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Issue Details

Issue #1106
Published June-August 1960
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?
Notes Indicia title is "77 SUNSET STRIP, No. 1106." Code number is 77 SUNSET STRIP.O.S. #1106-606. Copyright 1960 by Warner Bros Pictures, Inc. Based on the "77 Sunset Strip" TV series.

Cover Details

Characters Stuart Bailey (as played by Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., photo); Jeff Spencer (as played by Roger Smith, photo); Kookie (as played by Edd Byrnes, photo)
Genre detective
Pencils ? (photo)
Inks ? (photo)
Colors ? (photo)
Letters typeset
Notes Indicia title is "77 SUNSET STRIP, No. 1106." Code number is 77 SUNSET STRIP.O.S. #1106-606. Copyright 1960 by Warner Bros Pictures, Inc. Based on the "77 Sunset Strip" TV series.

1 page [77 Sunset Strip] foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "Kookie's Close Call / Lights...Camera...Danger"

Characters Stuart Bailey (as played by Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., photo); Jeff Spencer (as played by Roger Smith, photo); Kookie (as played by Edd Byrnes, photo)
Synopsis Brief text previews of the stories in the issue.
Pencils ?; ? (photos)
Inks ?; ? (photos)
Letters typeset
Notes Inside front cover; black and white. One illustration and two photos (one of Kookie solo, the other of the three stars of the show).

16 page 77 Sunset Strip story "Kookie's Close Call"

Characters Stuart Bailey, Jeff Spencer; Kookie
Synopsis When Kookie borrows Stuart's car, two crooks mistake him for Bailey and take him to their boss. Upset because Kookie isn't Bailey, who had sent him to prison, the boss plans to have Kookie shot at midnight when a freight train's noise will cover the sound of the gunshot.
Genre detective
Script Eric Freiwald; Robert Schaefer
Pencils Alex Toth
Inks Alex Toth
Notes A billboard with "Watch Maverick Sunday night" (complete with a rough caricature of James Garner) plays a large part in the story. Script, pencils, and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).

16 page 77 Sunset Strip story "Lights, Camera, Danger"

Characters Stuart Bailey; Jeff Spencer; Kookie
Synopsis Stuart and Jeff go undercover as extras in a movie to find out who is trying to sabotage the film's production.
Genre detective
Script Eric Freiwald; Robert Schaefer
Pencils Alex Toth
Inks Alex Toth
Notes The last panel is Dell's "A Pledge to Parents." Script, pencils, and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).

1 page filler "Grapevine Clues"

Synopsis The origins and uses of the verbal "grapevine" to spread news by word of mouth.
Genre fact
Script Eric Freiwald; Robert Schaefer
Pencils Alex Toth
Inks Alex Toth
Letters typeset
Notes Inside back cover; black and white. Panels with typeset text underneath. Script, pencils, and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)

1 page [77 Sunset Strip] story "Kookie's Catch"

Characters Stuart Bailey; Kookie
Synopsis Kookie recognizes a criminal by his voice.
Genre detective
Pencils Alex Toth
Inks Alex Toth
Letters Alex Toth ?
Notes Back cover. This sequence is replaced by an ad in some copies. See Sequence 6.

1 page Schwinn Bicycles advertisement "Schwinn Continental"

Letters typeset
Notes Back cover. Ad for Schwinn Continental model 10-speed bicycle for $86.95. Arnold, Schwinn & Co., Chicago, Ill. This ad replaces Sequence 5 in some copies.