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Issue: Ballyhoo #1
Publication Date: August 1931
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Issues: #1 of 86 Issues (89 Printings)
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Publisher: FlagDell
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Indicia Publisher: Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: 07/03/1931
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
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Price: $0.15 USD
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Content Items: 54 (7 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Full Color Cover; Black and White Interior
Dimensions: Magazine Size
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Binding: Saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: Was Ongoing
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Notice to Advertisers

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Synopsis: Ballyhoo predicts it will have a circulation of 5 billion by 1939.
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Keep Kissable... with Old Colds

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Nobiloil Stands Up

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B. O. Cheated Her Out of Popularity...

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When the Open Road Tires You...

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First Line: And don't pay more'n four bucks a pint.
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First Line: Seen a dog called 'Rover'?
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First Line: One more subscription, an' I'd been a college man.
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Sweet Are the Uses of Adversity

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First Line: I'll be right through, officer; I must have gotten off the course.
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First Line: Now, if I can think of a hard luck story.
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First Line: Well, who said I was any Marlene Dietrich!
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First Line: Check your hat outside, mister, an' save dough!
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First Line: Lend me your copy of 'House Beautiful', Jonesy.
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First Line: This is a Gemini day, and good fortune will befall us.
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First Line: Oh it's great to make love in Venice!
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We Nominate for Oblivion

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Synopsis: Ballyhoo calls for other popular magazines to be abolished.
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First Line: Aw, be yourself!
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First Line: Oh, pardon me, old man, this is Miss Zilch.
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Puzzle Picture Find the Crook

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First Line: Sir! You're speaking of the woman I love!
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First Line: We now have a new type of humor.
Synopsis: Deconstructing telephone booth jokes by suggesting different outcomes.
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How Long Shall We Stand for It?

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Features the Ballyhood masthead with fictional editorial credits given to various people with the surname 'Zilch.'
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First Line: Pop, was Lincoln tryin' to muscle in on Booth's racket?
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First Line: Gosh, Ma, you been cuttin' the cocoa again!
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Statue Stops Policeman

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First Line: I wish I could thank you all individually.
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First Line: I'm glad Daddy isn't about.
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First Line: So delighted you called, Mrs. Gadder.
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Manhattan Madness

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First Line: She dances with beers in her eyes.... yet she has 'athlete's brain'
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Lox Toilet Soap

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First Line: Sleeping 'like a baby' is wrong, motion picture cameras prove -
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He Wears a Spar Tie

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For Your Inconvenience

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Synopsis: Readers interested in a subscription to Ballyhoo must submit answers to a questionnaire about their personal lives.
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Miniature Crossword Golf

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Don't Rasp Your Wife's Throat with Harsh Irritants

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