([August] 1974)

The S. F. C. A., 1964? Series
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Price
1.25 USD
Pages
92
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
The S. F. C. A.
Editing
Gordon B. Love (editor, publisher); James Van Hise (assistant editor)

Issue Notes

Last issue published by G. B. Love. Cover by Don Newton is reprinted from the1974 Houstoncon Program Book. Review of 2001: A Space Odyssey. Reports on 1974 Houstoncon and Third Annual International Star Trek Convention in New York . Columns by Raymond Miller, Jeff Gorrell and Sandy Soares, John Cooper, James Van Hise, Gary Brown, Richard O'Brien, and Howard P. Siegel. Stated circulation: 1,500.

The individual issues of this series are each less than 50% comics. Only comics sequences are indexed and cover scans are accepted only if the issue has 10% indexed comics content.

[Cover - Four Color #253] (Table of Contents: 1)

Christmas with Mother Goose / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Walt Kelly
Inks
Walt Kelly
Letters
typeset

Characters
Santa Claus; The Cat and the Fiddle; Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe
Reprints
Keywords
cat; Christmas; Christmas stockings; dogs; mice; nursery rhymes; reindeer; sleighs; violins

Indexer Notes

Cover says "by Walt Kelly" on it.

[Cover - Four Color #41] (Table of Contents: 2)

Mother Goose and Nursery Rhyme Comics / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Walt Kelly
Inks
Walt Kelly

Reprints
Keywords
cradles; infants; songbirds; squirrels

[The Mine Slaves] (Table of Contents: 3)

Uncle Sam / comic story / 9 pages (report information)

Script
Will Eisner [as William E. Eisner] (credited)
Pencils
Lou Fine
Inks
Lou Fine
Letters
?

Genre
superhero
Characters
Uncle Sam; Buddy Smith; un-named storekeeper (villain); un-named mine foreman (villain)
Synopsis
After an afternoon of fishing, Uncle Sam and Buddy enter enter a town, but to their surprise, there are no men there! When they learn that the men have been kidnapped to work in a mine, they decide to investigate and free the men if at all possible.
Reprints
Keywords
Mount Borgie Mine
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 1. [Cover - Four Color #253]
    Christmas with Mother Goose
  2. 2. [Cover - Four Color #41]
    Mother Goose and Nursery Rhyme Comics
  3. 3. [The Mine Slaves]
    Uncle Sam
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