Issue Details

Issue	#43
Published	February-March 1957
Cover Price	0.10 USD
Pages	36
Editing	Whitney Ellsworth (credited); Lawrence Nadle (actual)
Notes	Issue credits were discussed on the GCD mailing list in December 2006, with principal input from Jerry Bails' Who's Who, Bob Hughes, Bob Bailey and Steven Rowe.

Cover Details

Characters	Bob Hope; cave girl
Synopsis	Bob Hope rubs noses with a sexy cave girl.
Genre	Celebrity; humor
Script	Cal Howard ?
Pencils	Owen Fitzgerald
Inks	Graham Place ?

1 page advertisement "We'll ripple your body with muscles..."

Synopsis	Ad for The National Sports Council
Script	? (ad copy)
Letters	Typeset
Notes	Inside front cover; black and white

8 page Bob Hope story "Right! for sixty-five thousand dollars!"

Characters	Bob Hope; Mrs. Peabody; Carolyn Spooner; Professor Spooner
Synopsis	Bob Hope hopes to become a contestant on "The $65,000 Question" to make money. He accidentally strikes Carolyn Spooner with his yo-yo. She takes him to the lab of her father, who puts him into a time machine and sends him into the future. He encounters his rich, grateful landlady, Mrs. Peabody.
Genre	Celebrity; humor
Script	Cal Howard?
Pencils	Owen Fitzgerald
Inks	Graham Place?

1 page advertisement "Take it from a champion race driver"

Synopsis	Ad for ANF Roadmaster bicycles
Script	? (ad copy)
Letters	Typeset

Half page activity "Cartoon Criss-Cross"

Synopsis

Combination crossword puzzle and acrostic

Half page advertisement "Wildroot Cream-Oil gives you confidence"

Synopsis	Wildroot Cream-Oil ad with single-panel cartoon
Letters	Typeset

1 page public service announcement "Winter sports champions of the world"

Synopsis	Feature on 1956 Winter Olympics
Genre	Fact

4 page Bob Hope story "But why should I hit you, Mr. Hope..."

Characters	Bob Hope; Mrs. Peabody; Carolyn Spooner; Professor Spooner
Synopsis	[continued] Bob Hope returns from the future. Professor Spooner accidentally sends him into the past.
Genre	Celebrity; humor
Script	Cal Howard?
Pencils	Owen Fitzgerald
Inks	Graham Place?

2 page advertisement "Buy Daisy fun with your Christmas money!"

Synopsis	Ad for Daisy Manufacturing Company's air rifles
Script	? (ad copy)
Letters	Typeset

4 page Bob Hope story "Ah! I'm beginning to come in for a landing..."

Characters	Bob Hope; cave girl; cave man
Synopsis	[continued] Bob Hope lands in the prehistoric past and encounters dinosaurs, a sexy cave girl and a cave man.
Script	Cal Howard?
Pencils	Owen Fitzgerald
Inks	Graham Place?

Half page Peg filler "Hi, Peg! I hear you have a date with Bill Williams tomorrow!"

Characters	Peg
Synopsis	Peg's friend chews bubble gum to keep Bill Williams from kissing her.
Genre	Humor
Script	Henry Boltinoff
Pencils	Henry Boltinoff
Inks	Henry Boltinoff
Letters	Henry Boltinoff

Half page advertisement "We love those cough drops..."

Synopsis	Ad for Smith Brothers Wild Cherry cough drops
Script	? (ad copy)

6 page Bob Hope story "Ooogoo! Ooogoo Boogoo!"

Characters	Bob Hope; Mrs. Peabody; Carolyn Spooner; Professor Spooner; cave girl; cave man
Synopsis	[continued] Bob Hope is avoids the cave man's club by ducking for his yo-yo. The cave girl knocks out the cave man and saves Bob from a pterodactyl. Bob insults her by suggesting that they "boop-boop-a-doop". She punches him and he lands back in Professor Spooner's lab. He fails to get on "The $65,000 Question", so Mrs. Peabody chases him with a club to get her rent.
Genre	Celebrity; humor
Script	Cal Howard?
Pencils	Owen Fitzgerald
Inks	Graham Place?

2 page Peg filler "Father's a regular dreamboat to let me wear his shirts!"

Characters	Peg; Peg's father; Clara (Peg's mother); Mr. Jones
Synopsis	Peg wears all of her father's shirts, so he doesn't have one for a meeting with a client, Mr. Jones. Mr. Jones's daughter has also worn all his shirts.
Genre	Humor
Script	Henry Boltinoff
Pencils	Henry Boltinoff
Inks	Henry Boltinoff
Letters	Henry Boltinoff

1 page advertisement "100 Toy Soldiers $1.25"

Synopsis	Ad for 100 Toy Soldiers from Josely Co.
Script	? (ad copy)
Letters	Typeset

1 page advertisement "Do you want spending money?"

Synopsis	Ad for selling motto plaques from Stephens Credit Sales
Script	? (ad copy)
Letters	Typeset
Notes	Inside back cover; black and white

1 page advertisement "Junior Space Pilots on the beam!"

Synopsis	Ad for selling White Cloverine Salve from Wilson Chemical Co.
Letters	?; typeset
Notes	Art style looks like a Bazooka Joe cartoon; back cover