Marge's Little Lulu
#[1] - Working Girl
(October 2019)
Drawn & Quarterly,
2019 Series
- Price
- 29.95 USD; 34.95 CAD
- Pages
- 320
- On-sale Date
- 2019
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Juvenile Fiction
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Drawn & Quarterly
- Brand
- D & Q
- ISBN
-
978-1-77046-365-3
- Barcode
- 9781770463653
- Editing
- Frank Young (credited); Tom Devlin (credited)
Issue Notes
There is no table of contents, nor explicit listing of the sources of the reprinted stories. There is a cover gallery after the stories, but it is not explicitly stated where reprints from one issue begin and another begin. The afterword discusses the background of the feature and discusses many of the stories reprinted within, but not every story is covered.
Barcode on back cover printed without numerals beneath.
Barcode on back cover printed without numerals beneath.
- Parts of this issue are reprinted:
-
from Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #97 - Marge's Little Lulu (February 1946)
-
[no title indexed]
Little Lulu / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- humour; children
- Characters
- Lulu Moppet
- Reprints
- from Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #74 - Marge's Little Lulu (June 1945)
- Original logo and Dell trade dress replaced by new logo and trade dress
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- Keywords
- lollipop; puppy
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[End Papers]
Little Lulu / illustration / 3 pages
Indexer Notes
Repeated images of first panel from "Umbrella Battle", reprinted in its entirety elsewhere in this volume.
[Tubby pulling Lulu in a wagon]
Little Lulu / illustration / 1 page
- Genre
- humour; children
- Characters
- Lulu Moppet; Tubby Tompkins
- Keywords
- wagon
Indexer Notes
Single image on page preceding title page; illustration from first panel of "[Lulu and Tubby and a Wagon]" from Four Color (Dell, 1942) #97 (which is reprinted in full later in this book).
Marge's Little Lulu: Working Girl
credits, title page / 1 page
- Characters
- Lulu Moppet
Indexer Notes
Title page with illustration of Lulu and puppy.
Introduction
foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I grew up in the golden age of comics: the 1940s, and most particularly the five years immediately after World War II.
- Characters
- Lulu
Indexer Notes
Essay by Atwood with strip by Stanley running along the bottom.
[The Costume Party]
Little Lulu / comic story / 10 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- When are you getting your wings, Lulu?
- Genre
- humour; children
- Characters
- Lulu Moppet; Martha Moppet (Lulu's mother, first appearance); Tubby Tompkins (first appearance); Elsie Jones; Mrs. Jones (Elsie's mother; not Alvin Jones' mother); Walter
- Synopsis
- Lulu dresses as an angel for Elsie Jones' birthday party, but it's her mother's idea, not hers.
- Reprints
- from Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #74 - Marge's Little Lulu (June 1945)
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[A Bone to Pick]
Little Lulu / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humour; children
- Characters
- Lulu Moppet
- Synopsis
- Lulu's dog persists in hiding a bone under the rug.
- Reprints
- from Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #74 - Marge's Little Lulu (June 1945)
-
- Keywords
- bone; dog; wordless
Indexer Notes
Pantomime story; Story has 24 panels.
[One, Two, Three, Kick!]
Little Lulu / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humour; children
- Characters
- Lulu Moppet; Tubby Tompkins
- Synopsis
- Tubby's football flies in through an open window. Lulu tries to kick it out, but breaks the glass.
- Reprints
- from Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #74 - Marge's Little Lulu (June 1945)
-
- Keywords
- broken window; football; wordless
Indexer Notes
Pantomime story. Story has 12 panels.
Little Lulu at the Beach
Little Lulu / comic story / 10 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Hurry up Lulu! Aren't ya ready yet?
- Genre
- humour; children
- Characters
- Lulu Moppet; Tubby Tompkins
- Synopsis
- Lulu and Tubby have a series of misadventures at the beach.
- Reprints
- from Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #74 - Marge's Little Lulu (June 1945)
-
- Keywords
- beach; lifeguard
[Jingle Bells]
Little Lulu / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humour; children
- Characters
- Lulu Moppet
- Synopsis
- Lulu tries to shake a coin out of her piggy bank in time to catch the ice cream man.
- Reprints
- from Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #74 - Marge's Little Lulu (June 1945)
-
- Keywords
- ice cream truck; piggy bank; wordless
Indexer Notes
Pantomime story. Story has 16 panels. Junkman's cart is labeled "Junkie".
Little Lulu Minds Alvin
Little Lulu / comic story / 8 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Lulu!
- Genre
- humour; children
- Characters
- Lulu Moppet; Martha Moppet; Tubby Tompkins; Alvin Jones (first appearance); Mrs. Jones (first appearance; Alvin's mother); Mr. Gripe (first appearance)
- Synopsis
- Lulu has to baby-sit Alvin. She and Tubby take him to the zoo, where Alvin steals a lion's lunch.
