1000 Jokes #55

(Summer 1950)

Dell, 1939 Series

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Price: 0.15 USD
Pages: 52
Indicia Frequency: quarterly
Indicia / Colophon Publisher: Dell Publishing Company, Inc.
Brand: A Dell Magazine

Editing: Mort Walker (credited) (editor); Robert Levin (assistant editor); Edwin Kunz (art editor)

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Pencils: ? (photograph)
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Letters: typeset

Genre: humor

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Script: Bill Wenzel (signed as Wenzel)
Pencils: Bill Wenzel (signed as Wenzel)
Inks: Bill Wenzel (signed as Wenzel)
Letters: typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text: That isn't the latest style, silly...
Genre: humor
Synopsis: A man mistakes undressed mannequins as wearing the latest fashions.

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Script: Hank Ketcham (signed as Ketcham)
Pencils: Hank Ketcham (signed as Ketcham)
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First Line of Dialogue or Text: She sleeps four to eight - if the eight are good friends.
Genre: humor

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Script: George Crenshaw (signed as George Crenshaw)
Pencils: George Crenshaw (signed as George Crenshaw)
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First Line of Dialogue or Text: Oh, it's nothing really.
Genre: humor

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Script: Al Ross (signed as Ross)
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First Line of Dialogue or Text: Now isn't that a coincidence!
Genre: humor

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Script: Clyde Lamb (signed as Clyde Lamb)
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Genre: humor
Synopsis: Art gallery visitors gaze at where a statue seems to be pointing.

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Script: ? [as K.] (signed)
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Genre: humor

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Script: Jack Mendelsohn (credited) (signed as Mendelsohn)
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Inks: Jack Mendelsohn (credited) (signed as Mendelsohn)
Letters: typeset

Genre: humor

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Script: Bob Hope (credited)
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Genre: humor

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Script: Jaro Fabry (signed as Jaro Fabry)
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First Line of Dialogue or Text: There must be some mistake. I married you for your money!
Genre: humor

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Script: ? [as Marquez] (signed)
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First Line of Dialogue or Text: Do you have to smile?
Genre: humor

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Script: Hank Ketcham (signed as Ketcham)
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First Line of Dialogue or Text: Good heavens! Is this Russia right over here?
Genre: humor

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Script: Mischa Richter (signed as Richter)
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First Line of Dialogue or Text: No, son, you gotta decide for yourself which one you like...
Genre: humor

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Script: Al Kaufman (signed as Al Kaufman)
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Inks: Al Kaufman (signed as Al Kaufman)
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First Line of Dialogue or Text: Your father and I thought that after you were married...
Genre: humor

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Script: Tom Hudson (signed as Tom Hudson)
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First Line of Dialogue or Text: Regret circumstances unable attend - wish every success...
Genre: humor

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Script: Herb Green (credited)
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Genre: humor

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Script: Reamer Keller (signed as Reamer Keller)
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First Line of Dialogue or Text: The brink of the falls is receding, or moving back at the...
Genre: humor

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Script: Sid Gordin (signed as Sivic)
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Genre: humor
Synopsis: After seeing people use newspapers to shield themselves from rain an umbrella salesman switches to selling newspapers.

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Script: Clyde Lamb (signed as Lamb)
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First Line of Dialogue or Text: No, the red one is mine... or... no, on second thought...
Genre: humor

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Script: Bill Gabriel (credited)
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Genre: humor

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Script: Les Colin (signed as Les Colin)
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Genre: humor

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Script: Fred Balk (signed as Fred Balk)
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First Line of Dialogue or Text: Shall we embarrass them?
Genre: humor

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Script: Tom Hudson (signed as Tom Hudson)
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First Line of Dialogue or Text: ...Finish in 25 words or less.
Genre: humor

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Script: Michael Berry (signed as MICHAEL BERRY)
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First Line of Dialogue or Text: Before I smile back - are you an eligible bachelor?
Genre: humor

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Script: Jack Tyrrell (signed as Jack Tyrrell)
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First Line of Dialogue or Text: Oh, play any old thing.
Genre: humor

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Script: Ali (signed as Ali)
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First Line of Dialogue or Text: No, you didn't get me out of the bathtub!
Genre: humor

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Script: Tom Hudson (signed as Tom Hudson)
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First Line of Dialogue or Text: Nothing to worry about - just a small case of evil spirits...
Genre: humor

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Script: Rube Goldberg (credited)
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Letters: Rube Goldberg (credited)

Genre: humor

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Script: Bob Schroeter (signed as Bob Schroeter)
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First Line of Dialogue or Text: I just bought a '50 sedan.
Genre: humor

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Script: Bernard Wiseman (signed as B. Wiseman)
Pencils: Bernard Wiseman (signed as B. Wiseman)
Inks: Bernard Wiseman (signed as B. Wiseman)
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First Line of Dialogue or Text: I sure hope he's going the whole way.
Genre: humor

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Script: John Norment (signed as normEnt)
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Genre: humor
Synopsis: A bus stop has no bench so a man bends the stop sign down and sits on it.

