Our Gang Comics
#11
(May-June 1944)
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 52
- Indicia Frequency
- Bi-Monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1944-03-31
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Dell Publishing Co., Inc.
- Brand
-
A Dell Magazine
- Editing
- Oskar Lebeck (editor)
[no title indexed]
Our Gang / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- children; humor
- Characters
- Happy; Buckwheat; Froggy (of Our Gang)
Winners of the Nov.-Dec. contest
filler / 1 page
- Letters
- typeset
- Synopsis
- List of the winners of the November-December contest, who won a 25-cent war stamp or a 10-cent war stamp.
Indexer Notes
On the inside front cover.
[no title indexed]
Our Gang / comic story / 12 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Shipwrecked on a apparently uninhabited island...
- Genre
- adventure; children; humor
- Characters
- Our Gang [Janet; Mickey; Happy; Froggy; Buckwheat]; Deadlight Dan; Japanese spies
- Reprints
in Indexer Notes
War reference
Gaylord Du Bois script credit as per page 76 Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books Sorted by Title compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott (1984). Gaylord Du Bois script identification by David Porta, February 2014.
[no title indexed]
Flip 'n' Dip / comic story / 8 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Oh, look Flip I wonder what that can be...
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Flip; Dip; Pa
Indexer Notes
Copyright 1944 by Oskar Lebeck.
[no title indexed]
Tom and Jerry / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Sailing, sailing over the bounding Main
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Jerry; Tuffy; Tom
Indexer Notes
Story, art, and letters credits from _John Stanley in the 1940s: A Comics Bibliography_, Frank M Young, self-published: 2012.
[The Mysterious Groans]
Barney Bear and Benny Burro / comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Barney Bear; Benny Burro; the sheriff of a western town; a mad musician
- Synopsis
- Barney and Benny come to a western town whose inhabitants are fleeing because of mysterious groans that are coming from a huge "horn" hollowed out of a mountain by a madman.
- Reprints
-
in Barks Bear Book (Editions Enfin, 1979 series) (2ème trimestre 1979) -
in Tom & Jerry (Semic, 1979 series) #9/1983 (uke 40 1983) which is reprinted - in Tom & Jerry (Semic, 1979 series) #7/1992 (uke 30 1992)
-
Indexer Notes
Art submitted on December 16, 1943. The first story with Barney and Benny as a team. They never appeared together in animated cartoons until "Half-Pint Palomino," a 1953 MGM cartoon directed by Dick Lundy. Notes and synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (M. Lilien, 1982).
Wanted - A Master!
text story / 2 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- ? (spot illustrations)
- Inks
- ? (spot illustrations)
- Colors
- ? (spot illustrations)
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
Indexer Notes
"Retold from the Pete Smith M-G-M specialty."
[no title indexed]
Johnny Mole / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- In a cozy little house under the ground...
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Johnny Mole; Johnny's mom; Mister Weasel; Johnny's pop
[The Prisoner's Mother]
Droopy / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Happy Hound [Droopy]; prison hounds; Prison warden; prisoner no. 3B909664780; Butch, the prisoner's pal
- Synopsis
- Happy apathetically captures the wolf prisoner again, then lets him visit his "mother," actually a disguised hoodlum.
- Reprints
- in Barks Bear Book (Editions Enfin, 1979 series) (2ème trimestre 1979)
- in Tom & Jerry (Semic, 1979 series) #11/1983 (uke 48 1983), #1/1990 (uke 4 1990) [2nd translation]
-
Indexer Notes
Art submitted on October 30, 1943. Barks submitted this as an eight-page story; it was reduced to six by rearranging and altering the panels so that more could be accommodated on a page. Notes and synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (M. Lilien, 1982).
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0.
[no title indexed]
Our Gang -
1.
Winners of the Nov.-Dec. contest
-
2.
["Shipwrecked on a apparently uninhabited island..."]
Our Gang -
3.
["Oh, look Flip I wonder what that can be..."]
Flip 'n' Dip -
4.
["Sailing, sailing over the bounding Main"]
Tom and Jerry -
5.
[The Mysterious Groans]
Barney Bear and Benny Burro -
6.
Wanted - A Master!
-
7.
["In a cozy little house under the ground..."]
Johnny Mole -
8.
[The Prisoner's Mother]
Droopy -
9.
[no title indexed]
Bertie -
10.
A Cat Fish Tale
Tom and Jerry
- Claus Simonsen
- Lionel English
- Nick Caputo
- Merlin Haas
- Gary L. Watson (R.I.P.)
- Dave Porta
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