Four Color
#115 - Marge's Little Lulu
(August 1946)
Dell,
1942 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 52
- Indicia Frequency
- ?
- On-sale Date
- 1946-06-28
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- ?
- Brand
-
A Dell Magazine [circle]
- Editing
- Helen Meyer (editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date is publication date in Catalog of Copyright Entries, 1946 Pamphlets, page 812.
Little Lulu
Little Lulu / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Lulu Moppet
- Reprints
-
in Marge's Little Lulu (Drawn & Quarterly, 2019 series) #[1] - Working Girl (October 2019)
-
- Keywords
- flower pot; hat; watering can
[no title indexed]
Little Lulu / comic story / 1 page
- Script
- John Stanley
- Pencils
- John Stanley (layouts); Charles Hedinger
- Inks
- Charles Hedinger
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- John Stanley
- Genre
- humor; children
Indexer Notes
back cover
Little Lulu Fights Back With a Club
Little Lulu / comic story / 16 pages
- Script
- John Stanley
- Pencils
- John Stanley (layouts); Charles Hedinger
- Inks
- Charles Hedinger
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- John Stanley
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Hey, where are you going with the umbrella, Tubby? It's not raining.
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Lulu Moppet; Tubby Tompkins; Tubby's gang; Martha Moppet; Raiders (Lulu's girl gang; first appearance); Ellie Tompkins
- Synopsis
- Tubby dresses up like a girl to infiltrate and spy on Lulu's club, The Raiders.
- Reprints
-
in Little Lulu (Dark Horse, 2005 series) #[1] - My Dinner With Lulu (April 2005)
-
- Keywords
- battle of the sexes; gangs; gender roles; initiations
Little Lulu Brings Some Friends Home To Dinner
Little Lulu / comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- John Stanley
- Pencils
- John Stanley (layouts); Charles Hedinger
- Inks
- Charles Hedinger
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- John Stanley
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Lulu Moppet; Martha Moppet
- Synopsis
- Lulu feeds some pigeons at the park that follow her home and come into the house.
- Reprints
Little Lulu Tells a Tall Tale
Little Lulu / comic story / 10 pages
- Script
- John Stanley
- Pencils
- John Stanley (layouts); Charles Hedinger
- Inks
- Charles Hedinger
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- John Stanley
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Lulu, tell me a story!
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Lulu Moppet; Alvin Jones; John (first appearance; a polar bear; character in Lulu's story); the Shoeshine Man (first appearance; a cannibal; character in Lulu's story)
- Synopsis
- Lulu tells Alvin about when she was marooned on a cannibal island.
- Reprints
- in Little Lulu (Dark Horse, 2005 series) #[1] - My Dinner With Lulu (April 2005)
-
- Keywords
- bears; bedtime stories; cannibals; desert island; fairy tales; iceberg; ship wreck
Indexer Notes
Alvin's Storytime; possibly based on Robinson Crusoe
A Problem In Box Tops
Little Lulu / comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- John Stanley
- Pencils
- John Stanley (layouts); Charles Hedinger
- Inks
- Charles Hedinger
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- John Stanley
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- ... so send in twenty-five Sudsy Soap Flakes box tops and receive this lovely bracelet or handsome jackknife!
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Lulu Moppet; Martha Moppet; Tubby Tompkins
- Synopsis
- Lulu and Tubby are in competition collecting box tops from cereal for prizes.
- Reprints
- in Marge's Little Lulu Tubby Annual (Dell, 1953 series) #2 ([March] 1954)
- in Little Lulu (Dark Horse, 2005 series) #[1] - My Dinner With Lulu (April 2005)
- in Marge's Little Lulu (Drawn & Quarterly, 2019 series) #[1] - Working Girl (October 2019)
-
- Keywords
- box tops; collecting; contest
The Haunted House
Little Lulu / comic story / 10 pages
- Script
- John Stanley
- Pencils
- John Stanley (layouts); Charles Hedinger
- Inks
- Charles Hedinger
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- John Stanley
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Carson's ol' house... it's supposed to be haunted!
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Lulu Moppet; Tubby Tompkins; Gertie (first appearance; a kid ghost); Timmy (first appearance; a kid ghost); Kebel (first appearance; villain; another ghost; named for Oscar Lebeck); Carson's Haunted House (first appearance)
- Synopsis
- Lulu and Tubby meet some ghost kids when they explore a haunted house.
- Reprints
- in Little Lulu (Dark Horse, 2005 series) #[1] - My Dinner With Lulu (April 2005)
-
- Keywords
- ghosts; haunted house
[Stilts]
Little Lulu / comic story / 1 page
- Script
- John Stanley
- Pencils
- John Stanley (layouts); Charles Hedinger
- Inks
- Charles Hedinger
- Letters
- John Stanley
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Lulu Moppet; Martha Moppet
- Synopsis
- Luke's mother asks her to take her stilts outside. Then borrows them to escape a mouse.
- Keywords
- mouse; stilts
Indexer Notes
inside back cover
[Telephone wails]
Little Lulu / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Lulu Moppet; Tubby Tompkins; Ellie Tompkins (Tubby's mother; first appearance)
- Synopsis
- Tubby calls Lulu, but his mother catches him and gives him a thrashing. Tubby wails over the phone; Lulu wails back.
- Reprints
- in Little Lulu (Dark Horse, 2005 series) #[1] - My Dinner With Lulu (April 2005)
- in Marge's Little Lulu (Drawn & Quarterly, 2019 series) #[1] - Working Girl (October 2019)
-
- Keywords
- telephone; wordless
Indexer Notes
inside front cover
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
Little Lulu
Little Lulu -
1.
[no title indexed]
Little Lulu -
2.
Little Lulu Fights Back With a Club
Little Lulu -
3.
Little Lulu Brings Some Friends Home To Dinner
Little Lulu -
4.
Little Lulu Tells a Tall Tale
Little Lulu -
5.
A Problem In Box Tops
Little Lulu -
6.
The Haunted House
Little Lulu -
7.
[Stilts]
Little Lulu -
8.
[Telephone wails]
Little Lulu
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- Pat Conolly
- Lionel English
- Gregory Fischer
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Bob Hughes
- Jon Merrill
- Lou Mougin (R.I.P.)
- Mike Nielsen
- Jim Van Dore
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