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Issue: Riggin' Bill #1
Publication Date: January 1944
 
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Publisher: FlagRemington Morse
Indicia Publisher: Remington Morse
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 84 (48 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
Disclose Notes: Entire book created and produced by Harry "A" Chesler Jr. Features Syndicate.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: digest
Paper Stock: newsprint
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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3 Cheers for the Navy

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Gus Ricca ?
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Riggin' Bill
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Aren't you carrying this 'V for Victory' campaign too far, Mr. Ricca?
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Reference to Gus Ricca, Chesler studio art director. However, the artwork doesn't look like his.
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Riggin' Bill

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
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Introduction to the Riggin' Bill magazine.
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Riggin' Bill was a Popeye-like humorous sailor character in Chesler comics of the late 1930s but this version is completely revised into a more handsome member of the U.S. Navy.
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Riggin' Bill
I'd like an estimate on a flight deck!
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Riggin' Bill--That's Me!
Don't get sore because I gave you a stand-up last night
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This feature is constructed as a series of letters from Riggin' Bill to several young women (and their replies to him).
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Riggin' Bill--That's Me!
Listen, you surf-board sailor
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Riggin' Bill
Riggin' Bill
Dear Mom, Monday I had nothing to do
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Riggin' Bill--That's Me!
Despite what happened at your party yesterday
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Riggin' Bill
Riggin' Bill
A.C. or D.C.?
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Aviation

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Riggin' Bill--That's Me!
Meeting you during the launching ceremonies
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Riggin' Bill
Riggin' Bill
Ready! Aim! Fire!
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Riggin' Bill--That's Me!
The guy who wrote the song
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Joe Beck
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Riggin' Bill
Riggin' Bill
You and your cozy little staterooms!
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Bar Flies

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Riggin' Bill--That's Me!
I hear that when ships pass the one you are on
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Riggin' Bill
What's in the package?
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Riggin' Bill--That's Me!
I have just seen your new picture
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Joe Beck
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Not stout, dearie
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Bar Flies

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Riggin' Bill--That's Me!
If the muscles in that snapshot of you
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Riggin' Bill
Riggin' Bill
Hey sailor!!
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Riggin' Bill--That's Me!
When I kept falling off the horse
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Riggin' Bill
Sorry sailor boy, but I've been here before!
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Clothes

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Riggin' Bill--That's Me!
You poor, dear boy!
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And what can you do?
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Riggin' Bill--That's Me!
if you have any more bubbles in the tank
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Joe Beck
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Riggin' Bill
Riggin' Bill
Every time I get shore leave
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Riggin' Bill--That's Me!
Every time I began to hear wedding bells
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Riggin' Bill
Riggin' Bill
I'll save him, cap!
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Riggin' Bill--That's Me!
I know you will be surprised to hear
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Riggin' Bill
Riggin' Bill
But Bill, must we go thru life
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Riggin' Bill--That's Me!
I am sending this letter air-mail
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Riggin' Bill
Riggin' Bill
What's that?
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Riggin' Bill--That's Me!
I know you are wondering why I didn't report for duty
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Joe Beck
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Riggin' Bill
Riggin' Bill; butler; rich lady
A dollar for your service, sir
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Riggin' Bill--That's Me!
The bag of skin and bones
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Riggin' Bill
Riggin' Bill; doctor
Ouch! What a pain!
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Riggin' Bill--That's Me!
I got a copy of a New York paper
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Joe Beck
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Riggin' Bill
It's Main 2-700
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Riggin' Bill--That's Me!
Unhappily I was unable to spend much time with you
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Riggin' Bill
Riggin' Bill; railroad porter
Did you shine my shoes last night?
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Riggin' Bill--That's Me!
Now that you're in charge of more Waves
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Joe Beck
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Riggin' Bill
Riggin' Bill
One nice thing about our staterooms
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Riggin' Bill--That's Me!
There was much excitement here today
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Riggin' Bill
Riggin' Bill; chief petty officer
Chief, the boys want me to give you this little gift!
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Riggin' Bill--That's Me!
My press agent has just given birth
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Riggin' Bill
Riggin' Bill; Betty
But Betty, if I'd only brought you the flowers
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Riggin' Bill--That's Me!
You will be surprised to hear from me
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Riggin' Bill
Riggin' Bill
Now I'll imitate something and you guess what
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Riggin' Bill--That's Me!
This letter is going by special delivery
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Joe Beck
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Riggin' Bill
Riggin' Bill
I hate maneuvers in the tropics
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Riggin' Bill--That's Me!
Little did you think when I slipped that diamond ring on your finger
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Riggin' Bill
Riggin' Bill
S'wonderful how mortar binds all those bricks together!
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Riggin' Bill--That's Me!
The rumor at the Brooklyn Navy Yard
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That romance won't last long!
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Riggin' Bill--That's Me!
What happened to me shouldn't happen to a dog
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Riggin' Bill
Riggin' Bill; chief petty officer
I told you a thousand times no smoking
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Riggin' Bill--That's Me!
I have a tale of woe to unfold
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Riggin' Bill
Riggin' Bill
Cut the star gazing, Bill
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Riggin' Bill--That's Me!
The lumps on your face
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Riggin' Bill
Riggin' Bill; old lady; maid; little girl
Oh baby!
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Riggin' Bill--That's Me!
Yesterday afternoon I asked the floor-walker
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Riggin' Bill
Riggin' Bill
Bill! Wake up!
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Riggin' Bill--That's Me!
When you read this, the one who loved you all
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Riggin' Bill
Riggin' Bill
I wonder?
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Riggin' Bill
Riggin' Bill; officer
Some night that was, eh sailor?
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Riggin' Bill
Bill says I'm irresistable
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Riggin' Bill
Riggin' Bill; Dot
I'd gladly die for you, Dot
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If He's in the Service send him this Military Diary

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A Man O' War and Two Destroyers

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Riggin' Bill
Riggin' Bill; two young women
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