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Genres: humorous

First Line: ...Yeah, that's the stuff she uses!

Synopsis: A perfume causes a sailor to collapse on the floor.

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Doris Merrick

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Feature(s): Fun Parade's Pin-Up Girl

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Notes: On inside front cover.

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Genres: humorous

Character(s): Nancy

First Line: Goodness, Nancy! Don't tease him!

Synopsis: Nancy's liferaft companion accuses her of teasing a shark with her bare leg.

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First Line: See! It's easy!

Synopsis: A train conductor demonstrates to a soldier how to kiss his girlfriend goodbye.

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Feature(s): They Kiss and Tell

First Line: What are you so mad about, you married her for better or for worse.

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First Line: Mama! There's a marine in my room!

Synopsis: A young woman is excited to have a marine in her room.

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Genres: humorous, military

First Line: Wow! Look! American cigarettes!

Synopsis: A soldier is more taken by the sight of American cigarettes than that of the beautiful woman selling them.

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First Line: According to Emily Post, one should wait until the third, or even the fourth toot!

Synopsis: Two women discusses the etiquette for responding to men who honk their car horn at them.

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Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Camp Cuties

First Line: She said, 'I got a typhoid injection last week and it hurts terribly!'

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Genres: humorous

First Line: Is this corner taken?

Synopsis: One sailor asks another if the corner he's on is available for leering at women.

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First Line: It is clear that a storm is brewing in our direction.

Synopsis: A man shows a weather pattern on a chart to his secretary, unaware that his wife has entered the room behind him.

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Feature(s): Gobs and Gals

First Line: The fatter the gal, the better I like her.

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Sailor with Woman in Sack

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Genres: humorous

Synopsis: A sailor clearly has a woman hidden in his sack.

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First Line: Next time let me do the talking, dope!

Synopsis: A sailor's parrot berates him for failing to pick up a girl.

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First Line: What size do you wear, dear?

Synopsis: A newlywed bride checks the shoes tied to her car to see if one fits the groom's feet.

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Feature(s): Capt Quip Says

First Line: Capt. Quip says the adoption of foreign babies is having its effect.

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Genres: humorous, military

First Line: -- And send up a steno pad --- darn it!

Synopsis: After his secretary hits him in the eye, an officer calls for a steno pad.

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First Line: Do we have anything in grass?

Synopsis: A clothing clerk wonders if their store has grass skirts like those worn in the south seas.

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First Line: That's Dad playing taps.

Synopsis: A woman's father, a former bugler, plays taps to make her boyfriend exit.

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Genres: humorous, military

First Line: --- And then, suddenly, he was gone.

Synopsis: A man escaped the MP's cell after obtaining a file.

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Feature(s): There's One in Every Camp!

First Line: Mail was being handed out.

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Genres: humorous, military

First Line: Some man called her while she was out and he forgot to get his name!

Synopsis: A secretary becomes irate when her superior fails to write down the name of a man who called her.

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First Line: Johnny wired he's coming in on furlough.

Synopsis: A woman takes exercises in anticipation of her boyfriend's furlough.

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First Line: One-two-three-four-five. Boy am I drunk!

Synopsis: A man sees his wife has had five babies so assumes he must be drunk.

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Feature(s): Rookie Rumors

First Line: Shakespeare's plays are swell, aren't they?

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First Line: --- But I met him in your bargain basement!

Synopsis: A woman wants a department store to exchange the man she met in their bargain basement.

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First Line: My wife is sure happy I'm back.

Synopsis: A wife is happy to have her husband home so that he can clean her dishes.

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Feature(s): Tent Topics

First Line: Who'll we dedicate our new camp song to?

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First Line: At least this time he makes sense, doesn't he?

Synopsis: A sleepwalker heads towards the WAC's barracks.

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First Line: I'd like to see a good book... a book I can bury myself in.

Synopsis: A large man wants to be buried in a book.

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First Line: Going home

Synopsis: Soldiers sing "going home" when their superior isn't paying attention.

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Feature(s): Bull Session

First Line: They say if you want to reduce you should eat only when you're not hungry.

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First Line: Just like his father -- he learned how to whistle before he could walk or talk!

Synopsis: A woman's baby can whistle just like his father.

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First Line: I'm going to marry a sailor so I might as well get used to sleeping in this!

Synopsis: A woman sleeps in a hammock because she intends to marry a sailor.

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Genres: humorous, military

First Line: May I present the leader of our guerilla armies! [sic]

Synopsis: A guerrilla army leader is a gorilla.

