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Issue: Beetle Bailey #79
Publication Date: January 1971
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Issues: #79 of 53 Issues (55 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagCharlton
Brand: Charlton ComicsView Brand Images3
Indicia Publisher: Charlton Press Inc.
On Sale Date: 1970
Volume: 4
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.15 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 13 (12 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Per the book "The Charlton Companion" by Jon B. Cooke (TwoMorrows Publishing, 2022 p.186) "By 1960, Bob Gustafson settled in for a long stay writing and penciling Beetle Bailey comic books (with inks by [Mort] Walker studio stalwart Frank Johnson) even as it passed from Dell to Gold Key to King Comics and then Charlton."

By 1975, Greg Walker (son of Beetle Bailey creator Mort Walker) began working on the Beetle Bailey title, taking over from Gustafson completely around October 1976 "...with some of Gustafson's stories continuing to be used after that". Gustafson moved over to the newspaper strip writing for and otherwise assisting Mort Walker. (ibid. p. 186)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Silver Age US; standard Modern Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing
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Caution: Tank Crossing

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, military
Character(s): Beetle Bailey; Sarge Snorkel; crossing guard boy; boy; girl; dog
Synopsis: A boy, acting as a school crossing guard, stops Sarge's tank in its tracks.
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Pages: 1
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The Pest is Yet to Come

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, military
Character(s): Beetle Bailey; Sarge Snorkel; Bunny Piper; Mr. Piper; Mrs. Piper
First Line: What's this, Sarge?
Synopsis: With time on his hands until his date, Beetle drops in on the Pipers and makes a pest of himself.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
Job Number: D-764
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Beetle "Bails" for a Starlet

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, military
Character(s): Beetle Bailey; Sarge Snorkel; General Halftrack
First Line: That's not the way to paint. Give me that brush, Beetle.
Synopsis: Beetle ducks out on Sarge's sign-painting tips, when he learns that a starlet is signing copies of her latest record album at the P.X.
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Pages: 1
Job Number: D-772
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Right Dress

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, military
Character(s): Sarge Snorkel; another unnamed sergeant; Captain Scabbard; costume shop proprietor
First Line: Gee! This shirt is wearing out!
Synopsis: Sarge sets out to get "one of the new style uniforms" and gets more than he bargained for.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
Job Number: D-768
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Solid Sarge

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, military
Character(s): Beetle Bailey; Sarge Snorkel; General Halftrack; Killer Diller; Major Greenbrass
First Line: But, senator, we need this monument..
Synopsis: When General Halftrack is denied funding to construct a battle memorial statue, Sarge enlists Beetle and Killer to do the job themselves.
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Pages: 3
Job Number: D-770
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Dishwater Runs Downhill

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, military
Character(s): Beetle Bailey; Sarge Snorkel; Cookie (3/4 cameo); Lt. Fuzz (heard but not seen)
First Line: Hey! Watch where you're pouring that dishwater!
Synopsis: Beetle dumps Cookie's dishwater downhill, only to find the dirty water is going right through Sarge's tent. When Sarge hears that the dishwater is also going through Lt. Fuzz's tent further downhill, he joins Beetle in dumping twice as much water down toward the lieutenant.
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Pages: 1
Job Number: D-767
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Service Smiles

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, military
First Line: He was the youngest second lieutenant in the outfit.
Synopsis: Three humorous text stories about the armed services: "It Could Have Been Worse", "Sharpshooter", and "Terrible Tempered Thompson".
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Good Sport Beetle

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, military
Character(s): Beetle Bailey; Sarge Snorkel; Killer Diller; Zero; unnamed soldier
First Line: Let's fix this pail of water so Beetle gets it when he comes in the door!
Synopsis: Beetle is an unusually good sport about the pranks his buddies play on him.
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Pages: 3
Job Number: D-763
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Duck Man Walking

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, military
Character(s): Beetle Bailey; Sarge Snorkel; civilian man calling on Camp Swampy; unnamed soldier; civilian couple #1; civilian couple #2
First Line: Can you tell me where headquarters is?
Synopsis: As a punishment, Sarge orders Beetle to do a duck-walk complete with quacking, and to "Keep going till I tell you to stop!" Responding to an urgent request from General Halftrack, Sarge forgets to tell Beetle to stop.
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Pages: 3
Job Number: D-761
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Hide-and-Seek at Sea

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic, humorous
Character(s): Captain Boner; giraffe; hyena; mouse; duck; frog; koala; chicken; crow; reptile; goose; snake; rooster; alligator; porcupine; hippo
First Line: Darn it, Boner - there's never anything to do on this crummy ark!!
Synopsis: To alleviate boredom on the ark, the animals play a particularly ineffective game of hide-and-seek.
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Pages: 3
Job Number: D-760
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Killer's Blind Date

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, military
Character(s): Beetle Bailey; Killer Diller; Bunny Piper; Bertha; Bertha's little brother; Bertha's father; Bertha's mother; Bertha's grandmother
First Line: Didn't you get a date for the dance, Killer?
Synopsis: After meeting the obese family members of Bertha, his blind date, Killer sneaks away before meeting Bertha herself.
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Pages: 3
Job Number: D-771
Disclose Notes: Bertha's grandmother is drawn to look like Sarge Snorkel in a frumpy nightgown and shawl - right down to the single bottom tooth in her mouth.
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(Guard) Duty Bound

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, military
Character(s): Beetle Bailey; Sarge Snorkel; Captain Scabbard
First Line: Beetle! Are you asleep on guard duty again?
Synopsis: After falling asleep while on watch, Beetle talks himself into a profoundly renewed sense of purpose toward being on guard duty.
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Pages: 1
Job Number: D-766
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Ask and You Shall Receive... Firey Rhetoric!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, military
Character(s): Sarge Snorkel; Rocky
First Line: Want to go to the P.X. for a soda, Rocky?
Synopsis: Sarge asks brooding and cynical Rocky to join him for a soda at the P.X. - and is sorry he did.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Job Number: D-762

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