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Issue: Giggle Comics #5 Public Domain
Publication Date: February 1944
 
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On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 60
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 15 (13 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Gerald Albert
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US, latter issues standard Silver Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
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Title Page
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
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Subject Matter
anthropomorphic, humorous
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Miscellaneous
1
[untitled]

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
The Magazine That's Making America Roar!
House ad for Ha Ha Comics no. 5
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Only art is reproduction of cover of Ha Ha Comics no. 5. Inside front cover, black-and-white.
Nezzo

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Ken Hultgren (signed)
Ken Hultgren (signed)
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Subject Matter
anthropomorphic, humorous, jungle, nature
Nezzo the elephant
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Miscellaneous
8
Signed "K.H." in last panel.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Ken Hultgren (signed)
Ken Hultgren (signed)
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Subject Matter
anthropomorphic, humorous
The Duke and the Dope
The Duke; the Dope
Mm-mm-- Why not?
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5
Signed "K.H." in last panel. First appearance of this feature.
Busybody Bear

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Lloyd Randall
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typeset
Subject Matter
anthropomorphic, humorous
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Miscellaneous
1
Weepy Woodchuck

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
anthropomorphic, humorous
Weepie Woodchuck; Chip Chipmunk
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Miscellaneous
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Gordon Sheehan ?
Gordon Sheehan (signed)
Gordon Sheehan (signed)
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Subject Matter
anthropomorphic, humorous
Filbert Fox
Filbert Fox
And the clever fox flattered the crow's singing voice so much
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4
First appearance of this feature, although the main character would change somewhat in the future.
Byron Bunny

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Carl Wessler [as Egghead]
Carl Wessler [as Egghead]
Carl Wessler [as Egghead]
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Subject Matter
anthropomorphic, humorous
Egghead; Byron Bunny; Itch; Scratch
Cartoonist Egghead rushes to meet a deadline for his "Byron Bunny" comic book story. When he goes to sleep, the characters in the story come to life to "fix" the comic.
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Miscellaneous
6
Credited in the splash panel as "By Egghead" but signed in the last panel "Wess."
3 Boys an' a Gal

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Ken Hultgren
Ken Hultgren
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Subject Matter
anthropomorphic, humorous
A soldier (dog) and a sailor (duck) fight over the attention of a cute bird, but she introduces her husband, a Marine (bulldog).
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Dogs are consistent with the dogs in Hultgren’s signed art from Ha Ha Comics #8-9 (1944).
The Cat and the Canary

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
anthropomorphic, humorous
A canary is discarded from a pet shop because he can't sing. A cat promises to teach him, but the canary only learns how to go "Meow!"
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Miscellaneous
5
Peewee the Pup

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Buck Evans
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typeset
Subject Matter
anthropomorphic, humorous
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Miscellaneous
1
Patty Plump Buys a Present

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Ben Solomon ?
Ben Solomon (signed)
Ben Solomon (signed)
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Subject Matter
anthropomorphic, humorous
Patty Plump; Hortense
Patty Plump (a boy pig) tries to buy his girlfriend Hortense (a girl pig) a present.
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Miscellaneous
6
Doggie Dave

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Woody Gelman (signed)
Woody Gelman (signed)
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Subject Matter
anthropomorphic, humorous
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Miscellaneous
6
The Ghost of Terrible Tomcat

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
James Keane
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typeset
Subject Matter
anthropomorphic, humorous
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Miscellaneous
1
Happy Goes Hayseed

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Rube Grossman (signed)
Rube Grossman (signed)
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Subject Matter
anthropomorphic, humorous
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Miscellaneous
5
Signed in last panel.

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