- Reprints
- from Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #74 - Marge's Little Lulu (June 1945)
-
- Keywords
- baby sitting; lion; zoo
Indexer Notes
Alvin's surname is not specified in this story, nor for many issues hereafter. By the time it is established as Jones, Elsie Jones (no relation) from the earlier story in this issue will have disappeared from the supporting cast and "Jones" will come to refer solely to Alvin's family.
[Rockabye Baby]
Little Lulu / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humour; children
- Characters
- Lulu Moppet
- Synopsis
- Lulu takes her pet frog to the pet show in a baby carriage.
- Reprints
- from Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #74 - Marge's Little Lulu (June 1945)
-
- Keywords
- baby carriage; frog; pet show; wordless
Indexer Notes
Pantomime story. Story has 12 panels.
[Lulu and Tubby and a Wagon]
Little Lulu / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humour; children
- Characters
- Lulu Moppet; Tubby Tompkins
- Synopsis
- Lulu and Tubby take turns pulling each other in a wagon.
- Reprints
- from Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #97 - Marge's Little Lulu (February 1946)
-
- Keywords
- wagon; wordless
Indexer Notes
pantomime story
Little Lulu Enters a Contest
Little Lulu / comic story / 10 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Hi Tubby! Whatcha doing?
- Genre
- humour; children
- Characters
- Lulu Moppet; Tubby Tompkins; Martha Moppet; Tubby's gang (first appearance; all members indistinct)
- Synopsis
- Lulu makes a model airplane to fly in a contest.
- Reprints
- from Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #97 - Marge's Little Lulu (February 1946)
-
- Keywords
- model airplane
[Lulu with Water Hose]
Little Lulu / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humour; children
- Characters
- Lulu Moppet
- Synopsis
- Lulu gets in trouble when she waters the lawn with a hose.
- Reprints
- from Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #97 - Marge's Little Lulu (February 1946)
-
- Keywords
- hose; wordless
Indexer Notes
Pantomime story.
[Lulu with Horn, at Garage]
Little Lulu / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humour; children
- Characters
- Lulu Moppet
- Synopsis
- Lulu blows a horn to get the operator of a garage to raise his door for her.
- Reprints
- from Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #97 - Marge's Little Lulu (February 1946)
-
- Keywords
- garage; horn; wordless
Indexer Notes
Pantomime story.
Tubby's Travels
Little Lulu / comic story / 10 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Psssst! Hey! Psssst!
- Genre
- humour; children
- Characters
- Lulu Moppet; Tubby Tompkins
- Synopsis
- Tubby decides he wants to be a hobo.
- Reprints
- from Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #97 - Marge's Little Lulu (February 1946)
-
- Keywords
- hobo
Indexer Notes
Likely an homage to Sullivan's Travels
[Umbrella Battle]
Little Lulu / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humour; children
- Characters
- Lulu Moppet; Tubby Tompkins
- Synopsis
- Lulu and Tubby fight over an umbrella.
- Reprints
- from Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #97 - Marge's Little Lulu (February 1946)
-
- Keywords
- rain; umbrella; wordless
Indexer Notes
Pantomime story.
First panel of this story used as end paper image for front end papers; third panel used for rear end papers.
[Lulu and Tubby on Ice]
Little Lulu / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humour; children
- Characters
- Lulu Moppet; Tubby Tompkins
- Synopsis
- Lulu slides on the ice but has trouble getting up after she falls. Tubby tries to help, but falls, too.
- Reprints
- from Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #97 - Marge's Little Lulu (February 1946)
-
- Keywords
- ice; winter; wordless
Indexer Notes
Pantomime story.
Little Lulu Has Family Trouble
Little Lulu / comic story / 10 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Christopher! Here Christopher!
- Genre
- humour; children
- Characters
- Lulu Moppet; Martha Moppet; Christopher (first appearance; a female cat)
- Synopsis
- Lulu's cat Christopher has five kittens. Eventually Lulu has to give the kittens away, but the mother cat keeps retrieving them.
- Reprints
- from Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #97 - Marge's Little Lulu (February 1946)
-
- Keywords
- cat; kittens
Indexer Notes
The cat speaks when she's alone, but not when around people.
[Grate Fishing]
Little Lulu / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humour; children
- Characters
- Lulu Moppet
- Synopsis
- Lulu loses a quarter in a sidewalk grate. When she tries to fish for it with some gum on a string, she ends up with a real fish.
- Reprints
- from Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #97 - Marge's Little Lulu (February 1946)
-
- Keywords
- fish; sidewalk grate; wordless
Indexer Notes
Pantomime story.
