Four Color
#553 - Susie Q. Smith
(April 1954)
Dell,
1942 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
- Brand
-
Dell Comic
- Printer
- Printed in U.S.A.
- Editing
- ?
Issue Notes
Indicia title is "SUSIE Q. SMITH, No. 553." Code number is S.Q.S. O.S. #553-544. Copyright 1954 by McNaught Syndicate. Fourth of four Susie Q. Smith Four Colors. Based on the "Susie Q. Smith" newspaper strip by Jerry and Linda Walter.
[no title indexed]
Susie Q. Smith / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Susie Q. Smith; Hutch Hopkins
- Keywords
- binoculars
[Four Gags]
Cleo / cartoon / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Susie Q. Smith; Cleo Smith
- Synopsis
- Four one-panel gags involving Susie's sister Cleo.
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover; black and white. Four one-panel gags, possibly newspaper strip reprints.
[Beauty Contest]
Susie Q. Smith / comic story / 10 pages
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Susie Q. Smith; Legs O'Hara; Muscles Maloney; Hutch Hopkins; Owlie Olson; Hairbrush; Cleo Smith; Butterfly (dog)
- Synopsis
- Susie and Legs compete in a beauty contest to be the mascot of the Boys' Club.
[Crazy About Olives]
Cleo / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- children
- Characters
- Cleo Smith
- Synopsis
- Cleo is using olives as ammunition for her sling-shot.
[no title indexed]
Every Dog Has His Say / letters page / 2 pages
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Susie Q. Smith; Hutch Hopkins
- Synopsis
- Illustrated letters from teen girls complaining about teen boys; and vice versa.
Indexer Notes
Letters from Frances Yanna, Auburn, Mich.; Barbara Bivens, Evansville, Ind.; Eddie Norvind, Swissvale, Pa.; and Willard Lutz, Marietta, Ohio. These may be newspaper strip reprints.
Baby Sitter's Nightmare
Horrible Horace and Awful Arthur / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- children
- Characters
- Horrible Horace White; Awful Arthur White; Susie Q. Smith
- Synopsis
- Susie gets more than she bargained for when she plays cowboy with the boys.
[Susie Learns to Play Baseball]
Susie Q. Smith / comic story / 15 pages
- Genre
- sports; teen
- Characters
- Susie Q. Smith; Hutch Hopkins; Hairbrush; Cleo Smith; Butterfly (dog); Muscles Maloney; Owlie Olson; Smiley; Wolf Wilson
- Synopsis
- Thinking Hutch prefers playing baseball to seeing her, Susie gets Wolf Wilson to teach her baseball; but Wolf has some other lessons on his mind.
[Club Initiation]
Cleo / comic story / 3 pages
- Genre
- children
- Characters
- Cleo Smith; Susie Q. Smith; Cousin Clyde
- Synopsis
- Cleo and her friends make Cousin Clyde stay in their clubhouse at night to prove he's not scared of ghosts.
My Diary
Susie Q. Smith / comic story / 2 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Susie Q. Smith; Hungry Harris; Legs O'Hara; Caz Kelly; Butterfly (dog); Hutch Hopkins
- Synopsis
- Seven one-panel gags; one for each day of the week.
Indexer Notes
Inside back cover; black and white; continues on back cover in color. Possibly reprinted from newspaper strips.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
Susie Q. Smith -
1.
[Four Gags]
Cleo -
2.
[Beauty Contest]
Susie Q. Smith -
3.
[Crazy About Olives]
Cleo -
4.
[no title indexed]
Every Dog Has His Say -
5.
Baby Sitter's Nightmare
Horrible Horace and Awful Arthur -
6.
[Susie Learns to Play Baseball]
Susie Q. Smith -
7.
[Club Initiation]
Cleo -
8.
My Diary
Susie Q. Smith
This issue was modified by, among others
- Dwayne Best
- Shad Z. Daly
- Merlin Haas
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Michael Hoskin
- Donald Dale Milne
- Keith Alan Morgan
- Tony R. Rose
- Karsten S.
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