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Issue: Calling All Kids #9 Public Domain
Publication Date: June 1947
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Issues: #9 of 26 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagParents' Magazine Press
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Quality Comics, Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 18 (8 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Beatrice Lewi
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color
Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U. S.
Paper Stock: Glossy cover; Newsprint interior
Binding: Saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Character(s): Twinkle; Marco Polar Bear; Bobby Beaver; Pug
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Pages: 1
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Calling All Kids

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Character(s): Twinkle; King Numpit; Wellington Wolf
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover. Parts of panels from the issue with the note "turn the pages to find these friends in color."
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Vic Herman ?
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Feature(s): Twinkle The Star That Came Down from Heaven
Character(s): Twinkle; Eliot Caterpillar; Mr. West Wind; Jack Frost
First Line: Twinkle is wondering what is going on among his Earth friends...
Synopsis: Twinkle gets Jack Frost to help the Caterpillar family when the stream threatens to flood their house.
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Pages: 6
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Thumbelina

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Thumbelina; Mrs. Field Mouse; Mr. Mole; the Swallow; The King
Synopsis: A fairy gives a lonely old woman a seed that grows a bloom that contains a tiny girl. A beetle steals Thumbelina away, but abandons her. She seeks refuge in the house of Mrs. Field Mouse, who tries to get her to marry wealthy Mr. Mole. Thumbelina saves a nearly frozen swallow and when spring comes, the bird flies her to the kingdom of the flowers where she marries the King and lives happily ever after.
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Marco Polar Bear and the Mexican Jumping Beans

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: anthropomorphic
Feature(s): Marco Polar Bear
Character(s): Marco Polar Bear; Bobby Beaver
Synopsis: Marco and Bobby take their magic linoleum rug to Mexico, where they learn facts about the country and its people.
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The Kingdom That Was Damp

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): Christine Gittings (credited)
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Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Character(s): King Numpit; Snickerchee; Humptee the Hobgoblin
Synopsis: King Numpit of Gnomeland has to find a way to buy a drier cave when his subjects protest living in their damp underground kingdom.
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Pages: 3
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What Do You Like?

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Marco's Puzzle Page

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Feature(s): Marco Polar Bear
Character(s): Marco Polar Bear; Bobby Beaver
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Half the page is a coloring puzzle, the other half is a "find the hidden image" cartoon.
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Toy Revue

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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Centerfold. "Review" of nine toys with illustration, description, price and company. Unclear if this is a shopping guide for parents or are paid advertisements.
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Wellington Wolf Goes to the Circus

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: anthropomorphic
Feature(s): Wellington Wolf
Character(s): Wellington Wolf
Synopsis: Wellington hitches a ride on a circus train to their winter quarters in Florida, but after getting worked over by the circus animals decides he'd rather go back north.
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Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: Bottom one-sixth of pages two and three of the story are mail-in coupons for subscriptions to Calling All Kids (page 2) and six Parents' Magazine Press comics titles (page 3).
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The Little Tin Soldier

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Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Feature(s): Wonder Tales
Character(s): Freckles (host); Ann
Synopsis: A tin soldier admires a paper doll. The soldier is blown off the window sill where he ends up swallowed by a fish that is caught and brought back to his original home. The boy of the house decides he doesn't want the dirty soldier and throws it into the fire. The wind blows the paper doll into the fire and they perish together. Freckles, a little boy who is the narrator, then tells a version of the tale that has a happier ending.
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Critter Page

Activity  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): Ellen Simon (credited)
Penciller(s): Ellen Simon
Inker(s): Ellen Simon
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Suggestions for making animals from scraps such as thread spools and pipe cleaners.
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The Brave Heroes

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Feature(s): Pug and Curly
Character(s): Pug; Curly
Synopsis: The squirrels, Pug and Curly, use a doll buggy to retrieve a girl's doll that has fallen down the hill. However, the squirrels then need to be rescued from the runaway buggy by the girl's father.
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Pages: 4.5
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Do You Know?

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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Marco Polar Bear
Character(s): Marco Polar Bear; Bobby Beaver
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Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: Riddles submitted by readers Rodney Larson; Marilyn Brynes; Kim Irvine; Bob Frazier; and Martha Anne Cameron.
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I Want to Come to Your House

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Parents' Magazine Press
Character(s): Marco Polar Bear; Bobby Beaver
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Promo for subscriptions to Calling All Kids; Polly Pigtails, True Comics; Calling All Boys; Calling All Girls; and Varsity magazine. With mail-in coupon.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Edd Ashe
Inker(s): Edd Ashe
Colorist(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: childrens
Feature(s): Buffkin
Character(s): Buffkin; Uncle Clem; Rueben the Scarecrow
First Line: Poor Buffkin! He's always doing the wrong thing...
Synopsis: Buffkin tries to help on his Uncle Clem's farm, but always gets in trouble.
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Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: Edd Ashe identified as artist of this feature by Jerry Bails.
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Just the Kind of Stories You Like Best!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Feature(s): Parents' Institute, Inc.
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Disclose Notes: Inside back cover. Promo for the What-Every-Child-Should-Know Library in six volumes. $8 cash with mail-in coupon or $1 per month for nine months.
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What a Hit!

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Baby Ruth; Curtiss Candy Company
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Disclose Notes: Back cover. Ad for Baby Ruth candy bars.

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