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Gay Comics #1

Marvel · March 1944 · on sale 1944-05-15

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Identification plate

Series
Gay Comics (Marvel, 1944 series)
Issue
#1
Publication date
March 1944
Key date
1944-03-00
On-sale date
1944-05-15
Indicia publisher
U.S.A. Comic Magazine Corporation
Price
$0.10
Pages
52

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Contents

SeqStoryTypePagesCreditsCharacters
0-cover1Tessie Tender
2-comic story8Tessie Tender
3Case of the Purloined Pearls!comic story6script: Al Jaffee; pencils: Al Jaffee; inks: Al JaffeeSarge; Rook; The Funster
4-comic story5Half Chief Poke-In-Nose; game warden; Indian chief; Mad Mike; Sheriff Clem
5The Strange Case of the Bananna Braincomic story5Eustace Hayseed; Choo Choo; J. "Wildcat" Gusher; Jones; Reed; Mike
6They're Nautical, But Nice!comic story5Star; Tar; Ivan Bullshivitzky
7Photo Finishtext story2script: Helen KingFather Mitchell; Mother Mitchell; Jimmie Mitchell; Grandma; Lorraine Page; Bruce Roberts
8Case in the Suit Casecomic story4Snoopy; Dr. Nutzy; Professor; Boss; hotel manager
9-comic story4Mopey; captain; first mate
10The Puny Person With the Potent Pawscomic story7.67script: Basil Wolverton; pencils: Basil Wolverton; inks: Basil Wolverton; letters: Basil WolvertonPowerhouse Pepper
11Announcing the Winners of the February No. 14 Joker Comics Popularity Contestpromo (ad from the publisher)0.33

Plus 4 pages of advertisements and other matter across 4 sequences, as published.

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