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Rolling Blunder

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Fauntleroy Fox; Crawford Crow; Tito (logo component); Burrito (logo component)

Synopsis: Fox's roller coaster car hurtles toward Crow's impromptu trackwork.

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Pages: 1

Binky Says: "Act Your Age!"

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Genres: opinion, teen

Character(s): Binky; Billy; Allergy; Billy's Mom; baby; Mr. Jones

First Line: An exciting baseball game... ...has a disastrous climax...

Synopsis: Billy crashes through Mr. Jones' garden to catch a fly ball, and thinks nothing of it... until the baby throws a ball and breaks Billy's model airplane. This prompts Billy to fix up Mr. Jones' garden.

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Pages: 1

Notes: Black and white on inside front cover.

Alias "Black Buford"

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Fauntleroy Fox; Crawford Crow; sheriff (walrus)

First Line: Dat's a insult!

Synopsis: The Crow poses as a desperate criminal to bedevil the Fox.

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Pages: 6

Job Number: 330

Notes: Meta Moment: The Crow reads a "Fox and Crow" comic book - Page 5, Panel 3.

Tootsie Roll America's Favorite Candy

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Feature(s): Tootsie Roll

First Line: Golly - Tootsie Rolls! We eat them all the time. And look at that smart clown juggling the Tootsie Pop!

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Pages: 1

Notes: Ad for Tootsie Roll candy, with a full-page illustration of children at the circus, eating Tootsie Rolls while watching an elephant lift a huge Tootsie Roll with its trunk and a clown balancing an equally huge Tootsie Pop on his nose.

The (Free)joles Came at a Price!

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Genres: anthropomorphic, humorous

Character(s): Tito; Burrito; Mamacita; Papacita

First Line: Tito, what would you like for supper tonight?

Synopsis: Tito and Burrito do an extraordinary amount of hard work for a frijoles dinner.

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Pages: 5.67

Job Number: 174

Scripto Guarantees the Best... in Writing!

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Feature(s): Scripto

First Line: Always use Scripto leads and erasers.

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Pages: 0.33

Notes: Ad for Scripto Retractable Ball Pen and Scripto Self-Sharpening Pencil. Lower third of page.

Fun Shop

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Genres: childrens

Character(s): two boys; girl

First Line: With these letters you can spell the name of a tropical bird!

Synopsis: Learn what certain names mean. Unscramble six letters to spell the name of a tropical bird. "The Magic Eye" optical illusion.

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Pages: 1

Circles

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Crawford Crow

First Line: Even a slowpoke can catch this!

Synopsis: Unscramble the letters of four different words to arrive at a single-word answer to Crawford Crow's riddle.

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Genres: childrens

Feature(s): Fleer's Dubble Bubble Gum

Character(s): Pud; Butch; Tim; girl; elephant

First Line: Let's go see the lions and tigers now...

Synopsis: At the zoo, an elephant can't resist snatching Butch's Fleer Dubble Bubble Gum with its trunk.

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Pages: 0.5

Notes: Ad for Fleer's Dubble Bubble Gum, featuring "Pud", a kid resembling "Tubby" from Little Lulu. Top half of page.

Dotto Zoo

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Character(s): boy with pencil

First Line: Don't try to see me in the sky... 'cause I'm a bird that cannot fly!

Synopsis: Connect the dots and find a bird.

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Pages: 0.5

Notes: Lower half of page.

Stall of the Wild!

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Flippity; Flop; Sam; master of the house (unseen, off-panel); woodpecker; Virgil Vulture; mule; two pigs; cow; chicken; duck; sheep; goat

First Line: Just look at those bills!

Synopsis: Faced with living as a "wild bird", Flippity turns to a vulture for lessons on how to get food. Unfortunately, he excels at it in vulture style.

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Pages: 6

Job Number: 105

Low Tide

Text Story on Interior Page(s)

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Very Old Walrus; Mary Mussel; Christopher Crab; Amy Abalone; Owen Oyster; Olga Oyster; Olga's father (oyster); Mr. Turtle; Mr. Seal

First Line: The Very Old Walrus sat on the sand, holding something very secret in his closed hand.

Synopsis: The Very Old Walrus tells beach/ocean-life children the story of Olga Oyster and her pearl.

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Pages: 2

Play Boxes

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): parrot; two lovebirds

First Line: Can you find 7 small birds

Synopsis: Find the names of seven small birds within a mosaic of scrambled letters.

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Pages: 0.5

Notes: Top half of page.

Editorial Advisory Board

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Genres: non-fiction

Synopsis: A list of doctors and other consultants that make up the DC Comics Editorial Advisory Board, followed by a list of (presumably) all the titles published at the time by DC. In response to the real-life 1950s crusade against comic books.

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Pages: 0.5

Notes: Lower half of page.

My Dinner with The Caliph of Crabmeat

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): Fauntleroy Fox; Crawford Crow

First Line: It boins me up!

Synopsis: The Crow shows how effort-intensive it is to con a meal out of the Fox. He poses as a telegram messenger boy, an employment agent for domestic help, a butler; The Caliph of Crabmeat's food-taster, and finally as The Caliph himself. Later he complains about how hard he has to work to feed himself.

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Pages: 6

Notes: Meta Moment: Crawford Crow acknowledges that he is a comic character, when complaining about all the thinking he has to do to con a meal out of the Fox.
CRAWFORD CROW: "Dat Fox has it easy! I do all da brain woik in dis strip!"

Step Right Up Folks, and Get the Greatest Laugh-Show on Earth!

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Genres: humorous

Character(s): Mutt (on cover of comic); Jeff (on cover of comic); carnival barker; boy; girl; older man; older lady

First Line: America's Funniest Pair! -- Good for a million laughs whether you're 8 or 80!

Synopsis: A carnival barker, looking somewhat similar to DC Comics version of Bob Hope (only with a moustache), touts DC's Mutt & Jeff title.

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Pages: 1

Notes: House ad for DC Comics' Mutt & Jeff title. The cover of Mutt & Jeff (DC, 1939 Series) #71 (June 1954) is pictured in the ad. https://www.comics.org/issue/116029/cover/4/ On final interior page of the comic.

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Advertisement on Interior Page(s)

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Feature(s): Motor's Auto Repair Manual

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Pages: 1

Notes: Inside back cover.

Underseas Treasure

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Penciller(s): Ray Thompson [as R. T.] (signed)

Inker(s): Ray Thompson [as R. T.] (signed)

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Feature(s): Wilson Chemical Co.

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Pages: 1

Notes: Back cover.

In just 10 minutes of FUN a day I changed myself from this bloodless, pitiful skinny shrimp to this NEW muscular red-blooded head-to-toe HE-MAN!

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Feature(s): Jowett Institute of Physical Training

First Line: Now, Buddy YOU mail the coupon below as I did!

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Notes: Ad for muscle-building courses from Jowett Institute of Physical Training. Black and white ad on inside back cover.

Hello, Bob - Have You Found that Underseas Treasure?

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Feature(s): Wilson Chemical Co.; Cloverine Brand Salve

Character(s): Bob; Sam; girl; lady

First Line: Given! Boys! Girls! Ladies! Men! We give you Cash! Or Premiums!

Synopsis: Bob fruitlessly searches the ocean floor for treasure, until Sam tells of his own "treasures" he received for selling Cloverine Brand Salve.

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Notes: Ad for Wilson Chemical Co., offering prizes or money for the sales of Cloverine Brand Salve. Among the many prizes offered in the ad is a live pony. "Look! Live Pony! Yessiree, a real, live pony for your very own!" Color ad on back cover.