The American Legion
#v60#3
(March 1956)
The American Legion,
1926 Series
- Volume
- 60
- Price
- 0.15 USD
- Pages
- 60
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1956
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- The American Legion
- Editing
- Joseph C. Keeley (credited) (editor)
The individual issues of this series are each less than 50% comics. Only comics sequences are indexed and cover scans are accepted only if the issue has 10% indexed comics content.
The Highest Paid Private in the Army - "Beetle Bailey"
about comics / 3.05 pages
- Script
- Barbara Stewart (credited)
- Pencils
- Mort Walker (credited); ? (photograph)
- Inks
- Mort Walker (credited); ? (photograph)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- non-fiction
- Characters
- Beetle Bailey; General Halftrack; Sergeant Snorkel (misspelled as Snorkle); Zero; Cosmo; Mort Walker (photograph); Bugs Baer (photo); Ward Greene (photo); Jean Walker (photo)
- Synopsis
- About Beetle Bailey and Mort Walker's career.
- Pages
- 14 - 46
Indexer Notes
Contains two strips and a cartoon, indexed separately.
[no title indexed]
Beetle Bailey / comic story / 0.25 page
- Script
- Mort Walker (signed)
- Pencils
- Mort Walker (signed)
- Inks
- Mort Walker (signed)
- Letters
- Mort Walker (signed)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- What do you mean wearing that tie to a parade?
- Genre
- humor; military
- Characters
- Beetle Bailey; Captain Scabbard
- Synopsis
- Beetle is taken to the military board for his appearance.
- Reprints
- from Beetle Bailey daily (King Features Syndicate) 1954-11-30
[no title indexed]
Beetle Bailey / comic story / 0.25 page
- Script
- Mort Walker (signed)
- Pencils
- Mort Walker (signed)
- Inks
- Mort Walker (signed)
- Letters
- Mort Walker (signed)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I can't understand it! We split the atom--
- Genre
- humor; military
- Characters
- Beetle Bailey; Killer Diller; Sergeant Snorkel; Zero
- Synopsis
- Sarge can't understand how scientists can make great inventions, but can't do a thing with people.
- Reprints
- from Beetle Bailey daily (King Features Syndicate) 1954-06-04
[no title indexed]
cartoon / 0.2 page
- Script
- Mort Walker (signed)
- Pencils
- Mort Walker (signed)
- Inks
- Mort Walker (signed)
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I'll never get dinner ready if that chicken doesn't stay in the oven!
- Genre
- humor
- Reprints
-
from The American Legion (The American Legion, 1926 series) #v56#6 (June 1954)
-
[no title indexed]
cartoon / 0.25 page
- Script
- John Gallagher (signed as
Gallagher) - Pencils
- John Gallagher (signed as Gallagher)
- Inks
- John Gallagher (signed as Gallagher)
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Oops! Enough oil, sir?
- Genre
- humor
[no title indexed]
cartoon / 0.25 page
- Script
- Johnny Hart (signed as johnny [heart])
- Pencils
- Johnny Hart (signed as johnny [heart])
- Inks
- Johnny Hart (signed as johnny [heart])
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- If he let's go of my new kite, I'll never forgive him.
- Genre
- humor
[no title indexed]
cartoon / 0.25 page
- Script
- Dick Ericson (signed)
- Pencils
- Dick Ericson (signed)
- Inks
- Dick Ericson (signed)
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Now... stand like this, then simply push your feet like... help!
- Genre
- humor
[no title indexed]
cartoon / 0.25 page
- Script
- Walt Wetterberg (signed)
- Pencils
- Walt Wetterberg (signed)
- Inks
- Walt Wetterberg (signed)
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Oh, nothing really. I just wanted to see you fellows lift something!
- Genre
- humor
[no title indexed]
cartoon / 0.15 page
- Script
- Clyde Lamb (signed as Lamb)
- Pencils
- Clyde Lamb (signed as Lamb)
- Inks
- Clyde Lamb (signed as Lamb)
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Now jump!
- Genre
- humor
[no title indexed]
cartoon / 0.25 page
- Script
- Norman Hoifjeld (signed as Hoifjeld)
- Pencils
- Norman Hoifjeld (signed as Hoifjeld)
- Inks
- Norman Hoifjeld (signed as Hoifjeld)
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Consider yourself lucky you ain't married to some dame like Marilyn Monroe or you'd never get by with no measly four bucks for a hat.
- Genre
- humor
[no title indexed]
cartoon / 0.15 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- What do you think you're playing?
- Genre
- humor
[no title indexed]
cartoon / 0.25 page
- Script
- Frank Ridgeway (signed)
- Pencils
- Frank Ridgeway (signed)
- Inks
- Frank Ridgeway (signed)
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Eleven inches of water... means you've been out two hours... that will be two dollars.
- Genre
- humor
[no title indexed]
cartoon / 0.15 page
- Script
- Sid Gordin (signed as Sivic)
- Pencils
- Sid Gordin (signed as Sivic)
- Inks
- Sid Gordin (signed as Sivic)
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- You were right, ma - they gave me the part.
- Genre
- humor
[no title indexed]
cartoon / 0.25 page
- Script
- Tom Henderson (signed)
- Pencils
- Tom Henderson (signed)
- Inks
- Tom Henderson (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- My goodness, let's not overlook the young lady!
- Genre
- humor
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
-
1.
["The City Swift"]
Road Birds -
2.
The Highest Paid Private in the Army - "Beetle Bailey"
-
3.
["What do you mean wearing that tie to a parade?"]
Beetle Bailey -
4.
["I can't understand it! We split the atom--"]
Beetle Bailey -
5.
["I'll never get dinner ready if that chicken doesn't stay in the oven!"]
-
6.
["It smells grand sniff it! You'll say 'That's for me!'"]
Sir Walter Raleigh Tobacco -
7.
["Oops! Enough oil, sir?"]
-
8.
["If he let's go of my new kite, I'll never forgive him."]
-
9.
["Now... stand like this, then simply push your feet like... help!"]
-
10.
["Oh, nothing really. I just wanted to see you fellows lift something!"]
-
11.
["Now jump!"]
-
12.
["Consider yourself lucky you ain't married to some dame like Marilyn Monroe or you'd never get by with no measly four bucks for a hat."]
-
13.
["What do you think you're playing?"]
-
14.
["Eleven inches of water... means you've been out two hours... that will be two dollars."]
-
15.
["You were right, ma - they gave me the part."]
-
16.
["My goodness, let's not overlook the young lady!"]
This issue was modified by
- Keith Alan Morgan
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