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Issue Details

Issue #9
Published January-February 1944
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 60
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Cover Details

Characters Our Gang; Barney Bear; Jerry

7 page Happy Hound [Droopy] story "The Escaped Prisoner"

Characters Happy Hound [Droopy]
Synopsis A prisoner escapes from Alca-sing Prison on Happy's day off, when Happy wants to go fishing. Happy keeps crossing paths with the crook despite his best efforts not to.
Genre funny animal
Script Carl Barks
Pencils Carl Barks
Inks Carl Barks
Letters Carl Barks
Notes Pages 21-28 of the comic. Last panel is Statement of Ownership. Art submitted on July 31, 1943. "Happy Hound" is actually Droopy and the prisoner is the wolf who was Droopy's opponent in many of Tex Avery's MGM cartoons. Notes and synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (M. Lilien, 1982).

8 page Benny "The Lonesome Burro" story "The Mountain Goat"

Characters Benny Burro
Synopsis Benny plays follow-the-leader with a little mountain goat until his sneeze causes a snow slide that carries them into a wolf's cave.
Genre funny animal
Script Carl Barks
Pencils Carl Barks
Inks Carl Barks
Letters Carl Barks
Notes Pages 41-48 of the comic. Art submitted on August 12, 1943. Synopsis by Michael Barrier from "Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book" (M. Lilien, 1982).