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Issue: Famous Funnies #54 Public Domain
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Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: [no rating]
Publisher: FlagEastern Color
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Famous Funnies Inc.
On Sale Date: 12/15/1938
Volume: none
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 53 (40 stories, 2 covers)
Editor(s): Harold A. Moore (credited); Stephen A. Douglas (actual)
Disclose Notes: All content of this comic are newspaper strip reprints modified to fit comic book format. The dates of publication of these strips have, in practically all cases, been removed.

On sale date from the previous issue's “Let's Get into a Huddle” page.

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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: earlier issues standard Golden Age U. S.; later issues Standard Silver Age U.S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Subject Matter
humorous
Sir Oaky Doaks
When the clock strikes twelve -- Oh boy!
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Miscellaneous
1
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Subject Matter
humorous
Homer Hoopee
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1
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
humorous, nature
Uncle Elby; Napoleon
Now ready!
Uncle Elby tries morning exercises but gives up when he doesn't lose any weight.
Reprinting
from Napoleon and Uncle Elby Sunday (Lafave Newspaper Features) 1936-xx-xx
Miscellaneous
1
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[untitled]

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
humorous
Is it twelve o'clock yet?
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1
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Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
humorous
Artistic Artie
Artistic Artie; Fatty
Here's where you left off!
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Miscellaneous
0.2
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
childrens, humorous
Butty and Fatty
Butty; Fatty; Spunky Dory
I'll go down and tell that gang of Indians plenty!
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Miscellaneous
0.8
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Paul Powell (credited)
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Subject Matter
adventure, teen
Roy Powers; Chunky' Mr. Morgan; Jimmy; Clutey; Dean Carter
What's that other track Roy?
Reprinting
from Roy Powers daily (The Ledger Syndicate) 1938-xx-xx - 1938-xx-xx
Miscellaneous
4
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[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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typeset
Subject Matter
Let's Get into a Huddle
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
childrens, humorous
Nipper Tucker; Mrs. Tucker; Ruff Bumps
Nipper, I want you to split up every one...
Reprinting
from Nipper Sunday (The Ledger Syndicate) 193x-xx-xx
Miscellaneous
0.8
The bottom tier is “Footprints on the Sands of Time”, by the same creator.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
humorous
Footprints on the Sands of Time
Bill
Bill's mother sends him running to the drug store...
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from Nipper Sunday (The Ledger Syndicate) 193x-xx-xx
Miscellaneous
0.2
The bottom tier of the “Nipper” Sunday page, by the same creator.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
adventure, aviation
The Black Vuture (villain); Sims; Burke; Armadilla Chiquita
Who's there? Come out and face me!
Reprinting
from Skyroads daily (John F. Dille Co.) 1936-08-22 - 1936-08-xx
Miscellaneous
4
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
adventure
Harry Hollingsworth; Rudolph Rassendale (villain); Belinda Blinks
Hm! There's cattle rustling on the Bar-Bay Ranch!
Reprinting
from Hairbreadth Harry Sunday (The Ledger Syndicate) 193x-xx-xx
Miscellaneous
0.8
The bottom tier is "High-Gear Homer", by the same creator.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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humorous
High-Gear Homer; Phillip; Bert Sniffler
Imagine me lettin' that Homer fellow...
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from Hairbreadth Harry Sunday (The Ledger Syndicate) 193x-xx-xx
Miscellaneous
0.2
The bottom tier of the "Hairbreadth Harry" Sunday page, by the same creator.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
science fiction
Anthony "Buck" Rogers; Wilma Deering; Doctor Elias Huer; Killer Kane; Ardala
Two small ships rocketed up from the city...
Reprinting
From Buck Rogers Sunday (John F. Dille Co.) 1937-09-26 - 1937-10-17 [Sunday Story 22 - "War With Venus" - strips #392 - #394; Sunday Story 23 - "Mysterious New World - strip #395]
Miscellaneous
4
One story concludes and another begins.
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[untitled]

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
Subject Matter
humorous
I see a man with a long black beard
Reprinting
from Life's Like That daily (Consolidated News Features) 193x-xx-xx - 193x-xx-xx
Miscellaneous
1
Six unrelated daily gag panels.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Rex Collier (credited)
?
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?
?
Subject Matter
crime
War on Crime
Mais; Legenza; Bill Phillips [Jerry Reid]
Three months later the newly organized Tri-State gang appeared at Richmond, Virginia...
Reprinting
from War on Crime daily (The Ledger Syndicate) 193x-xx-xx - 193x-xx-xx
Miscellaneous
2
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Showers Today!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
Subject Matter
anthropomorphic, humorous, nature
Jitter
Reprinting
from Jitter daily (A. A. Kelleher Syndicate) 193x-xx-xx - 193x-xx-xx
Miscellaneous
1
Four daily strips:

