Issue Details

Issue	#52
Published	September-October 1954
Frequency	bi-monthly
Cover Price	0.10 USD
Pages	36
Editing	Whitney Ellsworth (credited)

Cover Details

Characters	Rudy Raccoon; Rollo Raccoon
Synopsis	The Raccoon Kids' bicycle breaks in half as they are about to go down a hill.
Genre	funny animals
Script	Sy Reit ?
Pencils	Otto Feuer
Inks	Otto Feuer

1 page Buzzy public service announcement "Work Can Be Fun!"

Characters	Buzzy Brown; Susie; Wolfert the Wolf ?; Bink ?
Synopsis	Bink tells Wolfert the Wolf that it's fun and worthwhile to do volunteer work.
Genre	fact; teen
Script	Jack Schiff
Pencils	Graham Place ?
Inks	Graham Place ?
Letters	Ira Schnapp
Notes	Inside front cover; published in cooperation with the National Social Welfare Assembly.

4 page Raccoon Kids story "Slightly Moonstruck!"

Characters	Rudy Raccoon; Rollo Raccoon; Muggsy
Synopsis	Muggsy tells the Raccoon Kids that he rode his bicycle to the moon.
Genre	funny animals
Script	Sy Reit ?
Pencils	Otto Feuer
Inks	Otto Feuer

1 page Tootsie Roll advertisement "We're blastin' off to the moon..."

Notes

Space-themed Tootsie Roll ad.

4 page Dizzy Dog story "Ah, yes! There's nothing like a nice, green lawn!"

Characters	Dizzy Dog
Synopsis	Dizzy Dog's "Keep off the grass" signs tempt a rooster with big shoes to walk on it. Dizzy tricks the rooster with signs telling him not to walk down a path and fall in a well, which he does.
Genre	funny animals
Script	Sheldon Mayer ?
Pencils	Sheldon Mayer
Inks	Sheldon Mayer
Letters	Sheldon Mayer ?

Half page Fun Shop activity

Synopsis

Riddle and a word puzzle

Half page A Judy Jupiter Space Stickler activity

Characters	Judy Jupiter
Synopsis	Drawing puzzle

1 page Raccoon Kids activity "Circles"

Characters	Raccoon Kid
Synopsis	Word puzzle

4 page Raccoon Kids story "Uncle Percy, will you buy us a soda, now?"

Characters	Rudy Raccoon; Rollo Raccoon; Uncle Percy; Muggsy; St. Bernard
Synopsis	The Raccoon Kids trick Uncle Percy into buying them sodas by convincing him that he's dying of thirst in a desert.
Genre	funny animals
Script	Sy Reit ?
Pencils	Otto Feuer
Inks	Otto Feuer

Half page Adventures of the Dubble Bubble Kids advertisement "There's nothing I like better than a parade!"

Characters	Pud; Tim
Synopsis	Tim wins a trophy for best display in a parade by blowing bubbles with Dubble Bubble gum.

Half page Editorial Advisory Board text article

Synopsis	Editorial Advisory Board: Dr. Lauretta Bender, Dr. W. W. D. Sones, Josette Frank, Dr. Harcourt Peppard; list of titles
Genre	fact
Letters	typeset

Half page public service announcement "Polio Research will mean Victory!"

Synopsis	Gamma globulin protects for a few weeks; anti-polio precautions; a vaccine is being developed.
Genre	fact
Letters	typeset

4 page Doodles Duck story "Daddy! I want one a' dem!"

Characters	Duck child; Doodles Duck
Synopsis	A duck child sees a spoiled rhinoceros nag his father into buying him a giant ice cream cone. He tries the same thing on his Uncle Doodles, who returns a bicycle that he had bought him for a birthday present. The duck kid punches the rhinoceros kid and is rewarded with a bicycle by the rhinoceros father.
Genre	funny animals
Script	Sheldon Mayer ?
Pencils	Sheldon Mayer
Inks	Sheldon Mayer
Letters	Sheldon Mayer ?

2 page text story "Strange Doings"

Characters	Worthless Woodchuck; Wally Woodchuck; William Woodchuck; Warner Woodchuck
Synopsis	Worthless Woodchuck moves into Woodchuck Town and persuades Wally, William and Warner to join his gang and be bad and destructive. Worthless is magically punished by turning ugly like the posters he had defaced, and leaves town.
Genre	funny animals
Pencils	? (illustration)
Inks	? (illustration)
Colors	? (illustration)
Letters	typeset

4 page Blackie Bear story "To Bee or Not to Bee!"

Characters	Blackie Bear; two bear cubs
Synopsis	Two bear cubs are trying to get honey from a beehive and get stung. Blackie takes the beehive from them. They send a bee after Blackie, then discover that the hive is still full of bees when they take it back.
Genre	funny animals

1 page The Fox and the Crow promo (ad from the publisher) "Does it hurt much, Crow?"

Characters	Fauntleroy Fox; Crawford Crow
Synopsis	House ad for The Fox and the Crow #18 (October-November 1954)
Genre	funny animals
Pencils	Jim Davis ?
Inks	Jim Davis ?
Letters	Ira Schnapp

4 page Raccoon Kids story "Those kids! They're driving me daffy with that noise!"

Characters	Rudy Raccoon; Rollo Raccoon; Uncle Percy
Synopsis	Uncle Percy tells the Raccoon Kids to stop playing cops and robbers. They play baseball and hit him with a ball, so he spanks them. They squirt him with water to put out his pipe. Uncle Percy ties the kids to a tree, then gets sent to jail for hitting a policeman with a bat during a real robbery.
Genre	funny animals
Script	Sy Reit ?
Pencils	Otto Feuer
Inks	Otto Feuer

1 page Colonial Studios, Inc. advertisement "Do you need money?"

Synopsis	Colonial Studios, Inc. ad for selling greeting cards.
Letters	typeset

1 page Jowett Institute of Physical Training advertisement "Hi Pal! Win $100 as I just did!"

Synopsis	Ad for Jowett Institute of Physical Training muscle-building course.
Letters	Typeset
Notes	Inside back cover

1 page Schaeffer Pen Co. advertisement "How Chuck's Fineline pen got him in the movies!"

Characters	Gene Troy
Synopsis	Chuck loans his Fineline pen to Gene Troy to sign autographs and ends up in the movies.
Notes	Attractively drawn ad; back cover