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Issue: Blondie #166
Publication Date: December 1966
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Issues: #166 of 12 Issues (16 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: [no rating]
Publisher: FlagKing Features
Brand: King ComicsView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: King Features Syndicate
On Sale Date: 10/03/1966
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.12 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 12 (6 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from 1966 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
Full publisher name is King Features Syndicate Division of the Hearst Corporation.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: full color
Dimensions: standard Silver Age U.S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Dagwood Glows on TV

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: drama, humorous
Character(s): Blondie Bumstead; Dagwood Bumstead
Synopsis: Dagwood adjusts the television roof antenna in his typical fashion.
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Pages: 1
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David McCallum [Illya] Life Size Pin-Up... Only $1

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
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Inker(s): ? (photo)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Character(s): David McCallum (as Illya Kuryakin, photo)
First Line: It's the newest, it's the wildest, greatest ever... A super pin-up of Illya.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Ad offering a life size pin-up (over 38" x 50") of actor David McCallum as Illya Kuryakin from The Man from U.N.C.L.E. television series. Also included is a free membership in the Man from U.N.C.L.E. Fan Club, and "your very own U.N.C.L.E. Agent card". Black and white ad on inside front cover.
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Blondie in Televisionland

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: drama, humorous
Character(s): Blondie Bumstead; Dagwood Bumstead; Daisy; Mr. Dithers; TV station receptionist; TV station manager; TV director; TV film crew; Cookie Bumstead; Alexander Bumstead; Herb Woodley; Tootsie Woodley
First Line: Oh, that situation comedy show on television is just terrible!
Synopsis: Dagwood declares that he could write a better sitcom than the one on TV and does so with himself as the inept and bumbling star. All his friends, including Mr. Dithers as the sponsor, get to see and enjoy the show, except poor Dagwood himself - who misses it thanks to his (you guessed it) ineptness and bumbling.
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Pages: 13
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Pup's Lullaby

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: drama, humorous
Character(s): Blondie Bumstead; Dagwood Bumstead; Elmer (pup); Cookie Bumstead; Alexander Bumstead
First Line: I think I’ll take a little after-dinner nap...
Synopsis: Elmer, one of Daisy's pups, disturbs Dagwood's nap with his barking for a particularly personal reason.
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Pages: 2
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King Comics Corner Store

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Ad for mail order toys and games offered by King Comics. Some toys are based upon King Features Syndicate properties, such as Beetle Bailey, Flash Gordon, and The Phantom. Ad covers the two middle pages of the centerfold.
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Beetle On the Ball

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, military
Character(s): Beetle Bailey; General Halftrack; Major Catastrophe; Ms. Blips
First Line: I just thought of something I can do today... Check the sentry posts!
Synopsis: Sentry Beetle follows General Halftrack's orders to the letter and lives to regret it.
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Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: Ironically, for once Beetle strictly follows orders and suffers for it.
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Riddle Me This…

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: humorous
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: A full page of riddles, not attributed to readers as with Gold Key's concurrent "The Joke's on You" or its predecessor "Goofy Jokes". Logo consists of the title "Riddle Me This…" in script with a bunch of laughing and smiling, red-outlined cartoon heads packed-in tightly together for little over half the logo-header space.
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Big Deal on Wheels

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: drama, humorous
Character(s): Blondie Bumstead; Dagwood Bumstead; Daisy; Cookie Bumstead; Alexander Bumstead; bus driver; Herb Woodley
First Line: What's that stopping in front of the house?
Synopsis: Alexander buys an old junky jalopy, which he and the rest of the Bumsteads envision as becoming the family car... until Alexander and Dagwood actually take it for a test drive.
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Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: The story bypasses showing the extensive effort at repairing the jalopy into what could barely be defined as "running shape" with the following caption: "Let's just skip the next few agonizing weeks..."
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Special Delivery

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Subject Matter
Genres: drama, humorous
Character(s): Blondie Bumstead; Dagwood Bumstead; Mr. Beasley (mailman); Daisy; Daisy's pups
First Line: Uh, oh! A special delivery for Bumstead! This means I have to hand it to him in person!
Synopsis: The mail must go through... and all the more so when it's a special delivery letter, for which Mr. Beasley goes through all kinds of heck to personally deliver to Dagwood.
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Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: The sender of the special delivery letter that Mr. Beasley delivers to Dagwood is Carol Fung, wife of artist Paul Fung Jr.

Dagwood is (once again) up on the roof adjusting his TV antenna. Counting the cover and the comic's lead story, this would make three times he's done this thankless and injurious chore in this same issue.
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Polaris Nuclear Sub

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
First Line: Over 7 Feet Long Big Enough for 2 Kids Fires Rockets and Torpedoes
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Ad for a 7 ft. play submarine made of fiberboard, from Honor House Prod. Co. Ad runs vertically on full page. On final interior page of the comic.
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Treasure Chest of Fun

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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: A full page of small, single panel advertisements for novelty items and self-defense lessons. Black and white ad on inside back cover.
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100 pc Toy Soldiers Set $1.25

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
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First Line: 100 Toy Soldiers, made of durable plastic, each on its own base.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Ad for 100 plastic toy soldiers, packed in a footlocker-styled storage box. Color ad on back cover.

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