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Issue: Beetle Bailey #92
Publication Date: August 1972
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Issues: #92 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: 1972
Volume: 5
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.12 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 10 (9 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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No Exception for Weapons Inspection

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, military
Character(s): Beetle Bailey; Sarge Snorkel; Chigger Bailey
Synopsis: Even Beetle's kid brother Chigger is not exempt from Sarge's weapons inspection.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: The cover gag is reworked from the Beetle Bailey daily newspaper strip of August 17, 1967, reprinted in the 1969 paperback collection "Fall Out Laughing, Beetle Bailey" from Tempo Books.
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The Scientific Shirker

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, military
Character(s): Beetle Bailey; Sarge Snorkel; Killer Diller
First Line: Let's see --- Today's the 22nd, ten o'clock --- and Sarge is on his way to the supply room.
Synopsis: Beetle applies analytics to avoiding Sarge.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
Job Number: D-3109
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Delayed Action

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, military
Character(s): Sarge Snorkel; Captain Scabbard; Beetle Bailey; Killer Diller; General Halftrack
First Line: Sarge, the General will be by to inspect in ten minutes!
Synopsis: Sarge puts off preparing for General Halftrack's inspection until the last moment.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
Job Number: D-3112
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The Crummy Connection

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: When you're finished with that, get my phone line connected, Sergeant.
Synopsis: Beetle lays a phone line for General Halftrack over a very convoluted course.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: D-3113
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The Phoney Patrol

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, military
Character(s): Beetle Bailey; Sarge Snorkel; Killer Diller; Captain Scabbard
First Line: Killer, have you seen Sarge?
Synopsis: Beetle and Sarge offer two very different accounts of their most recent scouting mission.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
Job Number: D-3111
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Daddy on the Alert

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, military
Character(s): Killer Diller; Beetle Bailey; Julie; Julie's dad; Julie's mom; chili joint waiter; rock and roll dance crowd
First Line: Got a nice date for tonight, Killer?
Synopsis: Julie's dad secretly follows Julie on her date with Killer, fearing the worst. Dear old dad makes far more trouble for himself than Killer and Julie could ever get into.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
Job Number: D-3108
Disclose Notes: To make the contrast all the more humorously stark, Killer remains well-behaved and good-mannered throughout the story (rather than as his typically girl-crazy self) all the more flummoxing Julie's suspicious dad.
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Service Smiles

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, military
Character(s): Beetle Bailey; Killer Diller (both as floating heads in feature logo illustration)
First Line: This one took place in a prisoner of war camp during the last century.,E
Synopsis: Three humorous text stories about the armed services: "Variation in Menu", "I Don't Get It", and "The Best Part of the Glass".
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Pages: 1
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Sarge's Robots

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, military
Character(s): Beetle Bailey; Sarge Snorkel; Killer Diller; Zero; Captain Scabbard
First Line: Awright!! Wake up! Hup! Two! Three!
Synopsis: Complaining that Sarge has no respect for individuality ("He wants us all to be ROBOTS!"), the men carry out their orders in exaggerated robotic fashion leaving Sarge to note: "They still need more discipline, but they're improving!".
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Pages: 2
Job Number: D-3110
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Always Unreliable

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: Where in blazes have you been, Beetle?
Synopsis: Sarge entrusts Beetle with the important task of waking him at 5:30 AM to attend an early briefing. He immediately regrets his decision.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
Job Number: D-3106
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Hose Down

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: Those windows are dirty, Beetle! Be sure to give them a good soaking with the hose before you wash them!
Synopsis: Sarge leaves Beetle to man a water hose outside his window and obsesses over the inevitable dousing he expects to receive.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
Job Number: D-3107
Disclose Notes: Feature is titled "Sarge and Beetle".

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