Four Color #31 - Moon Mullins
(1943)

Dell, 1942 Series
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Price
0.10 USD
Pages
60
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
Printer
Printed in U.S.A.
Editing
?

Issue Notes

Indicia title is "MOON MULLINS, No. 31." No code number. Copyright 1938 by Chicago Tribune-N.Y. News Syndicate, Inc.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Moon Mullins / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?

Genre
humor
Characters
Moon Mullins; Kayo

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 1)

Moon Mullins / comic story / 3 pages (report information)

Script
Frank Willard
Pencils
Frank Willard
Inks
Frank Willard
Colors
?
Letters
?

First Line of Dialogue or Text
What if he was asleep? They could have woke him up and taken him home!
Genre
humor
Characters
Moon Mullins; Kayo; Lord Plushbottom; Mr. Crawfish; Mrs. Crawfish
Synopsis
Mr. and Mrs. Crawfish want Kayo to live with them.
Reprints
  • from Moon Mullins (Chicago Tribune-N.Y. News Syndicate) daily strips from 1938

Indexer Notes

Story begins on the inside front cover in black, red, and white.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 2)

Moon Mullins / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script
Frank Willard
Pencils
Frank Willard
Inks
Frank Willard
Colors
?
Letters
?

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Oh oh - There's that plain clothes cop I had that argument with...
Genre
humor
Characters
Moon Mullins; Kayo; Lord Plushbottom; Emmy; Mr. Crawfish; Mrs. Crawfish
Synopsis
Mr. and Mrs. Crawfish throw a party and hire Moon to help out.
Reprints
  • from Moon Mullins (Chicago Tribune-N.Y. News Syndicate) daily strips from 1938

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

Moon Mullins / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script
Frank Willard
Pencils
Frank Willard
Inks
Frank Willard
Colors
?
Letters
?

First Line of Dialogue or Text
What's this? Our old chum Plushbottom squandering a nickel...
Genre
humor
Characters
Moon Mullins; Lord Plushbottom; Emmy
Synopsis
Emmy accuses Lord Plushbottom of seeing another woman and he gets upset and leaves. Emmy and Moon hunt for him.
Reprints
  • from Moon Mullins (Chicago Tribune-N.Y. News Syndicate) daily strips from 1938

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 4)

Moon Mullins / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script
Frank Willard
Pencils
Frank Willard
Inks
Frank Willard
Colors
?
Letters
?

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Gee! I thought there was somethin' screwy about that-
Genre
humor
Characters
Moon Mullins; Emmy; Kayo; Lord Plushbottom; Dotty; Ambrose Plushbottom
Synopsis
Kayo comes home from the Crawfishes. Emmy finds Lord Plushbottom living in a hotel with his cousin, Sir Ambrose P.T.M. Plushbottom.
Reprints
  • from Moon Mullins (Chicago Tribune-N.Y. News Syndicate) daily strips from 1938

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

Moon Mullins / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
?

First Line of Dialogue or Text
What? Are you ashamed of me?
Genre
humor
Characters
Moon Mullins; Lord Plushbottom; Emmy; Kayo; Dotty; Ambrose Plushbottom
Synopsis
Cousin Ambrose has a dinner party and Emmy discloses that Lord Plushbottom is almost broke. That sabotages Lord Plushbottom's plan to ask Ambrose for a loan. Meanwhile Kayo and Dotty have a crush on each other, but Dotty's mother doesn't approve of her playing with Kayo.
Reprints
  • from Moon Mullins (Chicago Tribune-N.Y. News Syndicate) daily strips from 1938

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

Moon Mullins / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
?

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Dotty! Good gosh! Wot do you suppose I come all th' way out here...
Genre
humor
Characters
Emmy; Kayo; Dotty; Ambrose Plushbottom; Moon Mullins; Lord Plushbottom; Mamie; Willie
Synopsis
Dotty and her parents are having a picnic, but didn't take Kayo. Kayo goes to the country anyway and ends up at the same spot as Dotty and her parents. Dotty falls off a log into a creek and Kayo saves her.
Reprints
  • from Moon Mullins (Chicago Tribune-N.Y. News Syndicate) daily strips from 1938

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

Moon Mullins / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script
Frank Willard
Pencils
Frank Willard
Inks
Frank Willard
Colors
?
Letters
?

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Why don't I ever learn to keep that blooming mouth of mine shut?
Genre
humor
Characters
Moon Mullins; Lord Plushbottom; Emmy; Mamie; Willie; Kayo; Dotty
Synopsis
Mamie and Willie return to the Plushbottom residence.
Reprints
  • from Moon Mullins (Chicago Tribune-N.Y. News Syndicate) daily strips from 1938

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

Moon Mullins / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script
Frank Willard
Pencils
Frank Willard
Inks
Frank Willard
Colors
?
Letters
?

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Those? Them's flowers and a note of apology for Mamie's conduct...
Genre
humor
Characters
Moon Mullins; Willie; Ambrose Plushbottom; Lord Plushbottom
Synopsis
Moon goes to visit Cousin Ambrose's maid on a night Ambrose is having a dinner party.
Reprints
  • from Moon Mullins (Chicago Tribune-N.Y. News Syndicate) daily strips from 1938

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

Moon Mullins / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script
Frank Willard
Pencils
Frank Willard
Inks
Frank Willard
Colors
?
Letters
?

