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Issue: Four Color #180
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Title: Ozark Ike
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagDell
Brand: A Dell ComicView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: 12/16/1947
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 5 (4 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
Disclose Notes: Indicia title is "OZARK IKE, No. 180." Code number is O.I.O.S. #180-482. Copyright 1945, 1946, 1947 by King Features Syndicate. On-sale date is publication date in Catalog of Copyright Entries, 1948 Pamphlets, page 209. Adapted from the "Ozark Ike" newspaper strip by Ray Gotto.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age U.S.; standard Silver Age U.S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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[untitled]

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Subject Matter
sports
Ozark Ike
Ozark Ike; Dinah
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Miscellaneous
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Fred Merkle

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sports
Ozark Ike's Whodunits
Ozark Ike; Dinah
After singling to send the winning run to third base, Ike doesn't run to second when the next batter hits a single to score the winning run and is called out, negating the run.
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from Ozark Ike's Whodunits (King Features Syndicate) 47.07.27 [Sunday]
Miscellaneous
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Inside front cover; black, red, and white. Based on the famous Fred Merkle "boner" play that contributed to the loss of a pennant for the New York Giants in 1908. First Sunday newspaper strip of the series.
Hillbilly Football and Ozark the Boxer

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Ozark Ike
Ozark Ike; Dinah; Penny
Ike plays in the farcical 47th annual Fatfield-McBatt Football Feud game, scoring the winning touchdown. He then goes to the city to seek his fortune. He becomes a prize fighter, but gets tricked out of his ring earnings by crooked promoters.
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from Ozark Ike (King Features Syndicate) daily newspaper strips from 1945 and 1946.
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Three tiers of panels per page. Two stories that segue into each other.
Mad Dash for Home

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Ozark Ike's Whodunits
Ozark Ike; Dinah
Ozark Ike makes a "mad dash" from first base to score on a routine single to left centerfield.
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from Ozark Ike's Whodunits (King Features Syndicate) 47.08.10 [Sunday]
Miscellaneous
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Inside back cover; black, red, and white. Based on Enos Slaughter's identical feat for the St. Louis Cardinals in the 1946 World Series.
11 Strokes on a Hole

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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sports
Ozark Ike's Whodunits
Ozark Ike; Dinah
Leading a golf tournament by ten strokes going to the last hole, Ozark cards an 11 on the par 3 18th hole.
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from Ozark Ike's Whodunits (King Features Syndicate) 47.08.03 [Sunday]
Miscellaneous
1
Back cover. Based on Hall of Fame golfer Ben Hogan's 11 stroke hole in a 1947 tournament.

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