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Genres: humorous

First Line: Bevenion, if it's not too much of a problem...

Synopsis: A businessman wants an employee to modify his name.

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Notes: Page 6.

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Writer(s): ? [as T. Haggerty] (signed)

Penciller(s): ? [as T. Haggerty] (signed)

Inker(s): ? [as T. Haggerty] (signed)

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Genres: humorous

First Line: Hello, Stromboli Pizza? When you deliver the Deckers' pizza....

Synopsis: A man doing surveillance in a van parked in front of a house tells the pizza place to drop one off for him, too.

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Notes: Page 10.

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Genres: humorous

First Line: Well; well, Heffernan! Associate editor at Harper's...

Synopsis: A publisher for a sex magazine reads an applicant's list of credits, which show him working his way down the food chain.

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Genres: humorous

First Line: The Commision on Humor has reached a conclusion, sire.

Synopsis: A group of jesters present a petition to the king.

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Notes: Page 16.

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Genres: humorous

First Line: Say, buddy, you got any idea where the Illiterate Club is?

Synopsis: A man is standing in front of "The Illiterate Club," but doesn't know it, since he can't read.

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Notes: Page 18.

Sandwich Special

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Genres: humorous

Synopsis: A case full of sandwiches has a sign next to it, labeled Mesozoic, Paleozoic, and Precambrian, to indicate how old the sandwiches in that layer are.

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Notes: Page 25. Pantomime cartoon.

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Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Foto Funnies

First Line: It may sound crazy, but I know only one way to reverse this temporary sales downturn.

Synopsis: A man seduces a fellow worker by claiming to know how to change the company's sales slide.

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Notes: Page 34.

Breadfruit Bennie's Drunken Monkey Lounge

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Writer(s): John Weidman (credited)

Letterer(s): typeset

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Genres: humorous

Synopsis: An illustrated menu to a low-class tropical bar in downtown Dayton, Ohio.

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Notes: Pages 39-41.

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Genres: humorous

First Line: Thanks for the coffee and cookies, Mrs. Winter.

Synopsis: A plumber is a little guilty when a housewife gives him a snack before he plans on doing a sloppy job of repairing her sink.

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Notes: Page 42

Block-Long Hot Dogs

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Genres: humorous

Synopsis: A business takes the craze for foot-long hot dogs to its logical conclusion.

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Notes: Page 48. Pantomime cartoon.

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Genres: humorous

First Line: Well, it just happens to be the way my mom used to make it.

Synopsis: A sign at diner's counter says "The Way Mom Used to Make It." A customer is not happy with "Mom's" way.

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Notes: Page 66. Signature illegible, but appears to be Schoenbaum.

Donny & Marie in Real Gone Hawaiian Goon!

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Genres: humorous

Character(s): Donny (caricature of Donny Osmond); Marie (caricature of Marie Osmond); Paunchy (caricature of Punchy from the Hawaiian Punch TV commercials); King Bugface (idol)

Synopsis: The idol King Bugface tells a story about Donny and Marie getting caught up with gangsters while entertaining at a convention in Honolulu.

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Notes: Pages 67-69.

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Genres: humorous

First Line: We are a very poor country, and we can't afford to buy electrodes for your testicles.

Synopsis: A dictatorship ties a prisoner in the prison yard during a thunderstorm, with a kite tied to his testicles.

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Notes: Page 70.

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Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Foto Funnies

First Line: =Sniff, sniff= Hey do you smell smoke?

Synopsis: A sleeping women's feet try to decide whether to wake her up when they smell smoke.

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Notes: Page 78.

Zippy Dress-Circle

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Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Zippy

Character(s): Zippy the Pin-Head

First Line: I'm Zippy's costume-- Get me a scotch and soda!

Synopsis: While Zippy is in bed, Zippy's costume goes out for a night on the town.

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Notes: Page 81.

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Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Trots and Bonnie

Character(s): Trots (dog); Bonnie

First Line: I love video games...

