(April 1956)
Harvey,
1949 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- Every other month
- On-sale Date
- 1956-02-14
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Harvey Publications Inc.
- Brand
-
Harvey Comics [Stamp]
- Editing
- Leon Harvey
Issue Notes
Indexed from scanned copy at https://digitalcomicmuseum.com. On-sale date from regular feature, Harvey Comics News.
Funny Bunny
Little Max / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- 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) #22 (April 1953) which is reprinted - from Little Max Comics (Harvey, 1949 series) #4 (April 1950)
-
- 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.
See Worthy
Little Max / comic story / 2 pages
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- 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
- from Little Max Comics (Harvey, 1949 series) #22 (April 1953)
-
Water Boy
Little Max / comic story / 2 pages
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- 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
- from Little Max Comics (Harvey, 1949 series) #22 (April 1953)
-
- Keywords
- camel; circus
The U.S.S. Humphrey
Humphrey / text story / 0.8 page
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Humphrey Pennyworth; Elmer Fuddle; Lem Tyler; Mayor Toops; Pruney Pennyworth [also as Prunella]
- Reprints
- from Humphrey Comics (Harvey, 1948 series) #21 (February 1952)
-
Statement of the Ownership, Management and Circulation
statement of ownership / 0.2 page
- Letters
- typeset
Strictly from Hunger
Humphrey / comic story / 2 pages
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Humphrey; Pruney
- Synopsis
- Humphrey eats massive amounts of food, then dreams he's eating a three-foot stack of pancakes.
- Reprints
- from Little Max Comics (Harvey, 1949 series) #22 (April 1953) which is reprinted
- from Humphrey Comics (Harvey, 1948 series) #20 (December 1951)
-
- Keywords
- obesity
The Funny Mummy
Little Max / comic story / 4 pages
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- 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
- from Little Max Comics (Harvey, 1949 series) #22 (April 1953)
-
- Keywords
- costume party; mummy
Babysitter Jitters
Humphrey / comic story / 2 pages
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Humphrey Pennyworth; Mrs. Gooberfooful; Mrs. Gooberfooful's baby; grocery store shoppers
- Synopsis
- Humphrey agrees to watch a baby while the baby's mothers does some shopping. He panics when the baby cries, not knowing how to comfort him. Running inside, he finds the mother, who tells him that the baby was just hungry, a condition with which Humphrey is all too familiar.
- Reprints
- in Little Max Comics (Harvey, 1949 series) #70 (May 1961)
-
Waisted Energy
Little Max / comic story / 4 pages
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Little Max; unnamed pedestrians; Casey; Joe Palooka
- Synopsis
- Max overhears two men discussing that they need to lose weight and decides he should do the same. He spends the entire day doing exercises that he has seen Joe Palooka do when losing weight for a boxing match, wearing himself out in the process. Joe invites him and Casey out to dinner, and Max is so hungry from all of his exercise that he eats much more than usual. In the end, he has gained two pounds, but Joe tells him that it is healthy for a boy his age to gain weight.
- Reprints
- from Little Max Comics (Harvey, 1949 series) #15 (February 1952), #15 (February 1952)
- in Little Max Comics (Harvey, 1949 series) #70 (May 1961)
-
Fishin'
text story / 0.75 page
- Genre
- humor; children
- Reprints
- in Chic Young's Dagwood Comics (Harvey, 1950 series) #71 (November 1956)
- in Little Max Comics (Harvey, 1949 series) #50 (December 1957)
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Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
Little Max -
1.
Funny Bunny
Little Max -
2.
See Worthy
Little Max -
3.
Water Boy
Little Max -
4.
The U.S.S. Humphrey
Humphrey -
5.
Statement of the Ownership, Management and Circulation
-
6.
Strictly from Hunger
Humphrey -
7.
The Funny Mummy
Little Max -
8.
Babysitter Jitters
Humphrey -
9.
Waisted Energy
Little Max -
10.
Fishin'
This issue was modified by, among others
- Steve Coates
- Michael Hoskin
- Jean-Francois Masse
- Keith Alan Morgan
- Warren Zeigler
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