XOWComics.com

Content Items (19 total)

[untitled]

Illustration on Cover, Front

Credits

Colorist(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous

Character(s): Smitty (main cover); Dick Tracy (inset); Tiny Tim (inset); Winnie Winkle (inset); Harold Teen (inset); Smitty (inset)

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Fun For Boys

Advertisement on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

First Line: All in one marvelous book

Synopsis: Clothbound.

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: C2 - cover 2 - inside front cover.
B&W and shades of red/pink.

Tess and John Lavir ends - Natnus, Nat the Fur King begins

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: mystery

Character(s): John Lavir; Dirks; Pat Patton; King (guard dog); policeman; Chief Brandon; Natnus; Natnus's chauffeur; Junior Gibbons; Mr. Gibbons; Heinie; Duffy

First Line: Synopsis: After the bodies of Lola and Edward are recovered by police, Lola's brother appears.

Synopsis: 1) Tess's boyfriend, John, is stealing dogs. Tess is angry. He reminds her she is half-owner, and threatens her life. She takes some of the dogs back at night. He is wise to her, rigs a dog with razor steel fangs bolted to its real ones. He ends dead, hoist with his own petard. Police find Tess holding a piece of glass over John's corpse. Using police science, Tracy exonerates her. 2) Natnus's chauffeur sideswipes a police car, forcing him to ditch a load of furs. His racket: he sells stolen furs, then his crew posing as cops take them back. He starts calling himself Nat the Fur King.

Reprinting

Reprint Notes: from Dick Tracy daily (Chicago Tribune-N.Y. News Syndicate, Inc.) 1939-xx-xx - 1939-xx-xx

Miscellaneous

Pages: 8

Notes: John Lavir ("rival" spelled backwards) debuted July 5, 1939.

Natnus ("suntan" spelled backwards) Nat the Fur King appeared from September 27, 1939 to October 23, 1939.

No dates appear in the panels. Page 4 of the feature, top tier, between panels 2 and 3, a plot gap exists which suggests those two panels were from dailies, and the plot gap was filled on (in) a Sunday.

"Bitsy" ends - "Playing the Ponies" begins

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: drama, humorous

Character(s): Winnie Winkle; Bitsy; Will; Mrs. Walker; Dopey Dooley; Boss

First Line: Well, Bitsy, your mommy is going to take you away from me.

Synopsis: Bitsy returns to her Mom. Will starts playing the ponies.

Reprinting

Reprint Notes: from Winnie Winkle daily (Chicago Tribune-N.Y. News Syndicate, Inc.) 1939-06-14 - 1939-06-24

Miscellaneous

Pages: 4

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: war

Character(s): Jim Ellis

First Line: Duck, Frisco!

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 6

Notes: Final appearance

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: aviation, war

First Line: Say, Rocky, have the men lower my plane...

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 6

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous

Character(s): Moon Mullins

First Line: And I had only enough to buy three round-trip tickets.

Reprinting

Reprint Notes: from Moon Mullins daily (Chicago Tribune) 1938-xx-xx - 1938-xx-xx

Miscellaneous

Pages: 4

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous

Character(s): Smitty

First Line: Not me!!

Reprinting

Reprint Notes: from Smitty daily (Chicago Tribune) xxxx-xx-xx - xxxx-xx-xx

Miscellaneous

Pages: 4

Anticipating the Swing Champ Challenge

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous, teen

Character(s): Harold

First Line: Simp's been hangin' on th' phone all day!

Reprinting

Reprint Notes: from Harold Teen daily (Chicago Tribune-N.Y. News Syndicate, Inc.) 1938-10-5 - 1938-10-15

Miscellaneous

Pages: 4

Boxing Match Slip-up: George Grunt versus Jones

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous

Character(s): Tiny Tim; George Grunt; Mom; Jones; Jones' kid; referee; the crowd; George's friends

Synopsis: George trains for the bout. In the ring, Jones has the advantage; until Jones'kid, in his excitement, throws a banana peel into the ring. Upset! Jones concedes amicably.

Reprinting

Reprint Notes: from Tiny Tim daily (Chicago Tribune-N.Y. News Syndicate, Inc.) 1939-xx-xx - 1939-xx-xx

Miscellaneous

Pages: 4

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: jungle, superhero, war

Character(s): Magic Morro; Oom

First Line: Morro and Oom have been captured by a Jap patrol.

Synopsis: Morro and Oom escape from a Japanese patrol and down a Japanese fighter plane.

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 6

Sledding Exhausted

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous

Character(s): Sweeney

Reprinting

Reprint Notes: from Sweeney and Son Sundays (Chicago Tribune-N.Y. News Syndicate, Inc.) 1939-02-19

Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: western

Character(s): Little Joe

First Line: Hey! Look! A fight!

