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Issue: Our Gang Comics #4
Publication Date: March 1943
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Issues: #4 of 39 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagDell
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: 01/29/1943
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 13 (9 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
Format Notes:  
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reprinted as a Content Item in another Issue.
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There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted from anywhere.
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Walt Kelly
Inker(s): Walt Kelly
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Character(s): Our Gang; Tom; Jerry; Barney Bear
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Walt Kelly
Inker(s): Walt Kelly
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Our Gang
Character(s): Our Gang; Tom; Jerry; Barney Bear; Janet Burston
First Line: Dear girls and boys,...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Contents page, allegedly written by Janet Burston of Our Gang, but more likely written by the series editor.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Walt Kelly
Penciller(s): Walt Kelly
Inker(s): Walt Kelly
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: childrens, humorous
Feature(s): Our Gang
Character(s): Our Gang [Froggie; Janet; Buckwheat; Mickey; Happy]; Mr. Grotch; a police officer
First Line: All Air Raid wardens have to know the different kinds of poison gases.
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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: 14
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Gold is Where You Find It

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Walt Kelly ?
Penciller(s): Walt Kelly
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic, humorous
Feature(s): Barney Bear
Character(s): Barney Bear; Goofer Gopher
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Credited to Kelly in "The Walt Kelly Collector's Guide" (Spring Hollow Books), but the inking definitely is not Kelly's.

Previous indexer additionally conjectured credit for script to Gaylord Du Bois via flawed citation. See Note for Barney Bear in issue #2's index.
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Maintain the Right

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): A Pete Smith Story
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Gaylord Du Bois
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Feature(s): Flip and Dip
Character(s): Flip; Dip; Ma; Pa
First Line: After our monkey friends had landed on a desert island...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Gaylord Du Bois script credit as per page 76 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
Writer(s): Gaylord Du Bois
Penciller(s): John Stanley
Inker(s): John Stanley
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): John Stanley
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Feature(s): Tom and Jerry
Character(s): Tom; Jerry; Tuffy; the black housemaid (Dinah, unnamed here)
First Line: How're we going to pull these big doughnuts into our mouse hole, Jerry?
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Credits from _John Stanley in the 1940s: A Comics Bibliography_, Frank M. Young, self-published, 2012.

Gaylord Du Bois script credit as per page 76 Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books Sorted by Title compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott (1984).
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Mrs. Ladybug

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
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: "Based on the M.G.M. cartoon. Copyright, 1943, by Loew's Inc."
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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
Feature(s): Benny "The Lonesome Burro"
Character(s): Benny Burro; Barney Bear; Jack Frost
First Line: I'll betcha I'm the most lonesomest burro in all the world!
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
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[untitled]

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Gaylord Du Bois
Penciller(s): ? (spot illustrations)
Inker(s): ? (spot illustrations)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Jimmy Wells
First Line: Oh, drop that ugly toad, Professor Tubbs!
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: Gaylord Du Bois script credit as per page 76 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
Writer(s): Gaylord Du Bois
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: nature
Feature(s): King
Character(s): King; Saucy, King's wolf sister; François Ladue, a trapper; Old Longtooth, an old wolf
First Line: A bitter winter brought starvation to the North Woods...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Gaylord Du Bois script credit as per page 76 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]

Public Service Announcement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Walt Kelly?
Penciller(s): Walt Kelly
Inker(s): Walt Kelly
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Our Gang; Barney Bear
Character(s): Our Gang; Barney Bear
First Line: Did you buy any war stamps today?
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: inside back cover
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back cover

Illustration  on  Cover, Back
Credits
Penciller(s): Walt Kelly; ? (photograph)
Inker(s): Walt Kelly: ? (photograph)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic, childrens
Feature(s): Our Gang
Character(s): Our Gang (photograph); Barney Bear; Benny Burro; Flip; Dip; King; Jimmy Wells; Tom; Jerry
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1

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