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Issue: Beetle Bailey #64

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Publication Date: November 1967

Issue #64
- #54
- #55
- #56
- #57
- #58
- #59
- #60
- #61
- #62
- #63
- ✓ #64
- #65
- #66
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Issues: #64 of 13 Issues (17 Printings)

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Variant: British

Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Publisher: Flag

King Features

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Indicia Publisher: King Features Syndicate Inc.

On Sale Date: (not set)

Volume: none

Pages: 36

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Price: 10.0 pence GBQ 0-0-10

Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
12 (9 stories, 1 cover) from base issue

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Notes: Per the book "The Charlton Companion" by Jon B. Cooke (TwoMorrows Publishing, 2022 p.186) "By 1960, Bob Gustafson settled in for a long stay writing and penciling Beetle Bailey comic books (with inks by [Mort] Walker studio stalwart Frank Johnson) even as it passed from Dell to Gold Key to King Comics and then Charlton."

By 1975, Greg Walker (son of Beetle Bailey creator Mort Walker) began working on the Beetle Bailey title, taking over from Gustafson completely around October 1976 "...with some of Gustafson's stories continuing to be used after that". Gustafson moved over to the newspaper strip writing for and otherwise assisting Mort Walker. (ibid. p. 186)

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: Color

Dimensions: Standard Silver Age US

Paper Stock: Glossy cover; Newsprint interior

Binding: Saddle-stitched

Publishing Format: Was ongoing

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Beetle Bailey #64 [unnamed variant]

Beetle Bailey #64 [British]

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Content Items (12 total)

One Ball, Stew Strikes

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

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Genres: humorous, military

Character(s): Beetle Bailey; Sarge Snorkel; Cookie

Synopsis: Beetle's ratty unwound baseball has landed in Cookie's stewpot.

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Pages: 1

That's Show Biz!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Genres: humorous, military

Character(s): Beetle Bailey; Killer Diller; Sarge Snorkel; Captain Filter; Otis (Captain Filter's aide); General Halftrack; Captain Scabbard

First Line: Keep a sharp lookout for Sarge, Beetle... I gotta give my aching back a rest!

Synopsis: To get out of a physically tough detail, Killer and Beetle plan to volunteer for a special assignment as divers for Captain Filter.

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Pages: 8

Laughing Loser!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Genres: humorous, military

Character(s): Beetle Bailey; Killer Diller; General Halftrack; Captain Scabbard

First Line: Sarge! We want to talk to --

Synopsis: General Halftrack tells an angry Captain Scabbard to be a good sport about the GIs putting on a show that lampoons officers... until he sees Beetle clownishly dressed as the general himself.

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Pages: 4

The Therapist

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Genres: humorous, military

Character(s): Sarge Snorkel; Cosmo; two unnamed soldiers

First Line: This is what you need, Sarge.

Synopsis: Cosmo softens-up Sarge with a tranquil nature walk before revealing his clandestine card game.

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Notes: Feature is actually billed as "Sarge Snorkel and Cosmo".

Partner's Choice

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Genres: humorous, military

Character(s): Beetle Bailey; Bunny Piper (Beetle's girlfriend)

First Line: We always do what I want to do on our dates, Bunny - tonight YOU think of something.

Synopsis: Beetle offers to let Bunny pick the activity for their date, but ultimately winnows down all her choices to playing pool - which Beetle wanted from the start.

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Notes: Bunny achieves some billing for this story, as it reads "featuring Bunny Piper".

Now Get Your Favorite King Comics Every Month! Next month --- every month--- look for all-new issues

Promotional Material (from Publisher) on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Feature(s): King Comics

Character(s): Popeye the Sailor; The Sea Hag; Flash Gordon; The Phantom; Mandrake the Magician (all seen on a photograph of a "King Paks" comic book retail display box)

First Line: Look for them in money-saving King Paks

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Pages: 1

Notes: King Comics house ad for its plastic-bagged "King Paks", which offered three 12-cent comic books for 29¢ for a savings of seven-cents per pack. Middle right page of centerfold.

Comics offered were Blondie, Beetle Bailey, Popeye, Flash Gordon, The Phantom, and Mandrake the Magician.

This would seem to be a lesser-known forerunner of the Whitman plastic bagged three-packs of the 1970s and 1980s, and similar to the "DC Comicpacs" of 1962 which offered a less enticing four 12-cent comic books for 47¢. https://tiahblog.blogspot.com/2019/08/adventures-in-comic-boxing-dcs-got-it.html

The cover of Popeye the Sailor (King Features, 1966 Series) #85 (April 1967) is seen in the photograph of the King Paks display. Art is by Bud Sagendorf.

The ad closes with "The World's Greatest Comics at the World's Best Price!".

Blip's Pet Pest

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Genres: humorous

Character(s): Moose Miller; Molly Miller; Blip Miller; Duke (dog); cat; rare spotted swink (strange hopping, pig-snouted animal)

First Line: Good heavens! What IS it, Blip!

Synopsis: Blip brings home a new pet... a purple furry, pig-snouted hopping animal with a voracious appetite. Molly decides the pet must go and leaves it to Moose to take it to a pet shop.

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Pages: 4

Notes: First comic book appearance of the "Moose Miller" feature, a syndicated comic strip begun in 1965. For this issue, the feature is simply named "Moose". Cartoonist Bob Weber is credited in the feature logo.

Next appearance would be in Blondie (King Features, 1966 Series) #175 (December 1967) https://www.comics.org/issue/239286/

Military Madness

Text Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Genres: humorous, military

Feature(s): Military Madness

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Notes: Assorted military jokes.

Snorkology

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Genres: humorous, military

Character(s): Beetle Bailey; Sarge Snorkel; kid with pea shooter; librarian

First Line: Ow!

Synopsis: A mischievous kid continuously pelts Sarge with projectiles from his pea shooter. Beetle suggests that Sarge resolve the problem by reading books on child psychology, but Sarge resorts to a more old-school method.

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Pages: 4

Radio Patrol

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Genres: humorous, military

Character(s): Sarge Snorkel; Captain Scabbard

First Line: Did you see any sign of Lt. Fuzz and the rest of the truck convoy, Sarge?

Synopsis: Sarge radios for a car from Camp Swampy to pick up Captain Scabbard and himself from a mountaintop, but his walkie talkie signals go awry.

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Pages: 1

Notes: Feature is actually billed as "Sarge Snorkel and Captain Scabbard".

Feuding with Fuzz

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Genres: humorous, military

Character(s): Beetle Bailey; Sarge Snorkel; Captain Scabbard; Lt. Fuzz; Killer Diller; Zero

First Line: Sarge! Lieutenant Fuzz is lost!

Synopsis: Sarge rescues Lt. Fuzz from a quicksand pit but does it in his own way.

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Pages: 4

Notes: GOOD BIT: Sarge reflexively shows his contempt for Lt. Fuzz, even in an emergency situation:

BEETLE: "Sarge! Lieutenant Fuzz is lost!"
SARGE: "Good! Er... I mean good heavens!"

Hey Kids! Send for this Moose Decal for Your Own Personal Use!

Advertisement (Comic Format) on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Genres: humorous

Character(s): Moose Miller; Molly Miller; Blip Miller; cat

First Line: Put them on toys, drinking glasses, windshields, book covers, bikes -- just about everything!

Synopsis: Moose and Blip hawk stick-on decals featuring their family of characters.

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Pages: 1

Notes: Ad offering Moose stick-on decals for 10¢, and 10¢ for each additional decal. On final interior page of the comic.