#1 - Showers Today!
#2 - You've Got Something There!
#3 - Jitter Gets Even!
#4 - That's For Horses!
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Subject Matter
humorous
Big Chief Wahoo; Princess Minnie-Ha-Cha [erroneously called Minnie-Ha-Ha here]; The Great Gusto
Princess Mini Ha-Ha, Wahoo hasn't been home
Reprinting
from Big Chief Wahoo Sunday (Publishers Syndicate)
Miscellaneous
1
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
Subject Matter
adventure, childrens
Dickie Dare; Dan Flynn; Nat McGrath
Whew! This "Bergonolez" must have been one of the old Spanish Conquistadors!
Reprinting
from Dickie Dare daily (AP Newsfeatures [Associated Press]) 1936-02-03 - 1936-02-xx
Miscellaneous
4
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
adventure, childrens
Patsy Cardigan; Ginny; Uncle Phil Cardigan
Patsy and Ginny are going to attempt to free the big mountain lion...
Reprinting
from The Adventures of Pasty daily (AP Newsfeatures [Associated Press]) 1935-12-14 - 1935-12-xx
Miscellaneous
2
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Prester John

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
Subject Matter
historical, non-fiction
Prester John
Reprinting
from Highights of History Sunday (The Bell Syndicate) 193x-xx-xx
Miscellaneous
1
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[untitled]

Activity  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
Subject Matter
Funland
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1
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Wrong Again!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
Subject Matter
humorous, nature
Jitter
Reprinting
from Jitter daily (A. A. Kelleher Syndicate)
Miscellaneous
1
Four daily strips:

#1 - Wrong Again!
#2 - Take Somebody Your Own Size!
#3 - Thanks, Jitter!
#4 - Hot Dog!
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
?
?
?
Subject Matter
non-fiction
Amaze-A-Minute
Nearly two thirds of the Earth's population...
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1
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Bath Time Interruptions

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Subject Matter
humorous, nature
Uncle Elby; Napoleon
Uncle Elby keeps being interrupted during his bath.
Reprinting
from Napoleon and Uncle Elby Sunday (Lafave Newspaper Features) 1936-xx-xx
Miscellaneous
1
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
Subject Matter
anthropomorphic, humorous
Cat o' Nine Lives
I have only 3 lives left...
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Miscellaneous
0.33
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
Subject Matter
anthropomorphic, humorous
Frog Pond Ferry
The Skipper
Yum-m! I hope we have a duck dinner today...
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Miscellaneous
0.67
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
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Subject Matter
adventure, historical
Sir Oaky Doaks; King Cedric; Constance Considine; The Giant
I love everybody
King Cedric having won the election is now president, just in time to receive a declaration of war.
Reprinting
from Oaky Doaks daily (AP Newsfeatures [Associated Press]) 1936-11-06 - 1936-11-07, 1936-11-09 - 1936-11-14, 1936-11-16 - 1936-11-20
Miscellaneous
4
Script previously credited to Ralph Briggs Fuller, but William McCleery was the author from its beginning in 1935 to 1961.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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?
Subject Matter
humorous
Seaweed Sam
We're riding high on Santa's sleigh...
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1
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Subject Matter
humorous
Big Chief Wahoo; Pigtails; Princess Minnie-Ha-Cha; Gustave; The Great Gusto
Gustave, have you hired enough help for the kitchen?
Reprinting
from Big Chief Wahoo Sunday (Publishers Syndicate) 1937-xx=xx
Miscellaneous
1
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
Subject Matter
adventure, drama
Olive Lane; Buddy Lane; Lala Palooza; Lona Arbut; Maxie
Miss Olly must think an awful lot of you...
Reprinting
from Olly of the Movies daily (The McNaught Syndicate) 1936-02-xx - 1936-02-xx
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2
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
Subject Matter
adventure, aviation
Heine Himmelstosse; Scorchy Smith; Pete; Doc
Say Henry, you don't think this big fellow is crazy...
Himmelstosse agrees to fly an old WWI plane which is totally unsafe.
Reprinting
from Scorchy Smith daily (AP Newsfeatures [Associated Press]) 1935-08-xx - 1935-09-xx
Miscellaneous
2
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
Subject Matter
humorous
Cam O'Flage; Sam Smithers; Ted; Mr. Gobye
Might just as well be in prison...
Reprinting
from Somebody's Stenog Sunday (The Ledger Syndicate) 193x-xx-xx
Miscellaneous
0.8
The bottom tier is “The Back-Seat Driver”, by the same creator.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
Subject Matter
humorous
John Smith; Mrs. Smith (both unnamed here)
Oh just think...
Reprinting
from Somebody's Stenog Sunday (The Ledger Syndicate) 193x-xx-xx
Miscellaneous
0.2
The bottom tier of the "Somebody's Stenog" Sunday page, by the same creator.
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Bill Gulick

