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Issue: Our Gang Comics #2
Publication Date: November 1942
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Issues: #2 of 39 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagDell
Brand: Dell Publishing Co.View Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 14 (10 stories, 1 cover)
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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
Format Notes:  
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Some/all of Issue reprinted as a Content Item in another Issue:
FlagWalt Kelly's Our Gang #1 published May 2006 as none [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic, childrens, humorous
Character(s): Barney Bear; Tom; Jerry; Froggy; Buckwheat
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Hi, Kids!

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?; ? (photograph)
Inker(s): ?; ? (photograph)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: childrens
Character(s): Froggy (photograph); Barney Bear; Tom; Jerry; Our Gang (photograph)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: childrens, humorous
Character(s): Our Gang [Spanky; Froggy; Mickey; Janet; Buckwheat]; a small, unnamed kid in the gang; the gang's goat (as yet unnamed); a car tire thief and his pal; police officers
First Line: Mickey, it don't seem right!
Synopsis: The gang run a newspaper and decide to cover the blackout. Froggy unknowingly helps a car tire thief, but the gang catch the thief and his pal in the end.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 10
Disclose Notes: War related story (blackouts, rubber restrictions).

Du Bois script credit conjecture per Funnybooks (UC Press, Oakland) 2015 by Michael Barrier, pg65: "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.)
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Barney Bear Becomes a Hobo!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Barney Bear; an unnamed wolf; three hobos
Synopsis: Barney gets tricked out of his house by the wolf, and tries to live as a hobo, but even the other hobos make demands on him.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 9
Disclose Notes: War related story (rubber collecting).

Previous indexer credited the script to Gaylord Du Bois, citing Funnybooks (UC Press, Oakland) 2015 by Michael Barrier. But Barrier, writing of Our Gang Comics, credits Du Bois with only the first issue's story: "[Du Bois] was called upon to write not just talking animal stories (the first six 'Tom and Jerry' stories, 'Barney Bear' in the first issue), but also 'King,' a deadly serious dog story ..." pg122.
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The Killer Diller Boys

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ? (spot illustrations)
Inker(s): ? (spot illustrations)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: "Based on the M-G-M cartoon, copyright, 1942, by Loews inc."

Gaylord Du Bois script credit as per page 187 Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books Sorted by Title compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott (1984).
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Tom; Jerry; Tuffy; the black housemaid (Dinah, unnamed here)
First Line: I smell mice up on that pantry shelf!
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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Flip and Dip in Monkeyshines

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Ma; Pa; Flip; Dip
Synopsis: The family's tree house blows down in a storm, and they convert it into a house boat
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Miscellaneous
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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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: childrens, nature
Feature(s): Jimmy Wells
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
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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The First Swallow

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: nature
Character(s): A little swallow; an unnamed padre
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: "Based on the M-G-M cartoon, copyright 1942 by Loew's inc."
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: nature
Feature(s): King
Character(s): King; three wolf pups; a baby bear; the mother bear; the mother wolf
First Line: Hunting for food in the great, silent woods taught King to move silently ...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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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Stuffie

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (photograph)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: nature
Feature(s): Stuffie
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: "As retold from the M-G-M Pete Smith specialty"
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Benny Burro; a little bird; a baby bird
First Line: Gee whiz! It's lonesome around here!
Synopsis: Benny seeks companionship, and teams up with a little bird, who gets shot by hunters. Benny has to hatch the little bird's egg.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ? (photograph)
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: childrens, nature
Feature(s): Stuffie
Character(s): Stuffie
First Line: These pictures are from Stuffie ...
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Stills from movie picture
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Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ?; ? (photograph)
Inker(s): ?; ? (photograph)
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Character(s): Our Gang; Barney Bear; Tom; Jerry; Flip; Dip
Reprinting
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover

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