Four Color
#37 - Bringing Up Father
(1944)
Dell,
1942 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 52
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
- Brand
-
A Dell Magazine
- Printer
- Printed in U.S.A.
- Editing
- ?
Issue Notes
Indicia title is "BRINGING UP FATHER, No. 37." Code number is B U F O.S. (no numbers). Copyright 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942 by King Features Syndicate, Inc.
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Bringing Up Father / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Jiggs; Maggie
- Keywords
- cabbages; wheelbarrows
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Bringing Up Father / comic story / 3 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Don't tell me you're gonna call on them - are you?
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Jiggs; Maggie; Nora
- Synopsis
- Jiggs and Maggie try to get away from a boring couple, but meet them again at the movies. A misplaced street number leads to Jiggs' furniture being taken away. Jiggs buys a present for his Aunt Susie.
- Reprints
- from Bringing Up Father (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strips from ?
Indexer Notes
Three Sundays strung together under one logo. Story starts on inside front cover in black, red, and white.
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Bringing Up Father / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- There's nothin' like bein' prepared to git out when you...
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Jiggs
- Synopsis
- Jiggs uses construction equipment to sneak out of the house.
- Reprints
- from Bringing Up Father (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1937
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Bringing Up Father / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Good night - I wonder if that woke up Maggie?
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Jiggs
- Synopsis
- Jiggs sneaks into the house after staying out late.
- Reprints
- from Bringing Up Father (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1938
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Bringing Up Father / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Well - Dugan - how about a little game of poker?
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Jiggs; Dugan; Mooney; McNeilly
- Synopsis
- Jiggs and his pals get a poker game together in a construction office hoisted high in the air by a crane.
- Reprints
- from Bringing Up Father (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from ?
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Bringing Up Father / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Mr. Colanwood - my huband is out in the garden...
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Jiggs; Maggie
- Synopsis
- The men at a party go out to the garden, where Jiggs has started a dice game.
- Reprints
- from Bringing Up Father (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1940
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Bringing Up Father / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Yes - Mr. Jiggs - you need a rest
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Jiggs; Maggie; Hortense
- Synopsis
- Jiggs' doctor prescribes a trip to the mountains, but Maggie goes instead.
- Reprints
- from Bringing Up Father (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1939
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Bringing Up Father / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- By golly, this chair must be connected in some way...
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Jiggs; Maggie
- Synopsis
- After spending much effort opening and unpacking a barrel, Jiggs discovers it was delivered to him by mistake.
- Reprints
- from Bringing Up Father (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1939
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Bringing Up Father / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- You'll just love it out here in the country
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Jiggs; Maggie
- Synopsis
- Jiggs and Maggie to a quiet cottage in the country, which is quickly overrun by relatives.
- Reprints
- from Bringing Up Father (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1939
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Bringing Up Father / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Ah - Mr. Jiggs - I haven't seen you in my bank...
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Jiggs; Maggie
- Synopsis
- Jiggs sets the gossips talking when he's seen talking to a tramp--Maggie's brother.
- Reprints
- from Bringing up Father (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1938
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Bringing Up Father / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Shut up - I know the Macamacks would have come over...
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Jiggs; Maggie
- Synopsis
- Maggie calls several couples to come for dinner but no one is home.
- Reprints
- from Bringing up Father (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1940
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Bringing Up Father / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The song isn't so hot either
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Jiggs; Maggie
- Synopsis
- Maggie has a musicale and the next day Jiggs asks his doctor to recommend a trip to seashore so he won't have to see those people again.
- Reprints
- from Bringing up Father (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from ?
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Bringing Up Father / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Why - yes - Mr. Horace Shue - don't you know?
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Jiggs; Maggie; Nora
- Synopsis
- Jiggs waits two hours for his wife and daughter to get ready to go out, only to find that they had left over two hours earlier.
- Reprints
- from Bringing up Father (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1939
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Bringing Up Father / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I'm glad to see you take an interest in photography
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Jiggs; Maggie; Nora
- Synopsis
- Jiggs wrecks the house trying to get a photo of his dog.
