Little Lulu
#[1] - My Dinner With Lulu
(April 2005)
Dark Horse,
2005 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 9.95 USD
- Pages
- 244
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Dark Horse Comics Inc.
- Brand
-
Dark Horse Books [facing left]
- ISBN
-
1-59307-318-6
- Barcode
- 9781593073183 50995
- Printer
- Printed in Canada
- Editing
- Shawna Ervin-Gore (credited as Shawna Gore) (editor); Debra Bailey (credited) (collection designer); Lia Ribacchi (credited) (art director); Mike Richardson (credited) (publisher)
Issue Notes
Early printings have no number on the spine.
Reprints stories from Four Color (Dell, 1942) #74, 97, 110, 115, & 120; but does not reprint covers or most of the one-pagers from inside front and back covers or back covers.
Reprints stories from Four Color (Dell, 1942) #74, 97, 110, 115, & 120; but does not reprint covers or most of the one-pagers from inside front and back covers or back covers.
Little Lulu
Little Lulu / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Lulu Moppet; Tubby Tompkins
- Synopsis
- Lulu and Tubby share a milkshake
- Reprints
-
from Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #110 - Marge's Little Lulu (June 1946)
-
- Keywords
- milkshake
Indexer Notes
Cover illustration reprinted with new background colors and new trade dress.
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Little Lulu: My Dinner with Lulu
credits, title page / 4 pages
- Characters
- Lulu Moppet; Tubby Tompkins; Jeannie and Joannie; Annie Inch
Indexer Notes
Title pages and credits page, with Stanley illustrations pulled from various stories.
A note about Lulu
text article / 1 page
- Script
- Shawna Ervin-Gore ?
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Little Lulu came into the world via the pen of cartoonist Marjorie "Marge" Henderson Buell in 1935.
Indexer Notes
Brief background on the strip and the comic book feature, and description of the sources of the reprints in this volume.
[Lulu on Skates]
Little Lulu / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Lulu Moppet
- Synopsis
- Lulu has trouble roller-skating and grabs a man's tie to get a safe landing.
- Reprints
- from Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #74 - Marge's Little Lulu (June 1945)
-
- Keywords
- skates; wordless
Indexer Notes
Pantomime story. Story has 12 panels.
[The Costume Party]
Little Lulu / comic story / 10 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- When are you getting your wings, Lulu?
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Lulu Moppet; Martha Moppet (Lulu's mother, first appearance); Tubby Tompkins (first appearance); Elsie Jones; Mrs. Jones; Walter
- Synopsis
- Lulu dresses as an angel for Elsie Jones' birthday party, but it's her mother's idea, not hers.
- Reprints
- from Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #74 - Marge's Little Lulu (June 1945)
-
- Keywords
- angel; birthday party; costume party; pin the tail on the donkey; pirate
[A Bone to Pick]
Little Lulu / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Lulu Moppet
- Synopsis
- Lulu's dog persists in hiding a bone under the rug.
- Reprints
- from Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #74 - Marge's Little Lulu (June 1945)
-
- Keywords
- bone; dog; wordless
Indexer Notes
Pantomime story; story has 24 panels.
[One, Two, Three, Kick!]
Little Lulu / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Lulu Moppet; Tubby Tompkins
- Synopsis
- Tubby's football flies in through an open window. Lulu tries to kick it out, but breaks the glass.
- Reprints
- from Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #74 - Marge's Little Lulu (June 1945)
-
- Keywords
- broken window; football; wordless
Indexer Notes
Pantomime story. Story has 12 panels.
Little Lulu at the Beach
Little Lulu / comic story / 10 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Hurry up Lulu! Aren't ya ready yet?
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Lulu Moppet; Tubby Tompkins
- Synopsis
- Lulu and Tubby have a series of misadventures at the beach.
- Reprints
- from Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #74 - Marge's Little Lulu (June 1945)
-
- Keywords
- beach; lifeguard
Jingle Bells
Little Lulu / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Lulu Moppet
- Synopsis
- Lulu tries to shake a coin out of her piggy bank in time to catch the ice cream man.
- Reprints
- from Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #74 - Marge's Little Lulu (June 1945)
-
- Keywords
- ice cream truck; piggy bank; wordless
Indexer Notes
Pantomime story. Story has 16 panels. Junkman's cart is labeled "Junkie"
Little Lulu Minds Alvin
Little Lulu / comic story / 8 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Lulu!
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Lulu Moppet; Martha Moppet; Tubby Tompkins; Alvin Jones (first appearance); Mrs. Jones (first appearance; Alvin's mother); Mr. Gripe (first appearance)
- Synopsis
- Lulu has to baby-sit Alvin. She and Tubby take him to the zoo, where Alvin steals a lion's lunch.