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
Subject Matter
non-fiction
Bill Gulick
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Miscellaneous
1
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
Subject Matter
humorous, western
Mescal Ike; Miss Sally; Pa Piffle
Where yuh been all mornin', Pa?
Reprinting
from Mescal Ike daily (AP Newsfeatures [Associated Press]) 193x-xx-xx
Miscellaneous
1
Five daily strips on a single comic book page.
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[untitled]

Activity  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
?
?
?
Subject Matter
Magic Made Easy
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
Subject Matter
humorous, nature
Uncle Elby; Napoleon
Let's see if there's really any suds...
Reprinting
from Napoleon and Uncle Elby Sunday (Lafave Newspaper Features) 1936-xx-xx
Miscellaneous
1
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
Subject Matter
humorous, non-fiction
Little Sandy, Kentucky...
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Miscellaneous
1
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
Subject Matter
childrens, drama
Dorothy "Babe" Bunting; Mrs. Bunting; Captain Mulberry; Shiela Smart; Benjy
And remember folks - it’s a Broadway show with Broadway stars!
Reprinting
from Babe Bunting daily (The Ledger Syndicate) 1936-07-xx - 1936-07-xx
Miscellaneous
2
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
Subject Matter
childrens, humorous
Punky; Wheezer; Mr. Oglesby
C'mon, Weezer, I'll race you...
Reprinting
from Punky daily (AP Newsfeatures [Associated Press]) 193x-xx-xx
Miscellaneous
1
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
Subject Matter
humorous
Connie Kurridge
Connie, where you rushing to?
Reprinting
from Connie Sunday (The Ledger Syndicate) 1935-xx-xx
Miscellaneous
0.8
The bottom tier is “The Wet Blanket”, by the same creator.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
Subject Matter
humorous
Boss, I know how you like frankness...
Reprinting
from Connie Sunday (The Ledger Syndicate) 1935-xx-xx
Miscellaneous
0.2
The bottom tier of the "Connie" Sunday page, by the same creator.
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[untitled]

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
Subject Matter
humorous
Don't say anything...
Reprinting
from Life's Like That daily (Consolidated News Features) 193-x-xx-xx - 19sx-xx-xx
Miscellaneous
0.75
Four unrelated daily gag panels.
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Statement of Ownership

Statement of Ownership  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
typeset
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Miscellaneous
0.25
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
Subject Matter
childrens, humorous
Queenie
Queenie; Aunt Prunella; Colonel Chauncey Clambake
No - you can't go skiing with the Colonel and me!
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
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The Emerald Buddha

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
?
typeset
Subject Matter
adventure, drama
Prince Ling Taio; Eric Vale; Ron Grayson
Swine! Dolts!
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
2
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
Subject Matter
adventure
Homer Hoopee
Well I guess I got away this time...
Reprinting
from Homer Hoopee daily (AP Newsfeatures [Associated Press]) 1935-xx-xx - 1935-xx-xx
Miscellaneous
2
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
Subject Matter
humorous
Now children - I want you to put away your text books...
Reprinting
from The Gay Thirties daily (AP Newsfeatures [Associated Press]) 193-xx-xx - 193x-xx-xx
Miscellaneous
1
Five unrelated daily gag panels.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
Subject Matter
humorous, nature
Uncle Elby; Napoleon; The Doctor
Doctor, my dog has a flea!
Reprinting
from Napoleon and Uncle Elby Sunday (Lafave Newspaper Features) 1936-08-30
Miscellaneous
1
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
Subject Matter
anthropomorphic, humorous
Animals in the News
Dog eats only ice cream and candy
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
0.33
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[untitled]

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
Subject Matter
anthropomorphic, humorous
Frog Pond Ferry
The Skipper
I hope they cook you - you dumb dodo!
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
0.67
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
?
?
Subject Matter
humorous
Sam Smithers; Homer Hoopee; Uncle Elby
Softer! Do you want to drown us out!
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
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