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Issue: Our Gang Comics #2
Publication Date: November 1942
 
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Publisher: FlagDell
Indicia Publisher: Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
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Content Items: 14 (10 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Oskar Lebeck
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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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Original Artwork
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Title Page
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Walt Kelly
Walt Kelly
?
Subject Matter
anthropomorphic, childrens, humorous
Barney Bear; Tom; Jerry; Froggy; Buckwheat
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Miscellaneous
1
Hi, Kids!

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?; photograph
?; photograph
?
?
Subject Matter
childrens
Our Gang
Froggy (photograph); Barney Bear; Tom; Jerry; Our Gang (photograph)
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Miscellaneous
1
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Gaylord Du Bois ?
Walt Kelly
Walt Kelly
?
Walt Kelly
Subject Matter
childrens, humorous
Our Gang
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
Mickey, it don't seem right!
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
10
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.)
Barney Bear Becomes a Hobo!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
?
?
?
Subject Matter
anthropomorphic
Barney Bear
Barney Bear; an unnamed wolf; three hobos
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
9
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.
The Killer Diller Boys

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Gaylord Du Bois
? (spot illustrations)
? (spot illustrations)
?
Typeset
Subject Matter
humorous
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
4
"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).
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Gaylord Du Bois
?
?
?
?
Subject Matter
anthropomorphic
Tom and Jerry
Tom; Jerry; Tuffy; the black housemaid (Dinah, unnamed here)
I smell mice up on that pantry shelf!
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Miscellaneous
8
Flip and Dip in Monkeyshines

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Gaylord Du Bois
?
?
?
?
Subject Matter
anthropomorphic
Flip and Dip
Ma; Pa; Flip; Dip
The family's tree house blows down in a storm, and they convert it into a house boat
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Miscellaneous
6
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.
Jimmy Wells; Explorer

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Gaylord Du Bois
? (spot illustrations)
? (spot illustrations)
?
Typeset
Subject Matter
childrens, nature
Jimmy Wells
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Miscellaneous
4
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.
The First Swallow

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
?
?
?
Subject Matter
nature
A little swallow; an unnamed padre
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Miscellaneous
6
"Based on the M-G-M cartoon, copyright 1942 by Loew's inc."
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Gaylord Du Bois
?
?
?
?
Subject Matter
nature
King
King; three wolf pups; a baby bear; the mother bear; the mother wolf
Hunting for food in the great, silent woods taught King to move silently ...
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Miscellaneous
8
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.
Stuffie

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
? (photograph)
?
Typeset
Subject Matter
nature
Stuffie
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Miscellaneous
2
"As retold from the M-G-M Pete Smith specialty"
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
?
?
?
Subject Matter
anthropomorphic
Benny "The Lonesome Burro"
Benny Burro; a little bird; a baby bird
Gee whiz! It's lonesome around here!
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
7
[untitled]

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
? (photograph)
?
?
?
Subject Matter
childrens, nature
Stuffie
Stuffie
These pictures are from Stuffie ...
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Miscellaneous
1
Stills from movie picture
[untitled]

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?; photograph
?; photograph
?
Subject Matter
Our Gang; Barney Bear; Tom; Jerry; Flip; Dip
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
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