Camp Comics
#3
(April 1942)
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 68
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1942-04-01
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- K. K. Publications Inc.
- Editing
- ?
Issue Notes
[no title indexed]
table of contents / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Walt Kelly ?; ?
- Inks
- Walt Kelly ?; ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- In this issue
- Characters
- A beautiful girl; three servicemen
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover. Printed in black and red.
The girl is in her slip wearing billboards announcing part of the contents. The billboards seem to be see-through and she attracts the undivided attention of the three servicemen.
Art credits uncertain, but the three servicemen do show some similarity to Walt Kelly's artwork in the "Seaman Sy Wheeler" story.
[no title indexed]
Rusty O'Reilly / comic story / 12 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- This is the place we're raiding...
- Genre
- adventure
- Characters
- Rusty O'Reilly; Major Keene; Brune (spy); Donner (spy)
- Synopsis
- Rusty, Brune and Donner escape Keene's raid of the spys' hotel in Panama City, Rusty posing as spy queen Madam Q. Their plane crashes in the Brazilian jungle, and the spies and Rusty are captured by indians. Brune and Donner escape the indian camp, but are killed by curare darts.
Indexer Notes
Last appearance.
Many violent actions throughout - a pilot being thrown out of a flying plane, an Indian being shot in the back, and the two villains being shot to death by curare darts. Derogatory description of the Amazon Indians throughout: "Head hunters".
[no title indexed]
Pepsi and Pete, the Pepsi-Cola Cops / advertisement / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Rube Goldberg (credited)
- Inks
- Rube Goldberg (credited)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Ice on wings - losing altitude -
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Pepsi; Pete; Waldo
- Synopsis
- The two Pepsi-Cola cops melt the ice off of an airplane's wings with toasted bread.
Indexer Notes
Advertisement for Pepsi Cola in comic story form.
The Setting of the Rising Sun
Hank and Lank / comic story / 9 pages
- Script
- Frank Thomas
- Pencils
- Frank Thomas (signed)
- Inks
- Frank Thomas (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- humor; superhero
- Characters
- Hank; Lank; Bubbles; Lord High Mucki-Muck; General Fanny-Hang-Low
- Synopsis
- The Japanese have dug a tunnel beneath the Pacific all the way to New York, planning an invasion. The protagonists by accident discover the plan and conquer the entire Japanese army.
Indexer Notes
Very violent ending: The Japanese emperor and the entire army are thrown into garbage trucks and being cremated at the Municipal Incinerator.
[no title indexed]
advertisement / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- We're in the Army Now!!
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- Lifebuoy soap makes a private ready for a date even after an entire day of K.P.
Indexer Notes
Advertisement in comic strip form for Lifebuoy Health Soap.
Sherman Was Right, Especially When You're Dealing With the Weaker Sex
Seaman Sy Wheeler / comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Syclops "Sy" Wheeler; Clarence; Kitty; Tootsie; a young lady on the train; the young lady's boychild
- Synopsis
- Sy and Clarence ride to a weekend in the country on a train, but women keep falling into Sy's arms whenever his fiancée Kitty appears.
Indexer Notes
Last appearance.
Kelly draws a caricature of himself as a ticket seller on pg. 2. The young lady's boychild is a caricature of Disney animator Ward Kimball.
[no title indexed]
Party Line / cartoon / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- He's in the signal corps and can he string a line!
- Genre
- humor; erotica
Indexer Notes
Six more or less scantily clad young women delivering double entendres about servicemen on the phone.
The Chicago Express Mystery
Philo Vance / comic story / 10 pages
- Genre
- detective-mystery
- Characters
- Philo Vance; Skittles; Mary Doval; Charles Foster; miss Barkley; Dr. Bradley
- Synopsis
- The heiress to a big fortune becomes cataleptic on a train, and Philo - accidentally present on board the same train - solves the mystery.
Indexer Notes
Last appearance.
[no title indexed]
Mollé Mike / advertisement / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Cripes what a swell shave!
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Mollé Mike; two high ranking army officers
Indexer Notes
Advertisement for Mollé shaving cream in comic strip form.
[no title indexed]
advertisement / 0.5 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- He says he's smoother now that he shaves ...
Indexer Notes
Advertisement for GEM Clog-pruf [sic!] razor and blades.
[no title indexed]
Party Line / cartoon / 0.5 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Sorry, general, but tonight I've got a 'private' engagement!
