakes.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 17)

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Salo (signed as Salo)

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Nobody loves me, doctor!

Genre

humor; military

Synopsis

A sergeant tells the army psychiatrist that no one loves him.

Reprints

• in Hello Buddies (Harvey, 1942 series) #49 (Spring 1951)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 18)

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Bill Wenzel (signed as Wenzel)

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Collaborationist!!!

Genre

humor

Synopsis

A woman calls her little brother a collaborationist for turning on the lights while she's with her boyfriend.

Reprints

• in Army & Navy Fun Parade (Harvey, 1951 series) #57 (October 1952)

[Sailor and Slot Machine] (Table of Contents: 19)

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Ali (signed)

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Ali (signed)

Genre

humor; military

Synopsis

When his slot machine fails to pay out a sailor phones the company to complain, only for the telephone to pay out like a slot machine.

Reprints

• in Fun Parade (Harvey, 1947 series) #47 (Fall 1950)

After Thoughts (Table of Contents: 20)

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[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 21)

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I won't be a moment!

Genre

humor

Synopsis

A sailor with a tattoo of a woman on his chest claims he's cleaning her hair while in the shower.

Reprints

• in Hello Buddies (Harvey, 1942 series) #38 (June 1948)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 22)

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George La Mendola (signed as La Mendola)

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Going my way?

Genre

humor

Characters

General Brown

Synopsis

Moments before an unfaithful husband is about to be shot by his wife he sees the Devil standing beside him, waiting in anticipation.

Reprints

• in Hello Buddies (Harvey, 1942 series) #38 (June 1948)
which is reprinted
• in Hello Buddies (Harvey, 1942 series) #48 (Winter 1950)
which is reprinted
• in Hello Buddies (Harvey, 1942 series) #93 (May 1959)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 23)

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But we're strangers - I'd feel better if someone introduced us first.

Genre

humor; military

Synopsis

A soldier picks a fight with a sailor. The sailor objects that they're strangers.

Stop and Go (Table of Contents: 24)

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[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 25)

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Dan Brown (signed as Dan Q. Brown)

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It's my impression of a dry martini!

Genre

humor

Synopsis

A painter portrays a nude woman holding a dry martini.

[Removing Tracks] (Table of Contents: 26)

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Courtney Dunkel (signed as Dunkel)

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humor

Synopsis

A man leaves dirty tracks on a floor. The woman who just cleaned the floor makes him remove his tracks. He walks on his hands to avoid creating more tracks.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 27)

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Mess Sgt.: Do you eat steak?

Genre

humor

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 28)

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Don Fitzgerald (signed)

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Knots to you, sailor!

Genre

humor

Synopsis

A woman rejects a sailor by saying "knots to you."

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 29)

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Tell me, Bill, how can you look so clean - yet laugh so dirty?

Genre

humor

Characters

Bill

Synopsis

Bill's girlfriend wonders how he looks so clean yet laugh so dirty.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 30)

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Reamer Keller (signed as RK)

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My boss always fires me in August.

Genre

humor

Synopsis

A woman's boss fires her every August to keep himself cool.

Reprints

• in Hello Buddies (Harvey, 1942 series) #46 (Summer 1950)
which is reprinted
• in Hello Buddies (Harvey, 1942 series) #95 (September-October 1959)

Back Talk (Table of Contents: 31)

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[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 32)

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Here I am trying to be nice to you...

Genre

humor; military

Synopsis

A woman slapped a soldier in the face when he grabbed her.

Reprints

• in Army & Navy Fun Parade (Harvey, 1951 series) #57 (October 1952)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 33)

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Certainly I know right from wrong - which do you want?

Genre

humor; military

Synopsis

A woman confirms to her boyfriend that she knows right from wrong and asks which he'd prefer.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 34)

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Don't ask for details, but the Admiral had a problem...

Genre

humor

Synopsis

A sailor boasts he solved the admiral's problem. He's referring to swabbing the deck.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 35)

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Harvey Johnson (signed as Harvey Johnson)

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I'll bet you hate to do K.P.!

Genre

humor; military

Synopsis

A woman assumes an officer hates to do K.P.

Trigger Crazy (Table of Contents: 36)

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[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 37)

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That's what comes of playing tic-tac-toe on the blueprints!

Genre

humor; military

Synopsis

A tic-tac-toe game on army blueprints has resulted in the construction of a giant tic-tac-toe board in a building.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 38)

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I'll wear a red carnation so that you'll know me -

Genre

humor; military

Synopsis

A sailor with an enormous beard intends to make himself distinctive by wearing a red carnation.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 39)

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Chester Garde

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A sailor is called a 'gob' and a WAVE is a 'gab'!

