Jimmy Durante Comics #2 [A-1 #20]
(Winter 1948-1949)

Magazine Enterprises, 1948 Series
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Volume
?
Price
0.10 USD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
?
On-sale Date
1948-12-17
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Magazine Enterprises Inc.
Editing
Raymond C. Krank

Issue Notes

The date entered in the "On Sale Date" field is the copyright date derived from the actual Library of Congress copyright documentation (available on www.archive.org).

This issue is part of the A-1 series. Refer also to A-1 (Magazine Enterprises, 1945 series) #20.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Jimmy Durante / cover / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
? (photograph)
Inks
? (photograph)
Colors
? (photograph)
Letters
?

Genre
humor
Characters
Jimmy Durante
Reprints
Keywords
celebrity

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

Pose and Prose by the Nose / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
? (photograph)
Inks
? (photograph)
Colors
? (photograph)
Letters
?

Genre
humor
Characters
Jimmy Durante

Indexer Notes

Inside front and back covers.

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

Jimmy Durante / comic story / 17 pages (report information)

Script
Raymond C. Crank
Pencils
Dick Ayers (signed)
Inks
Dick Ayers (signed)
Colors
?
Letters
Dick Ayers

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Howdy, Folks!
Genre
humor
Characters
Jimmy Durante
Keywords
celebrity

Indexer Notes

According to The Dick Ayers Story Volume 1 (by Dick Ayers), Dick did the lettering as well as pencils and inks on these stories.

Drip Meets Drip (Table of Contents: 3)

Jimmy Durante / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Script
Raymond C. Crank?
Pencils
Henri Arnold?
Inks
Henri Arnold?
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
humor
Characters
Jimmy Durante
Keywords
celebrity

Indexer Notes

Does not look like same artist as the first story to indexer Jim Ludwig but looks like the art in Ace's Vicky Comics from same year.

Footballed-up (Table of Contents: 4)

Jimmy Durante / comic story / 13 pages (report information)

Script
Raymond C. Crank
Pencils
Dick Ayers (signed)
Inks
Dick Ayers (signed)
Colors
?
Letters
Dick Ayers

Genre
humor
Characters
Jimmy Durante
Keywords
celebrity

Indexer Notes

According to The Dick Ayers Story Volume 1 (by Dick Ayers), Ayers did the lettering on these stories along with pencils and inks.

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

Tim Holt / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. [no title indexed]
    Jimmy Durante
  2. 1. [no title indexed]
    Pose and Prose by the Nose
  3. 2. ["Howdy, Folks!"]
    Jimmy Durante
  4. 3. Drip Meets Drip
    Jimmy Durante
  5. 4. Footballed-up
    Jimmy Durante
  6. 5. [no title indexed]
    Tim Holt
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