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Four-Leaf Clover Luck is a Lotta Bull

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Dimwit; bull; Mighty Mouse (inset); Heckle and Jeckle (inset); Gandy Goose (inset)

Synopsis: Dimwit is delighted to find a four-leaf clover, unaware that an angry bull is charging at him.

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Pages: 1

Notes: New cover for an issue of reprints.

Why Just Wish for the Things You Want?

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Feature(s): Wallace Brown, Inc.

First Line: Make extra money! It’s easy-fast-and FUN, too!

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Pages: 1

Notes: Ad for selling Christmas cards for Wallace Brown, Inc. Black and white ad on inside front cover.

The Repelling Ray

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Genres: anthropomorphic, superhero

Character(s): Mighty Mouse; The Claw; Professor Ohm; Terrytown judge; Terrytown jury (mice); cat defense attorney; various court spectators (mice); Terrytown court bailiff (large mouse); Terrytown chief of police; various Terrytown police (mice); Mitzi Mouse (one panel cameo); various citizens of Terrytown (mice); various members of The Claw Gang

First Line: Has the jury reached a verdict?

Synopsis: The Claw is convicted by a Terrytown jury and sentenced to life imprisonment, but is broken out of prison by Professor Ohm and his repelling ray machine.

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Pages: 8

Notes: court; one-character-desiring-another-as-a-meal; prison; prison break; ray machine; sentencing

The Overly-Convincing Hiccup Cure

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Heckle; Jeckle; Dimwit; cop

First Line: Hic -- Do you fellows -- hic -- know how to cure hiccups? Huh? Hic!

Synopsis: Heckle and Jeckle do too good a job of scaring Dimwit out of the hiccups.

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Rudy's Spectacles

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Feature(s): Rudy Rooster

Character(s): Rudy Rooster; college professor; optometrist; eyeglass store saleswoman; Elmer (duck); other unnamed duck

First Line: He looks so intelligent in glasses.

Synopsis: Rudy decides to get a pair of eyeglasses, so that he might look intelligent.

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Moving Day

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Sourpuss; Gandy Goose; Susie (Sourpuss' girl); Susie's dad

First Line: Get out and stay out!

Synopsis: Susie's dad berates Sourpuss for not having a job. Sourpuss gets a job with the "McNutt Moving Co.", and his first job is to move Susie and her dad out of their house.

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Pages: 6

Dimwit Improves Himself

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Heckle; Jeckle; Dimwit

First Line: "We've got to get our finances straightened out right away!" said Jeckle to Heckle as they sat in their little living room.

Synopsis: Heckle and Jeckle condition Dimwit for a job as a joke-tester at the Zenith Novelty Company, by subjecting him to a series of gags such as squirting flowers and exploding cigars.

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Pages: 2

Notes: The original printing of this two-page text story was spread over the front and back inside covers. This reprint is repositioned to pages 3 and 4 of the issue’s centerfold. Despite being on interior pages, the single illustration remains in black-and-white as if it were on an inside cover.

Don't Lose Your Temper

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Dinky Duck; Rudy Rooster; hens; fox

First Line: Confound it! I'm tired of listening to those babbling hens.

Synopsis: Rudy replaces his flock of incessantly-cackling hens with a "robot chicken".

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Pages: 5

Notes: Oddly, the fox in this story is not a predator but an innocent and unwitting customer of Rudy's "robot chicken eggs".

Sourpuss Fells a Tree

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Sourpuss; Gandy Goose; Kitty

First Line: Oh, Gandy, will you come here please?

Synopsis: Sourpuss shows Gandy how to properly chop down a tree so that it falls without causing any damage. Sure he does.

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A Thousand and One Plights

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Heckle; Jeckle; Dimwit; lady hippo; parade of gullible victims; Officer Reilly; judge; various other police; Spud (bank robber); second unnamed bank robber; genie

First Line: I've got an idea that will make us rich.

Synopsis: Heckle and Jeckle literally stuff and cram Dimwit into a small bottle one quarter of his size to perpetrate a "genie scam" on the cops who look to shut down the magpies' phony fortune-telling business. When Dimwit is finally released from his impossibly small container, he becomes the not-so-mystic servant of Officer Reilly, in another wild outing aptly illustrated by Tyer.

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Pages: 7

Notes: A rare, if not singular, instance of Jim Tyer signing his comic book work. Tyer's signature appears in a box at the lower right of the final panel, that would normally contain the words "The End".

Tyer Touch: In a panic the two bank robbers actually climb one of the panel gutters, clutching the gutter on both sides as if it were a fireman's pole.

Muscle Biscuit

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Heckle; Jeckle; Dimwit

First Line: Step up, chum, and try Dr. Jeckle's Muscle Building Biscuit only a dollar.

Synopsis: Heckle and Jeckle sell Dimwit a phony "Muscle Building Biscuit" only to be convinced that it really works.

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New! 1954 "Space Commander" Vibro-Matic Walkie-Talkies

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Feature(s): Consumers Mart

First Line: 2 phones only $1

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Notes: Ad offering a pair of walkie-talkies for one dollar, promising "Thrills & Fun Galore!" Black and white ad on inside back cover.

Men-Women-Boys-Girls Prizes Given

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Feature(s): The FUNman

First Line: Make money too!

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Pages: 1

Notes: Ad offering prizes or money for the sales of "inspiring, beautiful religious wall motto plaques". Color ad on back cover.