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Nancy and Fritzi Ritz

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Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Nancy

Character(s): Nancy; Sluggo Smith

First Line: How to do the minuet.

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Pages: 1

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Feature(s): Lytle Novelty Co.

First Line: Kids! Kids! Kids! Adults too! World War II souvenirs.

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Pages: 1

Notes: This ad offered realistic solid-cast aluminum reproduction pistols for $1.25, including (pictured) an Italian 7.65 Brevetta and a German 9mm Lugar.

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Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Fritzi Ritz

Character(s): Fritzi Ritz; Phil Fumble

First Line: Do you think it's really haunted, Phil?

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Reprint Notes: from Fritzi Ritz Sunday (United Feature Syndicate), 194X-XX-XX - 194X-XX-XX.

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Pages: 11

Notes: This feature reprints one Sunday strip per page, on the top half of pages 3-7, and 8-25. A first line is provided, above, only for the first strip in the sequence.

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Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Nancy

Character(s): Nancy; Sluggo Smith; Fritzi Ritz; Woofy

First Line: When can I come out of the corner?

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Reprint Notes: from Nancy Sunday (United Feature Syndicate), 194X-XX-XX - 194X-XX-XX.

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Pages: 11

Notes: This feature printed one Sunday strip per page, at the bottom half of pages 3-7 and 8-25. A first line is provided, above, only for the first strip in the sequence.

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Feature(s): Scoopy

Character(s): Sccopy; Mary-Anne

First Line: I'd do anything you'd ask of me, Mary-Anne . . .

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Pages: 0.5

Notes: This ad in the form of a comic strip is designed to promote United Features Syndicate titles Tip Top Comics and Sparkler Comics.

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Feature(s): Kellogg's Krumbles

First Line: Get this tested winter bird feeding station

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Pages: 0.5

Notes: This ad offers the reader a winter bird feeding station in return for 25¢ and one Kellogg's Krumbles boxtop.

Covers Without Stamps

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Genres: non-fiction

Feature(s): Stamp Tips

First Line: The most interesting material for stamp collectors these days are the covers which tell many stories and which give beauty and individuality to a collection.

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Pages: 2

Notes: This column runs down the inside halves of two opposing pages, and is surrounded on the outer halves by a variety of classified ads for stamp collecting products and related paraphernalia.

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Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Nancy

Character(s): Nancy; Sluggo; Fritzi Ritz; Mr. Sputter; Mrs. Sputter; Sluggo's Fife and Drum Corps

First Line: Oh, Mrs. Sputter, I have to go out of town for a few days - - -

Synopsis: Babysitting Nancy proves to be too much for her exasperated neighbors.

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Pages: 7

Notes: Mr. and Mrs. Sputter seem to have a more than passing resemblance to Dagwood and Blondie Bumstead.

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Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Nancy

Character(s): Nancy; Sluggo; Fritzi Ritz; unnamed neighborhood children and adults

First Line: Boy! Ya sure washed him nice and clean!

Synopsis: While also trying to keep cool on a hot summer's day, Nancy and Sluggo compete at making money from a variety of start-up business ventures, including washing pets, giving 'taxi rides' via push cart, and offering advice.

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Pages: 6

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Genres: humorous

First Line: Jones feels badly about having twins.

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Pages: 0.33

Notes: This untitled column of jokes runs down the middle third of the page, surrounded on both sides by a variety of classified ads.

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Pages: 0.67

Notes: Two columns of classified ads from a variety of vendors surrounds the jokes column from sequence 9, which runs down the center of the page. Products and advertisers include:

* Pluto flashlight, The Tugee Company of Los Angeles,
* "How to make money with simple cartoons," Cartoonists' Exchange of Pleasant Hill, OH,
* 'Around the world for 10¢' world stickers, Travelers Club of Cleveland, OH,
* Electric light jazz bow tie and Gizzlin' Charlie mystery drinking bird, Bernard Fine Co. of New York City,
* Skin cream, Scientific Creations Company of Indianapolis,
* Book of Magic with 'over 100 tricks,' Trix of Los Angeles,
* 'Song poems wanted,' Five Star Music Masters of Boston,
* Western star pictures, Screen Art Pictures of Chicago.

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Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Nancy

Character(s): Nancy; Sluggo; Fritzi Ritz; Bob (Fritzi's date); Ted (Fritzi's other date); an unnamed school teacher; unnamed school children

First Line: Sluggo — it's a pleasure to see you working so hard this early in the term!

Synopsis: Sluggo daydreams of dating Fritzi Ritz, and even seems to beat out rival suiters for the role, but gives up and goes back to Nancy when it becomes clear 'dating' her aunt means an endless draft to household chores.

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Pages: 7

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Feature(s): Johnson Smith & Co.

First Line: 3-in-1 air pistol, $3.49

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Pages: 0.33

Notes: In addition to the featured pistol, the ad for this Detroit-based company offers a variety of shooting implements, ammunition, and supplies.

The Blind Postman

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Genres: non-fiction

Feature(s): Strange as It Seems

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Pages: 0.67

Notes: Single panel illustration tells the story of blind man Owen Jones, who served as a postal carrier in Brigham City, Utah, for 25 years. The panel also has an unrelated inset about how much electricity it takes to make one pound of aluminum (the same as used by 'the average home in over three days!'

Advice to Comic Readers for Bad Skin

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Feature(s): New York Skin Laboratory

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Pages: 1

Notes: A full page of text (with seemingly as many words as in the entire rest of the book) extolls the social horrors of a poor complexion, along with the pressing need to pay $2 for the 'double Viderm skin treatment' — meaning one jar of Viderm Skin Cleanser and one of Viderm Fortified Medicated Skin Cream. Accompanying this medical novella are headshots of four Middle America kids who look surprisingly chipper given the pimpley parhiahood said to await them come puberty.

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Letterer(s): TYpeset

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Feature(s): National Radio Institute

First Line: I will show you how to learn radio by practicing in spare time [sic]

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Pages: 1

Notes: This ad offers the 64-page booklet, 'How To Be a Success in Radio Television Electronics," plus one free lesson from a the Pioneer Home Study Radio School correspondence course on electrons.

The gentleman in the photo at the top of the page is presumably the director of the Washington, D.C.-based National Radio Institute, 'Mr. J. E. Smith.'

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Feature(s): American Seed Co.

First Line: Boys! Girls! Prizes Given

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Pages: 1

Notes: This back cover ad displays the many items that can be earned by selling packets of seeds for American Seed Co of Lancaster, PA. Chief among them (displayed prominently in the center of the page surrounded by all the other wonders) is a Daisy Red Ryder 1,000-shot carbine air rifle. Touting the rifle is clip art of Red Ryder with the signature of his creator, Fred Harman.