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COVER DETAILS
Characters:
Uncle Wiggily
Pencils:
Walt Kelly
Inks:
Walt Kelly
STORY DETAILS
Title:
Albert's Picnic
Characters:
Albert; Fanciful Fox
Pages:
2.000
Script:
Walt Kelly
Pencils:
Walt Kelly
Inks:
Walt Kelly
Letters:
typeset
Notes:
On inside front and back covers in black, white and red.
Title:
A Fox in Lamb's Clothes
Characters:
Uncle Wiggily Longears (an elderly rheumatoid rabbit); Nurse Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy (his housekeeper, a muskrat); Susie Littletail (his niece, a rabbit kit); Sammie Littletail (his nephew, a rabbit kit); a Burglar Fox (a homicidal kidnapper); Mr Bug (a friend); Mrs Bug (a friend); Goosey Gander (a father goose); Toddler (Gander's child, a gosling); Waddle (Gander's child, a gosling); Mrs. Twisty-Tail Pig (a mother sow); Curly (her son, a piglet); Floppy (her other son, a piglet); Officer (a bulldog uniformed motorcycle police); bather (an elephant)
Synopsis:
The Bugs alert Wiggily a Burglar Fox in lamb's clothes took Susie and Sammie. Off to the rescue! Picking up others in trouble, parents seeking their own missing children. Enlisting a cop. The Bugs get separated from the others at Fox's roadblock, and tail him home as the rest are astray. Fox departs. Bugs set a fire that draws the rest. The children are saved. The criminal fox returns, is taken in custody. The rest head home. The Bugs talk.
Pages:
10.000
Script:
Gaylord Du Bois [as Howard R. Garis]
Pencils:
H. R. McBride
Inks:
H. R. McBride
Notes:
Writer credit per Du Bois Account Books.
"A fox in lamb's clothes," says Nurse Jane (p.4, pl.2), describing the kidnapper to the Officer. Du Bois, a lay preacher licensed by the Church of the Nazarene, takes the story's premise from the phrase "a wolf in sheep's clothing," based on the words of Jesus of Nazareth in the Gospel of Matthew 7:15. ? Fox is inspired to his deceit by the children's own expression of their desire, commented on by the Bugs: "That's the way it is---The more people have the more..." "---They want!" The Bugs at various points serve as Greek Chorus, messenger angels, inept guardian angels, and comic foils. They are Providence in the guise of the lowest. After acting as the essential agents who enable salvation of the children and apprehension of the criminal, Mr Bug asks his wife, "Would you be proud of me if I was smart like Uncle Wiggily?" She replies, "Of course not... You're only a bug." ? All the children are shut in the refrigerator that locks shut with a snap-latch handle, which the Bugs are too small to open. The closed refrigerator is a death-trap in which the children are slowly freezing, and, later, nearly cooked by the conflagration. (Too often children playing carelessly did get trapped and die by asphyxiation in old abandoned snap-latch refrigerators in dumps.) ? The Bugs initially attempt to free the children from the fridge by attaining to the latch. They construct a ladder out of straws from the broom. Little engineering projects like this are found in other Du Bois stories, e.g. when Young Hawk devises a keel constructing a dugout canoe.
Characters:
Hector the Henpecked Rooster; Mrs. Bertha Henpeck; Herman
Synopsis:
Hector loses the house to Herman in a poker game.
Pages:
8.000
Script:
John Stanley
Pencils:
Rube Grossman
Inks:
Rube Grossman
Letters:
Suzanne Seaborne
Notes:
Copr. 1944 by Famous Studios.
Title:
Ol' Albert Decides Yuletide and Time Waits for No 'Gator
Characters:
Little Brown Bear [L.B.]; Sunny Bunny [S.B.]; Wrinkles (the camel with wrinkled knees); Eddie Elephant [E.E.]; Maisie Moocow [M.M.]
Synopsis:
S.B. enlists L.B. to gather wild strawberries for shortcake. Wrinkles arrives with new springs in his legs, offering to carry. The gang is frightened by the roar of a bull moose and sight of his antlers---E.E. in disguise, pranking them. A pop-gun is taken up in defense, with a spring being provided by Wrinkles from a leg, with strawberries for ammo. E.E., hit, thinks the red berry juice is his blood, runs crying mama. M.M. intercedes, makes shortcake, and everyone feasts at her table on strawberry shortcake!
Pages:
6.000
Script:
Gaylord Du Bois
Pencils:
George Kerr
Inks:
George Kerr
Notes:
Licensed feature using animal characters from Johnny Gruelle's Raggedy Ann universe. Copyright now lapsed. Writer credit per Du Bois Account Books. Using food as ammunition echoes Du Bois's Uncle Wiggily story from last issue, in which cherry pies are thrown in defense. Centrality of food is common in Du Bois's stories for little children.
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CGC Census Report*
Grade
NG
PG
CVR
0.5
1.0
1.5
1.8
2.0
2.5
3.0
3.5
4.0
4.5
5.0
5.5
6.0
6.5
7.0
7.5
8.0
8.5
9.0
9.2
9.4
9.6
9.8
9.9
10.0
Total
Universal
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
1
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
3
Qualified
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Signature Series
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
CGCxJSA
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Restored
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Total
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
1
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
3
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