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Issue: Four Color #229
Publication Date: May 1949
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Issues: #229 of 1333 Issues (1484 Printings)
Title: Smokey Stover
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagDell
Brand: A Dell ComicView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Dell Publishing Co.
On Sale Date: 04/05/1949
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 12 (10 stories, 2 covers)
Editor(s): ?
Disclose Notes: Indicia title is "SMOKEY STOVER, No. 229. Code number is S.S.O.S. #229-495. Copyright 1946, 1949 by News Syndicate Co, Inc. On-sale date is publication date in Catalog of Copyright Entries, 1949 Pamphlets, page 293. Contains Smokey Stover and Spooky newspaper strip reprints from 1946.

Final issue of Four Color devoted to Smokey Stover.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age U.S.; standard Silver Age U.S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): Bill Holman
Penciller(s): Bill Holman
Inker(s): Bill Holman
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Bill Holman
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Smokey Stover; Spooky
Character(s): Smokey Stover; Spooky (cat)
Reprinting
Reprint Notes: from Spooky (News Syndicate Co.) Sunday strip from 1946; from Smokey Stover (News Syndicate Co.) Sunday strip from 1946 (one panel enlarged)
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Large panel from Smokey Stover Sunday with reprint of Spooky Sunday topper at bottom. Panel is from the fifth page of the Smokey Stover reprints in the comic.
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Puttin' (ink blots) on the Dog

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic, humorous
Character(s): Smokey Stover; Sparks the firedog; Spooky (cat); Fenwick Flooky; boy
First Line: Inky dinky parlay foo
Synopsis: Smokey uses Sparks the firedog as an ink-blotter. Spooky gets milk out of a sealed bottle.
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: The main cover illustration is a modified version of the final panel of the Smokey Stover Sunday strip appearing on interior page five of this issue. Cookie Stover at the far left is cut off, while the panel is extended to the right to include Spooky the Cat climbing the (originally out of frame) lamp base and singing "Inky dinky parlay foo". The extension is clearly not by Bill Holman, as neither Spooky, nor the "gloved lamp base" look wacky enough to pass for Holman's uniquely styled art. A Western staff artist appears to have drawn the added material for the cover.

A "Spooky" topper-strip appears (oddly) at the bottom of this cover. This Spooky strip serves as visual evidence that the cover illustration of the cat (above) was not drawn by Holman.

The 1949 copyright registration says the new material is an illustration by Daniel Gormley.
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Tasty Painting / The House-cleaner

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bill Holman
Penciller(s): Bill Holman
Inker(s): Bill Holman
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Bill Holman
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Spooky
Character(s): Spooky (cat);
Synopsis: Two half-page strips: (top) Spooky eats the paint off a painting of a bowl of milk. (bottom) Spooky's owner attaches a carpet sweeper to Spooky so he can clean the floors while chasing mice.
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Reprint Notes: from Spooky (News Syndicate Co.) Sunday strips from 1946.
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover; black, red, and white.
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Edible Art

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic, humorous
Character(s): Spooky (cat); Fenwick Flooky
Synopsis: Spooky eats the paint off a painting of a bowl of milk.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes: from Spooky (News Syndicate Co.) Sunday strips from 1946.
Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: Pantomime. Black, white, and red on inside front cover. Top half of page.
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Carpet Sweeper Spooky

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic, humorous
Character(s): Spooky (cat); Fenwick Flooky; mouse
First Line: Gosh, I hate housework, it wears me out!
Synopsis: Spooky's owner attaches a carpet sweeper to Spooky so he can clean the floors while chasing mice.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes: from Spooky (News Syndicate Co.) Sunday strips from 1946.
Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: Black, white, and red on inside front cover. Lower half of page.
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various

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Smokey Stover; Chief Cash U. Nutt; Spooky (cat); Cookie Stover (Smokey's wife); Mayor Dinkdipper
Reprinting
Reprint Notes: from Smokey Stover (News Syndicate Co.) Sunday newspaper strips from 1946 (32 different strips)
Miscellaneous
Pages: 32
Disclose Notes: 32 Sunday Smokey Stover Strips from 1946.
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Spooky and the Cow / The Coo-Coo Clock

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bill Holman
Penciller(s): Bill Holman
Inker(s): Bill Holman
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Bill Holman
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Spooky
Character(s): Spooky (cat)
Synopsis: Two half-page strips: (top) When his owner breaks a bottle of milk, Spooky brings him a cow. (bottom) Spooky's owner puts a coo-coo clock in a bird cage to keep Spooky away from it.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes: from Spooky (News Syndicate Co.) Sunday strips from 1946.
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover; black, red, and white.
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Spooky Delivers Milk

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic, humorous
Character(s): Spooky (cat); Fenwick Flooky; cow
First Line: Holy cats! I dropped th' milk and every store in town is closed today!
Synopsis: With no milk in the house, Spooky brings home a cow.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes: from Spooky (News Syndicate Co.) Sunday strips from 1946.
Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: Black, white, and red on inside back cover. Top half of page.
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Fence Inside House / The Fishbowl

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bill Holman
Penciller(s): Bill Holman
Inker(s): Bill Holman
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Bill Holman
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Spooky
Character(s): Spooky (cat)
Synopsis: two half-page strips: (top) Spooky's owner builds a fence in his bedroom so Spooky will stay indoors. (bottom) Spooky tries to get into a fishbowl but it falls through a window onto his owner's head.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes: from Spooky (News Syndicate Co.) Sunday strips from 1946.
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover.
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The Cat and the Coo-Coo Clock

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic, humorous
Character(s): Spooky (cat); Fenwick Flooky
First Line: Spooky! Get away from there!
Synopsis: Spooky tries to catch the cuckoo in a cuckoo clock.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes: from Spooky (News Syndicate Co.) Sunday strips from 1946.
Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: Black, white, and red on inside back cover. Lower half of page.
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Cat on a Hot Wood Fence

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic, humorous
Character(s): Spooky (cat); Fenwick Flooky
First Line: Doggone that cat - I told him to stay in the house!
Synopsis: Spooky's owner builds a fence in his bedroom so the fence-sitting cat will stay indoors at night.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes: from Spooky (News Syndicate Co.) Sunday strips from 1946.
Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: Color on back cover. Top half of page.
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Fishbowl Faux-Pas

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic, humorous
Character(s): Spooky (cat); Fenwick Flooky; two fish in a bowl
First Line: I'll see you later, Spooky - You keep outa mischief while I'm at the banquet!
Synopsis: Spooky tries to get into a fishbowl but it falls through a window onto his owner's head.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes: from Spooky (News Syndicate Co.) Sunday strips from 1946.
Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: Color on back cover. Lower half of page.

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