Issue | #7 |
Published | September 1955 |
Frequency | Bi-monthly |
Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
Pages | 36 |
Editing | Leon Harvey (Editor) |
Notes | Last issue. |
Characters | Stevie; Mazie; Flat-Top |
Synopsis | Full-page, front cover illustration depicting Mazie and Flat-Top flirting while Stevie "burns". |
Genre | Teen |
Synopsis | Full-page, inside front cover ad offering the opportunity to sell Chistmas cards. |
Script | ? (ad copy) |
Letters | Typeset |
Characters | Flat-Top; Stevie |
Synopsis | Stevie and Flat-Top comment on a new girl in town who dyes her hair. |
Genre | Teen; Gags |
Synopsis | Full-page ad pitching the Wingfoot, a Goodyear bicycle tire. |
Script | ? (ad copy) |
Letters | Typeset |
Characters | Flat-Top; Mortie; Laura; Zookeeper |
Synopsis | Mortie has the opportunity to run the projector at his uncle's drive-in movie theater and plans to introduce his new 3-D invention to the audience. Flat-Top sabotages the plan by borrowing a tame tiger from his zookeeping friend and allowing the animal to leap through the movie screen. Order is restored and both the tiger and Flat-Top are wrapped in loose film until the sheriff arrives. |
Genre | Teen |
Synopsis | Factual account about movie-making with an anecdote about Jack Lemmon. |
Genre | Fact |
Letters | Typeset |
Synopsis | Factual account about current recording stars such as Eddie Fisher and Joni James. |
Genre | Fact |
Letters | Typeset |
Characters | Mazie; Stevie; Mortie; Laura; Flat-Top; Rodney "Bopper" Brady |
Synopsis | Mazie dates a "bop"-talking carnival barker and picks up his style and language to the dismay of her crowd. She is furious when he reveals himself to be a snooty college student researching American slang and not the bopster she believed him to be. |
Genre | Teen |
Synopsis | Full-page ad with Bob Mikan ("Mr. Basketball") touting the virtues of Keds. |
Script | ? (ad copy) |
Letters | Typeset |
Synopsis | Double-page ad for Dash Dog Food contests. |
Script | ? (ad copy) |
Letters | Typeset |
Synopsis | Half-page, horizontally-oriented ad selling collections of movie and TV star pictures positioned on the upper portion of the page. |
Script | ? (ad copy) |
Letters | Typeset |
Synopsis | Half-page, horizontally-oriented ad pitching a minature camera positioned on the lower portion of the page. |
Script | ? (ad copy) |
Letters | Typeset |
Characters | Flat-Top; Coach; Mortie; Stevie; Mazie |
Synopsis | Flat-Top is benched because of his poor attitude. In retaliation, he puts itching powder in the quarterback's jersey. At the big game, the quarterback is injured and Flat-Top is brought in but is forced to wear the sabotaged jersey. Tormented by the itching powder, he plays with an intensity never before seen and wins the game. |
Genre | Teen |
Synopsis | Factual account about teen culture. |
Genre | Fact |
Synopsis | Ad pitching the forthcoming issue of Harvey's "Mazie". |
Script | ? (ad copy) |
Synopsis | Ad for Baby Ruth candy bar. |
Script | ? (ad copy) |
Letters | Typeset |
Characters | Stevie; Flat-top; Laura |
Synopsis | Stevie is working in a diner to make enough money to buy new ties for his car. Flat-Top insults him (and his car) and orders a sandwich with the order to "make it snappy". Stevie delivers a sandwich with a footprint in it and explains, "You told me to 'step on it'." |
Genre | Teen; Gags |
Synopsis | Collection of jokes solicited from readers. |
Genre | Teen |
Letters | Typeset |
Characters | Phonio; Fearless Fosdick; Baldy (bald eagle) |
Synopsis | Ad pitching Wildroot Cream-Oil. |
Script | Al Capp ? |
Pencils | Al Capp ? |
Inks | All Capp ? |
Letters | Al Capp ? |
Characters | Sally; Mother; Drippy |
Synopsis | Sally loses her father's thermos jug at the beach, and is forced to spend hours looking for it. |
Genre | Teen; Gags |
Characters | Holly; Clara (wardrobe mistress); Max and Joe (stage hands) |
Synopsis | Holly wears a hoop skirt costume for a film shoot and is blown to the ceiling when stage hands test a wind machine. |
Genre | Teen; Gags |
Characters | Delbert Dibble; Holly; Theater Usher |
Synopsis | Delbert and Holly discover an audience leaving a movie theater laughing. The movie however has been panned by the critics. The usher says a dentist is stationed in the lobby on the manager's orders spraying audience members with laughing gas as they leave to give the impression to others the film is a laff-riot. |
Genre | Teen; Gags |
Characters | Sally; Drippy; Beach-goer |
Synopsis | Drippy is unsuccessful selling hot dogs at the beach because his shoes fill with sand. Sally solves the problem by giving him empty shoe boxes to tie on his feet. |
Genre | Teen; Gags |
Characters | Holly; Miss La Bour; Mr. Hatteur; Mr. Snorkel (film director) |
Synopsis | Holly makes am ugly hat at home from old scraps to wear in a film shoot crowd scene so she can be seen. Mr. Hatteur, the costume designer, claims he designed it and she stole it from the star Miss La Bour. The star however is found wearing Hatteur's ugly hat. |
Genre | Teen; Gags |
Synopsis | Ad pitching the Shelby bicycle. |
Script | ? (ad copy) |
Letters | Typeset |
Synopsis | Ad pitching 45 stamps depicting the British royal family. |
Script | ? (ad copy) |
Letters | Typeset |
Synopsis | Ad offering the opportunity to sell Chistmas cards. |
Script | ? (ad copy) |
Letters | Typeset |
Synopsis | Full-page, inside back cover ad offering prizes for selling religious motto plaques. |
Script | ? (ad copy) |
Letters | Typeset |
Synopsis | Full-page, back cover ad pitching the Schwinn American bicycle. |
Script | ? (ad copy) |
Letters | Typeset |