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First Line: Five'll get you ten that he just came in here to look around.

Synopsis: A nurse believes that an unworried man waiting in the maternity wing must not be an expectant father.

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Feature(s): What's Buzzin' Cousin?

First Line: Say, did I return your watch last week!

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First Line: I brought along my kid sister.

Synopsis: A sailor brings his kid sister on a date to distract his girlfriend's kid brother.

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First Line: He says you've bought three spears, a skull and his unmarried sister!

Synopsis: A soldier making a deal on an island is told he's bought three spears, a skull and the chief's sister.

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Genres: humorous

Character(s): Pvt. Burke

First Line: Well! Pvt. Burke -- I see you've taken a turn for the nurse!

Synopsis: Pvt. Burke is chasing after nurses, proving his condition has improved.

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Feature(s): Dr. Funnybone

First Line: Since he has been working as the doctor's assistant, Pvt. Paul always arrives late to shows...

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First Line: Now don't get excited, I've been shaving this way for two years.

Synopsis: A woman's husband has become used to shaving with a knife.

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First Line: Make up your mind ya big lump!

Synopsis: A boxer's manager tries to give him a pep talk when he's clearly about to fall unconscious.

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Feature(s): Keep 'Em Smiling

First Line: Pvt. Pete had most of his stuff in the laundry and was left with just the bare necessities.

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First Line: That doesn't worry me a bit.

Synopsis: After a sailor's girlfriend hit him the sailor maintains he always "gets off to a bad start."

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First Line: Are you the tomato that comes with the sixty cent salad?

Synopsis: A restaurant patron wonders if the tomato mentioned in the menu is the waitress.

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Shooting Cigar

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Genres: humorous, military

Synopsis: A soldier tries to shoot a comrade's cigar from his mouth. He hits his comrade instead.

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First Line: $5.00's my last price!

Synopsis: A frustrated Arab trader tells two soldiers to shop at Macy's if they don't like his prices.

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Daffy Drafty Makes a White Friend

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Genres: humorous, military

Feature(s): Daffy Drafty

Character(s): Daffy Drafty

Synopsis: Daffy gets lost returning to camp and ends up in a haunted house - but the ghost who haunts there is actually a very pleasant person.

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Feature(s): Strictly GI

First Line: What kind of sailors are they?

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First Line: Say, are you following me?

Synopsis: A woman chases a soldier to ask him if he's following her.

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First Line: - And when I said, 'I'll marry you even though you are a sergeant', he fainted!

Synopsis: A woman made her boyfriend faint by insulting his rank while accepting his proposal.

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Writer(s): ? [as Rosebrauch] (signed)

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Genres: humorous

Character(s): Joe

First Line: Joe - here's your lunch

Synopsis: In a diving suit, Joe receives his lunch lowered on a hook.

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The Brither Side

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Feature(s): Singin Strategy

First Line: Roll out the barrels

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First Line: Bring me a steak a man can sink his teeth into.

Synopsis: A female factory worker requests a steak fit for a man.

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First Line: Message from Headquarters, sir.

Synopsis: A message to a general comes back with multiple parts censored.

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Genres: humorous

Character(s): Miss Mustin; Dr. Green

First Line: Anything I can do, Miss Mustin?

Synopsis: Dr. Green believes nurse Mustin is using her position to romance patients.

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Factory Worker Changes Clothes

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Synopsis: A female factory worker donning her protective suit feels watched by a poster.

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Genres: sports

Character(s): Joe Palooka

First Line: The publishers of Green Hornet, Speed and All New proudly present Joe Palooka

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Notes: Advertisement for Joe Palooka Comics.

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First Line: Have you got everything of value now?

Synopsis: A firefighter asks someone in a burning building to collect everything needed for the paper and scrap drives.

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For Men Only?

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Feature(s): Larch Book Co.

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Notes: Advertisement for stag party joke books.

Special Offer to Lovers

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Notes: Advertisement for books about dating.

4 Fun-Packed Army + Navy Laughs Sensations!

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Notes: Advertisement for Army & Navy Fun Parade, Army & Navy Grins, Hello Buddies and Army & Navy Jokes.

Female Beauty Round the World

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Feature(s): Metro Publications

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Notes: Advertisement for the Secret Museum of Mankind.
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First Line: I'm beginning to think there's no one in there!

Synopsis: A short man in line to use a telephone begins to realize there's no one ahead of him.

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Notes: On back cover.