- Reprints
- from Bringing up Father (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1939
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Bringing Up Father / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- My poor cousin Ackron has been arrested
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Jiggs; Maggie; Nora
- Synopsis
- Maggie's cousin escapes from jail.
- Reprints
- from Bringing up Father (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1940
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Bringing Up Father / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Did you know that Maggie invited a fat-headed...
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Jiggs; Nora
- Synopsis
- Jiggs has a construction crane remove an unwanted piano player from his house--piano and all.
- Reprints
- from Bringing up Father (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1940
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Bringing Up Father / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Come here - 'Ferocious'
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Jiggs; Ferocious (dog)
- Synopsis
- Jiggs tries to give his dog a bone.
- Reprints
- from Bringing Up Father (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1941
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Bringing Up Father / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- By golly - I wish we didn't live in this big house
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Jiggs
- Synopsis
- Jiggs' mansion is so large that he can't find his wife in it.
- Reprints
- from Bringing Up Father (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1940
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Bringing Up Father / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- You heard what I said - we are going to the...
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Jiggs; Maggie
- Synopsis
- Jiggs tries to get out of going to a penthouse party by leaving the house by a rope from an airplane.
- Reprints
- from Bringing Up Father (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1941
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Bringing Up Father / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Yes - Jerry - I'd like to come over - but I'm very sick
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Jiggs
- Synopsis
- Jiggs pretends he's sick, but ends up with a house full of well-wishers.
- Reprints
- from Bringing Up Father (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1940
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Bringing Up Father / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Maggie - will it be all right while you are...
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Jiggs; Maggie
- Synopsis
- Jiggs and Maggie keep missing connections while Maggie is going to have her hair done.
- Reprints
- from Bringing Up Father (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1941
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Bringing Up Father / comic story / 5 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Look - a letter - can it be me folks are sendin' me...
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Jiggs; Maggie; Nora
- Synopsis
- Jiggs is robbed while he's locked out of the house. Jiggs falls asleep and misses dinner. Jiggs plays poker while his wife plays bridge. Maggie's brother is collecting rubber for the war effort. Jiggs overloads his closet.
- Reprints
- from Bringing Up Father (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strips from 1941 ?
Indexer Notes
Five Sundays strung together under one logo.
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Bringing Up Father / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- No - I can't believe it - no -
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Jiggs; Maggie
- Synopsis
- A rumor about Maggie's father makes the rounds.
- Reprints
- from Bringing Up Father (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1941
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Bringing Up Father / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Do as I say - go up and tell them I refuse to listen...
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Jiggs; Maggie
- Synopsis
- Maggie is annoyed by the neighbor's record playing.
- Reprints
- from Bringing Up Father (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1941
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Bringing Up Father / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Daughter, dear - Would you mind going to the store?
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Maggie; Nora
- Synopsis
- Waiting until the last minute, Maggie orders a list of items for a party.
- Reprints
- from Bringing Up Father (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1941
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Bringing Up Father / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Mrs. Rita Bookaday just phoned and is sending...
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Jiggs; Maggie
- Synopsis
- Maggie wants to make sure Jiggs is properly dressed to meet a sophisticate.
- Reprints
- from Bringing Up Father (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1941
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Bringing Up Father / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Will you talk? What is the trouble?
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Jiggs; Maggie; Nora
- Synopsis
- Maggie is upset her name is not in the society column.
- Reprints
- from Bringing Up Father (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1941
Indexer Notes
The last panel has some gibberish in a word balloon that includes the phrase "Zeke de freak," likely a reference to McManus assistant Zeke Zekley.
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Bringing Up Father / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Tut - tut - Mr. Jiggs - take the ties with you...
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Jiggs
- Synopsis
- Jiggs tries to ditch a tough-looking character that's following him.
- Reprints
- from Bringing Up Father (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1941 ?