[Out-of-Season Snowballs]
Little Lulu / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humour; children
- Characters
- Lulu Moppet
- Synopsis
- Lulu stockpiles snowballs in her refrigerator to throw when the snow has melted.
- Reprints
- from Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #97 - Marge's Little Lulu (February 1946)
-
- Keywords
- snowballs; wordless
Indexer Notes
Pantomime story.
Little Lulu Goes on a Picnic
Little Lulu / comic story / 10 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Lulu... what are you doing?
- Genre
- humour; children
- Characters
- Lulu Moppet; Tubby Tompkins; Martha Moppet
- Synopsis
- Lulu and Tubby go on a picnic and meet up with a bear.
- Reprints
- from Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #97 - Marge's Little Lulu (February 1946)
-
- Keywords
- bear; picnic; picnic basket
[Lulu and the Leaf]
Little Lulu / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humour; children
- Characters
- Lulu Moppet
- Synopsis
- Trying to hold off winter a while longer, Lulu ties a leaf back on to a tree.
- Reprints
- from Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #97 - Marge's Little Lulu (February 1946)
-
- Keywords
- leaf; summer; winter; wordless
Indexer Notes
Pantomime story.
[Lulu and the Lollipop]
Little Lulu / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humour; children
- Characters
- Lulu Moppet
- Synopsis
- A cat steals Lulu's lollipop while she's skipping rope.
- Reprints
- from Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #97 - Marge's Little Lulu (February 1946)
-
- Keywords
- cat; jump rope; lollipop; wordless
Indexer Notes
Pantomime story.
[Lulu and the Flower]
Little Lulu / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- children; humour
- Characters
- Lulu Moppet
- Synopsis
- Lulu isn't supposed to pick the flowers in a park, but does so anyway. When she meets a policeman, she wears the flower like a hat.
- Reprints
- from Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #97 - Marge's Little Lulu (February 1946)
-
- Keywords
- flowers; police; wordless
Indexer Notes
Black, white, and red.
[Tubby and the Clothesline]
Little Lulu / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humour; children
- Characters
- Lulu Moppet; Tubby Tompkins
- Synopsis
- Tubby tries to help Lulu by hanging up the doll's dress she has washed. But he hangs on the clothesline, making it droop.
- Reprints
- from Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #97 - Marge's Little Lulu (February 1946)
-
- Keywords
- clothesline; wash tub; wordless
Indexer Notes
Pantomime story.
[Lulu at fountain]
Little Lulu / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humour; children
- Characters
- Lulu Moppet; patrolman
- Synopsis
- Lulu tries to get a drink from a fountain, but the fountain keeps changing the direction of the stream.
- Reprints
- from Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #110 - Marge's Little Lulu (June 1946)
-
- Keywords
- park; police; water fountain; wordless
Indexer Notes
Pantomime; black, white, and red.
Treasure Hunt
Little Lulu / comic story / 8 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Hi, Lulu!
- Genre
- humour; children
- Characters
- Mr. Noonan (first appearance, named for cartoonist Dan Noonan); Lulu Moppet; Tubby Tompkins
- Synopsis
- Lulu and Tubby row to an island in the lake to look for buried treasure.
- Reprints
- from Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #110 - Marge's Little Lulu (June 1946)
-
- Keywords
- island; lake; row boat; treasure
He Can't Hurt Us
Little Lulu / comic story / 8 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Hey! You let Tubby alone, you big bully!
- Genre
- humour; children
- Characters
- Willy (first appearance, villain, not the kid in Tubby's gang); Lulu Moppet; Tubby Tompkins
- Synopsis
- Lulu shows Tubby how to stand up to Willy, who is trying to bully Tub.
- Reprints
- from Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #110 - Marge's Little Lulu (June 1946)
-
- Keywords
- bully; bullying
Stuff and Nonsense
Little Lulu / comic story / 12 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Mother... your birthday is next week, isn't it?
- Genre
- humour; children
- Characters
- Lulu Moppet; Martha Moppet; Alvin Jones; Tubby Tompkins; Mr. Cartney (first appearance)
- Synopsis
- Lulu brings Edgar the horse home and leads him upstairs into her bedroom.
- Reprints
- from Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #110 - Marge's Little Lulu (June 1946)
-
- Keywords
- horse
The Working Girl
Little Lulu / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- humour; children
- Characters
- Lulu Moppet
- Synopsis
- Lulu is hired to deliver a success wreath to a customer.
