Issue: #22
Published: April 1953, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 36, Editing: Leon Harvey
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Silver Age US Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Notes: "A Joe Palooka Magazine for Children". Alfred Harvey (President); Leon Harvey (Vice-President and Editor); Robert B. Harvey (Vice-President and Business Manager)
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| Cover (1 page) |
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| Featuring: |
Little Max |
| Synopsis: |
Casey and Little Max are sledding downhill. Their sled hits a rock and sends them flying. |
| Genre: |
Humor Children |
| Characters: |
Casey Little Max |
| Advertisement (1 page) |
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| Synopsis: |
Ad for Daisy Defender Repeater air rifle (BB gun) from Daisy Manufacturing Company. Coupon for booklet on "How to Start a Junior Air Rifle Club" booklet. |
| Credits: |
Letters: typeset |
| Characters: |
Bill Bill's Dad Mayor Editor |
| Comic Story (6 pages) |
Funny Bunny |
| Featuring: |
Little Max |
| Synopsis: |
Little Max dresses in a bunny costume for Joe Palooka's Easter party, given for neighborhood children. Max, who never speaks, surreptitiously arranges for his good friend Alice to find the golden egg and win a prize. |
| Genre: |
Humor Children |
| Characters: |
Little Max Joe Palooka Ann Palooka Alice |
| Advertisement (1 page) |
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| Synopsis: |
Ad, with order coupon, for motor vehicle repair books from Motor Book Dept. |
| Credits: |
Letters: typeset |
| Characters: |
W Schrop C Auberry |
| Comic Story (2 pages) |
See Worthy |
| Featuring: |
Little Max |
| Synopsis: |
Alice lends Little Max an umbrella, but he needs to hold it so low that he can't see. He collides with another pedestrian and tears a hole in the fabric. Now he has a window so he can see without getting wet. |
| Genre: |
Humor Children |
| Characters: |
Little Max Alice |
| Comic Story (2 pages) |
Water Boy |
| Featuring: |
Little Max |
| Synopsis: |
Casey and Little Max agree to water the animals in exchange for circus tickets. Casey says he'll do Max a favor and take the horses as there are more of them -- but the camels, of course, need many more buckets to satisfy them. The ringmaster says Casey must be at work every night, but Max is excused; camels go without water for a week. |
| Genre: |
Humor Children |
| Characters: |
Little Max Casey Ringmaster |
| Text Story (1 page) |
Humphrey at the Fair |
| Featuring: |
Humphrey Pennyworth |
| Synopsis: |
Humphrey and his sister go to the fair, where Humphrey consumes gargantuan amounts of food. He naively tries a rigged weight-lifting game and wins easily because of his huge size. The crowd recognizes that the game is rigged; they chase off the barker and his accomplice, and give Humphrey all the prizes. He just wants to get home because he's hungry. |
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Letters: typeset |
| Genre: |
Humor |
| Characters: |
Humphrey Pruney Barker Lou |
| Comic Story (2 pages) |
Strictly From Hunger |
| Featuring: |
Humphrey Pennyworth |
| Synopsis: |
Humphrey eats massive amounts of food, then dreams he's eating a three-foot stack of pancakes. |
| Genre: |
Humor |
| Characters: |
Humphrey Pruney |
| Advertisement (1 page) |
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| Synopsis: |
Ad, in comic story form, for Double Bubble Gum from Frank H. Fleer Corp. Pud's friends bet that he can't make his way through the maze in five minutes. He gives them all Double Bubble gum, then threads his way through by listening to the sound of their bubbles popping. |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Ray Thompson [as Ray T] | Inks: Ray Thompson [as Ray T] |
| Characters: |
Pud Pud's Friends |
| Advertisement (1 page) |
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| Featuring: |
Terry and the Pirates |
| Synopsis: |
Ad for free Terry and the Pirates comic books in every carton of Canada Dry Ginger Ale. |
| Credits: |
Letters: typeset |
| Characters: |
Terry Lee |
| Advertisement (1 page) |
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| Synopsis: |
Ad, with order coupon, for 70-piece Space Patrol play set from Space Squadron |
| Credits: |
Letters: typeset |
| Advertisement (1 page) |
"Now you can fly a real jet plane!" |
| Synopsis: |
Ad, with order coupon, for Jetex Javelin working model jet airplane kit |
| Credits: |
Letters: typeset |
| Comic Story (4 pages) |
The Funny Mummy |
| Featuring: |
Little Max |
| Synopsis: |
Little Max tries to catch a fly, but gets all wrapped up in fly tape. Posing as a mummy, he wins a prize at Alice's costume party. |
| Genre: |
Humor Children |
| Characters: |
Little Max Alice Joe Palooka |
| Comic Story (2 pages) |
Sunday Coat |
| Featuring: |
Little Dot |
| Synopsis: |
Dot drapes the dog around her neck to give her coat a fur collar. |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Vic Herman | Inks: Vic Herman |
| Genre: |
Humor Children |
| Characters: |
Little Dot Dot's Dog |
| Activity (1 page) |
Little Max Makes Easter Eggs |
| Featuring: |
Little Max |
| Synopsis: |
Little Max demonstrates how to make Easter eggs. |
| Characters: |
Little Max |
| Text Story (1 page) |
The Jumping Frog |
| Synopsis: |
Bret Harte brings his champion frog to Nevada for a competition. Mark Twain helps a competitor fill the frog with birdshot. |
| Credits: |
Letters: typeset |
| Characters: |
Bret Harte Mark Twain Bill |
| Statement Of Ownership (0 pages) |
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| Synopsis: |
Statement of Ownership |
| Credits: |
Letters: typeset |
| Advertisement (1 page) |
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| Synopsis: |
Ad, with order coupon, for joke books from Stravon Publishers |
| Credits: |
Letters: typeset |
| Advertisement (1 page) |
"[Don't be a] skinny scarecrow!" |
| Synopsis: |
Ad, with order coupon, for information on body building from Jowett Institute of Physical Training |
| Credits: |
Pencils: ? (photograph) | Inks: ? (photograph) | Letters: typeset |
| Characters: |
Roger Hirsch John Sill Felipe Mendoza Jobie Jackson George F Jewett |
| Advertisement (1 page) |
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| Synopsis: |
Ad, with order coupon, for selling seed packets from American Seed Co. |
| Credits: |
Letters: typeset |
| Characters: |
Dick Tracy Arthur Godfrey |
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