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Issue: Dinky Duck #8
Publication Date: February 1954
 
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Publisher: FlagSt. John
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Indicia Publisher: St. John Publishing Co.
On Sale Date: 1953
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
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Content Items: 12 (7 stories, 1 cover)
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Disclose Notes: "No subscriptions accepted" in indicia. In addition to the publisher’s address, the indicia also lists an address for “Terrytoons, Inc.”, 38 Centre Ave., New Rochelle, N.Y.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing
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Schematic for a Good Ski-Medic

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Dinky Duck; Rudy Rooster
Dinky anticipates Rudy’s inevitable skiing accident, by skiing behind him with a med-kit.
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Musical Whirling Angel Chimes

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Illinois Merchandise Mart
Authentic replica of original "Swedish Singing Angels" centerpiece
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Ad for a metal candle holder adorned by metal angles striking chimes, for which “heat from lighted candles makes angels revolve continuously”. Only $1.98 complete with candles. Black and white ad on inside front cover.
Hi-Jinks

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Dinky Duck; Rudy Rooster; Jake (jewel robber); Reggie (jewel robber); Biddy Bantam (high society hen); Biddy Bantam's party guests; police officer
Golly, that airplane sounds like it's having motor trouble!
Two jewel robbers plan to use a radio-controlled small plane to rob a high-hen-society party. They didn't count on amateur detectives Dinky and Rudy.
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Rudy Lights Up

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Dinky Duck; Rudy Rooster; teacher
In the school play, you've got to hold a cigar. Can you get one?
Rudy learns that there are more unpleasant types of cigars than just the exploding variety.
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Caught By the Camera

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Little Roquefort; Percy Puss; man of the house; lady of the house
I've got the movie camera all set up to shoot the pictures of us making like actors, Dear!
Percy is caught on movie camera film eating the humans' food.
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Living Dangerously

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Dinky Duck; Fluff; Puff (two chicks); Cheeky Gopher; Chesty; Farmer Gray
Brrr! That wind's cold!
When a sudden snow hits, Dinky and Cheeky Gopher build a sled but disagree on every aspect of the endeavor, from construction to steering. Chesty and Farmer Gray each intervene, with very different approaches to making peace.
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An odd sort of story, giving Dinky an essentially "new cast" (including Chesty the bulldog from the Heckle and Jeckle feature), as opposed to his usual antics with Rudy Rooster, yet retaining the familiar farm setting with the presence of Farmer Gray. It's also more of an "unfolding character piece" of different (and sometimes disjointed) events, rather than a typical outing that builds toward a gag-climax. Given its generally softer tone, and less strident approach to gags, one might say this was more of a "text story" presented as a "comic story".
Fit To Be Tied

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Dinky Duck; ostrich; customers
Dinky finds an eye-catching way to display the ties he's selling.
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Pantomime. This is a gag that is very typical of Vic Lockman's later years with Dell and Gold Key Comics.
Coo-Coo About Corn

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Dinky Duck; Rudy Rooster; Harold Horse; Dotty Duck; Wise Old Owl
"Package for you, Dinky!" exclaimed the mailman, Harold Horse, as he handed it to Dinky.
Dinky tries various ways to prevent Rudy from eating the delicious sweet corn the duck receives in packages from his Aunt Daphne.
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Farmer Gray's Maze

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Farmer Gray; horse; citizens of Stumpville; sleeping dog; mouse citizens of Terrytown
Farmer Gray has only a few minutes to get his load of hay to Terrytown. See if you can help him find the right road to take!
Guide Farmer Gray, his horse, and his hay wagon through a maze to Terrytown.
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Pirate Gold

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Dinky Duck; Rudy Rooster; fox
So far, that stupid duckling has managed to stay out of my oven, but I got a feelin' this fake treasure map will get him right where I want him!
A hungry fox tries to trap Dinky by having him follow a phony pirate treasure map, designed to lead the duck into various traps.
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This story features lots of cartoon slapstick violence, in blackout gag style, all of it perpetrated upon the fox while Dinky remains oblivious to the deservedly painful events going on around him.

The fake ancient treasure map the fox allows Dinky to find says, at its bottom, "Copyright 1953 [the then-current year] Made in Japan".

And while Dinky passes each of the "landmarks" that are drawn on the map, he encounters them in a different order than which they appear on the map. Even the "destination-spot-marking X" (that all treasure maps invariably have) is found in the opposite direction from the final landmark vs. the way it is seen on the map. Are all of these inconsistencies an intentional gag on the part of those clever "Terry-Tooners" to see if we're paying attention? ...Or is it just a pre-fannish-culture case of "make it up as we go along, 'cause no one'll ever look back a few pages at the map"? You decide.
Yes, Right from Detroit!

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Young Products
From the auto capitol of the world to you… comes this amazing motorcade bargain 50 cars for $1
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Ad for toy cars boasting: “Nowhere in Lilliput did Gulliver ever see anything like this! This amazing motorcade bargain includes fifty miniature motor cars: true three dimensional scale models of streamline trolleys, highway vans, delivery trucks, repair service cars, and U.S. Army planes.” The bottom 1/4 of this page is an ad, also by Young Products, for an "Amazing new watch with mechanical brain - remembers - tells time - tells date - date changes automatically every day. Compare it at $50.00 - $8.95 plus 90-cents fed. tax". Black and white ad on inside back cover.
Send for Butch the Cracker Jack Flashlight Dog with Key Chain Leash

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Cracker Jack
Yours for one Cracker Jack box label and 25 cents!
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Ad for Cracker Jack candy-coated popcorn with peanuts, offering a "Butch the Cracker Jack Dog" key chain flashlight, complete with a "G-E flash bulb and a Ray-O-Vac battery" for only 25-cents and a Cracker Jack box label. A "life size picture of Butch" appears in the ad, as well as instructions to "pinch Butch and a bright beam comes from his mouth". A box of Campfire Brand marshmallows ("Best tasting. Best toasting.") is also pictured at the lower right corner of the ad, though no mention of this product occurs in the ad copy! Color ad on back cover.

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