Synopsis: Bonnie is bored with the games in the video arcade, until she finds one that really explodes when you lose.

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Notes: Page 82. Logo is in the digital stair-step format used in early video-game text.

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Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Politeness Man

First Line: Tom-Toms beat their throbbing rhythms!

Synopsis: A man tries to save a woman from a tribal sacrifice, but Politenessman interrupts by saying he needs to learn the natives' dance.

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Notes: Page 63.

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Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Popular Problems

First Line: Mr. Evans was tough on everyone in our driving class except Renee.

Synopsis: A teacher's pet gets a good grade in a driving class even when she hits a tree.

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Notes: Page 83.

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Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Ray and Joe: The Story of a Man and His Dead Friend

Character(s): Ray; Joe; Tillie

First Line: The lobby of the St. Clair Hotel.

Synopsis: A barfly thinks Joe's alive and drunk and has taken him back to her hotel room. Ray tracks her down and bursts into her room, despite her having a particularly virulent strain of herpes.

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Notes: Page 84. Part of a continued story.

Sex and the Single Waitress

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Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Mimi Pond's Famous Waitress School

First Line: If you see a "hot number," do not lose your "cool."

Synopsis: How to have a romantic encounter with a customer.

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Notes: Page 85.

Lesson #5-L: Drawing Left-Handed

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Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Famous Comic Artists School

First Line: The right-handed comic artist should practice drawing left-handed...

Synopsis: Two versions of the same subject, one drawn right-handed, the other left-handed.

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Notes: Page 85.

In Jail

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Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Excursions

First Line: For some reason, we find ourselves in the county jail.

Synopsis: The pleasures of jail.

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Notes: Page 85.

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Story on Interior Page(s)

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Letterer(s): typeset

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Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Xico "X" Agente Superior

Character(s): Xico "X"

First Line: How about a gratuitous and comradely lift, my friend?

Synopsis: Xico "X" is still trying to find his contact, Mr. Subterraneo.

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Notes: Page 86. Part of a continued story. This is presented as a translated foreign strip, with Tod Carroll listed as translator and all the text done in a typewriter monospace font.

Officer Mustafa to the Rescue

Story on Interior Page(s)

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Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Aunt Mary's Kitchen

Character(s): Aunt Mary

First Line: Hello? Police? This is an emergency!

Synopsis: Aunt Mary calls the police while the strange TV repairman goes about his work. About the time the police are going to send someone, the repairman has the TV fixed and gives her the bill. Aunt Mary can now watch her soap operas in peace.

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Notes: Page 88. Part of a continued story. Title from previous episode's "Next Month" blurb.

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Genres: humorous

Feature(s): King of the Castle

Character(s): King Garth; Sir William King; Abbot Costello

First Line: Thus far our story: The blind crusader, King Garth of Scotland...

Synopsis: Blind King Garth of Scotland decides to attack the White Castle of Sir William, all by himself.

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Notes: Page 86. Part of a continued story. Presented in the style of the classic Prince Valiant Sunday newspaper strip.

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Story on Interior Page(s)

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Writer(s): Bob Taylor [as B.K.Taylor]

Penciller(s): Bob Taylor [as B.K.Taylor]

Inker(s): Bob Taylor [as B.K.Taylor]

Letterer(s): Bob Taylor [as B.K.Taylor]

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous

Feature(s): The Appletons

Character(s): Norm Appleton; Bobby Appleton; Kathy Appleton

First Line: Mr. Appleton and the children are bidding Mrs. Appleton good night...

Synopsis: Mrs. Appleton goes to her ceramics class; leaving Bobby and Kathy in for a boring and unpleasant evening with Mr. Appleton.

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Notes: Page 88.

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Letterer(s): typeset

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Genres: humorous

First Line: There! Bring on your radioactive fallout!

Synopsis: A middle-aged housewife has clear plastic covers over all of her furniture.

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Notes: Page 90.