- Genre
- humor; erotica
Indexer Notes
No title, but clearly same setup as feature no. 9.
Three Wishes
comic story / 1 page
- Script
- Dave Berg (credited as David Berg)
- Pencils
- Dave Berg (credited as David Berg)
- Inks
- Dave Berg (credited as David Berg)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Dave Berg
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- If granted three wishes the protagonist would wish for opportunities to murder Hitler, and hurt Mussolini and Hirohito.
Indexer Notes
Pre-war reference: mentioning Hitler, Mussolini and Hirohito.
[no title indexed]
cartoon / 0.5 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Gee! Ain't dose flowers gorgeous!
- Genre
- humor
Indexer Notes
No title, and not using telephones as props, but otherwise similar in setup to feature no. 9, and possibly same artist.
[no title indexed]
advertisement / 0.5 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Our signals tell a story
Indexer Notes
Advertisement for Friends smoking tobacco. Printed in black and red.
Dear Ethel
text story / 3 pages
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- W.B. Bingle; Gilligan; Major Brewster
- Synopsis
- Bingle and his pal, Corporal Gilligan visit Gilligan's grandfather, Major Brewster, who was in the Spanish-American war.
Indexer Notes
War reference: Fear of Nazi invasion to the US.
Winners in Camp Comics $100 Contest
activity / 0.5 page
Indexer Notes
Winners of the contest in issue #1.
[Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder ..."]
advertisement / 0.5 page
Indexer Notes
Printed in black and red. Advertisement for Barbasol Service Special shaving cream.
[no title indexed]
Grin and Bear It / cartoon / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- George Lichty (credited as Lichty)
- Inks
- George Lichty (credited as Lichty)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- You write Junior a good sharp letter ...
- Genre
- humor
Indexer Notes
Four cartoons.
[no title indexed]
Rimfire Ferguson / comic story / 10 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- John Hampton (signed)
- Inks
- John Hampton (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Mr. Fergusen [sic], please tell the jury...
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Rimfire Ferguson; Elizabeth Hardy; Broder (cow herder, villain); Honest Sam Steele; Sheriff Boyle; Mike Gorrel (sheep herder, villain)
- Synopsis
- During the court case of the five cow herders trying to kill Rimfire [ref. Camp Comics #2], sheep herders drive a huge flock of sheep through cow country, and the sheep/cattle war breaks out again.
Indexer Notes
The "Rimfire Ferguson" feature appears next in Super Comics (Western, 1938 Series) #63 (August 1943).
Signature on last page.
[no title indexed]
Grin and Bear It / cartoon / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- George Lichty (credited as Lichty)
- Inks
- George Lichty (credited as Lichty)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I'm your neighbor, Dr. Truffle ...
- Genre
- humor
Indexer Notes
Inside back cover, printed in black and red. Four cartoons.
-
0.
["I wonder what he meant when he said he liked my form!"]
-
1.
["In this issue"]
-
2.
["This is the place we're raiding..."]
Rusty O'Reilly -
3.
["Ice on wings - losing altitude -"]
Pepsi and Pete, the Pepsi-Cola Cops -
4.
The Setting of the Rising Sun
Hank and Lank -
5.
["We're in the Army Now!!"]
-
6.
Red-Bearded Fakir of Ipi
True Spy Stories -
7.
Sherman Was Right, Especially When You're Dealing With the Weaker Sex
Seaman Sy Wheeler -
8.
["He's in the signal corps and can he string a line!"]
Party Line -
9.
The Chicago Express Mystery
Philo Vance -
10.
The Ordeal of Edith Cavell
True Spy Stories -
11.
["Cripes what a swell shave!"]
Mollé Mike -
12.
Haile Selassie's Native Girl-Spy
True Spy Stories -
13.
["He says he's smoother now that he shaves ..."]
-
14.
["Sorry, general, but tonight I've got a 'private' engagement!"]
Party Line -
15.
Three Wishes
-
16.
["Gee! Ain't dose flowers gorgeous!"]
-
17.
["Our signals tell a story"]
-
18.
Dear Ethel
-
19.
Winners in Camp Comics $100 Contest
-
20.
[Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder ..."]
-
21.
["You write Junior a good sharp letter ..."]
Grin and Bear It -
22.
["Mr. Fergusen [sic], please tell the jury..."]
Rimfire Ferguson -
23.
["I'm your neighbor, Dr. Truffle ..."]
Grin and Bear It -
24.
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