Four Color
#1348 - Yak Yak
([March-May] 1962)
Dell,
1942 Series
- Price
- 0.15 USD
- Pages
- 36
- On-sale Date
- 1962-01-09
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Dell Publishing Co., Inc.
- Brand
-
Dell [stamp]
- Editing
- ?
Issue Notes
Indicia title is "Yak Yak, No. 1348." No code number. Copyright 1962 by Western Printing & Lithographing Co.
No month is given on the cover or in the indicia. Based on the copyright dates of this issue and others in the series released around the same time, one can determine that this issue was published with other Four Color issues bearing a "March-May 1962" cover date.
On sale date is Library of Congress copyright record publication date.
No month is given on the cover or in the indicia. Based on the copyright dates of this issue and others in the series released around the same time, one can determine that this issue was published with other Four Color issues bearing a "March-May 1962" cover date.
On sale date is Library of Congress copyright record publication date.
[no title indexed]
Yak Yak / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Jack Davis (painting) (signed)
- Inks
- Jack Davis (painting) (signed)
- Colors
- Jack Davis (painting) (signed)
- Letters
- typeset
Indexer Notes
Subtitled "A Pathology of Humor" on cover.
Sufferin Pain Reliever
comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- Parody of ad for Bufferin pain releiver.
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover; black and white.
[Table of Contents]
foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Jack Davis (signed)
- Inks
- Jack Davis (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
Indexer Notes
Listed as "Volume 1, No. 2."
TV for All
comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Matt Gunn; Lester Dog
- Synopsis
- Adventures of a "singing private eye spy cowboy world traveler and wrestler from Cartoonland."
Indexer Notes
Caricatures of Alfred Hitchcock, Fidel Castro, and Nikita Khrushchev.
[Take Me to Your Leader]
A Yak Yak / filler / 1 page
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- A short space alien reacts violently when he's laughed at by a beatnik.
[The Caddy]
A Yak Yak / filler / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; sports
- Synopsis
- A clumsy golfer hits his caddy with his golf club.
It Could Be Wurst
text story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- A satire on the story of the Dutch boy and the hole in the dike.
[Hair Restorer]
A Yak Yak / filler / 1 page
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- A street peddler selling hair grower disguises himself by using some of his product.
A Yak Yak Prediction
illustration / 2 pages
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Nikita Khrushchev
- Synopsis
- Fake editorial cartoon concerning Russian Premier Nikita Krushchev.
Indexer Notes
Two-page drawing across the centerfold.
[Snake-bite Medicine]
A Yak Yak / filler / 1 page
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- A mountaineer is only allowed to drink moonshine when he's bit by a snake.
Romance/Realism
comic story / 5 pages
- Synopsis
- A series of contrasts between the romantic view of the world and stark realism.
Hysterical Historical Quizzical Quiz
comic story / 2 pages
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- A quiz involving historical events, with fake answers.
Belief It or Not!
filler / 1 page
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- Parody of the "Believe It or Not" newspaper panel.
[The Lion Tamer]
A Yak Yak / filler / 1 page
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- A lion takes the lion-tamer's chair and sits in it.
Status Midget
filler / 1 page
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- Parody ad for Status Midget sports car.
Indexer Notes
Inside back cover; black and white.
[Man in the Moon]
illustration / 1 page
- Pencils
- Jack Davis (painting?)
- Inks
- Jack Davis (painting?)
- Colors
- Jack Davis (painting?)
Indexer Notes
Back cover. Resolution of situation from front cover. Mostly monochrome blue, may be a water-color painting.
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
Yak Yak -
1.
Sufferin Pain Reliever
-
2.
[Table of Contents]
-
3.
TV for All
-
4.
[Take Me to Your Leader]
A Yak Yak -
5.
Skin-Diving
-
6.
[The Caddy]
A Yak Yak -
7.
It Could Be Wurst
-
8.
[Hair Restorer]
A Yak Yak -
9.
A Yak Yak Prediction
-
10.
How to Identify Road-Nuts!
-
11.
[Snake-bite Medicine]
A Yak Yak -
12.
Romance/Realism
-
13.
Hysterical Historical Quizzical Quiz
-
14.
Belief It or Not!
-
15.
[The Lion Tamer]
A Yak Yak -
16.
Status Midget
-
17.
[Man in the Moon]
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- Mike Nielsen
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