(Summer 1948)

Quality Comics, 1946 Series
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Price
0.10 USD
Pages
52
Indicia Frequency
Quarterly
On-sale Date
1948-03-19
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Comic Favorites Inc.
Brand
Quality Comic Group
Editing
Jesse C. Rogers (editor); Ann Meredith (credited) (editor); Busy Arnold (credited as Everett M. Arnold) (general manage; business manager)

Issue Notes

The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Vol. 2, Part 2, No. 1, Periodicals, January-June 1948.
Meredith is credited as Editor in the statement of ownership.

Kelly Poole follows a homing pigeon to TROUBLE! (Table of Contents)

Kelly Poole / cover / 1 page (report information)

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Genre
humor
Characters
Kelly Poole; Pockets
Keywords
shoeshine

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 1)

Kelly Poole / comic story / 12 pages (report information)

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First Line of Dialogue or Text
Gee, Kelly, the man in the moon looks just like Uncle Gamlin!
Genre
humor
Characters
Kelly Poole; Uncle Gamlin; Aunt Fanny; Pockets; Officer Dooley; Colonel Guff; Duds Darcy; Willie the Weasel
Synopsis
Kelly and Pockets steal a plane in order to thwart crooks who are using homing pigeons to smuggle diamonds shipped in from abroad to avoid paying customs duties.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 2)

Giddy Goose / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

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You can't annoy me with your mirth!
Genre
humor
Characters
Giddy Goose; Rick (a raccoon); Casper Cat
Synopsis
Giddy builds a jet-propelled speedboat so he can win a $50 first prize in a boat race. Rick and Casper sabotage Giddy's boat by adding more rocket powder. Giddy shoots by the finish line so fast the judges don't even see him and award the first prize to Rick and Casper. However, Giddy ends up winning $500 in an airplane race 20 miles downriver before his rocket tubes ran out of fuel.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 3)

Handy Pandy / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

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Phew! That job is done and I'm all finished!
Genre
humor
Characters
Handy Pandy; Ali Ben Tanc
Synopsis
Promised by payment in jewels, Handy Pandy, Fix It Man, is hired by Ali Ben Tanc to install a secret sealed door on a mummy's tomb that only Ali Ben Tanc and his trusted servant can open. After installing the seal, Handy is thrown into the tomb to perish along with the secret. Handy uses dynamite to blow himself out of the tomb, landing on a homeward bound airplane. While he has escaped from Ali Ben Tanc, he does not get any payment for his work.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 4)

Hickory / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

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First Line of Dialogue or Text
So this is a picture of your grandmammy?
Genre
humor
Characters
Hickory; Alec Smartt
Synopsis
To help pay the mortgage, young Hickory wants to enter a cross-country race with his horse, Marybelle, to win the $500 first prize. However, before the race, his father sells Marybelle to make an installment payment on the mortgage. Hickory learns that his cow, Nancy, can jump fences, so he enters the race riding the cow. He wins and uses the money to pay the mortgage and buy back his horse.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 5)

Atomictot / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

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First Line of Dialogue or Text
Yoo hoo!
Genre
humor
Characters
Atomictot; Mr. Immature
Synopsis
A movie company plans to shoot a movie about cavemen and dinosaurs in Atomictot's swamp, unaware that real prehistoric men and beasts actually live there.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 6)

Lammypie / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

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First Line of Dialogue or Text
Impy, you pushed me!
Genre
humor
Characters
Lammypie; Impy
Synopsis
Lammypie is always good and tries to stay away from Impy, who is always getting Lammypie into trouble.

Indexer Notes

After one appearance in All Humor Comics, Lammypie moves to Hit Comics (Quality Comics, 1940 Series) starting with #54 (September 1948).

Pigs Are Romantic (Table of Contents: 7)

text story / 1.75 pages (report information)

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typeset

Genre
humor
Characters
Pedro (a Mexican worker)
Synopsis
Pedro can call animals -- cows, pigs, chickens -- to him with a song.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 8)

statement of ownership / 0.25 page (report information)

Script
Busy Arnold (credited as Everett M. Arnold) (publisher)
Letters
typeset

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 9)

Uncle Fuddly / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script
Paul Gustavson
Pencils
Paul Gustavson
Inks
Paul Gustavson
Colors
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Letters
Paul Gustavson

Job Number
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First Line of Dialogue or Text
I know! I should look through keyholes ...
Genre
humor
Characters
Uncle Fuddly; Sheriff; McGurk; Widow Willard; Judge and Mrs. Tomkins; Doc Tobin
Synopsis
Meddlesome Uncle Fuddly mistakenly thinks that Widow Willard is being evicted from her home when he see the Sheriff and Mr. McGurk moving her old furniture from her home.

Indexer Notes

All credits verified and courtesy of Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson.

Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. Kelly Poole follows a homing pigeon to TROUBLE!
    Kelly Poole
  2. 1. ["Gee, Kelly, the man in the moon looks just like Uncle Gamlin!"]
    Kelly Poole
  3. 2. ["You can't annoy me with your mirth!"]
    Giddy Goose
  4. 3. ["Phew! That job is done and I'm all finished!"]
    Handy Pandy
  5. 4. ["So this is a picture of your grandmammy?"]
    Hickory
  6. 5. ["Yoo hoo!"]
    Atomictot
  7. 6. ["Impy, you pushed me!"]
    Lammypie
  8. 7. Pigs Are Romantic
  9. 8. [no title indexed]
  10. 9. ["I know! I should look through keyholes ..."]
    Uncle Fuddly
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