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1February 1942
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Camp Comics #1

Western · February 1942 · on sale 1941-12-01

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Identification plate

Series
Camp Comics (Western, 1942 series)
Issue
#1
Publication date
February 1942
Key date
1942-02-00
On-sale date
1941-12-01
Indicia publisher
Whitman Publishing Company
Price
$0.10
Pages
68

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Contents

SeqStoryTypePagesCreditsCharacters
0-cover1pencils: ? (photo); inks: ? (photo); colors: ? (photo)
1Fun Thrills Entertainmentforeword, introduction, preface, afterword1letters: typeset
2-comic story12Rusty O'Reilly (introduction); Betsy Saunders; Madam Q (spy queen); Zandusi
4-comic story7script: Walt Kelly; pencils: Walt Kelly; inks: Walt KellySeaman Sy Wheeler (introduction); Clarence (Sy's friend); Kitty (first girlfriend); Betty (second girlfriend); Herman Preevy (Kitty's fiancé); Paul Poozle (Betty's fiancé); Angelo (bear); Angelo's bear tamer
5-comic story10Rimfire Ferguson (introduction); Scotty Burke (Rimfire's pal); Cole Darrow; Ruth Gaynor; Dan Darrow (Ruth's uncle)
7-cartoon2pencils: Charles Saxon; inks: Charles Saxon
8How the Fighting Giants Won Their Namecomic story4
9Dear Joetext story3pencils: ? (spot illustrations); inks: ? (spot illustrations); letters: typeset
11-cartoon0.5
12The Sooper Sweeps, or, How To Keep Our City Cleancomic story11script: Frank Thomas; pencils: Frank Thomas; inks: Frank ThomasHank; Lank (introduction and origin for both); the Spirit of All Comic Avengers; "Grade A Gorilla"; the town's mayor
14-cartoon0.5
15-comic story2script: Walt Kelly; pencils: Walt Kelly; inks: Walt KellyElmer Fudd; Bugs Bunny; an unnamed army doctor
16$100.00 cashpromo (ad from the publisher)1pencils: ? (spot illustration); inks: ? (spot illustration); letters: typeset
17Roughin' It by Samuel Clemenscomic story8script: Mark TwainSamuel Clemens [Mark Twain]; Ballou (friend of Clemens'); Ollendorf (friend of Clemens'); Arkansas (villain)
18-cartoon1

Plus 4 pages of advertisements and other matter across 5 sequences, as published.

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