Four Color
#146 - Marge's Little Lulu
(May 1947)
Dell,
1942 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 52
- On-sale Date
- 1947-04-01
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
- Brand
-
A Dell Magazine [circle]
- Printer
- Printed in U.S.A.
- Editing
- ?
Issue Notes
Indicia title is "MARGE'S LITTLE LULU, No. 146." Code number is L.L.O.S. #146-475. Copyright 1947 by Marjorie H. Buell. On-sale date is publication date in Catalog of Copyright Entries, 1947 Pamphlets, page 42.
[no title indexed]
Little Lulu / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Little Lulu
- Reprints
-
in Marge's Little Lulu (Drawn & Quarterly, 2019 series) #[1] - Working Girl (October 2019)
-
- Keywords
- dolls
[Rock-a-bye Baby]
Little Lulu / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Little Lulu
- Synopsis
- Lulu tries to get her doll to go to sleep.
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover; black, red, and white; pantomime story.
The Kid Who Came to Dinner
Little Lulu / comic story / 8 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Bam! Bang! Take that, an' that, an' that, you rat!!!
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Little Lulu; Tubby; Mr. Moppet; Mrs. Moppet
- Synopsis
- Tubby invites himself to dinner at Lulu's house.
- Reprints
-
in Marge's Little Lulu Tubby Annual (Dell, 1953 series) #2 ([March] 1954) - in Little Lulu (Dark Horse, 2005 series) #[2] - Sunday Afternoon (June 2005)
- in Marge's Little Lulu (Drawn & Quarterly, 2019 series) #[1] - Working Girl (October 2019)
-
- Keywords
- dinner guest
Indexer Notes
Title is a takeoff on the 1939 Broadway play "The Man Who Came to Dinner."
Sunday Afternoon
Little Lulu / comic story / 10 pages
- Genre
- children; humor
- Characters
- Little Lulu; Tubby; Mrs. Moppet; Mrs. Tompkins
- Synopsis
- Lulu and Tubby go to a meadow to pick flowers for her mother.
- Reprints
- in Marge's Little Lulu On Vacation (Dell, 1954 series) #1 ([July] 1954)
- in Little Lulu (Dark Horse, 2005 series) #[2] - Sunday Afternoon (June 2005)
-
Indexer Notes
Lulu's mother's first name is Mildred in this story.
Forbidden Fruit
Little Lulu / comic story / 12 pages
- Genre
- children; humor
- Characters
- Little Lulu; Tubby; Ol' Man Gripe
- Synopsis
- Lulu and Tubby try to pick an apple from a tree on Ol' Man Gripe's lawn. That sets off a series of events that ends up with Gripe stuck in the tree, Lulu swallowing a ping pong ball, and Tubby flooding Gripe's basement.
- Reprints
Rainy Day
Little Lulu / comic story / 10 pages
- Genre
- children; humor
- Characters
- Little Lulu; Tubby; Mrs. Moppet; Mr. Trimble
- Synopsis
- On a rainy day, Lulu's and Tubby's mothers send them to the train station with umbrellas so that their fathers won't have to walk home in the rain.
- Reprints
- in Marge's Little Lulu Tubby Annual (Dell, 1953 series) #1 (March 1953)
- in Little Lulu (Dark Horse, 2005 series) #[2] - Sunday Afternoon (June 2005)
-
Indexer Notes
Tubby's father's last name is "Trimble" in this story.
Crybaby
Little Lulu / comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- children; humor
- Characters
- Little Lulu; Alvin; Mr. Moppet; Mrs. Moppet
- Synopsis
- Lulu tells Alvin a story about a time long ago when she cried all the time.
- Reprints
[Pressing a Flower]
Little Lulu / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Little Lulu
- Synopsis
- Lulu picks a book from the top shelf in a library to use to press a flower.
Indexer Notes
Inside back cover; black, red, and white; pantomime story.
[Leaving a Trail]
Little Lulu / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Little Lulu
- Synopsis
- Lulu upsets a display of oranges on the sidewalk with her toy car and they spill into the seat. The grocer trails her home by following the oranges as she throws them out of the car.
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Back cover; pantomime story.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
Little Lulu -
1.
[Rock-a-bye Baby]
Little Lulu -
2.
The Kid Who Came to Dinner
Little Lulu -
3.
Sunday Afternoon
Little Lulu -
4.
Forbidden Fruit
Little Lulu -
5.
Rainy Day
Little Lulu -
6.
Crybaby
Little Lulu -
7.
[Pressing a Flower]
Little Lulu -
8.
[Leaving a Trail]
Little Lulu
This issue was modified by, among others
- Dwayne Best
- Pat Conolly
- Lionel English
- Merlin Haas
- Jan Roar Hansen
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Bob Hughes
- Donald Dale Milne
- Keith Alan Morgan
- Lou Mougin (R.I.P.)
- Mike Nielsen
- Tony R. Rose
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