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Issue: Drag Cartoons #43

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Publication Date: September 1967

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Issues: #43 of 51 Issues

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Publisher: Flag

Millar Publishing Company

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Indicia Publisher: Millar Publishing Company

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Volume: none

Pages: 52

ISBN: none

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $0.35 USD

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Content Items: 13 (10 stories, 1 cover)

Editor(s): Dragula (credited); Pete Millar (publisher)

Notes: Magazine also contains a number of movie stills with word balloons as cartoons, similar to their use in "Help" magazine.

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: Color Covers, Black and White Interior

Dimensions: Standard Magazine Size

Paper Stock: Glossy Covers, Newsprint Interior

Binding: Saddle-Stitched

Publishing Format: Was Ongoing

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Some/all of Issue reprinted as a Content Item in another Issue:

(Not Only) The Best of Wonder Wart-Hog #3 [1st Printing] published January 1973 as Wonder Wart-Hog Opens a Concession Stand [Story on Interior Page(s)] September 1967

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Cover, Front

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Content Items (13 total)

[untitled]

Illustration on Cover, Front

Credits

Penciller(s): ?

Inker(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous, science and technology

First Line: The trouble with you Al is that you think you're a big wheel

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: No punctuation in word balloon.

Wonder Wart-Hog Opens a Concessions Stand...

Story on Interior Page(s)

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous, superhero

Feature(s): Wonder Wart-Hog

Character(s): Wonder Wart-Hog [Philbert Desanix]

First Line: I would like to order 315 chilidogs...

Synopsis: Tired of bad food at the local drag strip, Wonder Wart-Hog opens his own concession stand.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 5

Notes: Credited to "Gilbert Shelton & Tony Bell."

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous, science and technology

Feature(s): A/Gas

First Line: I realize it's August..so it can't be a snow plow..

Synopsis: A driver modifies his car with a snow plow blade on the front to scoop up any Volkswagens that get in his way.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Poietic Justice [sic]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous

First Line: Hold it Buddy..

Synopsis: A man is arrested for jay-walking. He defends himself in court and, and after his case is dismissed, becomes so obnoxious that he's fined for contempt of court and ends up in jail.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 3

Notes: The title should read "Poetic Justice," but is misspelled.

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous, science and technology

Feature(s): Tyrod Power

Character(s): Pfc. Joe Raincloud

First Line: The flathead was okay in it's day..

Synopsis: A discussion about engines ends with an old joke about marine engines.

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Pages: 1

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous, science and technology

Feature(s): The Adventures of Bull O'Fuzz

Character(s): Bull O'Fuzz

First Line: I believe I'll stop in here and have a cup of coffee!

Synopsis: A man driving a race car (without license plates, mufflers, etc.) on the streets fast-talks a policeman into letting him go.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 2

Notes: Credited "Shelton & Bell" in last panel.

Down Two Earth

Story on Interior Page(s)

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous, science and technology

First Line: Hang it up!..You're just going up in smoke!

Synopsis: A funny car dragster's rear wheels keep slipping. The wheels are coated with "liquid traction," but all they do now is tear up the track.

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Pages: 2

Notes: The title is a pun on "down to Earth."

The Pig Lives!

Promotional Material (from Publisher) on Interior Page(s)

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous, superhero

Feature(s): Wonder Wart-Hog

Character(s): Wonder Wart-Hog

First Line: Fearless, fighting, foulmouthed...

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Pages: 1

Notes: Promo for Wonder Wart-Hog #1 and #2 with small version of the covers depicted. Promo is apparently all original, other than that, with action shot of Wonder Wart-Hog.

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous, science and technology

Feature(s): McFlathead

Character(s): Temple McFlathead; Payne

First Line: Wouldn't it be easier to just buy a new crank?

Synopsis: McFlathead is trying to get another drag race out of a crankshaft he bought in 1932. His partner comes up with slightly devious plan to raise some money to buy a new one.

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Pages: 2

Notes: McFlathead runs in the "E" Class of 296 cubic inches.

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous, science and technology

Feature(s): A/Gas

First Line: I'm looking for a tire that really grips the surface..

Synopsis: A man gets more than he bargained for when he buys "Tiger Paw" tires.

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Pages: 1

Notes: A parody of the animated TV commercials for Uniroyal Tiger Paw tires.

The Human Element

Story on Interior Page(s)

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous, science and technology

First Line: Yessir, we're designing our dragster from the ground up, Jon, boy!

Synopsis: A company does everything possible to develop a winning dragster, but fails to account for a basic defect in the driver.

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Pages: 2

Notes: Signed "Tufts" in the final panel.

Wheelnuts

Story on Interior Page(s)

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous, science and technology

Character(s): Charlie Brown; Lucy; Linus; Schroeder; Snoopy

First Line: Boy! Do I have some good news for you!

Synopsis: Lucy has the boys build her the world's hottest dragster, but she didn't count on another competitor.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 3

Notes: A parody of the Peanuts comic strips, with the characters drawn in Schulz-style, but none are named. Dale Hale (signed in the last panel) was an assistant to Charles Schulz and drew the Peanuts comic books for Dell.

A Sample of What's Happenin' in the Wonder Wart-Hog Girl Friend Contest

Letters Page on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Penciller(s): various

Inker(s): various

Letterer(s): ?

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 2

Notes: Fan art with suggestions for a girl friend for Wonder Wart-Hog. Art from Tom Parker, Tom Delperdang, Lee Thomason, Joe Martin, James Cook, Kevin Quinn, J. Fuhst, and seven unidentified submissions.