- Reprints
- from Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #110 - Marge's Little Lulu (June 1946)
-
- Keywords
- delivery girl; department store; toy soldier; wordless; wreath
Indexer Notes
silent story
Lulu In Distress: A Tragedy
Little Lulu / comic story / 14 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Hey! Listen Alvin, I have to mind you today and--
- Genre
- humour; children
- Characters
- Lulu Moppet; Alvin Jones; Tubby Tompkins; The Poor Little Orphan Girl (first appearance, character in Lulu's story); an Evil Stepmother (first appearance, character in Lulu's story)
- Synopsis
- Lulu tells Alvin about when her wicked stepmother locked her in a castle tower.
- Reprints
- from Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #110 - Marge's Little Lulu (June 1946)
-
- Keywords
- story time; wicked stepmother
Indexer Notes
1st of Alvin's Storytime series
[Scottie Dog and Balloon]
Little Lulu / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humour; children
- Characters
- Lulu Moppet
- Synopsis
- Lulu blows up a long, skinny balloon. When she's done, a dog attacks it.
- Reprints
- from Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #110 - Marge's Little Lulu (June 1946)
-
- Keywords
- balloon; dog; wordless
Indexer Notes
Black, white, and red; wordless story.
[Kicking the Can]
Little Lulu / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humour; children
- Characters
- Lulu Moppet
- Synopsis
- Lulu kicks a can down the street, into her house, up the stairs, and out the window.
- Reprints
- from Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #110 - Marge's Little Lulu (June 1946)
-
- Keywords
- can; wordless
Indexer Notes
Wordless story with borderless panels.
A Problem In Box Tops
Little Lulu / comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- John Stanley
- Pencils
- John Stanley (layouts); Charles Hedinger
- Inks
- Charles Hedinger
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- John Stanley
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- ... so send in twenty-five Sudsy Soap Flakes box tops and receive this lovely bracelet or handsome jackknife!
- Genre
- humour; children
- Characters
- Lulu Moppet; Martha Moppet; Tubby Tompkins
- Synopsis
- Lulu and Tubby are in competition collecting box tops from cereal for prizes.
- Reprints
- from Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #115 - Marge's Little Lulu (August 1946)
-
- Keywords
- box tops; collecting; contest
[Telephone wails]
Little Lulu / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humour; children
- Characters
- Lulu Moppet; Tubby Tompkins; Ellie Tompkins
- Synopsis
- Tubby calls Lulu, but his mother catches him and gives him a thrashing. Tubby wails over the phone; Lulu wails back.
- Reprints
- from Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #115 - Marge's Little Lulu (August 1946)
-
- Keywords
- telephone; wordless
Newspaper Business
Little Lulu / comic story / 8 pages
- Script
- John Stanley
- Pencils
- John Stanley (layouts); Charles Hedinger
- Inks
- Charles Hedinger
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- John Stanley
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Hey, Tub! Whatcha doing with those newspapers?
- Genre
- humour; children
- Characters
- Lulu Moppet: Tubby Tompkins; Ellie Tompkins
- Synopsis
- Tubby substitutes on a paper route for a day and Lulu helps him.
- Reprints
- from Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #120 - Marge's Little Lulu (October 1946)
-
- Keywords
- newspaper; paper route
Little Lulu and the Seven Dwarfs
Little Lulu / comic story / 12 pages
- Script
- John Stanley
- Pencils
- John Stanley (layouts); Charles Hedinger
- Inks
- Charles Hedinger
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- John Stanley
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Golly! When it rains, I can never think of anything to do!
- Genre
- humour; children; fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Lulu Moppet; Martha Moppet; Alvin Jones
- Synopsis
- Lulu tells Alvin the story about Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Lulu is Snow White in this version and the dwarfs all look like Alvin.
- Reprints
- from Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #120 - Marge's Little Lulu (October 1946)
-
- Keywords
- dwarfs; fairy tale; story time; witch
Indexer Notes
First appearance of a witch in a Lulu story, but it isn't Witch Hazel.
[Emergency Hideout]
Little Lulu / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humour; children
- Characters
- Lulu Moppet; Tubby Tompkins
- Synopsis
- While playing hide 'n seek, Tubby gets himself stuck in a garbage can and firemen have to cut the can to get him out.
- Reprints
- from Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #120 - Marge's Little Lulu (October 1946)
-
- Keywords
- firemen; hide and seek; trash can; wordless
Indexer Notes
Pantomime story.
[Tennis with Violin]
Tubby / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humour; children
- Characters
- Tubby Tompkins; Lulu Moppet
- Synopsis
- Tubby uses his violin as a tennis racket.
- Reprints
- from Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #131 - Marge's Little Lulu (January 1947)
-
- Keywords
- tennis; violin; wordless
Indexer Notes
Red, white, and black; pantomime story.
The Hooky Team
Little Lulu / comic story / 20 pages
- Script
- John Stanley
- Pencils
- John Stanley (layouts); Charles Hedinger
- Inks
- Irving Tripp
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- John Stanley
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Is Tubby going to meet you this morning dear?
