Four Color #563 - Rhubarb, The Millionaire Cat
(June 1954)

Dell, 1942 Series
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Price
0.10 USD
Pages
36
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Dell Publishing Co., Inc.
Brand
Dell Comic
Editing
?
Color
Color
Dimensions
Standard Golden Age U.S.; Standard Silver Age U.S.
Paper Stock
Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior
Binding
Saddle-stitched
Publishing Format
Was Ongoing Series

Issue Notes

Indicia title is "RHUBARB, THE MILLIONAIRE CAT, No. 563." Code number is RHUBARB O.S. #563-546. Copyright 1954 by Doubleday and Company, Inc. Based on the character "Rhubarb" created by H. Allen Smith. Third of three "Rhubarb" Four Colors.

Rhubarb The Millionaire Cat (Table of Contents)

Rhubarb / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
? (painting)
Inks
? (painting)
Colors
? (painting)
Genre
animal
Characters
Rhubarb (cat)
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Cats (Table of Contents: 1)

text article / 1 page (report information)

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?
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Letters
typeset
Genre
non-fiction
Synopsis
Facts about cats.

Indexer Notes

Inside front cover; black and white. Large illustration and typeset text.

Rhubarb Wins by a Whisker (Table of Contents: 2)

Rhubarb / comic story / 17 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Don Gunn
Inks
Don Gunn
Colors
?
Letters
?
Genre
animal; sports
Characters
Rhubarb (cat); Eric Yaeger; Polly Yaeger; Len Sickles
Synopsis
Rhubarb the cat is the owner of the Brooklyn professional baseball team. He and his guardians, Eric and Polly Yaeger, are in Florida for spring training. A conceited ball player, jealous of Rhubarb's celebrity status, feeds info to opposing managers so the Brooklyn team will lose its Grapefruit League games.

Indexer Notes

Art identification by Hames Ware and Mike Barrier (March 2011).

Circus Capers (Table of Contents: 3)

Rhubarb / comic story / 17 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
?
Genre
animal
Characters
Rhubarb (cat); Eric Yaeger; Polly Yaeger
Synopsis
Eric and Polly take Rhubarb to the circus, where the cat becomes part of the show. That night the cat returns to the circus and is taken captive by an unscrupulous animal trainer, who gets a hypnotist to make Rhubarb think he's a dog.

Indexer Notes

Story continues on inside back cover in black and white and concludes on the back cover in color.

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Table of Contents
  1. 0. Rhubarb The Millionaire Cat
    Rhubarb
  2. 1. Cats
  3. 2. Rhubarb Wins by a Whisker
    Rhubarb
  4. 3. Circus Capers
    Rhubarb
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