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Issue: Beetle Bailey #98
Publication Date: April 1973
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Issues: #98 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: (not set)
Volume: 6
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: £0.06 GBP
$0.20 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 13 (10 stories, 1 cover)
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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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Propped Up from Pillow to Post

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, military
Character(s): Beetle Bailey; Sarge Snorkel
Synopsis: Beetle manages to find some leaning comfort while being chewed out by Sarge.
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Pages: 1
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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)

ALL CREDITS ARE ADJUSTED ACCORDINGLY.

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Per Ger Apeldoorn via Error Report #13657 (30 July 2021), on the original art for this cover, there is no Mort Walker signature, confirming the signature shown was a later paste-up and that Mort Walker did not do this cover. Ger suggests either Bob Gustafson or Neal Walker on pencils and Dick Hodgins on inks for the cover art. These three also worked on the interior stories as well per Ger.
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The Accident

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, military
Character(s): Beetle Bailey; unnamed major; two unnamed officers; army corpsmen
First Line: Look out!
Synopsis: Beetle is struck by a Major's jeep and is ignored while the major gets the full treatment for merely bumping his nose on the jeep's windshield.
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Pages: 3
Job Number: D-3836
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The Window Pain

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, military
Character(s): Beetle Bailey; General Halftrack
First Line: Oh, oh, here comes my window washer
Synopsis: General Halftrack obsessively shields his top-secret work from very slow window-washer Beetle.
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Pages: 1
Job Number: D-3837
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Listening In

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, military
Character(s): General Halftrack; Beetle Bailey; Sarge Snorkel; Captain Scabbard; two MPs
First Line: This is General Halftrack. Is Captain Scabbard there?
Synopsis: Beetle leaves Captain Scabbard's phone off the hook, getting the captain in deep trouble with General Halftrack.
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Pages: 3
Job Number: D-3833
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Bag Trouble

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, military
Character(s): Beetle Bailey; Killer Diller; Mildred (waitress); unnamed waitress; various restaurant patrons; restaurant manager; mother; son
First Line: Hey! Aren't you going to leave your bag at the check-room?
Synopsis: Beetle wreaks havoc in a fancy restaurant by simply declining to check his bag.
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Pages: 3
Job Number: D-3832
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Office Helper

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, military, nature
Character(s): Sarge Snorkel; Otto
First Line: Drat! Now where did my stapler disappear to?
Synopsis: Sarge uses his single-toothed dog Otto as... a stapler?
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Job Number: D-2849
Disclose Notes: While Otto's single tooth might be tough enough to punch through a stack of papers (as would a hole punch), it is unclear just how that would bind them together as a stapler would. Perhaps another of those military secrets?
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Color This Page, Kids!

Activity  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, military
Character(s): Beetle Bailey; Cookie
First Line: Harder!
Synopsis: Beetle gives Cookie a washtub scrub-down, adding a new dimension to KP.
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Pages: 1
Job Number: D-2418
Disclose Notes: A single-illustration page to color.
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Mom's Lament

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: drama, humorous
Character(s): Mom Bailey; Pop Bailey; Beetle Bailey; Killer Diller
First Line: You're crying! What's the matter dear?
Synopsis: Mom and Pop Bailey take different views of Beetle's absence from home.
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Pages: 3
Job Number: D-3734
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Security of the Post

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, military
Character(s): Beetle Bailey; Killer Diller; jeep-driving soldier; service club hostess; panicked soldier; Sarge Snorkel; M.P.
First Line: Why won't they give us all passes to town?
Synopsis: Killer explains to a dejected Beetle that some soldiers must remain on base, while others are away on pass, for the security of the post. Over the course of the explanation, Beetle and Killer cause more damage to Camp Swampy than if they'd gone to town.
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Pages: 3
Job Number: D-3735
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Service Smiles

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, military
First Line: When John Willington left his regiment in India, he was given many presents.
Synopsis: Three humorous text stories about the armed services.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.75
Disclose Notes: Top 3/4 of page.
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Statement of Ownership, Management and Circulation (Act of August 12, 1970: Section 3685, Title 39, United States Code)

Statement of Ownership  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.25
Disclose Notes: Statement of Ownership for September 30, 1972. Paid circulation: 137,200 (average); 148,950 (nearest). Lower 1/4 of page.
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Pot Luck

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, military
Character(s): Beetle Bailey; Cookie; Plato; Captain Scabbard
First Line: Put these bones and scraps in that pot where I'm saving the soup stock
Synopsis: Shortcutting his KP duties, Beetle unknowingly dumps kitchen garbage into Cookie's soup pot.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
Job Number: D-3736
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The Shutter-Bug

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, military
Character(s): Killer Diller; Beetle Bailey; Sarge Snorkel
First Line: Smile!
Synopsis: Beetle tries for an action shot when posing for Killer's new camera and creates more "action" than he'd planned.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
Job Number: D-3838

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