Syndicate Features
#v1#5
(December 15, 1937)
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.00 FREE
- Pages
- 4
- On-sale Date
- 1937-12-15
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Harry "A" Chesler Syndicate
- Brand
-
Harry "A" Chesler Syndicate
- Editing
- Harry Chesler [as Harry "A" Chesler]
A Magazine for the Editors of the Nation's Press
Foxy Grandpa / cover / 1 page
- Script
- Harry "A" Chesler ?
- Pencils
- Charles Biro
- Inks
- Charles Biro
- Colors
- ? (blue and white)
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- humor; domestic
- Characters
- Foxy Grandpa; Carl E. Schultze (portrait); Charles Biro (portrait)
Indexer Notes
Self-cover introduction to the comic strip feature.
Getting the Best Cut
Foxy Grandpa / comic story / 2 pages
- Script
- Carl E. Schultze (credited as Bunny)
- Pencils
- Charles Biro (signed as Biro)
- Inks
- Charles Biro (signed as Biro)
- Letters
- Charles Biro ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- That cake looks pretty as a picture.
- Genre
- humor; domestic
- Characters
- Foxy Grandpa; Chub; Bunt; Toots; Butch (a dog); Parks; Willerby; unnamed baker; unnamed milkman; unnamed policeman; unnamed hobo; Sonny; unnamed divers; unnamed waiters; unnamed track patrons
Indexer Notes
Copyright 1937 Harry "A" Chesler Syndicate, N.Y.
Both pages have two weeks' worth of daily Foxy Grandpa comic strips being promoted to newspaper editors. There are no known newspapers that actually carried the comic strip and this might be its own publication appearance.
Strip titles include:
Getting the Best Cut
On the Hoof
Follow the Leader
Diplomacy
Just Practicing
Where There's a Will There's a Way
Another Fish Story
Riding on Air
No Chance for Profit
Caught with the Goods
One for the Price of Two
Safety First
[no title indexed]
Foxy Grandpa / comic story / 0.75 page
- Script
- Carl E. Schultze (uncredited)
- Pencils
- Charles Biro (signed as Biro)
- Inks
- Charles Biro (signed as Biro)
- Colors
- ? (blue and white)
- Letters
- Charles Biro ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Don't tire yourself out, Grandpa.
- Genre
- humor; domestic
- Characters
- Foxy Grandpa; Chub; Bunt; Toots; Willerby; unnamed baseball players
Indexer Notes
Copyright 1937 Harry "A" Chesler Syndicate, N.Y. World Rights Reserved.
The back page has a Sunday Foxy Grandpa comic strip being promoted to newspaper editors. There are no known newspapers that actually carried the comic strip and this might be its own publication appearance.
[Bunny Pickpockets a Watch]
Bunny / comic story / 0.125 page
- Script
- Carl E. Schultze (uncredited)
- Pencils
- Charles Biro (uncredited)
- Inks
- Charles Biro (uncredited)
- Colors
- ? (blue and white)
- Letters
- Charles Biro ?
- Genre
- humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Bunny; unnamed rabbit
- Synopsis
- Bunny sees another rabbit going by and decides to bump into him to steal his pocket watch. He is successful, but it turns out the other rabbit took advantage as was able to steal all of Bunny's watches instead.
- Keywords
- pantomime; wordless
Indexer Notes
Bunny is a topper (footer) to the Foxy Grandpa comic strip.
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0.
A Magazine for the Editors of the Nation's Press
Foxy Grandpa -
1.
Getting the Best Cut
Foxy Grandpa -
2.
["Don't tire yourself out, Grandpa."]
Foxy Grandpa -
3.
[Bunny Pickpockets a Watch]
Bunny -
4.
The Grand-Daddy of Them All
- Ray Bottorff Jr
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