Little Max Comics #22

(April 1953)

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Funny Bunny (Table of Contents: 2)

Little Max / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

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humor; children

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Little Max; Joe Palooka; Ann Palooka; Alice

Synopsis

Little Max dresses in a bunny costume for Joe Palooka's Easter party, given for neighborhood children. Max, who never speaks, surreptitiously arranges for his good friend Alice to find the golden egg and win a prize.

Reprints

• from Little Max Comics (Harvey, 1949 series) #4 (April 1950)
• in Little Max Comics (Harvey, 1949 series) #40 (April 1956)

Keywords

bunny; Easter; Easter egg; rabbit

Indexer Notes

Max is a mute or "mime" character; readers follow his thought balloons, including childishly mixed-up words.

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See Worthy (Table of Contents: 4)

Little Max / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

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humor; children

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Little Max; Alice

Synopsis

Alice lends Little Max an umbrella, but he needs to hold it so low that he can't see. He collides with another pedestrian and tears a hole in the fabric. Now he has a window so he can see without getting wet.

Reprints

• in Little Max Comics (Harvey, 1949 series) #40 (April 1956), #59 (July 1959)

Water Boy (Table of Contents: 5)

Little Max / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

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humor; children

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Little Max; Casey; ringmaster

Synopsis

Casey and Little Max agree to water the animals in exchange for circus tickets. Casey says he'll do Max a favor and take the horses as there are more of them -- but the camels, of course, need many more buckets to satisfy them. The ringmaster says Casey must be at work every night, but Max is excused; camels go without water for a week.

Reprints

• in Little Max Comics (Harvey, 1949 series) #40 (April 1956), #59 (July 1959)

Keywords

camel; circus

Humphrey at the Fair (Table of Contents: 6)

Humphrey Pennyworth / text story / 1 page (report information)

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humor

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Humphrey; Pruney; barker; Lou

Synopsis

Humphrey and his sister go to the fair, where Humphrey consumes gargantuan amounts of food. He naively tries a rigged weight-lifting game and wins easily because of his huge size. The crowd recognizes that the game is rigged; they chase off the barker and his accomplice, and give Humphrey all the prizes. He just wants to get home because he's hungry.

Reprints

• in Little Max Comics (Harvey, 1949 series) #59 (July 1959)

Keywords

fair

Indexer Notes

Spot illustration of Humphrey at the fair. Humphrey and his sister speak in comic "rustic" dialect.

Strictly From Hunger (Table of Contents: 7)

Humphrey Pennyworth / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

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Humphrey; Pruney

Synopsis

Humphrey eats massive amounts of food, then dreams he's eating a three-foot stack of pancakes.

Reprints

• from Humphrey Comics (Harvey, 1948 series) #20 (December 1951)
• in Little Max Comics (Harvey, 1949 series) #40 (April 1956)

Keywords

obesity

Indexer Notes

Comic book published in 1953, but wall calendar says 1950. Possibly a reprint?

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The Funny Mummy (Table of Contents: 13)

Little Max / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

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humor; children

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Little Max; Alice; Joe Palooka

Synopsis

Little Max tries to catch a fly, but gets all wrapped up in fly tape. Posing as a mummy, he wins a prize at Alice's costume party.

Reprints

• in Little Max Comics (Harvey, 1949 series) #40 (April 1956), #59 (July 1959)

Keywords

costume party; mummy

Who's Who at the Zoo (Table of Contents: 14)

Little Max / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

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humor; children

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Little Max; Alice; Joe Palooka

Synopsis

Joe takes Max and Alice to the children's zoo.

Keywords

zoo

Sunday Coat (Table of Contents: 15)

Little Dot / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

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Vic Herman

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Vic Herman

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humor; children

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Little Dot; Dot's dog

Synopsis

Dot drapes the dog around her neck to give her coat a fur collar.

Reprints

• from Little Max Comics (Harvey, 1949 series) #4 (April 1950)

Keywords

dog; fashion

Indexer Notes

Later that same year Harvey introduced a redesigned Dot; that version is more familiar than the original as used here.

Little Max Makes Easter Eggs (Table of Contents: 16)

Little Max / activity / 1 page (report information)

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Little Max

Synopsis

Little Max demonstrates how to make Easter eggs.

Reprints

• in Little Max Comics (Harvey, 1949 series) #59 (July 1959)

Keywords

Easter; Easter egg; holiday

The Jumping Frog (Table of Contents: 17)

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Bret Harte; Mark Twain; Bill

Synopsis

Bret Harte brings his champion frog to Nevada for a competition. Mark Twain helps a competitor fill the frog with birdshot.

Reprints

• from Sad Sack Comics (Harvey, 1949 series) #22 (February 1953)
• in Chic Young's Dagwood Comics (Harvey, 1950 series) #70 (October 1956)
• in Little Max Comics (Harvey, 1949 series) #56 (January 1959)

Keywords

frog; sport; western

Indexer Notes

Supposed background for Mark Twain's story, "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County."

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Statement of the Ownership, Management, and Circulation Required by the Act of Congress

Synopsis

Statement of Ownership

Indexer Notes

Leon Harvey (Editor); Alfred Harvey (Managing Editor); Robert B. Harvey (Business Manager)

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"[Don't be a] skinny scarecrow!" (Table of Contents: 21) (Expand) /

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