- Reprints
- from Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #74 - Marge's Little Lulu (June 1945)
-
- Keywords
- babysitting; lion; zoo
Indexer Notes
Alvin does not talk.
Rockabye Baby
Little Lulu / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Lulu Moppet
- Synopsis
- Lulu takes her pet frog to the pet show in a baby carriage.
- Reprints
- from Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #74 - Marge's Little Lulu (June 1945)
-
- Keywords
- frog; pet show; wordless
Indexer Notes
Pantomime story. Story has 12 panels.
[Tubby and the Clothesline]
Little Lulu / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Lulu Moppet; Tubby Tompkins
- Synopsis
- Tubby tries to help Lulu by hanging up the doll's dress she has washed. But he hangs on the clothesline, making it droop.
- Reprints
- from Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #97 - Marge's Little Lulu (February 1946)
-
- Keywords
- clothesline; wash tub; wordless
Indexer Notes
pantomime story.
Little Lulu Enters a Contest
Little Lulu / comic story / 10 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Hi Tubby! Whatcha doing?
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Lulu Moppet; Tubby Tompkins; Martha Moppet; Tubby's gang (first appearance; all members indistinct)
- Synopsis
- Lulu makes a model airplane to fly in a contest.
- Reprints
- from Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #97 - Marge's Little Lulu (February 1946)
-
- Keywords
- contest; model airplane
[Lulu with Water Hose]
Little Lulu / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Lulu Moppet
- Synopsis
- Lulu gets in trouble when she waters the lawn with a hose.
- Reprints
- from Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #97 - Marge's Little Lulu (February 1946)
-
- Keywords
- hose; wordless
Indexer Notes
Pantomime story.
[Lulu with Horn, at Garage]
Little Lulu / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Lulu Moppet
- Synopsis
- Lulu blows a horn to get the operator of a garage to raise his door for her.
- Reprints
- from Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #97 - Marge's Little Lulu (February 1946)
-
- Keywords
- garage; horn; wordless
Indexer Notes
Pantomime story.
Tubby's Travels
Little Lulu / comic story / 10 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Psssssst! Hey! Pssssssst!
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Lulu Moppet; Tubby Tompkins
- Synopsis
- Tubby decides he wants to be a hobo.
- Reprints
- from Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #97 - Marge's Little Lulu (February 1946)
-
- Keywords
- hobo
Indexer Notes
Title is probably a play on "Sullivan's Travels".
[Lulu and the Leaf]
Little Lulu / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Lulu Moppet
- Synopsis
- Trying to hold off winter a while longer, Lulu ties a leaf back on to a tree.
- Reprints
- from Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #97 - Marge's Little Lulu (February 1946)
-
- Keywords
- autumn; leaf; tree; winter; wordless
Indexer Notes
Pantomime story.
[Lulu and Tubby on Ice]
Little Lulu / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Lulu Moppet; Tubby Tompkins
- Synopsis
- Lulu slides on the ice but has trouble getting up after she falls. Tubby tries to help, but falls, too.
- Reprints
- from Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #97 - Marge's Little Lulu (February 1946)
-
- Keywords
- ice skating; wordless
Indexer Notes
Pantomime story.
Little Lulu Has Family Trouble
Little Lulu / comic story / 10 pages
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Lulu Moppet; Martha Moppet; Christopher (first appearance; a female cat)
- Synopsis
- Lulu's cat Christopher has five kittens. Eventually Lulu has to give the kittens away, but the mother cat keeps retrieving them.
- Reprints
- from Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #97 - Marge's Little Lulu (February 1946)
-
- Keywords
- cat; kittens
Indexer Notes
The cat speaks when she's alone, but not when around people.
[Grate Fishing]
Little Lulu / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Lulu Moppet
- Synopsis
- Lulu loses a quarter in a sidewalk grate. When she tries to fish for it with some gum on a string, she ends up with a real fish.
- Reprints
- from Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #97 - Marge's Little Lulu (February 1946)
-
- Keywords
- fish; fishing; quarter; sidewalk grate; wordless
Indexer Notes
Pantomime story.
[Out-of-Season Snowballs]
Little Lulu / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Lulu Moppet
- Synopsis
- Lulu stockpiles snowballs in her refrigerator to throw when the snow has melted.
- Reprints
- from Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #97 - Marge's Little Lulu (February 1946)
-
- Keywords
- snowballs; wordless
Indexer Notes
Pantomime story.
Little Lulu Goes on a Picnic
Little Lulu / comic story / 10 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Lulu... what are you doing?