- Genre
- humour; children
- Characters
- Lulu Moppet; Martha Moppet; Tubby Tompkins; Ellie Tompkins
- Synopsis
- Lulu and Tubby miss the school bus and have to walk to school. After a series of mishaps they end up at Lulu's house trying to find shoes for Tubby.
- Reprints
- from Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #139 - Marge's Little Lulu (March 1947)
-
- Keywords
- hooky; school bus; shoes
[Big Business]
Little Lulu / comic story / 1 page
- Script
- John Stanley
- Pencils
- John Stanley (layouts); Charles Hedinger
- Inks
- Irving Tripp
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- John Stanley
- Genre
- humour; children
- Characters
- Lulu Moppet
- Synopsis
- Lulu takes an eternity to pick out a one-cent piece of candy.
- Reprints
- from Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #139 - Marge's Little Lulu (March 1947)
-
- Keywords
- candy; candy counter; candy store; wordless
Indexer Notes
Red, white, and black; pantomime story. Story has 24 panels.
The Kid Who Came to Dinner
Little Lulu / comic story / 8 pages
- Script
- John Stanley
- Pencils
- John Stanley (layouts); Charles Hedinger
- Inks
- Irving Tripp
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- John Stanley
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Bam! Bang! Take that, an' that, an' that, you rat!!!
- Genre
- humour; children
- Characters
- Lulu Moppet; Tubby Tompkins; George Moppet; Martha Moppet
- Synopsis
- Tubby invites himself to dinner at Lulu's house.
- Reprints
- from Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #146 - Marge's Little Lulu (May 1947)
-
- Keywords
- dinner guest
Indexer Notes
Title is a takeoff on the 1939 Broadway play "The Man Who Came to Dinner."
Just a Gigolo
Little Lulu / comic story / 14 pages
- Script
- John Stanley
- Pencils
- John Stanley (layouts); Charles Hedinger
- Inks
- Irving Tripp
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I wonder where Tubby is? I haven't seen him all day!
- Genre
- humour; children
- Characters
- Lulu Moppet; Tubby Tompkins; Dolly; Martha Moppet
- Synopsis
- Lulu and a new girl, Dolly, try to bribe Tubby with candy and soda so he'll notice them.
- Reprints
- from Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #158 - Marge's Little Lulu (August 1947)
-
- Keywords
- competition; lollipop; soda
[Skittish Skates]
Little Lulu / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humour; children
- Characters
- Lulu Moppet
- Synopsis
- Lulu has trouble mastering the roller skates that Santa left and writes him a letter asking for an exchange.
- Reprints
- from Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #158 - Marge's Little Lulu (August 1947)
-
- Keywords
- roller skates; roller skating; wordless
Indexer Notes
Red, white, and black; pantomime story.
The Case of the Purloined Popover
Little Lulu / comic story / 12 pages
- Script
- John Stanley
- Pencils
- John Stanley (layouts); Charles Hedinger
- Inks
- Irving Tripp
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Zzzzzzzz
- Genre
- humour; children
- Characters
- Lulu Moppet; George Moppett; Martha Moppett; Tubby Tompkins
- Synopsis
- Lulu is spanked by her mother, who thinks she stole some popovers from the kitchen. Lulu tells the story to Tubby, who immediately says her father is the culprit. Tubby, with a mustache from his Junior G-Man kit, goes to Lulu's house to conduct an investigation.
- Reprints
- from Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #165 - Marge's Little Lulu (October 1947)
-
- Keywords
- detective; investigation; junior g-man
Indexer Notes
This is the same format as the later "The Spider Spins Again" stories featuring Tubby, but without Tubby calling himself "The Spider."
Mountain Climbing
Little Lulu / comic story / 15 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Aw, come on... you won't fall!
- Genre
- humour; children
- Characters
- Lulu Moppet; Tubby Tompkins
- Synopsis
- Lulu and Tubby go mountain climbing up the side of a brick building.
- Reprints
- from Marge's Little Lulu (Dell, 1948 series) #1 (January-February 1948)
-
- Keywords
- building; bureau; climbing; telephone
A Good Time At the Movies
Little Lulu / comic story / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Oh, I think little Shirley Tearful is so cute!
- Genre
- humour; children
- Characters
- Tubby Tompkins; Lulu Moppet
- Synopsis
- Lulu, Tubby, and another girl have just seen a very sad movie.
- Reprints
- from Marge's Little Lulu (Dell, 1948 series) #2 (March-April 1948)
-
- Keywords
- crying; movies
[no title indexed]
Lulus Diry / text story / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Dear Diry Hello here i am again tipriting on my tipriter.
