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Issue Details

Issue #10
Published Summer 1948
Frequency Quarterly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 52
Editing Jesse C. Rogers, Jr.

Cover Details - "Kelly Poole follows a homing pigeon to TROUBLE!"

Characters Kelly Poole; Pockets
Genre Humor

12 page Kelly Poole story "Gee, Kelly, the man in the moon looks just like Uncle Gamlin!"

Characters Kelly Poole; Uncle Gamlin; Aunt Fanny; Pockets; Officer Dooley; Colonel Guff; Duds Darcy; Willie the Weasel
Synopsis Kelly and Pockets steal a plane in order to thwart crooks who are using homing pigeons to smuggle diamonds shipped in from abroad to avoid paying customs duties.
Genre Humor

5 page Giddy Goose story "You can't annoy me with your mirth!"

Characters Giddy Goose; Rick [a raccoon]; Casper Cat
Synopsis Giddy builds a jet-propelled speedboat so he can win a $50 first prize in a boat race. Rick and Casper sabotage Giddy's boat by adding more rocket powder. Giddy shoots by the finish line so fast the judges don't even see him and award the first prize to Rick and Casper. However, Giddy ends up winning $500 in an airplane race 20 miles downriver before his rocket tubes ran out of fuel.
Genre Humor

6 page Handy Pandy story "Phew! That job is done and I'm all finished!"

Characters Handy Pandy; Ali Ben Tanc
Synopsis Promised by payment in jewels, Handy Pandy, Fix It Man, is hired by Ali Ben Tanc to install a secret sealed door on a mummy's tomb that only Ali Ben Tanc and his trusted servant can open. After installing the seal, Handy is thrown into the tomb to perish along with the secret. Handy uses dynamite to blow himself out of the tomb, landing on a homeward bound airplane. While he has escaped from Ali Ben Tanc, he does not get any payment for his work.
Genre Humor

6 page Hickory story "So this is a picture of your grandmammy?"

Characters Hickory; Alec Smartt
Synopsis To help pay the mortgage, young Hickory wants to enter a cross-country race with his horse, Marybelle, to win the $500 first prize. However, before the race, his father sells Marybelle to make an installment payment on the mortgage. Hickory learns that his cow, Nancy, can jump fences, so he enters the race riding the cow. He wins and uses the money to pay the mortgage and buy back his horse.
Genre Humor

5 page Atomictot story "Yoo hoo!"

Characters Atomictot; Mr. Immature
Synopsis A movie company plans to shoot a movie about cavemen and dinosaurs in Atomictot's swamp, unaware that real prehistoric men and beasts actually live there.
Genre Humor

5 page Lammypie story "Impy, you pushed me!"

Characters Lammypie; Impy
Synopsis Lammypie is always good and tries to stay away from Impy, who is always getting Lammypie into trouble.
Genre Humor

2 page Pedro text story "Pigs are Romantic"

Characters Pedro
Synopsis Pedro can call animals -- cows, pigs, chickens -- to him with a song.
Genre Humor
Letters typeset

6 page Uncle Fuddly story "I know! I should look through keyholes ..."

Characters Uncle Fuddly; Sheriff; McGurk; Widow Willard; Judge and Mrs. Tomkins; Doc Tobin
Synopsis Meddlesome Uncle Fuddly mistakenly thinks that Widow Willard is being evicted from her home when he see the Sheriff and Mr. McGurk moving her old furniture from her home.
Genre Humor