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Bringing Up Father / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Oh - dear - here is that book I borrowed from...
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Jiggs; Maggie
- Synopsis
- Maggie sends Jiggs to return a book, which turns into a round-robin of returning borrowed items.
- Reprints
- from Bringing Up Father (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1941
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Bringing Up Father / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Sorry - Daddy - Would you mind getting up a second?
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Jiggs; Maggie; Nora
- Synopsis
- Jiggs keeps getting disturbed while trying to take a nap.
- Reprints
- from Bringing Up Father (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1941
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Bringing Up Father / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I'm getting sick of seeing this atrocious vase
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Jiggs; Maggie
- Synopsis
- Jiggs trades a vase for a moose head.
- Reprints
- from Bringing Up Father (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1941
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Bringing Up Father / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Me wife says you have a nice house for sale...
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Jiggs; Maggie
- Synopsis
- After a real estate agent describes a country home in glorious detail, Jiggs decides to go see it in person.
- Reprints
- from Bringing Up Father (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1941
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Bringing Up Father / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- By golly - I gotta think of some excuse to get out...
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Jiggs; Maggie; Nora
- Synopsis
- Jiggs pretends to be sick to get out of going to the opera.
- Reprints
- from Bringing Up Father (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1941
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Bringing Up Father / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I'm so happy we are going on a trailer trip
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Jiggs; Maggie; Nora
- Synopsis
- Maggie packs an absurdly large amount of luggage for a trailer trip.
- Reprints
- from Bringing Up Father (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1941 ?
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Bringing Up Father / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- What kind of type-writin' is this?
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Jiggs; Maggie
- Synopsis
- Jiggs sends back a badly-typed business letter and each person passes the blame down to someone of lower status.
- Reprints
- from Bringing Up Father (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1942
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Bringing Up Father / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Daddy - don't be such an old cross-patch!
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Jiggs; Maggie; Nora
- Synopsis
- Jiggs has to take care of Mrs. Razem's daughter.
- Reprints
- from Bringing Up Father (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1941
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Bringing Up Father / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I'll go down another floor - somebody's got to complain
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Jiggs
- Synopsis
- Jiggs tries to get someone to complain about Maggie's singing.
- Reprints
- from Bringing Up Father (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1938
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Bringing Up Father / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Mother - how are the men getting along with Daddy?
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Jiggs; Maggie; Nora
- Synopsis
- Maggie has Jiggs' den redecorated with a nautical theme.
- Reprints
- from Bringing Up Father (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1941 ?
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Bringing Up Father / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Listen - you undressed eye sore - get some clothes...
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Jiggs; Maggie
- Synopsis
- Maggie has an interior decorator completely change their house.
- Reprints
- from Bringing Up Father (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from ?
[no title indexed]
Bringing Up Father / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Daddy - did you see this article in the paper about...
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Jiggs; Maggie; Nora
- Synopsis
- Jiggs tries to keep Maggie from seeing a newspaper article about a fight at Dinty Moore's.
- Reprints
- from Bringing Up Father (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1940
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Bringing Up Father / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Isn't it wonderful? I've invited the three fine noblemen...
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Jiggs; Maggie; Nora; Ella-Bella
- Synopsis
- Jiggs invites three noblemen for dinner, who turn out to be the ex-husbands of their maid.
- Reprints
- from Bringing Up Father (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1940
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Bringing Up Father / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- By golly - Jiggs - this is a fine day we picked...
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Jiggs; Maggie
- Synopsis
- Jiggs and his friend go fishing and hook a submarine.
- Reprints
- from Bringing Up Father (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strip from 1939
[no title indexed]
Bringing Up Father / comic story / 4 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Now - you're all fixed for the party today
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Jiggs; Maggie; Nora
- Synopsis
- Nora dresses a little girl as the devil and she frightens everyone in the household. Maggie tells Jiggs to clean up the lot next door. Jiggs loses his top hat to the wind and picks up someone else's. Jiggs tries to browbeat Maggie's little dog.
