(Winter 1953)
Brown Shoe Co.,
1945 Series
- Volume
- ?
- Price
- 0.00 free
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- ?
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- [none printed]
- Editing
- ?
Issue Notes
Premium.
[no title indexed]
cover / 1 page
- Genre
- adventure
- Characters
- Zakka; Joseph Chatham
- Synopsis
- Split cover: top 80% is an illustration of the lead story, "Zakka's Debt," featuring Zakka on deck holding up a broken mast as Joseph looks on; bottom tier is an ad for the Buster Brown shoe store where this promotional comic was given away, and a promo for the Buster Brown radio and TV shows, showing a winking image of Buster and his smiling dog, Tag.
Jingle Bells Jubilee
advertisement / 1 page
- Characters
- Images of: Buster Brown; Tag; Smilin' Ed McConnell; Froggy the Gremlin; Midnight the Cat; Squeekie the Mouse
- Synopsis
- Ad for the Christmas Buster Brown stores shoe sale, "Jingle Bells Jubilee." Promo for the Buster Brown radio and TV shows.
Indexer Notes
Cover #2. Inside front cover. Black and white.
Zakka's Debt
comic story / 13 pages
- Genre
- adventure
- Characters
- Zakka; Joseph Chatham; Mr Chatham; Mrs Chatham; The Captain; Mister Hawkins; Zolus
- Synopsis
- Joseph Chatham and his parents are sailing from their American plantation to England. Joseph befriends Zakka, a Pacific Islander giant who is devoted to the Captain. The crew mutiny's and assaults Zakka, who defends himself, but is put below in chains. A storm breaks out and the mast breaks and kills the Captain. The cowardly crew abandons ship. The storm subsides, but the ship is tilted by the fallen mast. Joseph persuades his father to free Zakka, who lifts the mast and tosses it overboard. He can sail the ship, and Mr. Chatham can navigate, so they return home.
- Reprints
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in The Rocket's Blast-Comicollector (The S. F. C. A., 1964 ? series) #125 (February 1976) [0.25 grayscale copy of page 5]
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Smilin' Ed and His Gang Visit Santa Claus Land
Smilin' Ed and His Gang / comic story / 9 pages
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Smilin' Ed McConnell; Froggy the Gremlin; Midnight the Cat; Squeekie the Mouse; Santa Claus; Mrs. Santa
- Synopsis
- The gang is in bed on Christmas Eve as Smilin' Ed decorates the tree and puts presents under it. He is pooped, and collapses in the easy chair. Froggy gives him candy that shrinks them all. They fly the toy airplane to Santa Claus Land, where Santa shows them around and the gang lends a hand. Disasters occur and Ed flees to the airplane, which careens out of control. Then Ed wakes from his nightmare in his tumbled-over easy chair.
Gunga
Gunga / comic story / 10 pages
- Genre
- adventure
- Characters
- Gunga the elephant handler; Rama; Babu; Padmah the elephant; Tusker the baby elephant
- Synopsis
- Padmah the cow elephant goes berserk while in Babu's care. She runs off and joins a wild herd. Gunga sets out to capture her alone.
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Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
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1.
Jingle Bells Jubilee
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2.
Zakka's Debt
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3.
Smilin' Ed and His Gang Visit Santa Claus Land
Smilin' Ed and His Gang -
4.
Gunga
Gunga -
5.
Expert Fit
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6.
Buster Brown Jingle Bells Jubilee
This issue was modified by, among others
- Ray Bottorff Jr
- Katy Hayhurst
- R. Lavon Loftin
- James Ludwig
- Donald Dale Milne
- David Porta
- Jim Van Dore
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