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38March 1968
$0.12

The Three Stooges #38

Western · March 1968 · on sale 1967-12-14

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Series
The Three Stooges (Western, 1962 series)
Issue
#38
Publication date
March 1968
Key date
1968-03-00
On-sale date
1967-12-14
Indicia publisher
Western Publishing Company Inc.
Price
$0.12
Pages
36

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Contents

SeqStoryTypePagesCreditsCharacters
0The Abdominal Snowman!cover1pencils: ? (photo); inks: ? (photo); letters: typesetThe Three Stooges [Moe Howard; Larry Fine; Curly Joe DeRita]
1Sombreroscomic story1pencils: Sparky Moore; inks: Sparky MooreThe Three Stooges [Moe Howard; Larry Fine; Curly Joe DeRita]
2On the Trail of the Abdominal Snowmancomic story21script: Cecil Beard; pencils: Sparky Moore; inks: Sparky MooreThe Three Stooges [Moe Howard; Larry Fine; Curly Joe DeRita]; crooks; natives; Abdominal Snowman
3Gold Key Comics Club Newsactivity4letters: typeset
5Dear Stoogesletters page1pencils: Joe Messerli; inks: Joe MesserliThe Three Stooges [Moe Howard; Larry Fine; Curly Joe DeRita]
6The Sinister Stairwaycomic story4pencils: John Carey; inks: John CareyThe Little Monsters ['Orrible Orvie; Awful Annie]; Dr. Frankenfurter; Mildew (father); Demonica (mother)
8132 Pc. Roman Soldier Setpromo (ad from the publisher)1pencils: Russ Heath; inks: Russ Heath

Plus 3 pages of advertisements and other matter across 3 sequences, as published.

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