(February 1947)

Dell, 1942 Series
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Volume
1
Price
0.10 USD
Pages
52
Indicia Frequency
Monthly
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
Brand
A Dell Magazine [circle]
Editing
Oskar Lebeck

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Our Gang / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Walt Kelly
Inks
Walt Kelly
Colors
?

Genre
children
Characters
Our Gang [Janey; Froggie; Red; Bucky]; a baby turtle
Reprints

Timothy's Good Deed (Table of Contents: 1)

text story / 2.75 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
? (spot illustrations)
Inks
? (spot illustrations)
Colors
?
Letters
typeset

Genre
anthropomorphic-funny animals
Characters
Timothy Turtle; Danny Beaver; Mrs. Fieldmouse; Uncle Tortoise
Synopsis
When Mrs. Fieldmouse's home is destroyed by wheat threshers, Timothy Turtle gives her an old shell of his uncle's.

Indexer Notes

First and last page printed in red and black on inside front and back covers. Second page printed in four colors on pg. 50. Bottom of last page taken up by a subscription slip

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 2)

Our Gang / comic story / 14 pages (report information)

Script
Walt Kelly
Pencils
Walt Kelly
Inks
Walt Kelly
Colors
?
Letters
Walt Kelly

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Come on, Froggie!
Genre
humor; children
Characters
Our Gang [Janey; Bucky; Froggie; Red]; the Gas House Gang [Charles Feeney; Egghead (Egbert); Iggy]; Squint Frobisher; Jerry, Squint's little brother; Miss Toople (school teacher); Froggie's mother
Synopsis
With the championship baseball game between the Gang and the Gas House Gang coming up, Feeney comes up with a plan to keep the Gang's star pitcher, Froggie, from playing.
Reprints

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 3)

Tom & Jerry / comic story / 9 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
?

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Things are sure dull around here with the whole family away on vacation!
Genre
anthropomorphic-funny animals
Characters
Jerry; Tuffy; Tom (in dream only)
Synopsis
Jerry dreams of a city made of good things to eat, where cats do all the manual labor.

Indexer Notes

An ownership and circulation statement fills out 1/8 of page 4

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 4)

Johnny Mole / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
?

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Yep! I woiked tree years on de Brooklyn Tunnel!
Genre
anthropomorphic-funny animals
Characters
Johnny Mole; the hiring boss for a construction crew
Synopsis
Johnny tries to get a construction job.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 5)

Flip 'n Dip / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
H. R. McBride ?
Inks
H. R. McBride ?
Colors
?
Letters
?

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Ma! Ma! I've got wonderful news!
Genre
anthropomorphic-funny animals
Characters
Pa; Ma; Flip; Dip; Miss Katscratch
Synopsis
When Pa is rejected for a postmaster job because he doesn't have a grammar school diploma, he goes back to grammar school.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 6)

Barney Bear and Benny Burro / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script
?; Carl Barks (rewrite)
Pencils
Carl Barks
Inks
Carl Barks
Colors
?
Letters
Carl Barks

First Line of Dialogue or Text
A-golfing we will go!
Genre
anthropomorphic-funny animals
Characters
Barney Bear; Benny Burro; McDuff
Synopsis
Barney is golfing when he discovers that the bottom of lake on the course is covered with golf balls. He tries to outwit McDuff, the Scottish manager of the course, who has forbidden him to go into the lake.
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Art submitted on August 20, 1946. Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (M. Lilien, 1982).

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 7)

Wuff, the Prairie Dog / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Vevie Risto ?
Inks
Vevie Risto ?
Colors
?
Letters
?

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Hi there, Sammy Squirrel! What did Santa Claus bring you for christmas?
Genre
anthropomorphic-funny animals
Characters
Wuff; Sammy Squirrel; Wuff's mother; Mew Cat; Charlie Coyote; an old prospector
Synopsis
Wuff finds an abandoned kitten and finds him a home with an old prospector.

Special Christmas Offer! (Table of Contents: 8)

promo (ad from the publisher) / 1.25 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
? (spot illustrations)
Inks
? (spot illustrations)
Colors
?
Letters
typeset

Characters
Tom; Jerry; Tuffy; Froggie

Indexer Notes

Christmas offer for subscriptions to "Our Gang Comics" on back cover. Order form on inside back cover. One year (+ 36 picture stamps free), $1.00; Two years (+ 72 picture stamps free), $1.75; three years (+ 108 picture stamps free), $2.50

Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. [no title indexed]
    Our Gang
  2. 1. Timothy's Good Deed
  3. 2. ["Come on, Froggie!"]
    Our Gang
  4. 3. ["Things are sure dull around here with the whole family away on vacation!"]
    Tom & Jerry
  5. 4. ["Yep! I woiked tree years on de Brooklyn Tunnel!"]
    Johnny Mole
  6. 5. ["Ma! Ma! I've got wonderful news!"]
    Flip 'n Dip
  7. 6. ["A-golfing we will go!"]
    Barney Bear and Benny Burro
  8. 7. ["Hi there, Sammy Squirrel! What did Santa Claus bring you for christmas?"]
    Wuff, the Prairie Dog
  9. 8. Special Christmas Offer!
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Joey Beretta
  • Chris Boyko
  • Nick Caputo
  • Gregory Fischer
  • Merlin Haas
  • Claus Simonsen