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Egg On His Face

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Dinky Duck; Rudy Rooster

Synopsis: Dinky makes a mess of juggling eggs.

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Pages: 1

Notes: New cover for an issue of reprints.

Rudy Eavesdrops

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Dinky Duck; Rudy Rooster; Dotty Duck

First Line: Here comes Dinky and his girlfriend.

Synopsis: Rudy hides in a barrel to eavesdrop on Dinky and Dotty. He shouldn't have.

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Pages: 1

Notes: Black and white on inside front cover.

Big Cleanup

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Dinky Duck; Rudy Rooster; goat; lady duck customer; laundromat owner (duck); Slippery Dan (pickpocket); cop

First Line: Oh, boy! All I have to do is sell 100 bottles of shampoo and I win the big surprise prize!

Synopsis: Starting out as rival shampoo salesmen, Dinky and Rudy team-up to foil a pickpocket plaguing a local laundromat.

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Pages: 7

Licking the Job

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Dimwit; cat

Synopsis: Dimwit takes a job as a dishwasher, but finds a cat to lick the plates clean.

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Pages: 1

Notes: Pantomime.

Papa's Kite Is a Sorry Sight

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Terry Bears; Papa

First Line: Gimme that string, boys, and let an expert show you how to fly a kite!

Synopsis: The boys have fun flying their kite, until Papa takes over.

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Cowboys Camouflage

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Dinky Duck; Rudy Rooster; Popalong Pig (cowboy movie star); Farmer Gray; Betsy (cow); cat; burglar (fox)

First Line: Please, Rudy... Let's stay and see this movie one more time!

Synopsis: Taken with Popalong Pig, a cowboy movie star, Dinky wreaks western-style havoc across Farmer Gray's farm. In the process, he routs a burglar and learns a lesson about movie idols.

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Pages: 7

Notes: George Crenshaw credit from Alberto Becattini (2020). Script resembles some of Vic Lockman's later work for Dell, Gold Key, and Whitman Comics.

Polio Precautions

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Feature(s): The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis

First Line: Gamma Globulin – obtained from human blood – gives protection for a few weeks. However, it is in VERY SHORT SUPPLY. Meanwhile – when polio is around - follow these precautions.

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Notes: A little girl, something of a cross between Little Lulu and Ernie Bushmiller’s Nancy, demonstrates the suggested precautions… “Don’t mix with new groups”, “Don’t get overtired”, “Don’t get chilled”… “But do keep clean”. Art is contained in four individual circular panels.

Chow Time

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Dinky Duck; Rudy Rooster; lion; circus trainer

First Line: Look, Rudy! I got a letter!

Synopsis: Dinky and Rudy mistake an escaped circus lion for the "chow dog" that Dinky is expecting to receive as a gift.

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Pages: 6

Over Exposed

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Feature(s): Percy Puss

Character(s): Percy Puss; Little Roquefort

First Line: There! Now when that's covered with this black cape, Little Roquefort will never know the difference!

Synopsis: Percy tries the old cartoon-standard trick of disguising a shotgun as a camera on a tripod, telling Little Roquefort “…I am going to SHOOT your picture with my special new camera!” Roquefort, who’s acted in a carton or three and knows his stuff, maneuvers Percy into position to catch the blast himself.

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Notes: George Crenshaw credit from Alberto Becattini (2020). The very same "cape" that Percy describes as "black" in the first line (above), is colored white with blue-streak highlights throughout the story.

Dimwit "Saves the Farm"

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Dimwit; Farmer Gray; Sylvester Fox; chickens

First Line: One day, Dimwit was almost completely startled out of his wits.

Synopsis: Farmer Gray employs Sylvester Fox as a hired hand to keep him from sneaking onto the farm and teasing the chickens. Dimwit is uncertain of what to make of this unusual turn of events. Eventually, though, he comes through as Farmer Gray had hoped.

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Notes: Uncharacteristic soft-pedaling is employed in this story - especially for the more rough-and-tumble time of 1953 (when this story was originally published), vs. the present day where it's become the norm. Sylvester Fox does not plan to steal the chickens, or eat them... but tease and frighten them instead. That is his only aim, supported by these quotes:

"Sylvester's reputation with chickens was a very poor one. He never missed an opportunity to tease and frighten them. It seemed to be Sylvester's chief pleasure - why, he would rather tease the chickens than do anything else!"

"With Sylvester working out in the fields, [Farmer Gray] didn't have to worry at all about his chickens being teased."

"...[Sylvester was] edging over very quietly to the chicken coop where the chickens were busy eating! If he ever frightened them now, they'd be sure to have an attack of indigestion and they wouldn't lay eggs for weeks!"

In a similar text story in Issue # 5 of this title, Sylvester Fox stole chickens with the intent of consuming them. This issue displays the “Comics Code Seal”, but the issue in which this story was originally printed (#7, 1953) was not yet subject to the code. Could the possible threat of the coming "Comics Code" be responsible for such a clear "softening" of 1953 story content?

Smart Papa

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Terry Bears; Papa; Mama; bus driver; crowd of shoppers; elevator operator; department store security guard; department store Santa

First Line: Do your Christmas shopping early (newspaper)

Synopsis: Papa thinks he can beat the crowds at Christmas shopping. He's wrong again.

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Pages: 6

The Retriever

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Sourpuss puts Gandy's retriever dog to the test.

First Line: Hi, Gandy!

Synopsis: Gandy Goose; Sourpuss; dog; cop

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Notes: Black and white on inside back cover.

Hurry!! Get a Cracker Jack Jingle Beanie

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Feature(s): Cracker Jack

First Line: Bell, on spring antenna, jingles when you walk

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Notes: Ad for Cracker Jack candy-coated popcorn with peanuts, offering a Cracker Jack Jingle Beanie hat “Yours for only 25-cents and [a] Cracker Jack box label”.

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.