Heckle and Jeckle #15

(January 1954)

Musical Whirling Angel Chimes (Table of Contents: 1) (Expand) /

Illinois Merchandise Mart / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

High Sassiety (Table of Contents: 2)

Heckle and Jeckle / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

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First Line of Dialogue or Text

Here's the "Help Wanted" section!

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Heckle and Jeckle [St. John Logo with characters]

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor

Characters

Heckle; Jeckle; judge; Mrs. Van Snoot; Lord Chafindish; Lady Chafindish; cop

Synopsis

A judge orders vagrants Heckle and Jeckle to find jobs or be tossed back in jail. They wreak their usual brand of aggressive havoc when hired as butlers for a high society dinner.

Reprints

• in Heckle and Jeckle (Pines, 1956 series) #32 (Fall 1958)

Keywords

butlers; heckling; high society; jail; pranks; vagrants; wreaking havoc

Indexer Notes

Good Bit: Mrs. Van Snoot asks the magpies for their references:

HECKLE: "Just check with any judge in town!"
JECKLE: "Some judges have retained our services for as long as six months!"
MRS VAN SNOOT: "Oh, splendid! You mean you've worked at their estates?"
HECKLE: "No, we've done time in their coolers!"

The Cat's Meow (Table of Contents: 3)

Dimwit / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

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Daa-aa! Don't tell me that silly cat's had kittens again!

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Dimwit [St. John Logo 1]

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Dimwit; cat; kittens; Heckle; Jeckle; Chesty; well-meaning cat-lady

Synopsis

Dimwit wishes to rid himself of an unwanted litter of kittens. Pranksters Heckle and Jeckle see to it that he gets even more kittens.

Reprints

• in Heckle and Jeckle (Pines, 1956 series) #32 (Fall 1958)

Keywords

kittens; need-for-peace-and-quiet; pranks; working-at-cross-purposes

Moon Daze (Table of Contents: 4)

Heckle and Jeckle / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

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This is the first night on our new job, Jeckle, old boy!

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Heckle and Jeckle [St. John Logo without characters]

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor

Characters

Heckle; Jeckle; rocket lab boss; dogs; tramp; cop; Junior (kid); Junior's mother; Dimwit; other townspeople

Synopsis

Janitors at a rocketship laboratory, Heckle and Jeckle accidently take off in an "Experimental Rocket to Moon". They quickly crash back on Earth, but are convinced that they are the first magpies on the moon.

Reprints

• in Heckle and Jeckle (Pines, 1956 series) #32 (Fall 1958)

Keywords

moon; rocketship; wrong impression

The Sleep Walker (Table of Contents: 5)

Heckle and Jeckle / comic story / 1 page (report information)

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Wake up, Jeckle... Dimwit's walking in his sleep again!

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Heckle and Jeckle [St. John Logo with characters]

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor

Characters

Heckle; Jeckle; Dimwit

Synopsis

Heckle and Jeckle offer some clothing assistance to a sleepwalking Dimwit.

Reprints

• in Heckle and Jeckle (Pines, 1956 series) #32 (Fall 1958)

Keywords

making-the-best-of-it; sleepwalking

Gifts for Dimwit (Table of Contents: 6)

Dimwit / text story / 2 pages (report information)

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"I saw it with my own eyes, Officer!", cried Mrs. Poodle, as she tried to quiet her crying baby in the buggy.

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Dimwit; Sylvester Fox; Chesty; Mrs. Poodle; Mrs. Poodle's baby; police officer

Synopsis

Sly Sylvester Fox has a plan to profit off of Dimwit's birthday gifts.

Keywords

best-laid-plans; birthday; golf balls; golf clubs; golf tees; outsmarting one’s-self; presents; trickery

The Yes Man (Table of Contents: 7)

Dimwit / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

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First Line of Dialogue or Text

You thick-skulled nincompoop!

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Dimwit [St. John Logo 1]

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Dimwit; bake shop boss; movie director; Frisby (assistant director); hero-actor; villain-actor; actress

Synopsis

Naively intrusive Dimwit continually fouls-up a movie shoot until the director finds a way to keep him out of trouble.

Reprints

• in Heckle and Jeckle (Pines, 1956 series) #32 (Fall 1958)

Keywords

best of intentions; movie-making; series of mishaps; unwanted help

Indexer Notes

Reads like many of the stories Vic Lockman would later create for the Disney character Goofy at Western Publishing. Lettering style is Lockman's. Lockman did work for St. John during this period, so some (or all) of the credits could be his.

Personality Plus (Table of Contents: 8)

Heckle and Jeckle / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

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Well, it's finished at last, chum.

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Heckle and Jeckle [St. John Logo with characters]

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor

Characters

Heckle; Jeckle; chickens; donkey; crowd of excited patrons; pig patron; Bull the Blockbuster (escaped criminal); motorcycle cop; judge

Synopsis

Because "everybody wants to be somebody else", Heckle and Jeckle invent a "Split Personality Juice" - one drink of which "...and you begin to act like another person". They try it out on barnyard chickens and a donkey (who hatches "donkey eggs"), then move on to an excited city crowd - all eager to become someone (completely at random) that they're not.

Reprints

• in Heckle and Jeckle (Pines, 1956 series) #32 (Fall 1958)

Keywords

abounding oddities; comic absurdity; personality alteration; transformation; wacky invention

Indexer Notes

Good Bit: An anthropomorphic pig character gladly hands over his dough for a swig of the juice:
PIG: "Here's my money. Who wants to be a pig."

Yes, Right from Detroit! (Table of Contents: 9) (Expand) /

Young Products / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

Send for Butch the Cracker Jack Flashlight Dog with Key Chain Leash (Table of Contents: 10) (Expand) /

Cracker Jack / advertisement / 1 page (report information)