Giggle Comics
#57
(September 1948)
American Comics Group,
1943 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 52
- Indicia Frequency
- Monthly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Creston Publications Corp.
- Editing
- Richard Hughes (editor)
[no title indexed]
promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Throw up your hands!
Indexer Notes
House ad for "Blazing West" comics. Black-and-white, inside front cover.
[no title indexed]
Superkatt / comic story / 10 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- He's eight feet tall with a long nose and whiskers!
- Genre
- humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Superkatt; Humphrey; Junior; St. Peter; Senator Claghorn; Fred Allen; Mr.Throgsnuffle; Wilbur Throgsnuffle
- Synopsis
- Superkatt complains to a television network about the bad effect their program "Crime Killers" is having on children.
- Keywords
- Fred Allen; Senator Claghorn
Indexer Notes
Features cameo appearances by actual radio/television personalities "Senator Claghorn" (Kenny Delmar) and Fred Allen.
[no title indexed]
Spencer Spook / comic story / 8 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Well it's gettin' about time to start hauntin', boss.
- Genre
- humor; fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Spencer Spook; Boss Spook; Joe the engineer; Sam the porter; Mac the conductor
- Synopsis
- Three new ghosts stay with Spencer until their permanent haunting slots are assigned.
Indexer Notes
Art credited to Bradbury on his son’s website: https://jbrad.org/story_chronology.html
[no title indexed]
The Duke and the Dope / comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- Ken Hultgren (signed as Ken Hultgren)
- Pencils
- Ken Hultgren (signed as Ken Hultgren)
- Inks
- Ken Hultgren (signed as Ken Hultgren)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Melvin Millar
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The bid is five!
- Genre
- humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- The Duke; the Dope
The Goose That Laid the Golden Eggs
The Inside Story On / comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- humor; children; fantasy-supernatural
[no title indexed]
Witch Hazel / comic story / 9 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Ya know, Owlie, I sure feel sorry for this brave, chivalrous knight, Don Quixote!
- Genre
- humor; fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Witch Hazel; Owlie; Don Quixote; Sancho Panza
[Ol' man Jones, the butcher, sold me all these bones for just fifty cents!"]
Binky / comic story / 3 pages
- Script
- Ken Hultgren (signed as Ken Hultgren)
- Pencils
- Ken Hultgren (signed as Ken Hultgren)
- Inks
- Ken Hultgren (signed as Ken Hultgren)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Melvin Millar
- Genre
- humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Binky; Miss Brown; Dad
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
[no title indexed]
Superkatt -
1.
["Throw up your hands!"]
-
2.
["He's eight feet tall with a long nose and whiskers!"]
Superkatt -
3.
["Well it's gettin' about time to start hauntin', boss."]
Spencer Spook -
4.
["The bid is five!"]
The Duke and the Dope -
5.
Batty
-
6.
The Goose That Laid the Golden Eggs
The Inside Story On -
7.
Taming the Tiger
-
8.
["Ya know, Owlie, I sure feel sorry for this brave, chivalrous knight, Don Quixote!"]
Witch Hazel -
9.
The Hidden Jewel
-
10.
[Ol' man Jones, the butcher, sold me all these bones for just fifty cents!"]
Binky -
11.
["Who's number one in the laugh lineup?"]
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