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Issue Details

Issue #81
Published 1945
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?
Notes Indicia title is "MOON MULLINS, No. 81." No code number. Copyright 1939 by Chicago Tribune-N.Y. News Syndicate, Inc.

Cover Details

Characters Moon Mullins; Lord Plushbottom; Kayo
Genre humor

4 page Moon Mullins story "What's eating on your Uncle Stymie, anyway?"

Characters Moon Mullins; Lord Plushbottom; Emmy; Kayo; Dotty; Uncle Stymie; Mlle. Mimi
Synopsis Lord Plushbottom gets held up on the way home from a night club and ends up coming home in his long underwear.
Genre humor
Script Frank Willard
Pencils Frank WIllard
Inks Frank Willard
Notes Story begins on the inside front cover in black, red, and white.
Reprinted from Moon Mullins (News-Tribune Syndicate) newspaper strips from 1939 ?

4 page Moon Mullins story "If it ain't just like a lazy lummox like you!"

Characters Moon Mullins; Uncle Stymie; Mlle. Fifi; Emmy; Kayo
Synopsis Moon tries to win Mlle. Fifi away from Uncle Stymie.
Genre humor
Script Frank Willard
Pencils Frank Willard
Inks Frank Willard
Reprinted from Moon Mullins (News-Tribune Syndicate) newspaper strips from 1939

4 page Moon Mullins story "Kayo, I heard Lady Plushbottom say she was not going to let you..."

Characters Moon Mullins; Lord Plushbottom; Emmy; Kayo; Dotty; Uncle Styme; Mlle. Fifi
Synopsis Lord Plushbottom tries to talk Mlle. Fifi out of seeing Uncle Stymie. Moon convinces Uncle Stymie that he has a good idea for an invention and gets a $50,000 check.
Genre humor
Script Frank Willard
Pencils Frank Willard
Inks Frank Willard
Reprinted from Moon Mullins (News-Tribune Syndicate) newspaper strips from 1939

4 page Moon Mullins story "Me brudder Moon tells me you lent him a wad of dough-"

Characters Moon Mullins; Lord Plushbottom; Kayo; Emmy; Uncle Stymie; Mlle. Fifi
Synopsis Moon finds out that Uncle Stymie didn't sign the $50,000 check he gave him. Uncle Stymie catches Moon and Fifi together and breaks his engagement. Fifi tells Moon she's going to get money from Stymie's letters. Stymie decides to make a quick trip to Africa to hunt big game and forget Fifi. Emmy decides that Fifi is going to leave, too.
Genre humor
Script Frank Willard
Pencils Frank Willard
Inks Frank Willard
Reprinted from Moon Mullins (News-Tribune Syndicate) newspaper strips from 1939

4 page Moon Mullins story "Well, you will be when yer Uncle Stymie comes home and finds out..."

Characters Moon Mullins; Lord Plushbottom; Emmy; Kayo; Dotty (cameo); Uncle Stymie; Mlle. Fifi
Synopsis Uncle Stymie misses the boat to Africa and comes home to find that Emmy fired Mlle. Fifi. He is not happy.
Genre humor
Script Frank Willard
Pencils Frank Willard
Inks Frank Willard
Reprinted from Moon Mullins (News-Tribune Syndicate) newspaper strips from 1939

4 page Moon Mullins story "Well, bless his heart and I was beginning to think Uncle Stymie..."

Characters Moon Mullins; Lord Plushbottom; Emmy; Kayo; Uncle Stymie
Synopsis Uncle Stymie tries to get Emmy to tell him where Mlle. Fifi went.
Genre humor
Script Frank Willard
Pencils Frank Willard
Inks Frank Willard
Reprinted from Moon Mullins (News-Tribune Syndicate) newspaper strips from 1939

4 page Moon Mullins story "Moon, will you ever forget how Lord Plushbottom used to jump..."

Characters Moon Mullins; Lord Plushbottom; Emmy; Kayo; Dotty; Uncle Stymie
Synopsis Emmy beans Uncle Stymie with a vase. The rest of the family tries to figure out a way to raise money to buy her a ticket on the first boat back home.
Genre humor
Script Frank Willard
Pencils Frank Willard
Inks Frank Willard
Reprinted from Moon Mullins (News-Tribune Syndicate) newspaper strips from 1939

4 page Moon Mullins story "Ha! So they didn't think I would recover, Kayo!"

Characters Moon Mullins; Lord Plushbottom; Emmy; Kayo; Uncle Stymie
Synopsis Uncle Stymie goes to the hospital. A policeman comes looking for Emmy and she takes to the streets.
Genre humor
Script Frank Willard
Pencils Frank Willard
Inks Frank Willard
Reprinted from Moon Mullins (News-Tribune Syndicate) newspaper strips from 1939

3 page Moon Mullins story "Gee! - Nobody's seen nothing of Emmy yet"

Characters Moon Mullins; Lord Plushbottom; Emmy; Kayo; Dotty; Uncle Stymie
Synopsis Uncle Stymie is recovering in the hospital and Emmy is hiding out in a rundown boarding house.
Genre humor
Script Frank Willard
Pencils Frank Willard
Inks Frank Willard
Notes Story continues on inside back cover in black, red, and white and concludes on the back cover in color.
Reprinted from Moon Mullins (News-Tribune Syndicate) newspaper strips from 1939