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Lulu Moppet; Tubby Tompkins; Martha Moppet
- Synopsis
- Lulu and Tubby go on a picnic and meet up with a bear.
- Reprints
- from Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #97 - Marge's Little Lulu (February 1946)
-
- Keywords
- bear; picnic; picnic basket
[Umbrella Battle]
Little Lulu / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Lulu Moppet; Tubby Tompkins
- Synopsis
- Lulu and Tubby fight over an umbrella.
- Reprints
- from Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #97 - Marge's Little Lulu (February 1946)
-
- Keywords
- umbrella; wordless
Indexer Notes
Pantomime story.
[Lulu and the Lollipop]
Little Lulu / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Lulu Moppet
- Synopsis
- A cat steals Lulu's lollipop while she's skipping rope.
- Reprints
- from Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #97 - Marge's Little Lulu (February 1946)
-
- Keywords
- cat; jumprope; lollipop; wordless
Indexer Notes
Pantomime story.
[Lulu at fountain]
Little Lulu / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Lulu Moppet; policeman
- Synopsis
- Lulu tries to get a drink from the park water fountain but the stream shoots off in unpredictable directions.
- Reprints
- from Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #110 - Marge's Little Lulu (June 1946)
-
- Keywords
- park; water fountain; wordless
Indexer Notes
pantomime
Treasure Hunt
Little Lulu / comic story / 8 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Hi, Lulu!
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Lulu Moppet; Tubby Tompkins; Mr. Noonan (first appearance, named for cartoonist Dan Noonan)
- Synopsis
- Lulu and Tubby row to an island in the lake to look for buried treasure.
- Reprints
- from Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #110 - Marge's Little Lulu (June 1946)
-
- Keywords
- island; row boat; treasure hunt
He Can't Hurt Us
Little Lulu / comic story / 8 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Hey! You let Tubby alone, you big bully!
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Lulu Moppet; Tubby Tompkins; Martha Moppet; Willy (first appearance, villain, not Willy Wilkins from Tubby's gang)
- Synopsis
- Lulu shows Tubby how to stand up to Willy, who is trying to bully Tub.
- Reprints
- from Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #110 - Marge's Little Lulu (June 1946)
-
- Keywords
- bully; bullying
Stuff and Nonsense
Little Lulu / comic story / 12 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Mother... your birthday is next week, isn't it?
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Lulu Moppet; Martha Moppet; Tubby Tompkins; Alvin Jones; Mr. Cartney (first appearance)
- Synopsis
- Lulu brings Edgar the horse home and leads him upstairs into her bedroom.
- Reprints
- from Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #110 - Marge's Little Lulu (June 1946)
-
- Keywords
- horse
The Working Girl
Little Lulu / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Lulu Moppet
- Synopsis
- Lulu is hired to deliver a success wreath to a customer.
- Reprints
- from Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #110 - Marge's Little Lulu (June 1946)
-
- Keywords
- delivery girl; department store; toy soldier; wordless; wreath
Indexer Notes
silent story
Lulu In Distress: A Tragedy
Little Lulu / comic story / 14 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Hey! Listen Alvin, I have to mind you today and--
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Lulu Moppet; Alvin Jones; The Poor Little Orphan Girl (first appearance, character in Lulu's story); an Evil Stepmother (first appearance, character in Lulu's story)
- Synopsis
- Lulu tells Alvin about when her wicked stepmother locked her in a castle tower.
- Reprints
- from Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #110 - Marge's Little Lulu (June 1946)
-
- Keywords
- knight; story time; wicked stepmother
Indexer Notes
1st of Alvin's Storytime series
[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
- from Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #115 - Marge's Little Lulu (August 1946)
-
- Keywords
- telephone; wordless
Little Lulu Fights Back With a Club
Little Lulu / comic story / 16 pages
- 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
- from Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #115 - Marge's Little Lulu (August 1946)
-
- Keywords
- battle of the sexes; gangs; gender roles; initiations
Little Lulu Brings Some Friends Home To Dinner
Little Lulu / comic story / 5 pages
- 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
- from Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #115 - Marge's Little Lulu (August 1946)
-
Little Lulu Tells a Tall Tale
Little Lulu / comic story / 10 pages
- 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
- from Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #115 - Marge's Little Lulu (August 1946)
-
- 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
- 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
- from Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #115 - Marge's Little Lulu (August 1946)
-
- Keywords
- box tops; collecting; contest
The Haunted House
Little Lulu / comic story / 10 pages
- 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
- from Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #115 - Marge's Little Lulu (August 1946)
-
- Keywords
- ghosts; haunted house
[Flower Eater]
Little Lulu / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Lulu Moppet; Alvin Jones
- Synopsis
- After Alvin eats Lulu's flower, she makes a fake one of paper, but Alvin eats that one, too.