- Genre
- humour; children
- Characters
- Lulu Moppet; Miss Feeny; Tubby Tompkins; Martha Moppet; Alvin Jones
- Synopsis
- Lulu tries to find paper so she can make a drawing for a school contest
- Reprints
- from Marge's Little Lulu (Dell, 1948 series) #2 (March-April 1948)
-
- Keywords
- diary; diary entry; drawing; school
Indexer Notes
Illustrated text story.
[Joe's Fruit Market]
Little Lulu / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humour; children
- Characters
- Lulu Moppet; Joe; Tubby Tompkins
- Synopsis
- Lulu buys tomatoes before going to see "Tubby's Theater"; apparently a stand-up act by Tubby.
- Reprints
- from Marge's Little Lulu (Dell, 1948 series) #2 (March-April 1948)
-
- Keywords
- market; tomatoes; wordless
Indexer Notes
pantomime
Babes In the Wood
Little Lulu / comic story / 8 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- We haven't been in the woods in a long time, Tub!
- Genre
- humour; children
- Characters
- Lulu Moppet; Tubby Tompkins; Martha Moppet
- Synopsis
- Lulu and Tubby take a walk in the woods and get lost.
- Reprints
- from Marge's Little Lulu (Dell, 1948 series) #3 (May-June 1948)
-
- Keywords
- bee; forest; frog; lost; park; pond; woods
A Feathered Friend In Need
Little Lulu / comic story / 10 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I love peanuts!
- Genre
- humour; children
- Characters
- Lulu Moppet; Tubby Tompkins
- Synopsis
- Lulu and Tubby are thoroughly outsmarted by a duck while rowing on the lake.
- Reprints
- from Marge's Little Lulu (Dell, 1948 series) #4 (July-August 1948)
-
- Keywords
- duck; lake; littering; park; row boat; rowing; waste basket
[no title indexed]
Lulus Diry / text story / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Dear Diry I had to stay in bed a whole day last week because I was very sick.
- Genre
- humour; children
- Characters
- Lulu Moppet; doctor; Martha Moppet
- Synopsis
- Lulu has to stay home sick for the day.
- Reprints
- from Marge's Little Lulu (Dell, 1948 series) #4 (July-August 1948)
-
- Keywords
- apples; doctor; dolly; sick
Indexer Notes
Illustrated text story.
The Gourmet
Tubby / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- It's really very disturbing, Henry... that little boy watches every bite we put in our mouths!
- Genre
- humour; children
- Characters
- Tubby Tompkins
- Synopsis
- Tubby gets a couple in a restaurant to buy him a huge fancy meal.
- Reprints
- from Marge's Little Lulu (Dell, 1948 series) #5 (September-October 1948)
-
- Keywords
- dinner; over-eating; restaurant
The Bad Boy
Little Lulu / comic story / 7 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I haven't seen Tubby all day!
- Genre
- humour; children
- Characters
- Lulu Moppet; Tubby Tompkins; Mrs Trimble
- Synopsis
- Tubby and Lulu try to get down a piece of bread and jelly stuck to the ceiling in Tub's house.
- Reprints
- from Marge's Little Lulu (Dell, 1948 series) #6 (November-December 1948)
-
- Keywords
- bow and arrow; bread; ceiling; jam
[no title indexed]
Little Lulu / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page
- Genre
- humour; children
- Characters
- Lulu Moppet
- Reprints
- from Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #74 - Marge's Little Lulu (June 1945)
-
- Keywords
- bone; dog; lollipop
Indexer Notes
Background panels reproduced from unititled wordless story "[Bone to Pick]" in interior.
[no title indexed]
Little Lulu / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page
- Genre
- humour; children
- Characters
- Lulu Moppet
- Reprints
- from Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #97 - Marge's Little Lulu (February 1946)
-
- Keywords
- baby carriage; dog; snow skiing
[no title indexed]
Little Lulu / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page
- Genre
- humour; children
- Characters
- Lulu Moppet; Tubby Tompkins
- Synopsis
- Lulu and Tubby share a milkshake
- Reprints
- from Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #110 - Marge's Little Lulu (June 1946)
-
- Keywords
- milkshake
[no title indexed]
Little Lulu / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page
- Genre
- humour; children
- Characters
- Lulu Moppet
- Reprints
- from Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #115 - Marge's Little Lulu (August 1946)
-
- Keywords
- flower pot; hat; watering can
[no title indexed]
Little Lulu / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page
- Genre
- humour; children
- Characters
- Lulu Moppet
- Synopsis
- Lulu hides a dog from the dog catcher
- Reprints
- from Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #120 - Marge's Little Lulu (October 1946)
-
- Keywords
- dog; dog catchers; lollipops
[no title indexed]
Little Lulu / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page
- Genre
- humour; children
- Characters
- Lulu Moppet
- Synopsis
- Lulu uses stilts to pick apples from the tree.