- Reprints
- from Bringing Up Father (King Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper strips from 1940 ?
Indexer Notes
Four Sundays strung together under one logo. Includes inside back cover in black, red, and white and back cover.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
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Bringing Up Father -
1.
["Don't tell me you're gonna call on them - are you?"]
Bringing Up Father -
2.
["There's nothin' like bein' prepared to git out when you..."]
Bringing Up Father -
3.
["Good night - I wonder if that woke up Maggie?"]
Bringing Up Father -
4.
["Well - Dugan - how about a little game of poker?"]
Bringing Up Father -
5.
["Mr. Colanwood - my huband is out in the garden..."]
Bringing Up Father -
6.
["Yes - Mr. Jiggs - you need a rest"]
Bringing Up Father -
7.
["By golly, this chair must be connected in some way..."]
Bringing Up Father -
8.
["You'll just love it out here in the country"]
Bringing Up Father -
9.
["Ah - Mr. Jiggs - I haven't seen you in my bank..."]
Bringing Up Father -
10.
["Shut up - I know the Macamacks would have come over..."]
Bringing Up Father -
11.
["The song isn't so hot either"]
Bringing Up Father -
12.
["Why - yes - Mr. Horace Shue - don't you know?"]
Bringing Up Father -
13.
["I'm glad to see you take an interest in photography"]
Bringing Up Father -
14.
["My poor cousin Ackron has been arrested"]
Bringing Up Father -
15.
["Did you know that Maggie invited a fat-headed..."]
Bringing Up Father -
16.
["Come here - 'Ferocious'"]
Bringing Up Father -
17.
["By golly - I wish we didn't live in this big house"]
Bringing Up Father -
18.
["You heard what I said - we are going to the..."]
Bringing Up Father -
19.
["Yes - Jerry - I'd like to come over - but I'm very sick"]
Bringing Up Father -
20.
["Maggie - will it be all right while you are..."]
Bringing Up Father -
21.
["Look - a letter - can it be me folks are sendin' me..."]
Bringing Up Father -
22.
["No - I can't believe it - no -"]
Bringing Up Father -
23.
["Do as I say - go up and tell them I refuse to listen..."]
Bringing Up Father -
24.
["Daughter, dear - Would you mind going to the store?"]
Bringing Up Father -
25.
["Mrs. Rita Bookaday just phoned and is sending..."]
Bringing Up Father -
26.
["Will you talk? What is the trouble?"]
Bringing Up Father -
27.
["Tut - tut - Mr. Jiggs - take the ties with you..."]
Bringing Up Father -
28.
["Oh - dear - here is that book I borrowed from..."]
Bringing Up Father -
29.
["Sorry - Daddy - Would you mind getting up a second?"]
Bringing Up Father -
30.
["I'm getting sick of seeing this atrocious vase"]
Bringing Up Father -
31.
["Me wife says you have a nice house for sale..."]
Bringing Up Father -
32.
["By golly - I gotta think of some excuse to get out..."]
Bringing Up Father -
33.
["I'm so happy we are going on a trailer trip"]
Bringing Up Father -
34.
["What kind of type-writin' is this?"]
Bringing Up Father -
35.
["Daddy - don't be such an old cross-patch!"]
Bringing Up Father -
36.
["I'll go down another floor - somebody's got to complain"]
Bringing Up Father -
37.
["Mother - how are the men getting along with Daddy?"]
Bringing Up Father -
38.
["Listen - you undressed eye sore - get some clothes..."]
Bringing Up Father -
39.
["Daddy - did you see this article in the paper about..."]
Bringing Up Father -
40.
["Isn't it wonderful? I've invited the three fine noblemen..."]
Bringing Up Father -
41.
["By golly - Jiggs - this is a fine day we picked..."]
Bringing Up Father -
42.
["Now - you're all fixed for the party today"]
Bringing Up Father
This issue was modified by, among others
- Merlin Haas
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Keith Alan Morgan
- Tony R. Rose
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