Ha Ha Comics
#59
(November 1948)
American Comics Group,
1943 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 52
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Creston Publications Corp.
- Editing
- Richard Hughes (credited as Richard E. Hughes) (editor)
Issue Notes
HA HA COMICS, published monthly and copyright, 1948, by Creston Publicatoins Corp., 420 DeSoto Ave., St. Louis 7, Missouri. Editorial Offices, 45 West 45th Street, New York 19, N. Y. Richard E. Hughes, Editor; Frederick H. Iger, Business Manager. Subscriptions (12 issues), $1.20; single copies, $.10; foreign postage extra. Entered as second class matter at the Post Office at St. Louis, Mo. No. 59, November, 1948, Printed in U.S.A.
Today's "High-Style" Shoe Fashions... at down-to-earth prices!
advertisement / 1 page
- Synopsis
- Ad for Lovmee Shoes
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover
[no title indexed]
Izzy and Dizzy / comic story / 9 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Ken Hultgren (credited)
- Inks
- Ken Hultgren (credited)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- You won't have a chance to win that cup from the Rod and Reel Club!
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Izzy; Dizzy; Piggybank G. Hoggans; Uncle Looie; Jake
- Synopsis
- Izzy and Dizzy (bear cubs) use their magic lamp to help Uncle Looie defeat the cheater, Piggybank G. Hoggans, in the Rod and Reel Club's fishing contest.
Indexer Notes
Irregular shaped panel borders throughout the book.
No Vacancy!
Rodney Rabbit / text story / 1 page
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Rodney Rabbit
- Synopsis
- Rodney Rabbit learns a lesson about doing his own work when he tries to steal a winter home from a porcupine.
Those Bank-Robber Blues
Mr. Square / comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Mr. Square; Officer O'Rooney; Mr. Lucre; Slippery Sam
- Synopsis
- Slippery Sam tricks Mr. Square, a key-making dog, into helping him rob the Last National Bank. Mr. Square foils the robbery by inadvertently locking Sam in the vault and gets a huge reward from Mr. Lucre, the bank owner.
Indexer Notes
Originally credited here to "Ken Hultgren?", changed to Jack Bradbury because it appears on a website created by his son (http://jbrad.org/spgm-1.4.7/index.php?spgmGal=Mr_Square).
[no title indexed]
Sam and Son / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Dad! Dad! Guess What! Herkimer Ground Hogg just told me that his dad said he could knock your block off!
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Sam; Sam's dad
- Synopsis
- Sam's dad (a mouse) gets beaten up by Herkimer Ground Hogg's dad.
[no title indexed]
Squirrely / comic story / 7 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Say, what's the matter, Squirrely?
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Squirrely
- Synopsis
- Squirrely wants to meet some new animal friends, so he leaves Mr. Jones's Woods and releases wild animals from the zoo. After creating havoc, the zoo animals are recaptured.
Indexer Notes
Artwork doesn't look like Ken Hultgren's.
Special Delivery---One Cat!
Charles the Cat / text story / 1 page
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Charles the Cat; Clyde
- Synopsis
- Charles the Cat tries to mail himself to visit his rich sister in Boston, but forgets to put postage on the box.
[no title indexed]
Robespierre / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Ken Hultgren (credited)
- Inks
- Ken Hultgren ? (credited)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Wot am I?--I knows I'm a dorg, but wot kinds of dorg?--Oh, me!
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
- Characters
- Robespierre; Jasmine
- Synopsis
- Robespierre tries to figure out what kind of dog he is. Jasmine, a skunk, joins The Alley Scavengers and is disguised as a raccoon and an elephant.
[no title indexed]
"Doc" E. Z. Duzit / comic story / 7 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Someone call my name? I say, did someone call?
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- "Doc" E. Z. Duzit; Ethelbert; Barkdale
- Synopsis
- "Doc" E. Z. Duzit tries to stop the foxhounds from chasing a fox by disguising himself as a fox, a hound and a kangaroo.
Indexer Notes
"Doc" E. Z. Duzit uses snuff to create a cloud of dust while he disguises himself.
Art formerly credited to "Ken Hultgren?" but changed because this story is credited to Jack Bradbury on his son's site: http://jbrad.org/spgm-1.4.7/index.php?spgmGal=Doc_EZ_Duzit
The Honey Trap
text story / 1 page
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Grizzle [Bear]; Chief of Police (bulldog); Norbert the Gorilla; Mr. Pig; Mr. Squirrel
- Synopsis
- The bees capture Grizzle the bear by luring him to the top of a tree with honey, then cutting the tree down.
[no title indexed]
Shilly and Shally / comic story / 7 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Hey! What's that!
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Shilly Mouse; Shally Mouse; Chauncey Cat
- Synopsis
- Shilly Mouse goes to visit his cousin at Haymow Farm. While he is gone, his cousin, a white mouse, shows up and Shally Mouse and Chauncey Cat think that he is Shilly's ghost.
[no title indexed]
advertisement / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Enjoy Hilarious "Monkey-Shines" at your next Masquerade Party
- Synopsis
- Ad for rubber masks from Rubber-For-Molds, Inc.
Indexer Notes
Illustrated
[no title indexed]
advertisement / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Let's Go, Pal! I'll prove I can make you an "all-around" he-man fast
- Synopsis
- Ad for body-building courses from Jowett Institute of Physical Culture
Indexer Notes
Inside back cover; illustrated with cartoon strip
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
[Halloween Trick]
Izzy and Dizzy -
1.
Today's "High-Style" Shoe Fashions... at down-to-earth prices!
-
2.
["You won't have a chance to win that cup from the Rod and Reel Club!"]
Izzy and Dizzy -
3.
No Vacancy!
Rodney Rabbit -
4.
Those Bank-Robber Blues
Mr. Square -
5.
["Dad! Dad! Guess What! Herkimer Ground Hogg just told me that his dad said he could knock your block off!"]
Sam and Son -
6.
["Say, what's the matter, Squirrely?"]
Squirrely -
7.
Special Delivery---One Cat!
Charles the Cat -
8.
["Wot am I?--I knows I'm a dorg, but wot kinds of dorg?--Oh, me!"]
Robespierre -
9.
["Someone call my name? I say, did someone call?"]
"Doc" E. Z. Duzit -
10.
The Honey Trap
-
11.
["Hey! What's that!"]
Shilly and Shally -
12.
["Enjoy Hilarious "Monkey-Shines" at your next Masquerade Party"]
-
13.
["Let's Go, Pal! I'll prove I can make you an "all-around" he-man fast"]
-
14.
["Reducing Specialist Says: Lose weight where it shows most"]
This issue was modified by, among others
- Peter Croome
- Gregory Fischer
- Michael Hoskin
- Ramon Schenk
- John P. Selegue
- Jim Van Dore
- David Wilt
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