Sparky Watts
#3
(1943)
Columbia,
1942 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 68
- On-sale Date
- 1943
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Columbia Comic Corporation
- Printer
- Printed in U. S. A.
- Editing
- Vin Sullivan (credited as Vincent Sullivan) (editor)
[no title indexed]
Sparky Watts / cover / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- What are you squawking about, Sparky? Look what Yoohoo did to me with Doc Static's new transparent ray!
- Genre
- humor; superhero
- Characters
- Sparky Watts; Yoohoo; Slap Happy
Indexer Notes
Previously credited in error to Boody Rogers.
[no title indexed]
public service announcement / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Boys and Girls of America
Indexer Notes
A letter from Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Jr. urging boys and girls to buy War Stamps every week. Appears on inside front cover.
[no title indexed]
Sparky Watts / comic story / 54 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Yes, sir, Slap Happy, by changing condensers on my machine I've discovered a glamour ray!
- Genre
- humor; superhero
- Characters
- Boody Rogers; Slap Happy; Doc Static; Hedy Hodgers; Mr. Hodgers; Goober; Sue Watt (introduction); Mike; Dick; John; Partain; Brown; Gene; Mr. Hoss; Sparky Watts; Booker McCaw; Tollie; Cricket; Reverend Jones; Doctor Bluggs; Mrs. Watt
- Synopsis
- Sparky tries to win back Hedy.
- Reprints
- from Sparky Watts (Frank Jay Markey Syndicate)
- Keywords
- Appledale; Brookville
Indexer Notes
Those reprints take place before those from last issue.
[no title indexed]
Hoosegow Herman / comic story / 10 pages
- Script
- Wally Wallgren (signed as Wally)
- Pencils
- Wally Wallgren (signed as Wally)
- Inks
- Wally Wallgren (signed as Wally)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Wally Wallgren (signed as Wally)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Now lissen, rookie - unless you want to serve all your time in the hoosegow, you'll have to learn discipline!!
- Genre
- humor; military
- Characters
- Hoosegow Herman; The Saluting Demon; Kane Tucky; Kent Tucky; Louis
- Synopsis
- Herman falls in love with the colonel's daughter.
- Reprints
- from Hoosegow Herman daily and/or Sunday(McNaught Syndicate) 19XX-XX-XX - 19XX-XX-XX
The Penalty of Prosperity
All in a Lifetime / cartoon / 1 page
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Vera
- Reprints
- from All in a Lifetime (McNaught Syndicate)
Indexer Notes
Four one-panel newspaper cartoons. Appears on inside back cover.
Titles: "The Penalty of Prosperity", "Actions You Regret", "The Alibi", "Animal Life".
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
["What are you squawking about, Sparky? Look what Yoohoo did to me with Doc Static's new transparent ray!"]
Sparky Watts -
1.
["Boys and Girls of America"]
-
2.
["Yes, sir, Slap Happy, by changing condensers on my machine I've discovered a glamour ray!"]
Sparky Watts -
3.
["Now lissen, rookie - unless you want to serve all your time in the hoosegow, you'll have to learn discipline!!"]
Hoosegow Herman -
4.
The Penalty of Prosperity
All in a Lifetime -
5.
Got Yours?
Dixie Dugan
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