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Issue: Our Gang Comics #1
Publication Date: August 1942
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Issues: #1 of 39 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagDell
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Indicia Publisher: Dell Publishing Company
On Sale Date: 06/30/1942
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 15 (11 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Copr. 1942 by Loew's Incorporated
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 US
Paper Stock: newsprint
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic, childrens
Character(s): Our Gang [Janet; Mickey; Spanky; Froggy; Buckwheat]; Barney Bear; Tom; Jerry
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Pages: 1
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Hello Kids!!!

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (photographs)
Inker(s): ? (photographs)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Character(s): Our Gang (photograph); Spanky (photograph)
Synopsis: Spanky (or rather: the editor of the title) greets readers to this new magazine.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover. Black and white with one pink area. Photos of Our Gang and Spanky McFarland, plus a table of contents.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: childrens, humorous
Character(s): Our Gang [Mickey; Buckwheat; Froggy; Janet; Spanky]; The Gashouse Gang [Feeney; Ham (as yet unnamed); Iggy]; Mr. Johnson (junk dealer)
First Line: This meeting is called...
Synopsis: The gang members look for a place to play baseball but find an available vacant lot is covered with junk. They decide to collect the junk and sell it but are opposed by The Gashouse Gang who want the junk, and money, for themselves.
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In Content Item: FlagWalt Kelly's Our Gang #1 published May 2006
as none [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 10
Disclose Notes: Du Bois script credit per Funnybooks (UC Press, Oakland) 2015 by Michael Barrier, p. 65: "Kelly drew the first 'Our Gang' story from a script by Gaylord Du Bois, Lebeck's principal writer ... The first two stories--Du Bois may have written the second as well as the first--have Our Gang involved in conflicts, the first with a rival gang that ends when a misunderstanding is cleared up, very much a Du Bois marker, and then one with criminals. The third story, though, is a slapstick comedy of the kind that became a Kelly specialty." (Previous indexer credited the script to Walt Kelly.)

The children are drawn in a much more realistic style than in later stories.
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Proving Bears Don't Go For Gophers and Gophers Can Barely Bear Bears

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Barney Bear; a gopher
Synopsis: Barney finds that his beet garden has been invaded by a gopher.
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Pages: 3
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Tom (a cat); Jerry (a mouse); Tuffy (Jerry's little brother)
First Line: Everybody's in bed...
Synopsis: Jerry and Tuffy try to raid the refrigerator.
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Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Tom is colored brown in this story instead of the traditional gray.

First appearance of Tuffy, a character created by Oskar Lebeck and Gaylord Du Bois, designed by them specifically for the comics, as per page 34 Reflections on The Eyrie; by Gaylord Du Bois. Eyrie Publications, Essex, N.Y. 1984.
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The Story of Johnny Mole

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (spot illustrations)
Inker(s): ? (spot illustrations)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Johnny Mole; Dr. Primrose Skunk; Mrs. Mole
Synopsis: Nearsighted Johnny Mole is given glasses by Dr. Skunk and can see the world clearly for the first time. He still manages to get in trouble, especially when he breaks his glasses.
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Story is in text form which is framed by wordless cartoon panels on the sides and bottom of the pages.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Flip; Dip; Ma; Pa
First Line: I'll climb up and give you some slack, Dip!
Synopsis: The monkey family moves into a new treehouse.
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Gaylord Du Bois script credit as per page 179, Catalog of Copyright Entries. Part 1. [Books] Group 2. Pamphlets, Etc. New Series, Volume 40 for the Year 1943 By Library of Congress, Copyright Office.
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Pete Smith's Lions on the Loose

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (spot illustrations)
Inker(s): ? (spot illustrations)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Pete Smith
Character(s): A family of lions in the zoo
Synopsis: The lion family finds life in the zoo to be to their liking.
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Text story with two spot illustrations.
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The Donkey in the Lion's Skin

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Benny Burro; various barnyard and forest animals
Synopsis: When Benny pulls a lion skin off a clothesline and it falls on top of him, the other animals think he's a real lion on the loose.
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Pages: 3
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Barney Bear Wants a Good Plan for Hiber-national Defense!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Barney Bear; a gopher
Synopsis: Barney settles in for a winter's hiberation but a pesky gopher tries to mooch his food.
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Du Bois writer credit per Funnybooks (UC Press, Oakland) 2015 by Michael Barrier: "[Du Bois] was called upon to write ... 'Barney Bear' in the first issue," pg122. Previous indexer credited Kelly. (1943 Copyright Entries, Pamphlets, credits the entire publication to Lebeck, Du Bois, and Kelly, without specifying who did what. The surviving Du Bois Account Books compiled by Randall Scott pick up with entries of stories written Aug. Sept. Oct. &c. for issues 2,3,4 &c. with no Barney Bear stories.)
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The Milky Way

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Feature(s): Three Little Kittens
Character(s): The Three Little Kittens; Mama
Synopsis: The Three Little Kittens have lost their mittens and are sent to bed without supper. They decide to use balloons to fly to the Milky Way for some milk.
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Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Adapted from the 1940 Academy Award-winning cartoon of the same name.
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Jimmy Wells Explorer

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ? (spot illustrations)
Inker(s): ? (spot illustrations)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: nature
Feature(s): Jimmy Wells
Character(s): Jimmy Wells; Professor Tubbs
Synopsis: Professor Tubbs' magic stereoscope shrinks Jimmy and transports him in the backyard world of nature.
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Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: Text with spot illustrations. Similar to Warner Bros.'s Mary Jane and Sniffles series in which the hero shrinks and has adventures with animals and learns about nature.

Gaylord Du Bois script credit as per page 179, Catalog of Copyright Entries. Part 1. [Books] Group 2. Pamphlets, Etc. New Series, Volume 40 for the Year 1943 By Library of Congress, Copyright Office.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, nature
Feature(s): King
Character(s): King (dog); King's master
First Line: Swollen by late spring rains, the river fought like a wild horse...
Synopsis: When the canoe of a young Quebec sportsman hits the rapids, his dog King is thrown into the river. They become separated and King must learn to survive on his own in the wilderness.
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Pages: 9
Disclose Notes: Comic story with captions.

Gaylord Du Bois script credit as per page 179, Catalog of Copyright Entries. Part 1. [Books] Group 2. Pamphlets, Etc. New Series, Volume 40 for the Year 1943 By Library of Congress, Copyright Office.
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Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ?; ? (photographs)
Inker(s): ?; ? (photographs)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: nature
First Line: These pictures from the Pete Smith story on page 34
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover. Black and white with pink borders around photos. Photos of lion cubs featured in this issue's Pete Smith story, plus a lion cartoon drawing.
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Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ?; ? (photograph)
Inker(s): ?; ? (photograph)
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic, childrens
Character(s): Our Gang [Froggy; Spanky; Janet; Buckwheat; Mickey]; Barney Bear; Tom; Jerry
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover. Black and white photo of Our Gang, framed by color illustrations of Barney Bear and Tom and Jerry.

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