(January 1961)
Harvey,
1949 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Harvey Publications Inc.
- Brand
-
Harvey Comics [Jack-in-the-box]
- Editing
- Leon Harvey (credited); ? (actual)
[no title indexed]
Little Max / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Little Max; carriage driver
- Synopsis
- Max shines a horse's shoes.
Max-imum Visibility!
Little Max / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Little Max; Casey
- Synopsis
- Casey finds an old top hat and gives it to Max to wear when he goes walking with Alice. However, the hat is too big for Max, completely covering his head and face. Max's solution is to cut holes in the side of the hat to see through.
- Reprints
-
from Humphrey Comics (Harvey, 1948 series) #14 (December 1950)
-
Talkin' Turkey
Humphrey / comic story / 4 pages
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Humphrey; Prunella; Priscilla Mullins; John Alden; Miles Standish; Massassoit; Squanto; unnamed pilgrims and Native Americans
- Synopsis
- Humphrey dreams that he is at the first Thanksgiving and almost starves the pilgrims by eating too much.
- Reprints
- from Little Max Comics (Harvey, 1949 series) #8 (December 1950)
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Kite Kapers
Little Max / comic story / 2 pages
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Little Max; Casey; anthropomorphic wind
- Synopsis
- Max and Casey play with a kite, but a mischievous wind decides to make it difficult.
- Reprints
- from Little Max Comics (Harvey, 1949 series) #8 (December 1950)
-
The Payoff
text story / 0.9 page
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Jerry; Joey; Billy; Ralphie
- Synopsis
- During a game of tag, four boys find and return a woman's lost ring.
- Reprints
- from Little Max Comics (Harvey, 1949 series) #8 (December 1950)
-
It's Auto-Matic
Little Max / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Little Max; Alice
- Synopsis
- Max offers to "drive" Alice home in his soapbox car, but the beginning of a rain shower forces them to run inside. Then Max thinks of a way to keep Alice dry in the car.
- Reprints
- from Little Max Comics (Harvey, 1949 series) #8 (December 1950)
-
Happy Birthday
Little Max / comic story / 2 pages
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Little Max; Soda jerk; Joe Palooka; Casey; Alice; Max's friends
- Synopsis
- Max throws a party for his friends on his birthday (with a little help from Joe Palooka).
- Reprints
- from Little Max Comics (Harvey, 1949 series) #8 (December 1950)
-
Humphrey's Own Puzzle Pages
Humphrey / activity / 1 page
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Humphrey
- Synopsis
- Humphrey presents a maze filled with food.
Little Max Game Page
Little Max / activity / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Little Max
- Synopsis
- Max presents several puzzles and games.
- Reprints
- from Little Max Comics (Harvey, 1949 series) #8 (December 1950)
-
School Bus Safety
Casper / public service announcement / 1 page
- Genre
- advocacy; children; fantasy-supernatural; humor
Little Dot Meets Uncle Leegle
Little Dot / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Dot Polka [Little Dot]; Mr. Polka; Uncle Leegle; suing accident victim; judge; jurors; attorney; trial attendees
- Synopsis
- A man passing by Dot's house slips on ice and decides to sue Dot's father for negligence. Dot thinks this is great, because it gives her Uncle Leegle, who has just passed the bar, a chance to practice law for the first time. In court, however, Uncle Leegle proves to be not so competent, and it is only thanks to Dot's charm and ingenuity that her father wins the case.
Small Talk
text story / 1 page
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Two unnamed dogs
- Synopsis
- Two dogs meet and get to know each other, although the fact that they are dogs is not revealed until the last line of the story.
- Reprints
- from Spooky (Harvey, 1955 series) #3 (March 1956) which is reprinted
- from Daisy and Her Pups Comics (Harvey, 1951 series) #12 (May 1953)
-
[no title indexed]
Little Lotta / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Hamburger, girlie?
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Lotta Plump [Little Lotta]; hamburger vendor; sideshow audience; Gorilla McGee; sideshow promoter
- Synopsis
- While attending a carnival sideshow, Lotta wishes she had enough money to buy one of the hamburgers being sold there. The one dime she does have is accidentally knocked out of her hand and into a wrestling ring. Seeing that the star wrestler is standing on her dime, she flips him over and wins a fifty dollar prize, which she then spends on hamburgers.
Don't Bring Anything
Richie Rich / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Richie Rich; Gloria Glad; Gloria's Aunt Nell; Linda; Joey; Martha; Clara; Phil; Freckles Friendly; Monty; unnamed party guests; ice cream vendor
- Synopsis
- Gloria invites Richie to her birthday party, insisting that he not bring her anything. Richie has already bought her many gifts and wonders to himself if he should bring them. Meanwhile, Gloria's other friends arrive at the party and begin speculating what Richie might be bringing. When he does arrive, he has nothing in hand, reminding her that she told him not to bring anything. After the party, Richie invites Gloria for a walk, and they soon arrive at an ice cream parlor named after Gloria and in which she finds all of the presents he didn't bring to the party.
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Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
Little Max -
1.
Max-imum Visibility!
Little Max -
2.
Talkin' Turkey
Humphrey -
3.
Kite Kapers
Little Max -
4.
The Payoff
-
5.
It's Auto-Matic
Little Max -
6.
Happy Birthday
Little Max -
7.
Humphrey's Own Puzzle Pages
Humphrey -
8.
Little Max Game Page
Little Max -
9.
School Bus Safety
Casper -
10.
Little Dot Meets Uncle Leegle
Little Dot -
11.
Small Talk
-
12.
["Hamburger, girlie?"]
Little Lotta -
13.
Don't Bring Anything
Richie Rich
This issue was modified by, among others
- Chris Boyko
- Jean-Francois Masse
- Keith Alan Morgan
- Craig Richardson
- Len Wolinsky
- Warren Zeigler
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