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- Actually charge themselves with light!
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- Christmas tree ornaments; mail order marketing
Ad for a set of 76 styrene plastic Christmas tree ornaments which can store light during the day, and "glow" it back at night. Black and white ad on inside front cover.
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- Jim Tyer
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- Jim Tyer
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- Wow! Lookit those women come!
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- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
- Characters
- Heckle; Jeckle; Mr. Bulldog (department store manager); mob of lady shoppers; mob of men shoppers; store efficiency expert
- Synopsis
- Heckle and Jeckle invent an "automatic clothes selling machine" to relieve the chaotic conditions at an overcrowded department store. All goes well until a self-interested store efficiency expert (literally) throws a monkey wrench into the works.
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- art modification or omission; chaos; deleted or edited scenes; department store; professional jealousy; sabotage; unintended slapstick consequences
The original printing in Terry-Toons Comics (St. John, 1947 Series) #75 was 6.5 pages. For this reprint, only 6 of the original 6.5 pages are reprinted. This reprint does not merely edit-out a half page unimportant to the story as a whole, but cuts off the final half page eliminating the story's ending gag. An ad for a novelty "television bank" from Seagee Co. takes the half-page place of the missing story material.
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- Lights up! Like biggest, costliest television sets!
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- art modification or omission; bank; mail order marketing; television; toys
Ad offering a bank in the form of a television set, which “lights up the instant you drop coin”! The ad makes the following claims (reproduced verbatim): “Shows brilliant pictures in full color!”, “Hits every television high… fights and all!”, “Thrills you and your friends pop-eyed!”, “And… Makes your savings mount up fast!”, “All-steel construction. Only $1.98.” This ad appears where the cut half-page to end the previous "Heckle and Jeckle" story would have been. Top half of page.
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- Any amount $50.00 to $600.00. Quick-easy-private and confidential
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- loans; mail order marketing; money
Ad offering loans of money to individuals “over 25 years of age and steadily employed”. "Mail coupon now for free loan papers"! The title area of the ad pictures a "drawn" smiling postman offering an envelope (presumably) with a check inside. Actual black-and-white photographs of real people accompany the following captions: "Pay doctor Bills", "Pay insurance", and "Pay old debts". Lower half of page.
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- Connie Rasinski (signed as Connie R.)
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- Connie Rasinski (signed as Connie R.)
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- I saw a crate being delivered to Dinky this morning. I think I'll go see what it is.
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- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
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- Dinky Duck; Rudy Rooster; rooster doctor
- Synopsis
- A snooping Rudy is spooked by Dinky's (talking?) record machine.
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- fright; microphone; recorder; snooping; unwelcome surprise
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- Yours as a gift given free to all new subscribers
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- comic book house ads; mail subscriptions
Ad offering a free set of ball-point pens in different colors for subscribing to various St. John comic book titles. Twelve-issue subscriptions are offered for one dollar, for a saving of 20-cents on each subscription. Selected titles are offered by category: “HUMOR”: Mighty Mouse Comics, Paul Terry’s Comics, and Little Eva. “ROMANCE”: Teen-Age Romances, Wartime Romances, Pictorial Romances, Diary Secrets, and Teen-Age Temptations. “ADVENTURE”: Fightin’ Marines, Authentic Police Cases, Strange Terrors, Weird Horrors, and Atom-Age Combat.
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- Connie Rasinski (signed)
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- Connie Rasinski (signed)
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- A strange new sight fills the streets of Terrytown as a movie company prepares to make an action picture starring of course Mighty Mouse.
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- anthropomorphic-funny animals; superhero
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- Mighty Mouse; Mitzi Mouse; The Claw, mouse radio reporter; mouse radio producer (control room); various members of the Claw gang; various mouse citizens of Terrytown; mechanical gorillas; real gorillas
- Synopsis
- The Claw stages a phony action movie to trap Mighty Mouse.
