Four Color
#99 - Smitty
(March 1946)
Dell,
1942 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 52
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Dell Publishing Co., Inc.
- Brand
-
A Dell Magazine [circle]
- Printer
- Printed in U.S.A.
- Editing
- ?
Issue Notes
Indicia title is "SMITTY, No. 99." Code number is S.O.S. #99-463. Copyright 1941 by the Chicago Tribune.
[no title indexed]
Smitty / comic story / 0.8 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Oh my! Mother's little darling is going to look spic and span!!
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Herby Smith
- Synopsis
- Herby's new teacher gets the wrong idea when she sees Herby walking to school with a policeman.
- Reprints
- from Smitty (Chicago Tribune) Sunday strip from 1941
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover; black, red, and white.
[Lovestruck]
Herby / comic story / 0.2 page
- Genre
- children
- Characters
- Herby Smith
- Synopsis
- Herby starts to write a love note but his teacher looks over his shoulder.
- Reprints
- from Herby (Chicago Tribune) Sunday strip from 1941
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover; black, red, and white; pantomime story. Companion Sunday topper to Smitty strip in Sequence 2.
[no title indexed]
Smitty / comic story / 12 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Smitty, are you drumming your fingers on the desk?
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Smitty Smith; George B. Bailey; George; Little Moose
- Synopsis
- Smitty and Mr. Bailey go to their usual North Woods fishing resort. There they bring Little Moose the Indian to live with them and try to teach him "civilized" manners.
- Reprints
- from Smitty (Chicago Tribune) daily newspaper strips from 1941
[no title indexed]
Smitty / comic story / 8 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Which one of my class lives nearest the school?
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Herby Smith; Miss Primm
- Synopsis
- Herby's parents take in his school teacher as a boarder.
- Reprints
- from Smitty (Chicago Tribune) daily newspaper strips from 1941
[no title indexed]
Smitty / comic story / 7 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Yes sir! Here it is!! The record of the champion team of 1906!!!
- Genre
- humor; sports
- Characters
- Smitty Smith; George B. Bailey
- Synopsis
- A football coach wants Mr. Bailey to give him a never-fail football play from his playing days in 1906.
- Reprints
- from Smitty (Chicago Tribune) daily newspaper strips from 1941
[no title indexed]
Smitty / comic story / 4 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Monday again! It's the old grind again after a pleasant weekend
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Smitty Smith; George B. Bailey
- Synopsis
- Mr. Bailey thinks a girl in the building across the street is flirting with him when she puts signs in the window.
- Reprints
- from Smitty (Chicago Tribune) daily newspaper strips from 1941
[no title indexed]
Smitty / comic story / 16 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Ah! A letter for me!!
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Smitty Smith; George B. Bailey; Herby Smith
- Synopsis
- Mr. Bailey puts in a Victory Garden on the roof of his office building. Later Herby tries to get up the nerve to buy a war stamp from a booth and get a kiss from a girl he likes.
- Reprints
- from Smitty (Chicago Tribune) daily newspaper strips from 1941?
Indexer Notes
Copyright in the logo is 1941, but story events make it more likely it is 1942 or later.
[no title indexed]
Smitty / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Who's trying to be funny?
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Herby Smith
- Synopsis
- Someone is writing graffiti about Herby.
- Reprints
- from Smitty (Chicago Tribune) Sunday newspaper strip from 1941
[no title indexed]
Smitty / comic story / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Aw, be a good guy and let me join the Army!
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Smitty Smith
- Synopsis
- Smitty tries to join the Army and the Navy but is turned down.
- Reprints
- from Smitty (Chicago Tribune) daily newspaper strips from 1941
Indexer Notes
Begins on inside back cover in black, red, and white and concludes on the back cover in color.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
[no title indexed]
Smitty -
1.
["Oh my! Mother's little darling is going to look spic and span!!"]
Smitty -
2.
[Lovestruck]
Herby -
3.
["Smitty, are you drumming your fingers on the desk?"]
Smitty -
4.
["Which one of my class lives nearest the school?"]
Smitty -
5.
["Yes sir! Here it is!! The record of the champion team of 1906!!!"]
Smitty -
6.
["Monday again! It's the old grind again after a pleasant weekend"]
Smitty -
7.
["Ah! A letter for me!!"]
Smitty -
8.
["Who's trying to be funny?"]
Smitty -
9.
["Aw, be a good guy and let me join the Army!"]
Smitty
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