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Issue: Zoot Comics #5

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Publication Date: January 1947

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Issues: #5 of 18 Issues

Title:

Variant: unnamed

Rating:

Publisher: Flag

Fox

Brand:

Indicia Publisher: Fox Feature Syndicate, Inc.

On Sale Date: 12/08/1946

Volume: none

Pages: 36

ISBN: none

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $0.10 USD

Indicia Frequency:

Content Items: 10 (6 stories, 1 cover)

Editor(s): Victor Fox

Notes: The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Vol. 1, Part 2, Nos. 1&2, Periodicals, 1946-1947.

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: color

Dimensions: standard Golden Age US

Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior

Binding: saddle-stitched

Publishing Format: was ongoing series

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Content Items (10 total)

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Illustration on Cover, Front

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Subject Matter

Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Dotty Doakes; Peter Poke

Character(s): Dotty Doakes; Peter Poke

First Line: Hey - I said keep your eye on the ball--

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Pages: 1

Notes: The characters on the cover don't really resemble the characters in the stories inside. Fox was known to combine characters from different features into a single cover illustration.

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First Line: Hey kids! Get valuable premiums!

Synopsis: Promo ad for Green coupons, found inside 7 Fox comic titles.

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Pages: 1

Notes: Inside front cover, black-and-white.

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Genres: humorous, teen

Feature(s): Peter Poke

Character(s): Peter Poke; Claire; Coach

First Line: The hero of Notso High School is Peter Poke

Synopsis: Bookish high school student Peter tries to join the football team to impress fellow student Claire. He becomes the water boy but is pressed into action and helps win the big game.

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Pages: 6

Notes: Story is told in individual drawings on each page (but not in panels). There are no dialogue balloons or boxed captions, all text is printed adjacent to the drawings. Text is rhyming.

Bobby Sox and the Three Bears

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Genres: anthropomorphic, humorous

Feature(s): Horse Opera

Character(s): Bobby Sox; Papa Bear; Mama Bear; Just Plain Bear; Harry the Horse; T. Worthington Wolf

Synopsis: Papa Bear runs a juke joint called the Bear Down. Bobby Sox arrives to babysit Just Plain Bear, then discovers he's been kidnaped by T. Worthington Wolf. Bobby and Papa Bear ride Harry the Horse to Wolf's house, saving Just Plain Bear from becoming the villain's dinner.

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Pages: 10

Percy in the Haunted House

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Writer(s): Al Huston

Letterer(s): typeset

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Pages: 2

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Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Gloria on the Job

Character(s): Gloria; Mr. Uppercase; Snodgrass Crabtree

First Line: Hey! What's the big idea?

Synopsis: Newspaper editor Uppercase promises to give Gloria a job if she can take a photo of reclusive Snodgrass Crabtree. She stumbles across the man at the zoo and snaps his photo, only to discover she forgot to wind the film and got a bizarre double-exposure.

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Feature(s): Well I Never!

First Line: Of course I've been here all alone, father.

Synopsis: Two unrelated gag cartoons.

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Writer(s): ? [as J. L. Keen]

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Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Walter the Waiter

Character(s): Walter; Boss

First Line: Mumble...mumble...it's about time I got my raise!

Synopsis: Walter causes his boss to spill soup on his trousers. The boss sends Walter to have them cleaned, but when customers arrive at the restaurant, the boss has to substitute as the waiter and conceal his trouser-less state.

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Pages: 6

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Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Dotty Doakes

Character(s): Dotty Doakes

First Line: Dotty Doakes was really tired

Synopsis: Dotty decides to take a vacation to get a rest, but her vacation leaves her more exhausted than ever.

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Pages: 3

Notes: As with the Peter Poke story in this issue, this story is told in a no-panel, no dialogue-balloon or caption style, with multiple drawings and text on each page. The text is rhyming.

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First Line: Free premium offer

Synopsis: Promo ad showing the prizes that can be redeemed using Green coupons from 7 Fox comics.

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Pages: 1

Notes: Back cover.