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Improvised Waffle Iron

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Heckle; Jeckle

Synopsis: Heckle and Jeckle make huge waffles, using two manhole covers as a waffle iron.

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Musical Whirling Angel Chimes

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Feature(s): Illinois Merchandise Mart

First Line: Authentic replica of original "Swedish Singing Angels" centerpiece

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Notes: Ad for a metal candle holder adorned by metal angels striking chimes, for which “heat from lighted candles makes angels revolve continuously”. Only $1.98 complete with candles. Black and white ad on inside front cover.

High Sassiety

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Heckle; Jeckle; judge; Mrs. Van Snoot; Lord Chafindish; Lady Chafindish; cop

First Line: Here's the "Help Wanted" section!

Synopsis: A judge orders vagrants Heckle and Jeckle to find jobs or be tossed back in jail. They wreak their usual brand of aggressive havoc when hired as butlers for a high society dinner.

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Pages: 7

Notes: Good Bit: Mrs. Van Snoot asks the magpies for their references:

HECKLE: "Just check with any judge in town!"
JECKLE: "Some judges have retained our services for as long as six months!"
MRS VAN SNOOT: "Oh, splendid! You mean you've worked at their estates?"
HECKLE: "No, we've done time in their coolers!"

The Cat's Meow

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Dimwit; cat; kittens; Heckle; Jeckle; Chesty; well-meaning cat-lady

First Line: Daa-aa! Don't tell me that silly cat's had kittens again!

Synopsis: Dimwit wishes to rid himself of an unwanted litter of kittens. Pranksters Heckle and Jeckle see to it that he gets even more kittens.

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Moon Daze

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Heckle; Jeckle; rocket lab boss; dogs; tramp; cop; Junior (kid); Junior's mother; Dimwit; other townspeople

First Line: This is the first night on our new job, Jeckle, old boy!

Synopsis: Janitors at a rocketship laboratory, Heckle and Jeckle accidently take off in an "Experimental Rocket to Moon". They quickly crash back on Earth, but are convinced that they are the first magpies on the moon.

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The Sleep Walker

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Heckle; Jeckle; Dimwit

First Line: Wake up, Jeckle... Dimwit's walking in his sleep again!

Synopsis: Heckle and Jeckle offer some clothing assistance to a sleepwalking Dimwit.

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Gifts for Dimwit

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Dimwit; Sylvester Fox; Chesty; Mrs. Poodle; Mrs. Poodle's baby; police officer

First Line: "I saw it with my own eyes, Officer!", cried Mrs. Poodle, as she tried to quiet her crying baby in the buggy.

Synopsis: Sly Sylvester Fox has a plan to profit off of Dimwit's birthday gifts.

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The Yes Man

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Dimwit; bake shop boss; movie director; Frisby (assistant director); hero-actor; villain-actor; actress

First Line: You thick-skulled nincompoop!

Synopsis: Naively intrusive Dimwit continually fouls-up a movie shoot until the director finds a way to keep him out of trouble.

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Pages: 4

Notes: Reads like many of the stories Vic Lockman would later create for the Disney character Goofy at Western Publishing. Lettering style is Lockman's. Lockman did work for St. John during this period, so some (or all) of the credits could be his.

Personality Plus

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Heckle; Jeckle; chickens; donkey; crowd of excited patrons; pig patron; Bull the Blockbuster (escaped criminal); motorcycle cop; judge

First Line: Well, it's finished at last, chum.

Synopsis: Because "everybody wants to be somebody else", Heckle and Jeckle invent a "Split Personality Juice" - one drink of which "...and you begin to act like another person". They try it out on barnyard chickens and a donkey (who hatches "donkey eggs"), then move on to an excited city crowd - all eager to become someone (completely at random) that they're not.

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Pages: 8

Notes: Good Bit: An anthropomorphic pig character gladly hands over his dough for a swig of the juice:
PIG: "Here's my money. Who wants to be a pig."

Yes, Right from Detroit!

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Feature(s): Young Products

First Line: From the auto capitol of the world to you… comes this amazing motorcade bargain 50 cars for $1

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Notes: Ad for toy cars boasting: “Nowhere in Lilliput did Gulliver ever see anything like this! This amazing motorcade bargain includes fifty miniature motor cars: true three dimensional scale models of streamline trolleys, highway vans, delivery trucks, repair service cars, and U.S. Army planes.” The bottom 1/4 of this page is an ad, also by Young Products, for an "Amazing new watch with mechanical brain - remembers - tells time - tells date - date changes automatically every day. Compare it at $50.00 - $8.95 plus 90-cents fed. tax". Black and white ad on inside back cover.

Send for Butch the Cracker Jack Flashlight Dog with Key Chain Leash

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Feature(s): Cracker Jack

First Line: Yours for one Cracker Jack box label and 25 cents!

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Notes: Ad for Cracker Jack candy-coated popcorn with peanuts, offering a "Butch the Cracker Jack Dog" key chain flashlight, complete with a "G-E flash bulb and a Ray-O-Vac battery" for only 25-cents and a Cracker Jack box label. A "life size picture of Butch" appears in the ad, as well as instructions to "pinch Butch and a bright beam comes from his mouth". A box of Campfire Brand marshmallows ("Best tasting. Best toasting.") is also pictured at the lower right corner of the ad, though no mention of this product occurs in the ad copy! Color ad on back cover.