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- best-laid-plans; director; diversion; gorillas; heroics; imposter; movie; suspicion; trap
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- ?; Archer St. John (publisher, signed) ?; Richard E. Decker (business manager) ?
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- Genre
- non-fiction
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- government reporting; regulations
Statement of Ownership for October 1, 1952. No circulation figures appear as part of this report. Occupies the lower 1/4 of page 2 of the Mighty Mouse story - interrupting that story.
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- What's the matter, Gandy? You look sad about something.
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- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
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- Gandy Goose; Sourpuss
- Synopsis
- Sourpuss misinterprets the reason for Gandy's sadness.
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- grandfather; letter; sadness; sorry-you-asked; wrong impression
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- Authentic replica of original "Swedish Singing Angels" centerpiece
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- candles; decorative items; mail order marketing
Ad for a metal candle holder adorned by metal angels striking chimes, for which “heat from lighted candles makes angels revolve continuously”. Only $1.98 complete with candles.
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- Two young men had been invited out to dinner by their employer...
- Genre
- humor
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- joke book; jokes
Jokes and humorous anecdotes, selected from "10,000 Jokes, Toasts, and Stories" Copyright 1939, 1940, by Lewis and Fay Copeland. Published by Garden City Publishing Company, Inc.
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- Phew! I've got a hundred more holes to dig before we can get these fence posts up and collect our money from Farmer Brown.
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- anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
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- Heckle; Jeckle; Dimwit
- Synopsis
- Heckle and Jeckle trick Dimwit into digging a series of postholes for them.
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- digging; postholes; trick
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- Want a real engineer's cap like this? See extra special coupon offer below
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- engineer's cap; mail order marketing; model railroading; trains
Ad for Lionel model trains offering a new 36-page full-color Lionel catalog, a rule book for model railroaders, and a model railroad town building kit. With an additional offer of an "official engineer's cap".
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- Ah, good morning, Sir! I have here a marvelous mechanism that will -
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- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
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- Sourpuss; door-to-door salesman; Sourpuss's scheming self (his bad alter-ego); Sourpuss's conscience (his good alter-ego); Gandy Goose; crowd of customers
- Synopsis
- Sourpuss buys an unwanted device from a door-to-door salesman, later conning Gandy into buying the device from him. Sourpuss' "good and bad selves" literally fight over the situation.
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- "good and bad selves"; buyer beware; con game; dissatisfied customer; reversal of fortunes; sales; salesman; turning-lemons-into-lemonade
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- M-m-m- What a delicious pie!
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- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Gandy Goose; Sourpuss
- Synopsis
- With each desiring a single delicious pie, Gandy and Sourpuss make a bet that whoever has the best dream that night gets to eat the pie.
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- bet; contest; dream; pie
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- Order by Mail Save 1/2
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- mail order marketing; novelties; projector; sewing machine; toys; walkie-talkie; watch
Ad offering an "electronic walkie-talkie communication system", an "electric-TV projector", a toy sewing machine that "really sews", and a "new watch with mechanical brain".
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- Here are many things to do and enjoy - order now! (This line runs vertically down the middle of the page)
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- books; fur hats; games; mail order marketing; novelties
Ad offering two books, "Fun for Boys" ("The most wonderful book for boys ever published!") and "Fun for Girls" ("Loads and loads of exciting things to do!) $1 each. Also a "Giant Collection of 100 Games" for $1, and a "Wild & Wooly Fur Hat" ("A real fur Dan'l Boone Trappers Hat... just like the pioneers wore.") for $1.98. Black and white ad on inside back cover.
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- This easy way -
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- Christmas cards; prizes; sales
Ad urging children to sell 45 Xmas packs (2 "Xmas cards" with envelopes and "8 sparkling Xmas seals") from American Specialty Company, at 10-cents each in exchange for prizes or money. "Some of the prizes require extra money as stated." Color ad on back cover.