- Reprints
- from Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #131 - Marge's Little Lulu (January 1947)
-
- Keywords
- apples; stilts
[no title indexed]
Little Lulu / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page
- Genre
- humour; children
- Characters
- Lulu Moppet
- Synopsis
- Lulu eats an ice cream cone in the snow.
- Reprints
- from Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #139 - Marge's Little Lulu (March 1947)
-
- Keywords
- ice cream cones; snow
[no title indexed]
Little Lulu / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page
- Genre
- humour; children
- Characters
- Lulu Moppet
- Reprints
- from Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #146 - Marge's Little Lulu (May 1947)
-
- Keywords
- dolls
[no title indexed]
Little Lulu / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page
- Genre
- humour; children
- Characters
- Lulu Moppet
- Reprints
- from Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #158 - Marge's Little Lulu (August 1947)
-
- Keywords
- lipstick; make-up; pencil sharpeners
[no title indexed]
Little Lulu / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page
- Genre
- humour; children
- Characters
- Lulu Moppet
- Synopsis
- Lulu uses spot remover on her dog.
- Reprints
- from Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #165 - Marge's Little Lulu (October 1947)
-
- Keywords
- dog; spot remover
[no title indexed]
Little Lulu / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page
- Genre
- humour; children
- Characters
- Lulu Moppet
- Synopsis
- Lulu vacuums snow off the front porch.
- Reprints
- from Marge's Little Lulu (Dell, 1948 series) #1 (January-February 1948)
-
- Keywords
- snow; vacuum cleaner
[no title indexed]
Little Lulu / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page
- Genre
- humour; children
- Characters
- Lulu Moppet
- Reprints
- from Marge's Little Lulu (Dell, 1948 series) #2 (March-April 1948)
-
- Keywords
- go-kart
[no title indexed]
Little Lulu / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page
- Genre
- humour; children
- Characters
- Lulu Moppet
- Synopsis
- Lulu dressed like a snake charmer, trying to charm a garden hose with her horn.
- Reprints
- from Marge's Little Lulu (Dell, 1948 series) #3 (May-June 1948)
-
- Keywords
- basket; horn; hose; snake charmer
[no title indexed]
Little Lulu / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page
- Genre
- humour; children
- Characters
- Lulu Moppet; Tubby Tompkins
- Synopsis
- Tubby and Lulu dancing
- Reprints
- from Marge's Little Lulu (Dell, 1948 series) #4 (July-August 1948)
-
- Keywords
- dancing
[Tunnel of Love]
Little Lulu / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page
- Genre
- humour; children
- Characters
- Lulu Moppet; Wilbur Van Snobbe
- Reprints
- from Marge's Little Lulu (Dell, 1948 series) #5 (September-October 1948)
-
- Keywords
- tunnel of love
[no title indexed]
Little Lulu / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page
- Genre
- humour; children
- Characters
- Lulu Moppet
- Synopsis
- Lulu empties her coin purse, which has no coins in it.
- Reprints
- from Marge's Little Lulu (Dell, 1948 series) #6 (November-December 1948)
-
- Keywords
- button; coin purse; safety pin; soda glasses
Girls Want to Get in Everything: Little Lulu Crashes into Comics
about comics / 15 pages
- Script
- Frank Young
- Pencils
- Marge Buell; John Stanley; Irving Tripp
- Inks
- Marge Buell; John Stanley; Irving Tripp
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- John Stanley's Little Lulu, one of the most universally appealing and humane works of comics, has been hidden in plain sight to adult readers for decades.
- Genre
- non-fiction
- Synopsis
- History and background on Marge (Marjorie Henderson Buell), Little Lulu, and John Stanley; the origins of the Dell comic book; and an analysis of Stanley's work as exhibited in the stories collected in this volume.
- Pages
- 296 - 309
Indexer Notes
Indicates Stanley illustrated the Lulu's Diry feature. Includes reproductions of panels from stories reprinted in this volume, as well as examples of Marge's strips and Stanley's pre-Lulu work. These pages aren't numbered. Last page is list of Sources Cited.
[no title indexed]
credits, title page / 1 page
- Letters
- typeset
Indexer Notes
Copyright page. Does not include any credits for the book; nor sources for the individual stories.
John Stanley
text article / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- John Stanley was a journeyman comics scripter from the 1940s to the 1960s.
- Genre
- biography
Indexer Notes
Biography of Stanley, with spot illustration of Lulu by Stanley.
