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Issue Details

Issue #174
Published 1947
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?
Notes Indicia title is "WINNIE WINKLE, No. 174." No code number. Copyright 1947 by The Chicago Tribune.

Cover Details

Characters Winnie Winkle

4 page Winnie Winkle story "The Out-of-Town Job"

Characters Winnie Winkle; Will Wright
Synopsis Will is sent out of town for two months for an engineering job. Winnie follows and gets a job as a waitress in the hotel where he is staying.
Notes Story begins on the inside front cover in black, red, and white. Four tiers of panels per page.
Reprinted from Winnie Winkle (News-Tribune Syndicate) daily newspaper strips from 1938.

4 page Winnie Winkle story "Waitress Makes Play for Will"

Characters Winnie Winkle; Will Wright
Synopsis A waitress at the hotel feels slighted when Will doesn't ask her for a date. Will's boss has him escort his daughter, which makes Winnie jealous.
Notes Continued from previous sequence. Four tiers of panels per page.
Reprinted from Winnie Winkle (News-Tribune Syndicate) daily newspaper strips from 1938.

4 page Winnie Winkle story "Will Tries to Get Winnie Fired"

Characters Winnie Winkle; Will Wright; Mr. Boniface
Synopsis Will tries to get Winnie fired from her waitress job at the hotel by taking the boss's daughter to dinner.
Notes Continued from previous sequence. Four tiers of panels per page.
Reprinted from Winnie Winkle (News-Tribune Syndicate) daily newspaper strips from 1938.

4 page Winnie Winkle story "Winnie Gets a Promotion"

Characters Winnie Winkle; Will Wright; Mr. Boniface
Synopsis Will tries to tell Mr. Boniface, Winnie's boss, that she is married. Will's trying to get her fired since the hotel doesn't employ married women. Boniface doesn't believe him and Winnie is promoted to hotel social director.
Notes Continued from previous sequence. Four tiers of panels per page.
Reprinted from Winnie Winkle (News-Tribune Syndicate) daily newspaper strips from 1938.

4 page Winnie Winkle story "A Declaration of Love"

Characters Winnie Winkle; Will; Mr. Boniface
Synopsis Will wants Winnie to quit her job at the hotel. The hotel manager, not knowing Winnie is married, proclaims his love for her.
Notes Continued from previous sequence. Four tiers of panels per page.
Reprinted from Winnie Winkle (News-Tribune Syndicate) daily newspaper strips from 1938.

4 page Winnie Winkle story "Will is Jealous of Mr. Boniface"

Characters Winnie Winkle; Will Wright; Mr. Boniface
Synopsis Mr. Boniface continues to try to court Winnie, making Will jealous.
Notes Continued from previous sequence. Four tiers of panels per page.
Reprinted from Winnie Winkle (News-Tribune Syndicate) daily newspaper strips from 1938.

4 page Winnie Winkle story "Winnie's New Hairstyle"

Characters Winnie Winkle; Bill Wright; Mr. Boniface
Synopsis At Mr. Boniface's request, Winnie wears her hair in an upswept style. After all the other women copy the style, he agrees with her request to go back to her old hairstyle.
Notes Continued from previous sequence. Four tiers of panels per page. Will Wright is now called Bill Wright, no explanation given.
Reprinted from Winnie Winkle (News-Tribune Syndicate) daily newspaper strips from 1938.

4 page Winnie Winkle story "A Four-Sided Love Triangle"

Characters Winnie Winkle; Bill Wright; Mr. Boniface
Synopsis After Will sees Mr. Boniface take Winnie for a ride in his car at night, he goes to Boniface's office the next day for a confrontation. Winnie defuses the situation by saying that the two are engaged. To complicate things, Bill's boss's daughter Kay is in love with Bill.
Notes Continued from previous sequence. Four tiers of panels per page.
Reprinted from Winnie Winkle (News-Tribune Syndicate) daily newspaper strips from December 1938.

3 page Winnie Winkle story "Fired Times Two"

Characters Winnie Winkle; Bill Wright; Mr. Boniface
Synopsis When Bill's boss comes to visit, he thinks Bill has been leading his daughter on and fires him. Mr. Boniface learns that Winnie and Bill are married, and fires her from the hotel.
Notes Continued from previous sequence. Story continues on inside back cover in black, red, and white and concludes on the back cover in color. Four tiers of panels per page.
Reprinted from Winnie Winkle (News-Tribune Syndicate) daily newspaper strips from January 1939.