Reprinting

Reprint Notes: From Little Joe Sundays (News Syndicate Co. Inc.) 1941-xx-xx - 1941-xx-xx

Miscellaneous

Pages: 3

Cold Cream Caper

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous

Character(s): Mrs Ripple; Harvey Ripple; Kitchie Ripple; Mrs Richey

Reprinting

Reprint Notes: from Our Neighbors the Ripples Sundays (News Syndicate Co. Inc.) 1940-xx-xx

Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Radium Review

Text Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: war

Character(s): Dr. Aschenbrenner (Berlin police medical examiner); Anna Muller (German nurse at Bismarck Hospital, Berlin); Herr Kurt Von Zellner (Gestapo Director, Berlin Bureau); Dr. Morris Adelman (famous continental surgeon, an implied Jew)

First Line: Excerpts from the Annual Report of the International Research Group

Synopsis: A group of scientists report that lead provides protection from radium burns. Muller's boyfriend is found dead. Autopsy reveals radiation poisoning. She admits carelessness with radium. Gestapo Director Zellner is diagnosed with a serious throat ailment. Dr. Adelman, deported to Poland by the Reich, is sent to perform surgery to save Zellner, who recovers, relapses, is confined, then transferred to a high post in Argentina. Muller's diary tells of Adelman putting a small vial under Director Zellner's hat band, and her failure to find a tiny bit of radium, enough to kill a man. Heil Hitler!

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: Du Bois authorship i.d. by David Porta, August 2019, based on Du Bois markers (below), and Michael Barrier's assumptions (page 123, paragraph 4) in FUNNYBOOKS (UCPress, Oakland, 2015).

The story is told in the form of excerpts from various sources: a research report, police reports, dated newspaper clippings, an official confidential communique issued by the German High Command, digest of an American correspondent's radio flash, a BBC radio flash, dated record of the Asylum for Incurables, official communique to all newspapers, and Muller's diary. The implication is that Zellner has died or is terminal, and that the official communique about his transfer to Argentina is a lie, a cover-up which Muller swallows whole.

Du Bois markers:
• It's a text war story (WWII), a staple of Du Bois at the time.
• It invokes race/ethnicity and bigotry, both common Du Bois themes.
"Dr. Morris Adelman, famous continental surgeon, has been deported to Poland."
"The Nazis forget racial prejudice to save the life of a member of the high command."

Aztec Safari, Episode 1: How Beatty Met Gaywood

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: adventure, jungle

Character(s): Clyde Beatty; Mayor; Gaywood; Wig Wong; native porters

First Line: Finding a queer-looking pin of native design in the elephant's tent, Clyde is puzzled.

Synopsis: Clyde recalls a safari of several years before, to the Yucatan to find Aztec artifacts. He notes a labor shortage. The local mayor cannot help. Enter Señor Gaywood, who procures porters, on condition he accompany the expedition. Beatty agrees, but demands to know why. On condition of secrecy, Gaywood reveals a map of the sacred temple of Ichtitual, where the last Aztec chief left a treasure in gold. Gaywood attests its authenticity, but hems and haws explaining how he came by the map from a native friend who died. Jim is suspicious.

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 4

Notes: Du Bois authorship i.d. by David Porta, November 2019, based on Du Bois markers (below), and Michael Barrier's assumptions (page 123, paragraph 4) in FUNNYBOOKS (UCPress, Oakland, 2015).

Notable editorial pattern: when Du Bois's contribution to a comic book series consisted of a single feature (often a backup feature) and a text story, the feature would immediately follow the text story, as is the case here in Super Comics (also in Popular Comics, Red Ryder Comics, The Lone Ranger, etc.).

Du Bois markers:
• animal reference ("the elephant's tent")
• accents, dialect, foreign language ("It's the bad season, Señor"; "There is nothing I can do, Señor"; "Pardon me, bud"; "Yes, yes, Señor. Señor Gaywood is the only one"; "Anyway, Missy Beatty, we going, too, and that's what count, eh?")
• jungle location (a mainstay of Du Bois's work: compare Tarzan, Korak, Jungle Jim, Young Hawk, Korak, the Lassie African settling, Elephant Boy, Jon of the Kalahari, Mabu Jungle Boy, Two Against the Jungle, Brothers of the Spear, Andy Panda's origin, Ringy Roonga's origin, etc.)
• foreign religion ("That's a map of the sacred temple of Ichtitual")
• foreign culture ("Aztec ruins in Yucatan"; "I am on this expedition to procure relics of the ancient Aztec civilization for my museum"; "The X marks the spot where the last Aztec chief left a treasure totalling millions in gold")
• word play ("Gaywood" is a play on "Gaylord Du Bois": the writer's last name is French, meaning "of the wood," as "bois" is French for "wood." Du Bois used wordplay on his name previously for the creator credit on the SKY RANGER feature he and aviation cartoonist Bob Jenny produced, crediting it to "Bob Gaylord," a mashup of their first names.)

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: adventure

Reprinting

Reprint Notes: from Little Orphan Annie daily (Chicago Tribune) xxxx-xx-xx - xxxx-xx-xx

Miscellaneous

Pages: 8

Webster's Complete Reference Dictionary and Encyclopedia

Advertisement on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

First Line: Amazing offer to comics readers

Synopsis: FREE to examine.

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: C3 - cover 3 - inside back cover.
B&W and shades of red/pink.

American Seeds for Victory Gardens

Advertisement on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): ?

Inker(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

First Line: Hurry! Hurry!

Synopsis: Send me the prize book, 40 packs of seeds, I will resell them at 10¢ each, send you the money promptly, and get my prize.

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: C4 - cover 4 - back cover.