Genre

humor

Synopsis

A little boy calls WAVEs "gabs."

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 40)

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Gert: How is that wrist watch I gave you?

Genre

humor

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 41)

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As you were.

Genre

humor; military

Synopsis

After her mother leaves the room a woman tells her soldier boyfriend "as you were."

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 42)

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-And this man is love-sick, so I've prescribed nurse as a tonic!

Genre

humor; medical

Synopsis

A physician prescribed a nurse as tonic for love-sickness.

Sassy Stuff (Table of Contents: 43)

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[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 44)

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Reamer Keller (signed as RK)

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Have we got faith in this?

Genre

humor

Synopsis

A perfume salesman is so certain of his product it comes with a marriage license.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 45)

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Salo (signed as Salo)

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I'm tired - do you mind if we dance this one out?

Genre

humor

Synopsis

A woman is tired of kissing and asks her boyfriend to dance out their energy.

[Parachute Handkerchief] (Table of Contents: 46)

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Ali (signed)

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Ali (signed)

Genre

humor; military

Synopsis

A woman drops a handkerchief with a tiny parachute near a soldier.

Reprints

• in Army & Navy Fun Parade (Harvey, 1951 series) #50 (August 1951)
which is reprinted
• in Army & Navy Fun Parade (Harvey, 1951 series) #89 (August 1958)

Worm Turns (Table of Contents: 47)

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[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 48)

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That flying tiger's claws needed clipping!

Genre

humor

Synopsis

A woman hit a Flying Tiger who was groping at her.

Keywords

Flying Tigers

[Killing Fly with Gun] (Table of Contents: 49)

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Courtney Dunkel (signed as Dunkel)

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Courtney Dunkel (signed as Dunkel)

Genre

humor

Synopsis

A woman pulls out a gun to shoot a fly.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 50)

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Reamer Keller (signed as RK)

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Have you ever tried counting sheep, Mr. Wilson?

Genre

humor

Characters

Mr. Wilson

Synopsis

A man complains that his girlfriend's father is still awake when he's trying to romance her.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 51)

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Roy Fish (signed as Roy Fish)

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C'mon, who cares if we do put on a few pounds?

Genre

humor

Synopsis

During wartime, no one cares if women put on a few pounds.

Listening in (Table of Contents: 52)

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[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 53)

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Well, girls, I really don't know where to begin.

Genre

humor

Synopsis

A sailor finds himself mobbed by four women.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 54)

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Maybe you'd rather play cribbage, or something?

Genre

humor

Synopsis

A woman asks her sailor boyfriend if he'd rather play cribbage than kiss her.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 55)

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How would you like to be my first mate?

Genre

humor

Synopsis

A sailor asks his girlfriend if she'd like to be his first mate.

Daffynitions (Table of Contents: 56)

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[Soldier Buys a Ring] (Table of Contents: 57)

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Chester Garde

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Chester Garde

Genre

humor; military

Synopsis

A soldier buys a ring then proposes to the clerk who sold it to him.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 58)

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Reamer Keller (signed as RK)

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So! -You came out here to save a quarter!

Genre

humor

Synopsis

A little brother is outraged that his sister and her boyfriend went outside to avoid paying him a quarter to leave them alone.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 59)

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Girl: Since when do they issue spats to soldiers?

Genre

humor

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 60)

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Oh, we were just playing Yank and Jap, sir!

Genre

humor; military

Synopsis

A male and female soldier claim they were playing 'Yank and Jap' together.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 61)

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George La Mendola (signed as La Mendola)

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How can he take after you like that?

Genre

humor

Synopsis

A sailor's son floods the bathroom to play with his toy boat.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 62)

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Walt Munson (signed as Walt Munson)

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Suppose you think you're smart making my husband instructor of the Waves!

Genre

humor; military

Synopsis

A wife is outraged that her husband is instructing the WAVEs.

Sharp Retorts (Table of Contents: 63)

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[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 64)

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Don't mind him - he's the strong silent type.

Genre

humor

Synopsis

A woman has her date chaperoned by her dog.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 65)

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Al Ross (signed as Ross)

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It's not often she's in the mood and I gotta take advantage of it!

Genre

humor

Synopsis

A man stops his car in the middle of traffic so he can enjoy romance with his girlfriend.

[Ann Miller] (Table of Contents: 66)

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Indexer Notes

On inside back cover.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 67)

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Bill Wenzel (signed as Wenzel)

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I'm the inquiring reporter from Yank... the question today is... How about a date?

Genre

humor

Synopsis

A reporter from Yank asks a woman for a date.

Indexer Notes

On back cover.