The Kilroys
#53
(April-May 1955)
American Comics Group,
1947 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Best Syndicated Features, Inc.
- Brand
-
American Comics Group ACG
- Editing
- Richard E. Hughes (credited)
[no title indexed]
Solid Jackson / cover / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I just happened ta think---I forgot to do my homework!
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Solid Jackson; Natch Kilroy
- Keywords
- hot air balloon
Indexer Notes
Cover scene is from first interior story: "Come, Josephine, in my Fying Machine!"
Come, Josephine, in My Flying Machine!
Solid Jackson / comic story / 9 pages
- Job Number
- A-99
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Solid Jackson; Natch Kilroy; Judy Farrell; Slim; Portia Karloff; Slim
- Synopsis
- Natch and Judy take Jackson and Portia to the Air Show, where Jackson and Natch get caught in a runaway hot air balloon. They land in the jungle where they have to escape from cannibals.
- Keywords
- air show; cannibals; helicopter; hot air balloon; jungle; matches; shadow pictures
Indexer Notes
The title is the same as the title of a 1910 popular song.
Lemonade, Sir?
Solid Jackson / comic story / 7 pages
- Job Number
- A-98
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Solid Jackson; Mrs. Jackson
- Synopsis
- Jackson decides to open a lemonade stand, but ends up drinking it all himself.
- Reprints
-
in Lesley Shane (Atlas, 1955 ? series) #6 ([1956] ?)
-
- Keywords
- lemonade stand; motorcycle policeman
A Girl Called!
text story / 1 page
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Spud Dennison; Hepzibah Tizzle
- Synopsis
- Spud's mother tells him a girl called, but she didn't get her name. Curiosity about who called obsesses Spud the rest of the evening.
- Keywords
- telephone
Everything's Relative
Buster / comic story / 4 pages
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Buster; Gallileo (aka Cornwall, the Crying Crooner)
- Synopsis
- Buster and the boys are stuck in town because they don't have any money to go to a steak fry at the beach. Buster's cousin Gallileo happens by and happens to have $50.
- Keywords
- beach; comic books; steak fry; telephone
Indexer Notes
The soda shop owner won't let the boys read his comic books without paying. A footnote defining "got the message" slang is on page 2.
That Extra Dollar
text story / 1 page
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Alec Rogers; Caswell McDuff
- Synopsis
- Alec decides that he must have the three-toned sports jacket in the store window and makes the supreme sacrifice of baby-sitting Caswell McDuff, the terror of the neighborhood!
- Keywords
- baby-sitting; sports jacket
[no title indexed]
Solid Jackson / comic story / 7 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Woddeya mean, you're doing all the work?
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Solid Jackson; Natch Kilroy; Slim; Judy Farrell; Mrs. Kilroy
- Synopsis
- Jackson goes looking for Natch, but can't find him. While waiting at Natch's house, he ends up doing all of Natch's chores.
- Keywords
- baseball; beating rugs; burning trash; fourth wall; lawn mowing; pianos
Indexer Notes
Jackson talks to the readers on page four.
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
["I just happened ta think---I forgot to do my homework!"]
Solid Jackson -
1.
Come, Josephine, in My Flying Machine!
Solid Jackson -
2.
Lemonade, Sir?
Solid Jackson -
3.
A Girl Called!
-
4.
Everything's Relative
Buster -
5.
That Extra Dollar
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6.
["Woddeya mean, you're doing all the work?"]
Solid Jackson
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