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Issue: Animal Comics #11 Public Domain
Publication Date: October 1944
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Issues: #11 of 30 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagDell
Brand: A Dell MagazineView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: 09/16/1944
Volume: none
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 10 (9 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Copyright 1944, by Oskar Lebeck.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age U. S.
Paper Stock: newsprint
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Uncle Wiggily; Albert the Alligator
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In Content Item: FlagThe Complete Pogo Comics #2 published January 1990
as Cover - Animal Comics #11 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Runaway Reddy

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: childrens, nature
Character(s): Reddy (the baby chick); Mrs. Mama Hen; Grasshopper
First Line: Reddy was the largest of Mrs. Hen's baby chicks.
Synopsis: A wayward chick provokes a grasshopper, gets lost in the tall grass, is alone and afraid, and cries out. Mama comes and saves him. He expresses heartfelt contrition and repentance.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: On inside front back cover in black, white and red.

Writer credit per Du Bois Account Books. Du Bois, a fundamentalist lay preacher, tells here a most basic animal fable of a child seized by fear that, sans sermon or evangelism, manages to echo both Jesus's parable of the prodigal son who returns to the fold contrite and repentant, and Jesus's likening himself to a mother hen who longs to gather her chicks under her wing.
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Uncle Wiggily's Adventure-filled Day

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Uncle Wiggily Longears; Nurse Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy; Prickly Porcupine; Growler Bear; Baby Birdies 1&2; Mrs. Mama Bird; Buggsey Bug; Two Bad Foxes
First Line: One fine morning Uncle Wiggily sets off for a hike --- almost forgetting about his rheumatism..
Synopsis: Wiggily saves Prickly from a bear-trap. Prickly saves him from Growler's stew-pot. They dine on Wiggily's cherry pie at toadstool table. A quill-prick prompts stalk-growth, lifting Wiggily aloft to feed pie to crying Baby Birdies. Prickly exits, toadstool-stalk recedes, stranding Wiggily aloft. Mrs Bird returns from grocer's, tows Wiggily off in her balloon-risen basket, joined by Buggsey. Bad Foxes hurl rocks. Sending Mrs Bird away to safety, Wiggily and Buggsey return fire with cherry pies. How now to land? A pin-prick by Buggsey, the balloon deflates, landing Wiggily right back home.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 12
Disclose Notes: Copyright 1944 Howard R. Garis.

Gaylord Du Bois writer credit per Gaylord Du Bois, page 4, Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books Sorted by Title compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott (Michigan State University Libraries 1985) 203 leaves ; 28 cm. -- Photocopy of computer printout. -- Call no.: PN6727.D77 A2S35 1985, which states: "Uncle Wiggly. 12p. For Animal Comics #12. Paid Jan. 21, 1944."

Hubbell R. McBride art credit per Michael Barrier, page 71, "Funnybooks" (UCPress 2015), which states, "The 'Uncle Wiggly' stories were drawn by Hubbell R. McBride, who was, like his Western colleagues Arthur Jameson and George Kerr, a veteran illustrator---in McBride's case, of Liberty magazine's covers."

The narrative sequences: Begin / Episode / Interlude / Episode / Interlude / Episode / End. Du Bois themes are: Friendship (making friends by being a friend through doing acts of mercy or charity); and Brains Over Brawn (overcome threats and obstacles by using wits and getting help from friends, and Providence). Each episode follows a single pattern. • 1) Wiggily does an act of mercy, or, charity. • 2) A predicament grows from that act. • 3) The friend made by the act of kindness helps deliver Wiggily from the predicament.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Hector the Henpecked Rooster; Mrs. Bertha Henpeck; Herman
First Line: Whew! I wonder where we got all these horse blankets?
Synopsis: Bertha become the world's heavyweight wrestling champ.
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Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Copr. 1944 by Famous Studios.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Albert; Pogo; Bumbazine; Mr. Bug; Mr. Fox
First Line: What you li'l ol' cute folks doin'?
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagPogo Parade #1 [25¢ Cover Price] published September 1953
as Albert the Alligator [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Complete Pogo Comics #2 published January 1990
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 10
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Cilly Goose; Dickie Goose
First Line: C'mon gang! Let's go swimming!!
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: Copr. 1944 by Famous Studios.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Blackie; The Wolf; Mayor Scallop
First Line: C'mon, fellers, let's get into our bathing suits!
Synopsis: The Wolf tries to eat Blackie and his brothers while they are swimming at the beach.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Copr. 1944 by Famous Studios.
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A Cure for Foolishness

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
Character(s): Eddie Elephant [E.E.]; Little Brown Bear [L.B.]; Maisie Moocow [M.M.]; Mrs. Elephant; Dr. Stork; talking squirrels (and other forest creatures: deer, owl, cardinal, frog, sparrows, rabbit)
First Line: One-two-three-f-
Synopsis: Eddie rebels against nature, wants hair like a lion, not bald as an elephant. Dr Stork humors him, applying seeded moss, and water it. Eddie loves his grassy head. Forest animals flee in terror. Maisie munches his mane. Mom is pleased.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Copr. 1944 by Johnny Gruelle Co.
Writer credit per Du Bois Account Books. Written as 8p. The number of panels per page (7,8) suggests the cut to 6p. was accomplished without panel loss.
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The Winning Bounce

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: nature
Character(s): Bouncer Bunny; Gary Greyhound
First Line: Bouncer Bunny was sure that he could out-run anybody in the world.
Synopsis: Gary is the faster runner, but Bouncer jumps on his back and stays there, tells himself he's just learned that being the fastest thinker is best.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: On inside back cover in black, white and red. Writer credit per Du Bois Account Books.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic
First Line: zzzzz
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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