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Issue: Spooky Spooktown #37
Publication Date: December 1970
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Issues: #37 of 66 Issues (111 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagHarvey
Brand: Giant Size Harvey Comics [Jack-in-the-box]View Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Harvey Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 09/15/1970
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN:
UPC/EAN:
Price: $0.25 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 21 (20 stories, 1 cover)
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Disclose Notes: On sale date from Library of Congress, Periodicals 1970.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Silver Age US; later standard Modern Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: squarebound; later saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Genres: humorous
Character(s): Spooky
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Genres: humorous
Character(s): Spooky; Poil
First Line: I think I'll stroll over to see Poil!
Synopsis: Spooky uses booing to help Poil keep her washing from getting wet.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
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Genres: humorous
Character(s): Casper; John D. Silksheets
First Line: I'm a stranger in these parts! Can you tell me whose magnificent palace that is?
Synopsis: Casper meets a rich ghost who does his scaring electronically.
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Pages: 1
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The Bygone Boo

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Genres: humorous
Character(s): Spooky; Junior; Elmo
First Line: Yes, sir! Big or small it makes no difference to me!
Synopsis: Spooky meets a young ghost who can't boo. He is unable to help him, so Spooky takes him to Elmo, who gives Junior a potion that makes him remember an incident when he was scared as an infant and decided that he would never boo.
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Pages: 5
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To Know Him is to Boo Him

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Genres: humorous
Character(s): Elmo; Spooky; Junior
First Line: It's starting to wear off!
Synopsis: Now knowing the cause of Junior's problem, Spooky manages to help him get rid of his mental block.
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Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: Story continues from "The Bygone Boo."
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Bottleland

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Genres: humorous
Character(s): Spooky; Pop Bottle; No Deposit; Liquor Bottle
First Line: Now for a moving target!
Synopsis: After breaking bottles with his boos, Spooky falls through a hole in the ground into Bottleland, where he is taught a lesson that results in his switching to tin cans to practice his boos on.
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Genres: humorous
Character(s): Spooky
First Line: I'm invincible! Nobody can stand up to my boo!
Synopsis: Spooky tries to scare a laughing hyena.
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Wendy and Herbert

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Genres: childrens, humorous
Feature(s): Wendy
Character(s): Wendy; Herbert
First Line: Golly! A head! Sleeping all by itself!
Synopsis: Wendy helps a monster find his way back to Monsterland.
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Pages: 5
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The World's Most Famous Leopard

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Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset; ?
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Genres: anthropomorphic
Feature(s): Spooky Presents
Character(s): Leopold
First Line: But leopards ARE famous!
Synopsis: Leopold the leopard wants to be famous for something other than spots.
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Pages: 0.75
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Ali-Oops

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Letterer(s): typeset; ?
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Genres: anthropomorphic
Feature(s): Spooky Presents
Character(s): Ali Cat; Mervyn Mouse
First Line: Ali Cat laughed to himself.
Synopsis: Ali Cat tries to catch Mervyn Mouse by letting him eat so much that he can't fit back through his hole.
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You're Mistaken

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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Nightmare
Character(s): Nightmare; Irving
First Line: You certainly are a happy ghost horse, Nightmare!
Synopsis: Nightmare repeatedly gets annoyed by people thinking she's something that she's not.
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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Casper
Character(s): Casper
First Line: Shucks...Spooky isn't home either!...Neither was Wendy...or Pearl!
Synopsis: Casper is forced to play baseball by himself.
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Genres: humorous
Character(s): Spooky
First Line: Ha ha! I made that tree run!
Synopsis: Spooky makes some things run that do not normally run.
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Genres: humorous
Character(s): Spooky
First Line: Oh, boy! A boo contest!
Synopsis: Spooky tries to win a turkey in a boo contest.
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Substitute Spooky

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Genres: humorous
Character(s): Spooky; Poil; Professor Hauntly; Casper; Ghostly Trio [Fatso; Fusso; Lazo]
First Line: Oh, boy! Some dame with a parasol! I'm going to scare it sky high!
Synopsis: Professor Hauntly builds a robot double of Spooky that will behave nicely around Poil while Spooky goes off scaring. But one of the Ghostly Trio hits the robot on the head and it goes berserk, behaving even worse than Spooky does.
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Genres: humorous
Character(s): Spooky
First Line: Oh, boy! A whole line of things to scare!
Synopsis: Scaring at the dump backfires on Spooky.
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Genres: humorous
Character(s): Spooky
First Line: Daily Shriek: Daring Thieves Busy at Work in Spooktown
Synopsis: Spooky tries to protect his house against thieves.
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Disclose Notes: Pantomime gag.
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Robots are Bothersome

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Genres: humorous
Character(s): Spooky; Casper; Poil
First Line: Boo! Take that, you dopey dandelion!
Synopsis: Another blow to the head makes the robot too much of a goody-goody, so Spooky puts it out of commission.
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Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: Story continues from "Substitute Spooky."
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Casper Meets Booris

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Genres: humorous
Character(s): Casper; Booris; Ghostly Trio [Fatso; Fusso; Lazo]
First Line: This book says--"Be helpful to new neighbors!"
Synopsis: Casper tries to be nice to his obnoxious new neighbor Booris.
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Hats Off

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Letterer(s): typeset; ?
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Genres: humorous
Character(s): Spooky
First Line: Things sure are quiet today, grumbled Spooky as he flew around the Enchanted Forest looking for some excitement.
Synopsis: A gnome king uses a magic machine to steal Spooky's derby.
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Pages: 1.5
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Like Any Other Girl

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Genres: childrens, humorous
Feature(s): Wendy
Character(s): Wendy; Lisa; Beth
First Line: Gee! I'd love to play with those girls, but they might get scared at my being a witch!
Synopsis: Wendy hides her broom and wand so she can play with two girls without revealing that she's a witch.
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Pages: 5

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