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Issue Details

Issue #1078
Published February-April 1960
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?
Notes Indicia title is "THE THREE STOOGES, No. 1078". Code number is T.STOOGES.O.S. #1078-602. Copyright 1959 by Norman Maurer Productions, Inc. Second of five Three Stooges Four Colors.

Cover Details - "The Three Stooges"

Characters The Three Stooges; Moe Howard (photo); Larry Fine (photo); Curly Joe DeRita (photo)
Genre humor
Pencils ? (photo)
Inks ? (photo)
Colors ? (photo)
Letters typeset
Notes Indicia title is "THE THREE STOOGES, No. 1078". Code number is T.STOOGES.O.S. #1078-602. Copyright 1959 by Norman Maurer Productions, Inc. Second of five Three Stooges Four Colors.

1 page The Three Stooges story "To Gobble or Not to Gobble"

Characters The Three Stooges [Larry; Moe; Curly Joe]
Synopsis The Stooges wish for turkeys at a wishing well.
Genre humor
Notes Inside front cover; black and white. Shading is done with crafttint or zip-a-tone, not common for Dell comics.

12 page The Three Stooges story "Canine Capers"

Characters The Three Stooges [Larry; Moe; Curly Joe]
Synopsis The Three Stooges are barbers. Curly Joe brings in a sheepdog for them to practice on. After giving it a trim, the Stooges find that the dog is Snoodles, a millionaire's pet, and there is a $500 reward for his return.
Genre humor

7 page The Three Stooges story "Monkey Business"

Characters The Three Stooges [Larry; Moe; Curly Joe]
Synopsis After failing to make a go as organ-grinders (with Curly Joe as the monkey); the Stooges decide to enter Curly Joe in a fight with Crusho the Great (a gorilla) in order to win enough money to buy a real monkey.
Genre humor

10 page The Three Stooges story "Something's Fishy"

Characters The Three Stooges [Larry; Moe; Curly Joe]
Synopsis While fishing, the Stooges get lost and end up at a rocket training center. They enter a rocket during a countdown and get blasted to Mars. On Mars the three are put on display in a museum.
Genre humor; science fiction
Notes Follow-up story in Sequence 5 in this issue.

2 page The Three Stooges story "Home, Sweet, Home"

Characters The Three Stooges [Larry; Moe; Curly Joe]
Synopsis The Stooges are back home from Mars, with a couple of sentences explaining how they got back. Curly Joe goes to a bakery and buys two pies and lets Moe and Larry have them--right in the face.
Genre humor
Notes Follow-up story to Sequence 4.

1 page activity "3 Stooges Racing Rampage"

Characters The Three Stooges [Larry; Moe; Curly Joe]
Synopsis Board game featuring the Three Stooges.

1 page Curly Joe story "Kit and Kitty"

Characters The Three Stooges [Curly Joe]
Synopsis A homeowner ignores salesman Curly Joe's extended banging on the door, but hears the scratching of his cat and opens up.
Genre humor
Notes Inside back cover; black and white.

1 page The Three Stooges story "The Jugglers"

Characters The Three Stooges [Larry; Moe; Curly Joe]
Synopsis Moe and Larry have taken up juggling.
Genre humor
Notes Back cover; color.