- Reprints
- from Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #120 - Marge's Little Lulu (October 1946)
-
- Keywords
- wordless
Indexer Notes
pantomime story
Tuba Trouble
Little Lulu / comic story / 16 pages
- Genre
- children; humor
- Characters
- Lulu Moppet: Tubby Tompkins; Jim Tompkins; Eddie Stimson; Martha Moppet
- Synopsis
- Lulu trades a lawnmower for a tuba and disrupts the whole neighborhood trying to learn to play it.
- Reprints
- from Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #120 - Marge's Little Lulu (October 1946)
-
Indian Uprising
Little Lulu / comic story / 12 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Boy! Them were th' good ol' days!
- Genre
- children; humor
- Characters
- Lulu Moppet; Tubby Tompkins; Alvin Jones; George Moppet; Martha Moppet
- Synopsis
- While playing Indian with Lulu and Tubby, Alvin takes the head off a store mannequin. In a twist of events, Lulu's father ends up with the head and is arrested for having stolen property.
- Reprints
- from Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #120 - Marge's Little Lulu (October 1946)
-
- Keywords
- mannequin
Newspaper Business
Little Lulu / comic story / 8 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Hey, Tub! Whatcha doing with those newspapers?
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Lulu Moppet: Tubby Tompkins; Ellie Tompkins
- Synopsis
- Tubby substitutes on a paper route for a day and Lulu helps him.
- Reprints
- from Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #120 - Marge's Little Lulu (October 1946)
-
- Keywords
- newspaper; paper route
Little Lulu and the Seven Dwarfs
Little Lulu / comic story / 12 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Golly! When it rains, I can never think of anything to do!
- Genre
- humor; children; fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Lulu Moppet; Martha Moppet; Alvin Jones
- Synopsis
- Lulu tells Alvin the story about Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Lulu is Snow White in this version and the dwarfs all look like Alvin.
- Reprints
- from Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #120 - Marge's Little Lulu (October 1946)
-
- Keywords
- dwarfs; fairy tale; story time; witch
Indexer Notes
First appearance of a witch in a Lulu story, but it isn't Witch Hazel. (Comment by Lou Mougin via GCD Error List, August 2, 2009.)
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
Little Lulu
Little Lulu -
1.
Little Lulu: My Dinner with Lulu
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2.
A note about Lulu
-
3.
[Lulu on Skates]
Little Lulu -
4.
[The Costume Party]
Little Lulu -
5.
[A Bone to Pick]
Little Lulu -
6.
[One, Two, Three, Kick!]
Little Lulu -
7.
Little Lulu at the Beach
Little Lulu -
8.
Jingle Bells
Little Lulu -
9.
Little Lulu Minds Alvin
Little Lulu -
10.
Rockabye Baby
Little Lulu -
11.
[Tubby and the Clothesline]
Little Lulu -
12.
Little Lulu Enters a Contest
Little Lulu -
13.
[Lulu with Water Hose]
Little Lulu -
14.
[Lulu with Horn, at Garage]
Little Lulu -
15.
Tubby's Travels
Little Lulu -
16.
[Lulu and the Leaf]
Little Lulu -
17.
[Lulu and Tubby on Ice]
Little Lulu -
18.
Little Lulu Has Family Trouble
Little Lulu -
19.
[Grate Fishing]
Little Lulu -
20.
[Out-of-Season Snowballs]
Little Lulu -
21.
Little Lulu Goes on a Picnic
Little Lulu -
22.
[Umbrella Battle]
Little Lulu -
23.
[Lulu and the Lollipop]
Little Lulu -
24.
[Lulu at fountain]
Little Lulu -
25.
Treasure Hunt
Little Lulu -
26.
He Can't Hurt Us
Little Lulu -
27.
Stuff and Nonsense
Little Lulu -
28.
The Working Girl
Little Lulu -
29.
Lulu In Distress: A Tragedy
Little Lulu -
30.
[Telephone wails]
Little Lulu -
31.
Little Lulu Fights Back With a Club
Little Lulu -
32.
Little Lulu Brings Some Friends Home To Dinner
Little Lulu -
33.
Little Lulu Tells a Tall Tale
Little Lulu -
34.
A Problem In Box Tops
Little Lulu -
35.
The Haunted House
Little Lulu -
36.
[Flower Eater]
Little Lulu -
37.
Tuba Trouble
Little Lulu -
38.
Indian Uprising
Little Lulu -
39.
Newspaper Business
Little Lulu -
40.
Little Lulu and the Seven Dwarfs
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- Lionel English
- Merlin Haas
- Mike Nielsen
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