Paul Terry's Comics #108

(December 1953)

Hey Kids!! Be a Cartoonist! Talent Not Needed! It’s Easy! It’s Fun! (Table of Contents: 1)

Cartoon Drawing Set / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

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Here’s how to draw more than 100,000 funny faces only $1.00 complete

Keywords

cartooning; mail order marketing

Indexer Notes

Ad for "A 'Suitcase' Full of Cartoon Fun! The wonderful new drawing set that proves you can draw more than 100,000 funny faces”. Sold by Lucky Products. Black and white ad on inside front cover.

Gold Is Where You Find It (Table of Contents: 2)

Heckle and Jeckle / comic story / 12 pages (report information)

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Well, Heckle old boy, we ought to be in the gold country soon!

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Heckle and Jeckle [St. John Logo without characters]

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor

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Heckle; Jeckle; railroad cop; various citizens of Gold Junction; Gold Dust Pete

Synopsis

Heckle and Jeckle ride a box car west to look for gold. They find a counterfeiter instead.

Keywords

counterfeiting; ghost town; gold; prospecting; unlikely heroes

Strange Doin's (Table of Contents: 3)

Terry Bears / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

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Jim Tyer

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Step right up, folks! Get your voice throwing machine.

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Terry Bears [St. John logo with characters]

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

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The Terry Bears; Papa; Mama; voice-box salesman; enthralled crowd; Uncle Bruin (wall-hanging portrait)

Synopsis

The Terry Bears bedevil Papa with a voice throwing machine.

Keywords

kids-at-mischief; practical jokes; puzzlement; ventriloquism

The Unfinished Story (Table of Contents: 4)

Gandy Goose / text story / 2 pages (report information)

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"Clickety-clack-click-clack!" went the sound of Gandy's typewriter as he busily typed in his room.

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

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Gandy Goose; Sourpuss; bear; "Stupe the Dumb Dog" (character in Gandy's comic book story)

Synopsis

Gandy attempts to write a funny comic book story, but is stuck for an ending. Sourpuss's actual series of mishaps give Gandy the slapstick-comedy climax his story needs.

Keywords

bear; comic book story; forest setting; hunting; series of mishaps; writer

Everyone Wants These Great 3D Hits! (Table of Contents: 5)

St. John Publishing Co. / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

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Charles Stern (signed as Charlie Stern)

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Ask for these 3-D magazines at your favorite newsstand!

Characters

Three Stooges; crowd of hundreds

Keywords

comic book house ads

Indexer Notes

St. John house ad for its 3-D titles: Three Dimension Comics featuring 1,000,000 Years Ago, Three Dimension Comics starring The Three Stooges, and Three Dimension Comics presents WHACK. The covers of each are reproduced.

Crossword Capers (Table of Contents: 6)

Rudy Rooster / activity / 1 page (report information)

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Vic Lockman

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Gosh, Rudy certainly looks perplexed!

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Rudy Rooster; turtle

Keywords

crossword puzzle

Indexer Notes

Vic Lockman credits from Joe Torcivia, and confirmed by Alberto Becattini.

Fowl Play (Table of Contents: 7)

Dinky / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

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I've got to patch my pair of pants before I go to the old barn dance.

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Dinky (Duck) St. John Logo with character

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

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Dink Duck; Rudy Rooster; Farmer Al Falfa (Farmer Gray); romantically-inclined ram

Synopsis

Prankster Rudy sets out to make nervous Dinky all the more so.

Keywords

need-for-peace-and-quiet; nerves; outsmarting one’s-self; practical jokes; tension

Surprise Package (Table of Contents: 8)

Heckle and Jeckle / comic story / 1 page (report information)

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Hey - Dimwit! What have you got there!

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Heckle and Jeckle [St. John Logo with characters]

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor

Characters

Heckle; Jeckle; Dimwit

Synopsis

Dimwit finds a wallet and is going to turn it in to lost-and-found. Heckle and Jeckle grab it for themselves, to their great regret.

Reprints

• in Heckle and Jeckle (Dell, 1966 series) #1 (May 1966)

Keywords

learning one’s lesson; unwelcome surprise; wallet

Yes, Right from Detroit! (Table of Contents: 9)

50 Toy Cars / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

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From the auto capitol of the world to you… comes this amazing motorcade bargain 50 cars for $1

Keywords

cars; mail order marketing; toys; watches

Indexer Notes

Ad for toy cars boasting: “Nowhere in Lilliput did Gulliver ever see anything like this! This amazing motorcade bargain includes fifty miniature motor cars: true three dimensional scale models of streamline trolleys, highway vans, delivery trucks, repair service cars, and U.S. Army planes.” Sold by Young Products.
The bottom 1/4 of this page is an ad, also by Young Products, for an "Amazing new watch with mechanical brain - remembers - tells time - tells date - date changes automatically every day. Compare it at $50.00 - $8.95 plus 90-cents fed. tax"

There's Everything Every Boy Wants in... Lionel Trains with Magne-Traction (Table of Contents: 10)

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…More speed! …More pull! …More climb! …More control!

Keywords

mail order marketing; model railroading; trains

Indexer Notes

Ad for Lionel model trains and the new 1953 Lionel catalog. Black and white ad on inside back cover.

I'll Give You a Watch, Air Rifle, Uke, Camera or Any of My 70 Big Prizes (Table of Contents: 11)

American Specialty Company Christmas Cards & Seals / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

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Just for selling Christmas cards to your family, friends, and neighbors

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"Uncle" Harry Bard ("The man who has been helping boys and girls earn prizes and extra cash for 35 years", in a penciled, inked, and colored head-shot.)

Keywords

Christmas cards; prizes; sales

Indexer Notes

Ad for American Specialty Co., offering prizes or money for the sales of Christmas cards. A four-panel black-and-white comic strip inset shows two kids mailing the coupon, selling the cards, receiving a prize package from the mailman, and telling their friends about it. Color ad on back cover.