Issue Details

Issue	#1185
Published	May-July 1961
Cover Price	0.15 USD
Pages	36
Editing	?
Notes	Indicia title is "SWEETIE PIE #1185." Code number is SWEETIE.PIE.O.S. #1185-614. Copyright 1961 by Newspaper Enterprise Assn. Based on the "Sweetie Pie" newspaper strip.

Cover Details

Characters	Sweetie Pie; Lester
Genre	children
Notes	Indicia title is "SWEETIE PIE #1185." Code number is SWEETIE.PIE.O.S. #1185-614. Copyright 1961 by Newspaper Enterprise Assn. Based on the "Sweetie Pie" newspaper strip.

1 page Sweetie Pie story "The Bird Watcher"

Characters	Sweetie Pie; Mrs. Simpson
Synopsis	Sweetie Pie takes up bird-watching.
Genre	children
Notes	Inside front cover; black and white.

5 page Sweetie Pie story "Birds of a Feather"

Characters	Sweetie Pie; Merton; Lester; Miss Fossle; Mr. Simpson; Mrs. Simpson
Synopsis	Sweetie Pie gets in trouble for disrupting class with a "staring contest." Her teacher goes to Sweetie Pie's home, only to find her mother and father engaged in the same game.
Genre	children

6 page Sweetie Pie story "Clothes Make the Dummy"

Characters	Sweetie Pie; Lester; Gashouse Garrity; Mrs. Simpson; Mrs. Wilkins
Synopsis	Sweetie Pie and Lester disguise a dressmaker's dummy as an Arabian sheik to get it past bully Gashouse Garrity without paying a toll.
Genre	children

4 page Sweetie Pie story "Sweet Schultz"

Characters	Sweetie Pie; Lester; Joey; Shultz (dog)
Synopsis	Sweetie Pie tries to make the boys think her dog is ferocious, but the dog is hopelessly gentle.
Genre	children

2 page Sweetie Pie story "Fancy Dancing"

Characters	Sweetie Pie; Lester; Rudolph Minuet
Synopsis	Sweetie Pie challenges her dancing instructor to a contest.
Genre	children

4 page Sweetie Pie story "The Door Walker"

Characters	Sweetie Pie; Mr. Simpson; Mrs. Simpson
Synopsis	Mr. Simpson buys a used door. Sweetie Pie gets her head stuck in the peep hole.
Genre	children

4 page Sweetie Pie story "The Queen Bee"

Characters	Sweetie Pie; Lester; Joey
Synopsis	Sweetie Pie imagines herself and the boys as bees. She's the queen bee, naturally.
Genre	children

6 page Sweetie Pie story "The Worthy Cause"

Characters	Sweetie Pie; Mrs. Simpson; Mrs. Glush; Donny
Synopsis	Sweetie Pie and Donny collect bottles to raise money for the "Ailing Alligators" charity. Unfortunately the bottles they collect are the milk bottles left for the milkman.
Genre	children

1 page Sweetie Pie story "Rubbish Removal"

Characters	Sweetie Pie; Mr. Simpson; Mrs. Simpson
Synopsis	Sweetie Pie uses the garbage disposal to get rid of the all the leaves in the yard.
Genre	children

1 page Sweetie Pie story "The Glove"

Characters	Sweetie Pie; Lester; Joey
Synopsis	Sweetie Pie borrows Lester's baseball glove, but doesn't want to play ball with it.
Genre	children
Notes	Inside back cover; black and white.

1 page Sweetie Pie story "The Busybody"

Characters	Sweetie Pie; Shultz (dog)
Synopsis	Shultz keep running into things because he's always looking behind. Sweetie Pie solves the problem by putting a rear view mirror on his collar.
Genre	children
Notes	Back cover.