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Dagwood’s DIY is DOA!

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Genres: drama, humorous

Character(s): Blondie Bumstead; Dagwood Bumstead

First Line: Strange things happen to Dagwood's TV set --- for an even stranger reason!

Synopsis: A maniacally smiling Dagwood has just destroyed his TV set.

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Hey Kids! Fun To Make

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First Line: 961 - Ellie Elephant Holds your PJ's.

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Notes: Ad offering various animal patterns from Sew For Fun Patterns. Black and white ad on inside front cover.

Interference

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Genres: drama, humorous

Character(s): Dagwood Bumstead; Al (TV repairman); Al's coworker

First Line: I've been looking forward to this all week! Just sitting in front of the T.V., watching the ball game and enjoying my sandwich!

Synopsis: TV repairman Al finds - and resolves - the strange case of signal interference on Dagwood's TV set, prompting an unhappy-with-the-result Dagwood to enact an unusual type of revenge against Al.

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Notes: Oddly, the feature character/title/logo in the first story of the first King Comics issue of Blondie... is "Dagwood".

Blondie does not appear in this story, even as a background character.

In this story, "T.V." is spelled with two "abbreviation periods" while, on the cover, the spelling is the more commonly used "TV".

A Clean Sweep!

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Genres: drama, humorous

Character(s): Blondie Bumstead; Dagwood Bumstead; Daisy; Cookie Bumstead; Alexander Bumstead; Mr. Dithers; Mr. Biggie

First Line: Before I give a company my business I like to know something about their people... Spend some time with the family of one of your men, you know!

Synopsis: The entire Bumstead family rushes around in a panic to prepare for a visit from a potential client for Mr. Dithers.

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Rush Hour Rush!

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Genres: drama, humorous

Character(s): Blondie Bumstead; Dagwood Bumstead; Daisy; Cookie Bumstead; Alexander Bumstead; one of Daisy's pups; bus conductor; teen boy on bike; receptionist

First Line: I've really got to rush this morning! Mr. Dithers said if I'm late once more this week I should consider myself fired!

Synopsis: Dagwood goes through heck in order to avoid being late for work.

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Truth Is Stranger than... Anything!

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Genres: non-fiction

Character(s): riot control cop; crowd of protestors

First Line: A flock of geese migrated from Westchester County, in New York, to Maine last year. By truck.

Synopsis: A series of twelve humorous or unusual anecdotes accompanied by a single illustration.

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Notes: A series of twelve humorous or unusual anecdotes accompanied by a single illustration by Paul Fung Jr.

Fabulous!

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Feature(s): King Comics

Character(s): The Phantom; Flash Gordon; Mandrake the Magician; Blondie Bumstead; Dagwood Bumstead; Beetle Bailey; Sarge Snorkel; Popeye the Sailor

First Line: Ask Your Dealer About the ALL-NEW King Comics

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Notes: King Comics house ad announcing its all new line of comic books: The Phantom, Flash Gordon, Mandrake the Magician, Blondie, Beetle Bailey, and Popeye the Sailor. Ad covers the two middle pages of the centerfold.

Prior to this inauguration of King Features as its own comic book publisher, titles were formerly published by Gold Key and Harvey Comics and, after 11-13 issues of each title, the King properties would migrate to Charlton Comics for a good-sized run. Popeye the Sailor and Beetle Bailey would return to Western Publishing's Gold Key and Whitman Comics for a final original run in 1978.

Slugger Sarge

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Genres: humorous, military

Character(s): Beetle Bailey; Killer Diller; Sarge Snorkel; General Halftrack; J.J. Sharp (Camp Swampy's publicity agent)

First Line: Good hit, Beetle!

Synopsis: Angry at Beetle and Killer for playing baseball outside his office, Sarge hits their ball 587 feet away hoping they'll never find it again. They do find it outside the office of J.J. Sharp, Camp Swampy's publicity agent, who tells them that it "ties Babe Ruth's record for hitting the longest ball!". Under orders from General Halftrack to create publicity for the camp, Sharp decides to get Sarge even madder, in the hope of breaking The Babe's record. ...Sarge does get madder but breaks a completely different record.

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The Demonstration

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Genres: drama, humorous

Character(s): Blondie Bumstead; Dagwood Bumstead; Daisy; salesman

First Line: Good afternoon, Sir - Could I interest you in a....

Synopsis: To quickly get rid of a door-to-door salesman, Dagwood immediately agrees to take one of whatever he's selling - just to get rid of him. But the salesman will not leave - or accept Dagwood's money - without giving him a demonstration first.

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Rude Awakening

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Genres: drama, humorous

Character(s): Blondie Bumstead; Dagwood Bumstead; Daisy's pups

First Line: Quick, pups, I want you to get daddy up for me or he'll be late for work!

Synopsis: Blondie sends Daisy's quintet of enthusiastic pups to get Dagwood out of bed.

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The Bumbling Burglar

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Genres: drama, humorous

Character(s): Blondie Bumstead; Dagwood Bumstead; Daisy; Daisy's pups; burglar

First Line: Dagwood, what is Daisy barking at?

Synopsis: A burglar who's particularly bad at burgling finds sympathy at the Bumstead house.

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The burglar bemoans his lack of burgling skills:
BURGLAR: "Nothing I do works out! Why last week I stole MY OWN CAR!"

100 pc. Toy Soldiers $1.25

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First Line: Made of durable plastic each on its own base

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Notes: Ad for 100 plastic toy soldiers, packed in a footlocker-styled storage box, from "100 Toy Soldiers, Carle Place, Long Island, N.Y." On final interior page of the comic. Top half of page.

Now! Olympic Sports Triangles and Diamonds

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First Line: Included in Zenith's Fabulous Collection of 211 Different Stamps - Yours for only 25¢

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Notes: Ad offering 211 different stamps, including Olympic Sports Triangles and Diamonds plus a free "Midget Encyclopedia of Stamp Collecting", for only 25-cents. On final interior page of the comic. Lower half of page.

Polaris Nuclear Sub

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First Line: Over 7 Feet Long Big Enough for 2 Kids Fires Rockets and Torpedoes

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Notes: Ad for a 7 ft. play submarine made of fiberboard, from Honor House Prod. Co., Lynbrook, NY. Black and white ad on inside back cover. Top half of page.

Here Is a Treasure Chest of Fun

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Notes: A half page of small, single panel advertisements for novelty items and self-defense lessons, from Honor House, Lynbrook, NY. Black and white ad on inside back cover. Lower half of page.

The address to which to send an order for these products is "Honor House, Lynbrook, NY, Dept. 209-GK-20". The "GK" in the Department ID is believed to stand for "GOLD KEY" in such advertisements (presumably to track from which publisher the ad was seen), perhaps making this an advertising oddity of the startup of King Comics?

The corresponding "Polaris Nuclear Sub" ad, also from Honor House - and directly above this ad, does not display "GK" anywhere within its department designation.

Boys, Girls, Men, Women

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First Line: If you need extra money & you know just 10 people…

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Notes: Ad for selling Christmas cards for Wallace Brown, Inc. Color ad on back cover.