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Issue Details

Issue #43
Published February-March 1957
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Whitney Ellsworth (credited); Lawrence Nadle (actual)
Notes Issue credits were discussed on the GCD mailing list in December 2006, with principal input from Jerry Bails' Who's Who, Bob Hughes, Bob Bailey and Steven Rowe.

Cover Details

Characters Bob Hope; cave girl
Synopsis Bob Hope rubs noses with a sexy cave girl.
Genre Celebrity; humor
Script Cal Howard ?
Pencils Owen Fitzgerald
Inks Graham Place ?

1 page advertisement "We'll ripple your body with muscles..."

Synopsis Ad for The National Sports Council
Script ? (ad copy)
Letters Typeset
Notes Inside front cover; black and white

8 page Bob Hope story "Right! for sixty-five thousand dollars!"

Characters Bob Hope; Mrs. Peabody; Carolyn Spooner; Professor Spooner
Synopsis Bob Hope hopes to become a contestant on "The $65,000 Question" to make money. He accidentally strikes Carolyn Spooner with his yo-yo. She takes him to the lab of her father, who puts him into a time machine and sends him into the future. He encounters his rich, grateful landlady, Mrs. Peabody.
Genre Celebrity; humor
Script Cal Howard?
Pencils Owen Fitzgerald
Inks Graham Place?

1 page advertisement "Take it from a champion race driver"

Synopsis Ad for ANF Roadmaster bicycles
Script ? (ad copy)
Letters Typeset

Half page activity "Cartoon Criss-Cross"

Synopsis Combination crossword puzzle and acrostic

Half page advertisement "Wildroot Cream-Oil gives you confidence"

Synopsis Wildroot Cream-Oil ad with single-panel cartoon
Letters Typeset

1 page public service announcement "Winter sports champions of the world"

Synopsis Feature on 1956 Winter Olympics
Genre Fact

4 page Bob Hope story "But why should I hit you, Mr. Hope..."

Characters Bob Hope; Mrs. Peabody; Carolyn Spooner; Professor Spooner
Synopsis [continued] Bob Hope returns from the future. Professor Spooner accidentally sends him into the past.
Genre Celebrity; humor
Script Cal Howard?
Pencils Owen Fitzgerald
Inks Graham Place?

2 page advertisement "Buy Daisy fun with your Christmas money!"

Synopsis Ad for Daisy Manufacturing Company's air rifles
Script ? (ad copy)
Letters Typeset

4 page Bob Hope story "Ah! I'm beginning to come in for a landing..."

Characters Bob Hope; cave girl; cave man
Synopsis [continued] Bob Hope lands in the prehistoric past and encounters dinosaurs, a sexy cave girl and a cave man.
Script Cal Howard?
Pencils Owen Fitzgerald
Inks Graham Place?

Half page Peg filler "Hi, Peg! I hear you have a date with Bill Williams tomorrow!"

Characters Peg
Synopsis Peg's friend chews bubble gum to keep Bill Williams from kissing her.
Genre Humor
Script Henry Boltinoff
Pencils Henry Boltinoff
Inks Henry Boltinoff
Letters Henry Boltinoff

Half page advertisement "We love those cough drops..."

Synopsis Ad for Smith Brothers Wild Cherry cough drops
Script ? (ad copy)

6 page Bob Hope story "Ooogoo! Ooogoo Boogoo!"

Characters Bob Hope; Mrs. Peabody; Carolyn Spooner; Professor Spooner; cave girl; cave man
Synopsis [continued] Bob Hope is avoids the cave man's club by ducking for his yo-yo. The cave girl knocks out the cave man and saves Bob from a pterodactyl. Bob insults her by suggesting that they "boop-boop-a-doop". She punches him and he lands back in Professor Spooner's lab. He fails to get on "The $65,000 Question", so Mrs. Peabody chases him with a club to get her rent.
Genre Celebrity; humor
Script Cal Howard?
Pencils Owen Fitzgerald
Inks Graham Place?

2 page Peg filler "Father's a regular dreamboat to let me wear his shirts!"

Characters Peg; Peg's father; Clara (Peg's mother); Mr. Jones
Synopsis Peg wears all of her father's shirts, so he doesn't have one for a meeting with a client, Mr. Jones. Mr. Jones's daughter has also worn all his shirts.
Genre Humor
Script Henry Boltinoff
Pencils Henry Boltinoff
Inks Henry Boltinoff
Letters Henry Boltinoff

1 page advertisement "100 Toy Soldiers $1.25"

Synopsis Ad for 100 Toy Soldiers from Josely Co.
Script ? (ad copy)
Letters Typeset

1 page advertisement "Do you want spending money?"

Synopsis Ad for selling motto plaques from Stephens Credit Sales
Script ? (ad copy)
Letters Typeset
Notes Inside back cover; black and white

1 page advertisement "Junior Space Pilots on the beam!"

Synopsis Ad for selling White Cloverine Salve from Wilson Chemical Co.
Letters ?; typeset
Notes Art style looks like a Bazooka Joe cartoon; back cover