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Issue: Four Color #1016
Publication Date: August 1959
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Issues: #1016 of 1333 Issues (1484 Printings)
Title: Smokey the Bear Nature Stories
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagDell
Brand: DellView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: 06/25/1959
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 15 (12 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
Disclose Notes: Indicia title is "SMOKEY THE BEAR NATURE STORIES, No. 1016." Code number is SMOKEY N.C. #1016-598. (No O.S. in code number and N.C. (Nature Comics?) instead of N.S.). Copyright 1959 by Western Printing and Lithographing Co. "Authorized and approved by the State Foresters and the Forest Service, U. S. Department of Agriculture in cooperation with the Advertising Council." Printed in U.S.A.

Sixth of eight Smokey the Bear Four Colors.

No month is given on the cover or in the indicia. Based on the copyright dates of this issue and others in the series released around the same time, one can determine that this issue was published with other Four Color issues bearing an "August-October 1959" cover date.

On sale date is Library of Congress copyright record publication date.
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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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Smokey the Bear Nature Stories

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, anthropomorphic
Feature(s): Smokey the Bear
Character(s): Smokey the Bear; Little Smokey; Specs; Gimp
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: This is Gollub's second cover of the Four Color Smokey the Bear comics FC 932 being the first.
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A Forest Ranger's Duties

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: informational, non-fiction
Feature(s): Smokey the Bear
Character(s): Smokey the Bear; Little Smokey
First Line: Being a forest ranger is never dull!
Synopsis: Facts about the duties of a forest ranger in the National Forests.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover; black and white.
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The Fiery Trap

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, anthropomorphic
Feature(s): Smokey the Bear
Character(s): Smokey the Bear; Little Smokey; Specs; Gimp (villain)
First Line: Here's our next stop, Little Smokey and Specs!
Synopsis: Smokey, Little Smokey, and Specs the raccoon are out inspecting emergency fire stations in the forest when they come across an illegal trapline. Gimp, a villain bear, rolls a boulder toward Smokey, then plans on leaving in his truck with his poached animal skins. Smokey chases Gimp in his jeep. Gimp goes off the mountain road and the fiery crash starts a forest fire. Gimp helps fight the fire, but then escapes. Smokey chases him and the two have a showdown on a log in the river.
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Pages: 16
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The Grizzly Bear

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic, informational, non-fiction
Feature(s): Smokey the Bear
Character(s): Smokey the Bear; Little Smokey; Specs
First Line: Smokey, Little Smokey, watch out!
Synopsis: Facts about grizzly bears, narrated by Smokey.
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Pages: 1
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How to Raise Tropical Fish

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic, informational, non-fiction
Feature(s): Smokey the Bear
Character(s): Smokey the Bear; Little Smokey; Specs
First Line: Little Smokey, you've got a nibble.
Synopsis: Facts about raising tropical fish in an aquarium.
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Pages: 1
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Wild Turkey

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic, informational, non-fiction
Feature(s): Smokey the Bear
Character(s): Smokey the Bear; Little Smokey; Specs
First Line: Look at that silly wild turkey!
Synopsis: Facts about wild turkeys.
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Pages: 1
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How to Make Animal Track Plaster Casts

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic, informational, non-fiction
Feature(s): Smokey the Bear
Character(s): Smokey the Bear; Little Smokey; Specs
First Line: There's a good print of mine, Little Smokey!
Synopsis: The procedure for making a plaster cast of an animal track.
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Pages: 1
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Frogs and Toads

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic, informational, non-fiction
Feature(s): Smokey the Bear
Character(s): Smokey the Bear; Little Smokey; Specs
First Line: I'm going to get that bullfrog --
Synopsis: Facts about frogs and toads.
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Pages: 1
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How to Collect Butterflies

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic, informational, non-fiction
Feature(s): Smokey the Bear
Character(s): Smokey the Bear; Little Smokey; Specs
First Line: This butterfly's as good as caught, Little Smokey!
Synopsis: How to collect butterflies for display.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Sunday newspaper reprint?
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The Bald Eagle

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic, informational, non-fiction
Feature(s): Smokey the Bear
Character(s): Smokey the Bear; Little Smokey; Specs; Eagle
First Line: Hey! Drop that fish I caught!
Synopsis: Facts about bald eagles.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Sunday newspaper reprint?
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How to Make an Ant House

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic, informational, non-fiction
Feature(s): Smokey the Bear
Character(s): Smokey the Bear; Little Smokey; Specs
First Line: What are you doing, Little Smokey?
Synopsis: How to make a house to observe ants.
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Pages: 1
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The Mysterious Intruder

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, anthropomorphic
Feature(s): Smokey the Bear
Character(s): Smokey the Bear; Little Smokey; Specs
First Line: Look, Smokey!
Synopsis: The forest service airlifts beavers to build dams in the forest. Something scares the beavers away and as Smokey, Little Smokey, and Specs investigate, they find peccaries, coyotes, and pronghorn deer fleeing a mysterious intruder, which turns out to be a jaguar.
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Pages: 7.88
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A Pledge to Parents

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
First Line: The Dell trademark is, and always has been, a positive guarantee that the comic magazine bearing it contains only clean and wholesome entertainment.
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Pages: 0.13
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The Moose

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: nature, non-fiction
First Line: Each autumn crashing antlers sound in the woods of some of our northern states, as bull moose fight for mates.
Synopsis: Facts about the moose.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover; black and white.
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Animals of North America

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: informational, nature, non-fiction
First Line: Living amid mountain peaks, thanks to his concave hoofs that act as suction cups, the bighorn sheep can run on the narrowest edge.
Synopsis: Brief facts about bighorn sheep, box turtles, flying squirrels, pocket gophers, raccoons, and porcupines.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWalt Disney Comics Digest #42 published August 1973
as Animals of North America [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover; color. Panels with typeset text underneath.

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