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Issue Details

Issue #576
Published August 1954
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Notes Indicia title is "ANGEL, No. 576." Code number is ANGEL O.S. #576-548. Copyright 1954 by Chicago Sun-Times Syndicate. Based on the "Angel" newspaper strip by Mel Casson. Series continues as Angel #2 (May-July 1955)

Cover Details

Characters Angel
Genre children
Pencils Mel Casson ?
Inks Mel Casson ?

1 page Angel story "Spare the Rod"

Characters Angel
Synopsis After breaking a window, Angel gets a lecture rather than a spanking after her father reads a book titled "Spare the Rod."
Genre children
Notes Inside front cover; black and white; pantomime story.

10 page Angel story "The Picnic"

Characters Angel; Milton; Stanley; Julie; Georgie; Officer O'Malley
Synopsis Angel takes Milton on a picnic. Georgie tries to get the picnic basket, but Angel ends up eating all the food while being chased.
Genre children

8 page Angel story "Angel's Pets"

Characters Angel; Georgie
Synopsis Angel gets a pet mouse that causes problems wherever she goes.
Genre children

6 page Angel story "The Secret Club"

Characters Angel; Milton; Georgie
Synopsis The boys allow Angel to join their secret club if she brings some furniture. With her mother's approval, the gang takes her father's old easy chair to the clubhouse.
Genre children

8 page Angel story "The Fountain"

Characters Angel; Milton; Georgie
Synopsis During a heat wave, Angel goes into the lemonade business.
Genre children

1 page Angel story "The Wastebasket"

Characters Angel
Synopsis Angel makes a wastebasket for her parents.
Genre children
Notes Inside back cover; black and white.

1 page Angel story "A Fish Story"

Characters Angel; Milton; Georgie
Synopsis Angel uses a fishing line baited with a fish to rescue a cat from a street grate.
Genre children
Notes Back cover; pantomime story.