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Issue: Dilly #1
Publication Date: May 1953
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Issues: #1 of 3 Issues
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagLev Gleason
Brand: object(PgSql\Result)#3 (0) { }
Indicia Publisher: Lev Gleason Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
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Content Items: 7 (4 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Charles Biro
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age U. S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Charles Biro (signed)
Inker(s): Charles Biro (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: teen
Feature(s): Dilly Duncan
Character(s): Dilly Duncan; Gruesome Jones; Mr. Staple
First Line: Have some pie, Dilly!
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Cover scene does not appear in the interior stories.
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The Big Dance

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Bart Tumey (signed)
Inker(s): Bart Tumey (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: teen
Feature(s): Dilly Duncan of Dorset High
Character(s): Dilly Duncan; Gruesome Jones; Carol; Hoppy Hopkins; Marvin Montmorency; Nancy Duncan; George Duncan; Mrs. Duncan
Synopsis: Dilly tries to find a way to get $5 so he can take Carol to the dance. Dilly gets the $5 from Hoppy by trying to keep Gruesome Jones from taking Dilly's sister Nancy to the dance. (But Gruesome ends up going with Nancy anyway.) Meanwhile, crooked furnace repairmen damage the Duncans' furnace so they'll have to buy a new one from them.
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Pages: 10
Disclose Notes: Feature continued from Boy Comics #71. Story signed in lower right corner of splash panel.
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[untitled]

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Dilly Dallies
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: A page of statement-response jokes, most accompanied by a spot illustration.
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Introducing Betty Campus

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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: teen
Feature(s): Betty Campus
Character(s): Betty Campus; Bob Lewis; Alvin; Buz
Synopsis: Betty runs against Bob Lewis for student council president of Suburban High. The campaign ends up a battle of the sexes.
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Pages: 7
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Speed Kings

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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: non-fiction
Synopsis: Short articles about the fastest race cars, fastest baseball pitch, and fastest electronic computer.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Text with spot illustrations.
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Gruesome Gets the Girl

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Bart Tumey ?
Inker(s): Bart Tumey ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: teen
Feature(s): Dilly Duncan of Dorset High
Character(s): Dilly Duncan; Marvin Montmorency; George Duncan; Mrs. Duncan; Gruesome Jones; Carol; Sue Carter
Synopsis: Dilly and Marvin help the new neighbors move in. Noticing the move-in is supervised by a pretty girl named Sue, Gruesome also volunteers his services. Thinking his work would land him a date with the girl, Dilly calls at the home and gets a date with their daughter Sue, who turns out to be just a little girl. The girl supervising the moving was the family's daughter-in-law, also named Sue. Dilly tricks Gruesome into taking his date with the pre-teen, but ends up with Carol mad at him.
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Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Story isn't signed, but appears to be the same artist as the first story.
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Lockheed F-94A / North American B-45

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Al McWilliams ? [as AMcW] (signed)
Inker(s): Al McWilliams ? [as AMcW] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Lev Gleason Trading Cards
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Pages: 0.67
Disclose Notes: Two Lev Gleason Trading Cards in the "Famous Fighting Planes Series." A drawing of the plane with a brief description typeset underneath.

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