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Say, you guys aint cops!
Genre
humor
Characters
Moon Mullins; Kayo; Ambrose Plushbottom; Lord Plushbottom; Emmy; Kayo; Dotty; Willie; Mamie
Synopsis
Cousin Ambrose is going back to England.
Reprints
  • from Moon Mullins (Chicago Tribune-N.Y. News Syndicate) daily strips from 1938

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

Moon Mullins / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script
Frank Willard
Pencils
Frank Willard
Inks
Frank Willard
Colors
?
Letters
?

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Gee! You had oughta been home, Mamie...
Genre
humor
Characters
Moon Mullins; Mamie; Willie; Kayo
Synopsis
Willie tries to convince the insurance company he has injured his back. Mamie goes to visit her Uncle Juke and Aunt Jennie.
Reprints
  • from Moon Mullins (Chicago Tribune-N.Y. News Syndicate) daily strips from 1938

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 11)

Moon Mullins / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script
Frank Willard
Pencils
Frank Willard
Inks
Frank Willard
Colors
?
Letters
?

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Gee! We wasn't expectin' you back so soon, Mamie
Genre
humor
Characters
Moon Mullins; Mamie; Willie; Kayo; Lord Plushbottom; Emmy
Synopsis
Cousin Ambrose sends Lord Plushbottom a check for $1,500 so that he and Kayo can come to England to visit.
Reprints
  • from Moon Mullins (Chicago Tribune-N.Y. News Syndicate) daily strips from 1938

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

Moon Mullins / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script
Frank Willard
Pencils
Frank Willard
Inks
Frank Willard
Colors
?
Letters
?

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Let's go cash that check yer cousin Ambrose sent us...
Genre
humor
Characters
Moon Mullins; Lord Plushbottom; Emmy; Kayo; Mamie
Synopsis
Lord Plushbottom, Emmy, and Kayo get ready for their trip to England.
Reprints
  • from Moon Mullins (Chicago Tribune-N.Y. News Syndicate) daily strips from 1938

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

Moon Mullins / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script
Frank Willard
Pencils
Frank Willard
Inks
Frank Willard
Colors
?
Letters
?

First Line of Dialogue or Text
And I had only enough to buy three round-trip tickets
Genre
humor
Characters
Moon Mullins; Lord Plushbottom; Emmy; Mamie; Willie
Synopsis
Emmy spends Cousin Ambrose's check on clothes and a fur coat.
Reprints
  • from Moon Mullins (Chicago Tribune-N.Y. News Syndicate) daily strips from 1938

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

Moon Mullins / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script
Frank Willard
Pencils
Frank Willard
Inks
Frank Willard
Colors
?
Letters
?

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Say sailor, I was just readin' yer advertisement out there...
Genre
humor
Characters
Moon Mullins; Lord Plushbottom; Emmy; Willie; Mamie; Kayo; Dotty; Ambrose Plushbottom; Uncle Stymie
Synopsis
Lord Plushbottom, Emmy, and Kayo make the trip to England where they are met by Cousin Ambrose, his wife, Dotty, and Uncle Stymie.
Reprints
  • from Moon Mullins (Chicago Tribune-N.Y. News Syndicate) daily strips from 1938

Indexer Notes

Story continues on inside back cover in black, red, and white and concludes on back cover in color.

Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. [no title indexed]
    Moon Mullins
  2. 1. ["What if he was asleep? They could have woke him up and taken him home!"]
    Moon Mullins
  3. 2. ["Oh oh - There's that plain clothes cop I had that argument with..."]
    Moon Mullins
  4. 3. ["What's this? Our old chum Plushbottom squandering a nickel..."]
    Moon Mullins
  5. 4. ["Gee! I thought there was somethin' screwy about that-"]
    Moon Mullins
  6. 5. ["What? Are you ashamed of me?"]
    Moon Mullins
  7. 6. ["Dotty! Good gosh! Wot do you suppose I come all th' way out here..."]
    Moon Mullins
  8. 7. ["Why don't I ever learn to keep that blooming mouth of mine shut?"]
    Moon Mullins
  9. 8. ["Those? Them's flowers and a note of apology for Mamie's conduct..."]
    Moon Mullins
  10. 9. ["Say, you guys aint cops!"]
    Moon Mullins
  11. 10. ["Gee! You had oughta been home, Mamie..."]
    Moon Mullins
  12. 11. ["Gee! We wasn't expectin' you back so soon, Mamie"]
    Moon Mullins
  13. 12. ["Let's go cash that check yer cousin Ambrose sent us..."]
    Moon Mullins
  14. 13. ["And I had only enough to buy three round-trip tickets"]
    Moon Mullins
  15. 14. ["Say sailor, I was just readin' yer advertisement out there..."]
    Moon Mullins
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Merlin Haas
  • Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
  • Keith Alan Morgan