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Anchor Management

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Heckle; Jeckle; angry fish; Mighty Mouse (inset); Heckle and Jeckle (inset); Gandy Goose (inset)

Synopsis: An angry fish with a lump on its head tosses Heckle and Jeckle's boat anchor back at them.

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Hey Kids!! Be a Cartoonist! Talent Not Needed! It’s Easy! It’s Fun!

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First Line: Here’s how to draw more than 100,000 funny faces only $1.00 complete

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Notes: Ad for "A 'Suitcase' Full of Cartoon Fun! The wonderful new drawing set that proves you can draw more than 100,000 funny faces”. Sold by Lucky Products. Black and white ad on inside front cover.

Gold Is Where You Find It

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Heckle; Jeckle; railroad cop; various citizens of Gold Junction; Gold Dust Pete

First Line: Well, Heckle old boy, we ought to be in the gold country soon!

Synopsis: Heckle and Jeckle ride a box car west to look for gold. They find a counterfeiter instead.

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Pages: 12

Strange Doin's

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): The Terry Bears; Papa; Mama; voice-box salesman; enthralled crowd; Uncle Bruin (wall-hanging portrait)

First Line: Step right up, folks! Get your voice throwing machine.

Synopsis: The Terry Bears bedevil Papa with a voice throwing machine.

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Pages: 8

The Unfinished Story

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Gandy Goose; Sourpuss; bear; "Stupe the Dumb Dog" (character in Gandy's comic book story)

First Line: "Clickety-clack-click-clack!" went the sound of Gandy's typewriter as he busily typed in his room.

Synopsis: Gandy attempts to write a funny comic book story, but is stuck for an ending. Sourpuss's actual series of mishaps give Gandy the slapstick-comedy climax his story needs.

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Everyone Wants These Great 3D Hits!

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Genres: non-fiction

Feature(s): St. John Publishing Co.

Character(s): Three Stooges; crowd of hundreds

First Line: Ask for these 3-D magazines at your favorite newsstand!

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Notes: St. John house ad for its 3-D titles: Three Dimension Comics featuring 1,000,000 Years Ago, Three Dimension Comics starring The Three Stooges, and Three Dimension Comics presents WHACK. The covers of each are reproduced.

Crossword Capers

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Genres: anthropomorphic, non-fiction

Feature(s): Rudy Rooster

Character(s): Rudy Rooster; turtle

First Line: Gosh, Rudy certainly looks perplexed!

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Notes: Vic Lockman credits from Joe Torcivia, and confirmed by Alberto Becattini.

Fowl Play

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Dink Duck; Rudy Rooster; Farmer Al Falfa (Farmer Gray); romantically-inclined ram

First Line: I've got to patch my pair of pants before I go to the old barn dance.

Synopsis: Prankster Rudy sets out to make nervous Dinky all the more so.

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Surprise Package

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Heckle; Jeckle; Dimwit

First Line: Hey - Dimwit! What have you got there!

Synopsis: Dimwit finds a wallet and is going to turn it in to lost-and-found. Heckle and Jeckle grab it for themselves, to their great regret.

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Yes, Right from Detroit!

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First Line: From the auto capitol of the world to you… comes this amazing motorcade bargain 50 cars for $1

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Notes: Ad for toy cars boasting: “Nowhere in Lilliput did Gulliver ever see anything like this! This amazing motorcade bargain includes fifty miniature motor cars: true three dimensional scale models of streamline trolleys, highway vans, delivery trucks, repair service cars, and U.S. Army planes.” Sold by Young Products.
The bottom 1/4 of this page is an ad, also by Young Products, for an "Amazing new watch with mechanical brain - remembers - tells time - tells date - date changes automatically every day. Compare it at $50.00 - $8.95 plus 90-cents fed. tax"

There's Everything Every Boy Wants in... Lionel Trains with Magne-Traction

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First Line: …More speed! …More pull! …More climb! …More control!

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Notes: Ad for Lionel model trains and the new 1953 Lionel catalog. Black and white ad on inside back cover.

I'll Give You a Watch, Air Rifle, Uke, Camera or Any of My 70 Big Prizes

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Character(s): "Uncle" Harry Bard ("The man who has been helping boys and girls earn prizes and extra cash for 35 years", in a penciled, inked, and colored head-shot.)

First Line: Just for selling Christmas cards to your family, friends, and neighbors

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Notes: Ad for American Specialty Co., offering prizes or money for the sales of Christmas cards. A four-panel black-and-white comic strip inset shows two kids mailing the coupon, selling the cards, receiving a prize package from the mailman, and telling their friends about it. Color ad on back cover.