[no title indexed]
promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page
- Script
- Margaret Atwood; NPR; Vulture
- Pencils
- John Stanley
- Inks
- John Stanley
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The eternal problem of the boy's clubhouse--not being let into it, that is--was treated by [Lulu], by and large, with a phnuh.
- Characters
- Lulu Moppet; Tubby Tompkins; Alvin Jones
Indexer Notes
Back cover. Pull quotes from Atwood's introduction and from reviews by NPR and Vulture
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
[no title indexed]
Little Lulu -
1.
[End Papers]
Little Lulu -
2.
[Tubby pulling Lulu in a wagon]
Little Lulu -
3.
Marge's Little Lulu: Working Girl
-
4.
Introduction
-
5.
[The Costume Party]
Little Lulu -
6.
[A Bone to Pick]
Little Lulu -
7.
[One, Two, Three, Kick!]
Little Lulu -
8.
Little Lulu at the Beach
Little Lulu -
9.
[Jingle Bells]
Little Lulu -
10.
Little Lulu Minds Alvin
Little Lulu -
11.
[Rockabye Baby]
Little Lulu -
12.
[Lulu and Tubby and a Wagon]
Little Lulu -
13.
Little Lulu Enters a Contest
Little Lulu -
14.
[Lulu with Water Hose]
Little Lulu -
15.
[Lulu with Horn, at Garage]
Little Lulu -
16.
Tubby's Travels
Little Lulu -
17.
[Umbrella Battle]
Little Lulu -
18.
[Lulu and Tubby on Ice]
Little Lulu -
19.
Little Lulu Has Family Trouble
Little Lulu -
20.
[Grate Fishing]
Little Lulu -
21.
[Out-of-Season Snowballs]
Little Lulu -
22.
Little Lulu Goes on a Picnic
Little Lulu -
23.
[Lulu and the Leaf]
Little Lulu -
24.
[Lulu and the Lollipop]
Little Lulu -
25.
[Lulu and the Flower]
Little Lulu -
26.
[Tubby and the Clothesline]
Little Lulu -
27.
[Lulu at fountain]
Little Lulu -
28.
Treasure Hunt
Little Lulu -
29.
He Can't Hurt Us
Little Lulu -
30.
Stuff and Nonsense
Little Lulu -
31.
The Working Girl
Little Lulu -
32.
Lulu In Distress: A Tragedy
Little Lulu -
33.
[Scottie Dog and Balloon]
Little Lulu -
34.
[Kicking the Can]
Little Lulu -
35.
A Problem In Box Tops
Little Lulu -
36.
[Telephone wails]
Little Lulu -
37.
Newspaper Business
Little Lulu -
38.
Little Lulu and the Seven Dwarfs
Little Lulu -
39.
[Emergency Hideout]
Little Lulu -
40.
[Tennis with Violin]
Tubby -
41.
The Hooky Team
Little Lulu -
42.
[Big Business]
Little Lulu -
43.
The Kid Who Came to Dinner
Little Lulu -
44.
Just a Gigolo
Little Lulu -
45.
[Skittish Skates]
Little Lulu -
46.
The Case of the Purloined Popover
Little Lulu -
47.
Mountain Climbing
Little Lulu -
48.
A Good Time At the Movies
Little Lulu -
49.
["Dear Diry Hello here i am again tipriting on my tipriter."]
Lulus Diry -
50.
[Joe's Fruit Market]
Little Lulu -
51.
Babes In the Wood
Little Lulu -
52.
A Feathered Friend In Need
Little Lulu -
53.
["Dear Diry I had to stay in bed a whole day last week because I was very sick."]
Lulus Diry -
54.
The Gourmet
Tubby -
55.
The Bad Boy
Little Lulu -
56.
[no title indexed]
Little Lulu -
57.
[no title indexed]
Little Lulu -
58.
[no title indexed]
Little Lulu -
59.
[no title indexed]
Little Lulu -
60.
[no title indexed]
Little Lulu -
61.
[no title indexed]
Little Lulu -
62.
[no title indexed]
Little Lulu -
63.
[no title indexed]
Little Lulu -
64.
[no title indexed]
Little Lulu -
65.
[no title indexed]
Little Lulu -
66.
[no title indexed]
Little Lulu -
67.
[no title indexed]
Little Lulu -
68.
[no title indexed]
Little Lulu -
69.
[no title indexed]
Little Lulu -
70.
[Tunnel of Love]
Little Lulu -
71.
[no title indexed]
Little Lulu -
72.
Girls Want to Get in Everything: Little Lulu Crashes into Comics
-
73.
[no title indexed]
-
74.
John Stanley
-
75.
[end papers]
-
76.
["The eternal problem of the boy's clubhouse--not being let into it, that is--was treated by [Lulu], by and large, with a phnuh."]
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