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Dimwit is Dizzy

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Heckle; Jeckle; Dimwit

Synopsis: Heckle and Jeckle add alphabet soup to Dimwit's bubble-pipe soap, resulting in a floating, taunting message.

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Notes: New cover for an issue of reprints.

Friends! Here's How to Get at Almost No Cost Your New Real, Live Miniature Dog

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Feature(s): Dean Studios

Character(s): Mrs. Ruth Long (Gift Manager Dean Studios); miniature dog

First Line: Supply limited send today!

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Pages: 0.75

Notes: Ad for photograph enlargement prints, offering a free miniature dog as an incentive premium. Full figure photo of the miniature dog saying "Please give me a home" via a comic-style dialogue balloon. A penciled and inked woman's hand holds the dog (seen as a photo) in her palm.

Head and shoulders photo of Mrs. Ruth Long also speaking via a comic-style dialogue balloon... "I'll be happy to send you without you paying a penny, this loveable, young, miniature dog that is so tiny when even fully grown you can carry it in your pocket or hold it in one hand, yet it barks and is a reliable watch dog as well as a pet. You can keep it in a shoebox and enjoy many amusing hours teaching it tricks... active, healthy, intelligent, and clean."

5x7 enlargements are offered, each in a "handsome Movietone frame". Comes with get-acquainted-coupons "so you can tell your friends".

Black and white ad on inside front cover. Top 3/4 of page.

Any Photo Copied

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Feature(s): Movyland Studios

First Line: 20 billfold size pictures $1

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Pages: 0.25

Notes: Ad offering 20 billfold size prints of any photo for one dollar. Cash, as well as checks or money orders, is accepted by mail - with any enclosed photos. The two photo reproduction vendors sharing this page could very well be the same entity, as both are in Des Moines, IA. Black and white ad on inside front cover. Lower 1/4 of page.

Circus Dog

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Heckle; Jeckle; Dimwit; circus owner

First Line: This morning we try out our act for the circus owner!

Synopsis: Heckle and Jeckle have a circus act to audition for the circus owner. Dimwit has a better circus act; ergo, the magpies resort to sabotage.

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The Urge to Travel

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Heckle; Jeckle; various hostile Indian tribes; Old Chief Monkey Face of the Sioux; The Ghosts of the Old Two-Gun Men of the West [Wild Bill Hickok; Bat Masterson; Buffalo Bill; Jesse James; Kit Carson; Billy the Kid]; traffic cop

First Line: I'm bored stiff, chum! Wish we could do something exciting!

Synopsis: Bored Heckle and Jeckle leap into their "wishing machine" and find themselves in 1836 (or 1846?) South Dakota, where they meet an unusual variety of characters.

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Notes: Upon arriving at their time and place destination, a sign says the year is "1836", while a later line of dialogue says the year is "1846".

Good Bit: Jumping into the "wishing machine" as their usual "naked selves", Heckle and Jeckle emerge in outfitted in full western garb. JECKLE: "Well!! Here we are, old boy!! That's one advantage of being cartoon characters!" (Double exclamation points are as they appear in the comic.)

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There are apparently TWO eight-page Heckle and Jeckle stories titled "The Urge to Travel" - BOTH drawn by Jim Tyer. This one and also a 1952 story - originally printed in Paul Terry's Comics (St. John, 1951 Series) #92 (May 1952), and reprinted in Dinky Duck (St. John, 1951 series) #12 (January 1955).

In the other story titled "The Urge to Travel", Heckle and Jeckle construct a Magic Telegraph Box that "will telegraph PEOPLE instead of MESSAGES". These two stories are not to be confused.

Curious Eyes

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Feature(s): Rudy Rooster

Character(s): Rudy Rooster; Gandy Goose; Dinky Duck; Sourpuss; Sylvester Fox; Heckle; Jeckle; Dimwit; Terry Bears; Papa; Little Roquefort; Percy Puss; Chesty; many other Terrytoon-styled anthropomorphic animal characters

First Line: This ought to attract people to me!

Synopsis: Rudy reads a book on "How to be Popular" and attracts too many folks for his own good.

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Notes: Many Terrytoon characters from other features in the Terry comics and theatrical animated shorts join Rudy's admiring throng.

My "Lucky" Day

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Little Roquefort; Percy Puss; bunch of other mice

First Line: Cut it out, ya big lug -- I'm no pen!

Synopsis: On Friday the Thirteenth, Little Roquefort exploits Percy's superstitious nature to his benefit.

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Playful Papa

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Terry Bears; Papa; Mama; three other kids

First Line: The children would be glad to play with you if you didn't lose your patience so easily.

Synopsis: Papa is delighted that the boys want him to play with them and their friends... until he finds out what they want to play.

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Super Smeller

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Heckle; Jeckle; Dimwit; Mrs. La Doberman; Dude La Doberman; Mutt the Miser; police chief

First Line: "Do let's get off these hot streets, old fruit!" cried Jackle to Heckle, as they perspired freely on the main street of town.

Synopsis: Heckle and Jeckle press Dimwit and his never-fail object-finding nose into the service of finding lost objects for profit.

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Refrigerator Troubles

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Heckle; Jeckle; Dimwit; refrigerator repairman; two cops

First Line: That empty space in my tummy feels as big as the Grand Canyon!

Synopsis: Heckle and Jeckle offer to repair Dimwit's broken refrigerator in exchange for a meal. Dimwit should have called a repairman.

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319 Stamps

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First Line: Sensational offer of hard-to-get stamps!

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Notes: Ad offering 319 stamps ("guaranteed $6.73 catalog value") from Zenith Co. of Brooklyn, New York, plus a "Midget Encyclopedia of Stamp Collecting", for only 25-cents. On final interior page of the comic.

Judy and Jim Defy Savage Gorilla!

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Character(s): Judy; Jim; gorilla; panicked crowd; two zoo keepers; enthusiastic little kid

First Line: Help! The gorilla is loose!

Synopsis: Brave kids Judy and Jim hold off an escaped zoo gorilla with the nifty premiums they received by selling White Cloverine Brand Salve from the Wilson Chemical Co.

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Notes: Ad for Wilson Chemical Co., offering prizes or money for the sales of Cloverine Brand Salve. Among the many prizes offered in the ad is a live pony. "Look! Live Pony! Yessiree, a real, live pony for your very own!" Black and white ad on inside back cover.

Kids! Be the First to Send for This New Plastic Aircraft Carrier with 5 Catapulting Jets

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First Line: Only $1.00 Post Paid

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Notes: Ad from Lucky Products offering a plastic aircraft carrier toy. "It catapults, it floats, it runs on dry land. Equipped with 5 catapulting jets that zoom off the runway with the flick of the finger. The carrier is fully 2/3's of a foot long!" Also included at no extra cost "...a small supporting fleet of real plastic molded warships, consisting of: 1 battleship, 1 cruiser, 1 destroyer, 1 submarine, 1 P.T. boat, and one aircraft carrier". That "second aircraft carrier" presumably measured-in at less than the star attraction's "2/3's of a foot long!" Color ad on back cover.