The American Legion #v43#4

(October 1947)

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Volume: 43
Price: 0.15 USD
Pages: 76
Indicia Frequency: monthly
On-sale Date: 1947
Indicia / Colophon Publisher: The American Legion
Printer: Printed in the U. S. A.

Editing: Alexander Gardiner (credited) (editor)

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Script: George H. Green (signed as GHG)
Pencils: George H. Green (signed as GHG)
Inks: George H. Green (signed as GHG)
Letters: typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text: If they ever try to give the country back to us, we'll give it back to the Aborigines
Genre: humor

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Script: George La Mendola (signed as La Mendola)
Pencils: George La Mendola (signed as La Mendola)
Inks: George La Mendola (signed as La Mendola)
Letters: George La Mendola (signed as La Mendola)

First Line of Dialogue or Text: Kiddies Clothes Co
Genre: humor

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Script: Wally Wallgren (credited as Wally) (signed as Wally)
Pencils: Wally Wallgren (credited as Wally) (signed as Wally)
Inks: Wally Wallgren (credited as Wally) (signed as Wally)

Genre: humor
Synopsis: A man is helped by his tennis partner after he swallows the ball.

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Script: Rodney deSarro (signed as Rod deSarro)
Pencils: Rodney deSarro (signed as Rod deSarro)
Inks: Rodney deSarro (signed as Rod deSarro)
Letters: typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text: Hi, Ed - you paid me the five, remember?
Genre: humor
Characters: Ed

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Script: Reamer Keller (signed)
Pencils: Reamer Keller (signed)
Inks: Reamer Keller (signed)
Letters: typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text: Third floor; slate, coal gas, rock and muck.
Genre: humor

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Script: Fallette (signed)
Pencils: Fallette (signed)
Inks: Fallette (signed)
Letters: typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text: I'm really losing weight on this new diet - already I've had to set my buttons over three times.
Genre: humor

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Script: Frank Owen (signed)
Pencils: Frank Owen (signed)
Inks: Frank Owen (signed)
Letters: typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text: The jockey was easy to buy off, but how'd I know the horse was so honest?
Genre: humor

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Script: Charles Saxon (signed as Saxon)
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Letters: typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text: Well - down the hatch!
Genre: humor

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Script: Tom Henderson (signed)
Pencils: Tom Henderson (signed)
Inks: Tom Henderson (signed)
Letters: typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text: Read me a couple of chapters - I expect to be awake for awhile.
Genre: humor

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Script: Vic Herman (signed)
Pencils: Vic Herman (signed)
Inks: Vic Herman (signed)
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First Line of Dialogue or Text: Marry me, and let me take all this away from you.
Genre: humor

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Script: Mary Gibson (signed as Gibson)
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First Line of Dialogue or Text: ...we take you now to the stadium where the fight is already in progress.
Genre: humor

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Script: Virgil Partch (signed as VIP)
Pencils: Virgil Partch (signed as VIP)
Inks: Virgil Partch (signed as VIP)
Letters: typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text: Honey, how about mashing the... oh, never mind.
Genre: humor

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Script: George Smith (signed as Geo Smith)
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Inks: George Smith (signed as Geo Smith)
Letters: typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text: Well, how do you like me with the wind and the rain in my hair?
Genre: humor

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Script: Hank Ketcham (signed as Ketcham)
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Inks: Hank Ketcham (signed as Ketcham)
Letters: typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text: Would you kindly tell me, without any parental advice, just where in hell the smoker is on this train?
Genre: humor

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Script: Sam Brier (signed as S. B. Stevens)
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First Line of Dialogue or Text: South Pole
Genre: humor

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Script: Stan Hunt (signed)
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Inks: Stan Hunt (signed)

Genre: humor
Synopsis: A man's spare tire blows out before he can replace a flat tire.

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Script: Stan Hunt (signed)
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Inks: Stan Hunt (signed)
Letters: typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text: Good morning, dear.
Genre: humor

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Script: Clyde Lamb (signed)
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Inks: Clyde Lamb (signed)
Letters: Clyde Lamb (signed)

First Line of Dialogue or Text: Big turtle race today
Genre: humor

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Script: George La Mendola (signed as La Mendola)
Pencils: George La Mendola (signed as La Mendola)
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First Line of Dialogue or Text: He's gone.
Genre: humor

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Script: Virgil Partch (signed as VIP)
Pencils: Virgil Partch (signed as VIP)
Inks: Virgil Partch (signed as VIP)
Letters: typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text: You heard me, I said throw it back.
Genre: humor

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Script: Ernie Garza (signed as Ernie G)
Pencils: Ernie Garza (signed as Ernie G)
Inks: Ernie Garza (signed as Ernie G)
Letters: typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text: You're going off the road again!
Genre: humor

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Script: ?
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First Line of Dialogue or Text: Do not feed the animals
Genre: humor

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Script: Bill King (signed)
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Inks: Bill King (signed)
Letters: typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text: I'll bet most husbands don't have to go through this everytime they're late.
Genre: humor

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Script: Ponce De Leon (signed as Ponce de León)
Pencils: Ponce De Leon (signed as Ponce de León)
Inks: Ponce De Leon (signed as Ponce de León)

Genre: humor
Synopsis: A doorman's shadow tries to offer a cute woman an umbrella.
Keywords: rain

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Script: ?
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Inks: ?
Letters: typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text: Stop worrying - it's only a banging shutter.
Genre: humor

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Script: Dick Strome (signed)
Pencils: Dick Strome (signed)
Inks: Dick Strome (signed)
Colors: ?
Letters: typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text: I don't care what you say. I still think I'm safer this way.
Genre: humor

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Script: Irwin Caplan (signed)
Pencils: Irwin Caplan (signed)
Inks: Irwin Caplan (signed)
Letters: typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text: Hey boss, anything else around here need cleaning?
Genre: humor

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Table of Contents

1. ["If they ever try to give the country back to us, we'll give it back to the Aborigines"]
2. ["Kiddies Clothes Co"]
3. Teamwork
4. ["Hi, Ed - you paid me the five, remember?"]
5. ["Third floor; slate, coal gas, rock and muck."]
6. ["I'm really losing weight on this new diet - already I've had to set my buttons over three times."]
7. ["The jockey was easy to buy off, but how'd I know the horse was so honest?"]
8. ["Well - down the hatch!"]
9. ["Read me a couple of chapters - I expect to be awake for awhile."]
10. ["Marry me, and let me take all this away from you."]
11. ["...we take you now to the stadium where the fight is already in progress."]
12. ["Honey, how about mashing the... oh, never mind."]
13. ["Well, how do you like me with the wind and the rain in my hair?"]
14. ["Would you kindly tell me, without any parental advice, just where in hell the smoker is on this train?"]
15. ["South Pole"]
16. [no title indexed]
17. ["Good morning, dear."]
18. ["Big turtle race today"]
19. ["He's gone."]
20. ["You heard me, I said throw it back."]
21. ["You're going off the road again!"]
22. ["Do not feed the animals"]
23. ["I'll bet most husbands don't have to go through this everytime they're late."]
24. [no title indexed]
Imp-ulses
25. ["Stop worrying - it's only a banging shutter."]
26. ["I don't care what you say. I still think I'm safer this way."]
27. ["Hey boss, anything else around here need cleaning?"]
28. Experience is the Best Teacher!
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The American Legion #v43#4 (October 1947)

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(October 1947)