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Issue: Animal Comics #6 Public Domain
Publication Date: December 1943
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Issues: #6 of 30 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagDell
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: 11/16/1943
Volume: none
Pages: 60
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 12 (8 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Copyright, 1943, by Oskar Lebeck.

On sale date per page 354 of 489, Catalog of Copyright Entries 1943 Periodicals Jan-Dec New Series Vol 38 Pt 2.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age U. S.
Paper Stock: newsprint
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Uncle Wiggily Longears
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Pages: 1
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Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?; typeset
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Synopsis: Subscription ad for Andy Panda
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Uncle Wiggily; Nurse Jane; Uncle Butter; Susie; Sammie; a bear; a snake; pirate foxes
First Line: This scooter craft is going to be fun--
Synopsis: Uncle Wiggily saves everyone from a snake, a bear, and pirate foxes using self-popping popcorn.
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Pages: 12
Disclose Notes: Gaylord Du Bois writer credit per Gaylord Du Bois, page 4, Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books Sorted by Title compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott (Michigan State University Libraries 1985) 203 leaves ; 28 cm. -- Photocopy of computer printout. -- Call no.: PN6727.D77 A2S35 1985, which states: "Uncle Wiggly. 12p. For Animal Comics. Paid Dec. 25, 1943."

Hubbell R. McBride art credit per Michael Barrier, page 71, "Funnybooks" (UCPress 2015), which states, "The 'Uncle Wiggly' stories were drawn by Hubbell R. McBride, who was, like his Western colleagues Arthur Jameson and George Kerr, a veteran illustrator---in McBride's case, of Liberty magazine's covers."
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: jungle
Character(s): Keeto; Krufa; baboons; Leo; Arak
First Line: Krufa, the brown bear, found Keeto when he was only a baby...
Synopsis: Keeto is kidnapped by baboons
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Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: The story is highly derivative from Rudyard Kipling's _The Jungle Books_.
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At the Seashore

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Muggins Mouse; a lobster; a wooden sailor
Synopsis: Muggins has an adventure at the seashore
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Pages: 6
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The Beetle Battle of Bug Battalion

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic, humorous
Character(s): Japanese Beetles (villains)
Synopsis: Japanese beetles invade the garden.
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Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: The Japanese beetles are dressed like WW2 era Japanese soldiers.
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Chatter Learns a Lesson

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
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Pages: 4
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic, humorous
Character(s): Homer Pigeon; Carrie Pigeon; a Japanese vulture
First Line: Well, Car-r-rie! I brung ya somethin!
Synopsis: Homer helps get an important military message past a Japanese vulture.
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Pages: 6
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: anthropomorphic
First Line: Ho-hum! It's dull around here.
Synopsis: A policeman makes several mistakes in an effort to find who hit him with snow.
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Pages: 6
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Spunky and the Hornets

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Feature(s): Spunky Spaniel
Synopsis: Spunky decides he's a big dog and gets involved with some hornets.
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Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: This is the only appearance of the "Spunky Spaniel" feature.
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Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Synopsis: Subscription ad for Looney Tunes & Merry Melodies
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover
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Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Synopsis: Subscription ad for Looney Tunes & Merry Melodies.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: back cover

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