(1945)
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- Quarterly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Croydon Publishing Co.
- Editing
- ?
- Color
- color
- Dimensions
- standard Golden Age US
- Paper Stock
- glossy cover; newsprint interior
- Binding
- saddle-stitched
- Publishing Format
- one-shot
[no title indexed]
cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Charles M. Grothkopf
- Inks
- Charles M. Grothkopf
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Characters
- Ali Baba; Hansel and Gretal; Rip Van Winkle; Puck
Indexer Notes
All cover illustrations are reprinted, edited and recolored from syndicated FAMOUS FICTION Sunday strips, originally distributed by the Bell Syndicate.
Specifically --
The top logo is from the strip dated July 12, 1942
The Ali Baba illustration is from panel 4 of July 19, 1942
The Hansel and Gretal illustration is from panel 2 of December 24, 1944
The Rip Van Winkle illustration appears new but based on panel 2 of November 28, 1943
The Midsummer Night's Dream illustration is from panel 1 of October 29, 1944
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
Tales from the Arabian Nights / comic story / 16 pages
- Script
- Charles M. Grothkopf [as CHAD]
- Pencils
- Charles M. Grothkopf [as CHAD]
- Inks
- Charles M. Grothkopf [as CHAD]
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- adventure
- Characters
- Ali Baba; the Forty Thieves; Ali Baba's wife; Cassin (Ali Baba's brother); Morgiana (Ali Baba's slave); Ali Baba's son
Indexer Notes
Reprinted, edited and recolored from syndicated FAMOUS FICTION Sunday strips. Originally distributed by the Bell Syndicate from July 12, 1942 to August 30, 1942.
The final panel of the Genie bowing, however, is original in this comic.
Hansel and Gretel
comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- Elliot Caplin ?
- Pencils
- Baryé Phillips
- Inks
- Baryé Phillips
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- children; fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Hansel; Gretel; woodcutter; wife; old woman
- Synopsis
- Hansel and Gretel are abandoned in the woods. They take shelter in a house made of candy and cake, but the old woman who lives there makes them her prisoners, intending to eat Hansel after he's fattened up. The children turn the tables on the old woman and are reunited with their father.
Indexer Notes
Reprinted, edited and recolored from syndicated FAMOUS FICTION Sunday strips. Originally distributed by the Bell Syndicate from December 24, 1944 to January 28, 1945.
The copy available online (http://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=28725) has several pages of this story out of order. It is not known if this was a printing error in the original copy or a scanner error.
The Story of Rip Van Winkle
comic story / 2 pages
- Script
- Charles M. Grothkopf [as CHAD]
- Pencils
- Charles M. Grothkopf [as CHAD]
- Inks
- Charles M. Grothkopf [as CHAD]
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Rip Van Winkle
Indexer Notes
Reprinted, edited and recolored from syndicated FAMOUS FICTION Sunday strips. Originally distributed by the Bell Syndicate from November 21, 1943 to November 28, 1943.
A Midsummer Night's Dream
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Elliot Caplin ?
- Pencils
- Baryé Phillips
- Inks
- Baryé Phillips
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Puck; Lysander; Hermia; Helena; Demetrius; Titania; Oberon
Indexer Notes
Reprinted, edited and recolored from syndicated FAMOUS FICTION Sunday strips. Originally distributed by the Bell Syndicate from October 15, 1944 to November 5, 1944.
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0.
[no title indexed]
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1.
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
Tales from the Arabian Nights -
2.
Hansel and Gretel
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3.
The Story of Rip Van Winkle
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4.
A Midsummer Night's Dream
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5.
["How long are you in for?"]
The Gag Bag
- Tony R. Rose
- Alberto Becattini
- David Wilt
- Matthew Torrance
- Arthur Lortie
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