Real Screen Comics #75

(June 1954)

Binky Says: "Act Your Age!" (Table of Contents: 1)

Binky [DC] / public service announcement / 1 page (report information)

Script

Jack Schiff

Pencils

Win Mortimer

Inks

Win Mortimer

Letters

Ira Schnapp

First Line of Dialogue or Text

An exciting baseball game... ...has a disastrous climax...

Genre

advocacy; teen

Characters

Binky; Billy; Allergy; Billy's Mom; baby; Mr. Jones

Synopsis

Billy crashes through Mr. Jones' garden to catch a fly ball, and thinks nothing of it... until the baby throws a ball and breaks Billy's model airplane. This prompts Billy to fix up Mr. Jones' garden.

Keywords

baby; baseball; carelessness; garden; kids-at-play; learning one’s lesson; thoughtlessness

Indexer Notes

Black and white on inside front cover.

[Alias "Black Buford"] (Table of Contents: 2)

The Fox and the Crow / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Cecil Beard; Alpine Harper

Pencils

Jim Davis

Inks

Jim Davis

Colors

?

Letters

?

Job Number

330

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Dat's a insult!

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor

Characters

Fauntleroy Fox; Crawford Crow; sheriff (walrus)

Synopsis

The Crow poses as a desperate criminal to bedevil the Fox.

Keywords

best-laid-plans; criminal; meta humor; printing set; wanted poster; wrong impression

Indexer Notes

Meta Moment: The Crow reads a "Fox and Crow" comic book - Page 5, Panel 3.

Tootsie Roll America's Favorite Candy (Table of Contents: 3) (Expand) /

Tootsie Roll / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

[The (Free)joles Came at a Price!] (Table of Contents: 4)

Tito and His Burrito / comic story / 5.67 pages (report information)

Script

Cecil Beard; Alpine Harper

Pencils

Jim Davis

Inks

Jim Davis

Colors

?

Letters

?

Job Number

174

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Tito, what would you like for supper tonight?

Genre

humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Tito; Burrito; Mamacita; Papacita

Synopsis

Tito and Burrito do an extraordinary amount of hard work for a frijoles dinner.

Keywords

anticipation; dinner; escalating events; frijoles; hard work; Mexico

Scripto Guarantees the Best... in Writing! (Table of Contents: 5) (Expand) /

Scripto / advertisement / 0.33 page (report information)

Fun Shop (Table of Contents: 6)

activity / 1 page (report information)

Script

Martin Naydel

Pencils

Martin Naydel

Inks

Martin Naydel

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

With these letters you can spell the name of a tropical bird!

Genre

children

Characters

two boys; girl

Synopsis

Learn what certain names mean. Unscramble six letters to spell the name of a tropical bird. "The Magic Eye" optical illusion.

Keywords

names; optical illusion; word puzzle

Circles (Table of Contents: 7)

activity / 1 page (report information)

Script

Martin Naydel (signed)

Pencils

Martin Naydel (signed)

Inks

Martin Naydel (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Even a slowpoke can catch this!

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Crawford Crow

Synopsis

Unscramble the letters of four different words to arrive at a single-word answer to Crawford Crow's riddle.

Keywords

riddles; word puzzle

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 8) (Expand) /

Fleer's Dubble Bubble Gum / comics-form advertising / 0.5 page (report information)

Dotto Zoo (Table of Contents: 9)

activity / 0.5 page (report information)

Script

Martin Naydel

Pencils

Martin Naydel

Inks

Martin Naydel

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Don't try to see me in the sky... 'cause I'm a bird that cannot fly!

Characters

boy with pencil

Synopsis

Connect the dots and find a bird.

Reprints

• in Sugar & Spike (DC, 1956 series) #13 (February 1958)

Keywords

connect the dots

Indexer Notes

Lower half of page.

[Stall of the Wild!] (Table of Contents: 10)

Flippity and Flop / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Cecil Beard; Alpine Harper

Pencils

Jim Davis

Inks

Jim Davis

Colors

?

Letters

?

Job Number

105

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Just look at those bills!

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Flippity; Flop; Sam; master of the house (unseen, off-panel); woodpecker; Virgil Vulture; mule; two pigs; cow; chicken; duck; sheep; goat

Synopsis

Faced with living as a "wild bird", Flippity turns to a vulture for lessons on how to get food. Unfortunately, he excels at it in vulture style.

Reprints

• in Fox und Flax (BSV - Williams, 1972 series) #16

Keywords

canary; cat; dog; food; getting carried away; vulture

Low Tide (Table of Contents: 11)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

?

Inks

?

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

The Very Old Walrus sat on the sand, holding something very secret in his closed hand.

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

Very Old Walrus; Mary Mussel; Christopher Crab; Amy Abalone; Owen Oyster; Olga Oyster; Olga's father (oyster); Mr. Turtle; Mr. Seal

Synopsis

The Very Old Walrus tells beach/ocean-life children the story of Olga Oyster and her pearl.

Keywords

oyster; pearl; storytelling; walrus

Play Boxes (Table of Contents: 12)

activity / 0.5 page (report information)

Script

Martin Naydel

Pencils

Martin Naydel

Inks

Martin Naydel

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Can you find 7 small birds

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals

Characters

parrot; two lovebirds

Synopsis

Find the names of seven small birds within a mosaic of scrambled letters.

Keywords

word puzzle

Indexer Notes

Top half of page.

Editorial Advisory Board (Table of Contents: 13) (Expand) /

promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.5 page (report information)

[My Dinner with The Caliph of Crabmeat] (Table of Contents: 14)

The Fox and the Crow / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Cecil Beard; Alpine Harper

Pencils

Jim Davis

Inks

Jim Davis

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

It boins me up!

Genre

anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor

Characters

Fauntleroy Fox; Crawford Crow

Synopsis

The Crow shows how effort-intensive it is to con a meal out of the Fox. He poses as a telegram messenger boy, an employment agent for domestic help, a butler; The Caliph of Crabmeat's food-taster, and finally as The Caliph himself. Later he complains about how hard he has to work to feed himself.

Keywords

dinner; disguise; hard work; meta humor; royalty; trickery

Indexer Notes

Meta Moment: Crawford Crow acknowledges that he is a comic character, when complaining about all the thinking he has to do to con a meal out of the Fox.
CRAWFORD CROW: "Dat Fox has it easy! I do all da brain woik in dis strip!"

Step Right Up Folks, and Get the Greatest Laugh-Show on Earth! (Table of Contents: 15) (Expand) /

Mutt & Jeff / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

In just 10 minutes of FUN a day I changed myself from this bloodless, pitiful skinny shrimp to this NEW muscular red-blooded head-to-toe HE-MAN! (Table of Contents: 16) (Expand) /

Jowett Institute of Physical Training / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

Hello, Bob - Have You Found that Underseas Treasure? (Table of Contents: 17) (Expand) /

Wilson Chemical Co.; Cloverine Brand Salve / comics-form advertising / 1 page (report information)