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Script: David Huffine (signed as Huffine)
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Genre: humor
Synopsis: A man is surprised to see a pair of pants on a coat rack.

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Script: ? [as Lucas] (signed)
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First Line of Dialogue or Text: Nice place to visit, but I wouldn't wanta live here.
Genre: humor

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Script: Bill Harrison (signed as BILL HARRISON)
Pencils: Bill Harrison (signed as BILL HARRISON)
Inks: Bill Harrison (signed as BILL HARRISON)
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First Line of Dialogue or Text: What was that, dear?
Genre: humor; domestic

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First Line of Dialogue or Text: When I need advice, I'll ask for it.
Genre: humor
Keywords: fishing

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Script: Al Kaufman (signed as Al Kaufman)
Pencils: Al Kaufman (signed as Al Kaufman)
Inks: Al Kaufman (signed as Al Kaufman)
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First Line of Dialogue or Text: And I say it was foul! Foul! Foul!
Genre: humor
Keywords: baseball

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Script: William Teason (signed)
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Inks: William Teason (signed)
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First Line of Dialogue or Text: Now do you believe me?
Genre: humor

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Script: George Crenshaw (signed as George Crenshaw)
Pencils: George Crenshaw (signed as George Crenshaw)
Inks: George Crenshaw (signed as George Crenshaw)
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First Line of Dialogue or Text: Thanks, but we already have one.
Genre: humor; domestic

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Script: Dick Cavalli (signed as Cavalli)
Pencils: Dick Cavalli (signed as Cavalli)
Inks: Dick Cavalli (signed as Cavalli)
Letters: Dick Cavalli (signed as Cavalli)

First Line of Dialogue or Text: To be continued...
Genre: humor

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Script: Sid Gordin (signed as Sivic)
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Inks: Sid Gordin (signed as Sivic)
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First Line of Dialogue or Text: I really must hang up now, dear.
Genre: humor

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Script: ?
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Genre: humor

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Table of Contents

0. [no title indexed]
1. ["That isn't the latest style, silly..."]
2. ["She sleeps four to eight - if the eight are good friends."]
3. ["Oh, it's nothing really."]
4. ["Now isn't that a coincidence!"]
5. [Pointing Statue]
6. Burma Shave
7. Pests I Have Known
8. Quotes By Hope
9. ["There must be some mistake. I married you for your money!"]
10. ["Do you have to smile?"]
11. ["Good heavens! Is this Russia right over here?"]
12. ["No, son, you gotta decide for yourself which one you like..."]
13. ["Your father and I thought that after you were married..."]
14. ["Regret circumstances unable attend - wish every success..."]
15. Office Scene
16. ["The brink of the falls is receding, or moving back at the..."]
17. [Umbrella Salesman]
18. ["No, the red one is mine... or... no, on second thought..."]
19. Seaside Primers
20. The Raise
21. ["Shall we embarrass them?"]
22. ["...Finish in 25 words or less."]
23. ["Before I smile back - are you an eligible bachelor?"]
24. ["Oh, play any old thing."]
25. ["No, you didn't get me out of the bathtub!"]
26. ["Nothing to worry about - just a small case of evil spirits..."]
27. Rube Goldberg's Latest Gadget Gazette
28. ["I just bought a '50 sedan."]
29. ["I sure hope he's going the whole way."]
30. [Man Sits on Bus Stop Sign]
31. [Pants on Coat Rack]
32. ["Nice place to visit, but I wouldn't wanta live here."]
33. ["What was that, dear?"]
34. ["When I need advice, I'll ask for it."]
35. ["And I say it was foul! Foul! Foul!"]
36. ["Now do you believe me?"]
37. ["Thanks, but we already have one."]
38. ["To be continued..."]
39. ["I really must hang up now, dear."]
40. Big News from New York

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1000 Jokes #55 (Summer 1950)

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1000 Jokes #55

(Summer 1950)