| Issue | #16 |
| Published | August-September 1958 |
| Cover Price | .10 USD |
| Pages | 36 |
| Editing | Helen Meyer? |
| Notes | Indicia: BEETLE BAILEY, No. 16, Aug.-Sept., 1958. Published bi-monthly by Dell Publishing Co., Inc., 750 Third Ave., New York 17, N. Y. George T. Delacorte, Jr., Publisher; Helen Meyer, President; Paul R. Lilly, Executive Vice-President; Harold Clark, Vice-Pres.-Advertising Director; Albert P. Delacorte, Treasurer. Re-entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, New York under the Act of March 3, 1879. Subscriptions in U.S.A. and Canada 60¢ per year; foreign subscriptions $1.00 per year. Dell Subscription Service: 321 West 44th Street, New York 36, N. Y. (c) 1958, by King Features Syndicate, Inc. All rights reserved throughout the world. Authorized edition. Printed in U.S.A. Designed and produced by Western Printing & Lithographing Co. |
| Characters | Beetle Bailey |
| Synopsis | Beetle Bailey holds an umbrella while parachuting in the rain. |
| Genre | humor; war |
| Pencils | Mort Walker? |
| Inks | Mort Walker? |
| Notes | Indicia: BEETLE BAILEY, No. 16, Aug.-Sept., 1958. Published bi-monthly by Dell Publishing Co., Inc., 750 Third Ave., New York 17, N. Y. George T. Delacorte, Jr., Publisher; Helen Meyer, President; Paul R. Lilly, Executive Vice-President; Harold Clark, Vice-Pres.-Advertising Director; Albert P. Delacorte, Treasurer. Re-entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, New York under the Act of March 3, 1879. Subscriptions in U.S.A. and Canada 60¢ per year; foreign subscriptions $1.00 per year. Dell Subscription Service: 321 West 44th Street, New York 36, N. Y. (c) 1958, by King Features Syndicate, Inc. All rights reserved throughout the world. Authorized edition. Printed in U.S.A. Designed and produced by Western Printing & Lithographing Co. |
| Characters | Sergeant Orville Snorkel; General Amos Halftrack; Cookie; Captain Sam Scabbard |
| Synopsis | Because a mountain lion is on the loose, General Halftrack makes the soldiers build him a cage to sleep in for protection. |
| Genre | humor; war |
| Script | Jack Mendelsohn? |
| Pencils | Tony Di Preta? |
| Inks | Tony Di Preta? |
| Notes | Credits from Jerry Bail's Who's Who of American Comic Books. Inside front cover includes black-and-white cartoon, indicia and legal notices. |
| Characters | "Killer" Diller; Bammy; Cookie; Beetle Bailey; General Amos Halftrack; Corporal Roberge |
| Synopsis | Beetle installs a makeshift air conditioner in the trunk of Gen. Halftrack's car. The general gets caught in the trunk and nearly freezes. |
| Genre | humor; war |
| Script | Jack Mendelsohn? |
| Pencils | Tony Di Preta? |
| Inks | Tony Di Preta? |
| Notes | The writer obviously doesn't know how an air conditioner works. |
| Characters | "Killer Diller"; Bammy; Sergeant Orville Snorkel; Beetle Bailey; Hilda; General Casmire |
| Synopsis | Sgt. Snorkel falls in love and is nice to the soldiers. When he mistakenly thinks that his girlfriend is stepping out in him, he's meaner than ever. |
| Genre | humor; war |
| Script | Jack Mendelsohn? |
| Pencils | Tony Di Preta? |
| Inks | Tony Di Preta? |
| Notes | Snorkel is spelled Snorkle in the story. |
| Characters | "Killer" Diller; Beetle Bailey; Private Alexanderus Dmitrisonny Melnichuckski |
| Synopsis | Beetle tries out for a job on the Camp Swampy Bugle newspaper, but fails to find any unusual characters to write about. |
| Genre | humor; war |
| Script | Jack Mendelsohn? |
| Pencils | Tony Di Preta? |
| Inks | Tony Di Preta? |
| Characters | Sergeant Orville Snorkel; "Killer" Diller; Miss La Marr |
| Synopsis | Sarge tricks Killer into doing his laundry by calling it a "gorgeous bundle". Killer misses a date with actress Miss La Marr because he thinks it's another trick. |
| Genre | humor; war |
| Script | Jack Mendelsohn? |
| Pencils | Tony Di Preta? |
| Inks | Tony Di Preta? |
| Notes | Snorkel is spelled Snorkle in the story. |
| Characters | Froggie Phlippe; Sergeant Phlippe; Corporal Crump |
| Synopsis | Froggie Phlippe tries to help his father, Sergeant Phlippe, who has laryngitis. He turns a drill into a comedy routine, amusing Corporal Crump. |
| Genre | humor; war |
| Letters | Typeset |
| Notes | Illustrated text story |
| Characters | Vinny Brown (Vinnie the Vet); Rocky Maraschino; Killer Panucci |
| Synopsis | Vinnie the Vet covers a boxing match for the Gotham Sun, and gets beaten up by Killer Panucci for writing critical comments about him. |
| Genre | humor |
| Script | Jack Mendelsohn? |
| Pencils | Tony Di Preta? |
| Inks | Tony Di Preta? |
| Characters | Sergeant Orville Snorkel; Beetle Bailey; Zero |
| Synopsis | Zero gets a light-duty slip by searching everywhere for it. |
| Genre | humor; war |
| Script | Jack Mendelsohn? |
| Pencils | Tony Di Preta? |
| Inks | Tony Di Preta? |
| Characters | Beetle Bailey; "Killer" Diller; Captain Joystick |
| Synopsis | Beetle and his pen-pal girlfriend send each other fake pictures of beautiful movie stars. Killer gets Beetle some quick jet-pilot training then is unpleasantly surprised when he steals Beetle's date. |
| Genre | humor; war |
| Script | Jack Mendelsohn? |
| Pencils | Tony Di Preta? |
| Inks | Tony Di Preta? |
| Synopsis | Get a free "Dell Comics are Good Comics" magnifying glass by subscribing to Dell comics. |
| Letters | Typeset |
| Notes | Inside back cover |
| Synopsis | Juicy Fruit Gum ad with tips for safe swimming |
| Letters | ?; typeset |
| Notes | Back cover |