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Issue Details

Issue #99
Published March 1946
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 52
Editing ?
Notes Indicia title is "SMITTY, No. 99." Code number is S.O.S. #99-463. Copyright 1941 by the Chicago Tribune.

Cover Details - "Smitty"

Characters Smitty; Mr. Bailey; Little Moose
Genre humor

Half page Smitty story "Oh my! Mother's little darling is going to look spic and span!!"

Characters Herby
Synopsis Herby's new teacher gets the wrong idea when she sees Herby walking to school with a policeman.
Genre humor
Script Walter Berndt
Pencils Walter Berndt
Inks Walter Berndt
Notes Inside front cover; black, red, and white.
Reprinted from Smitty (Chicago Tribune) Sunday strip from 1941

Half page Herby story "Lovestruck"

Characters Herby
Synopsis Herby starts to write a love note but his teacher looks over his shoulder.
Genre children
Script Walter Berndt
Pencils Walter Berndt
Inks Walter Berndt
Colors >
Notes Inside front cover; black, red, and white; pantomime story. Companion Sunday topper to Smitty strip in Sequence 2.
Reprinted from Herby (Chicago Tribune) Sunday strip from 1941

12 page Smitty story "Smitty, are you drumming your fingers on the desk?"

Characters Smitty; Mr. Bailey; George; Little Moose
Synopsis Smitty and Mr. Bailey go to their usual North Woods fishing resort. There they bring Little Moose the Indian to live with them and try to teach him "civilized" manners.
Genre humor
Script Walter Berndt
Pencils Walter Berndt
Inks Walter Berndt
Reprinted from Smitty (Chicago Tribune) daily newspaper strips from 1941

8 page Smitty story Which one of my class lives nearest the school?"

Characters Herby; Miss Primm
Synopsis Herby's parents take in his school teacher as a boarder.
Genre humor
Script Walter Berndt
Pencils Walter Berndt
Inks Walter Berndt
Reprinted from Smitty (Chicago Tribune) daily newspaper strips from 1941

7 page Smitty story "Yes sir! Here it is!! The record of the champion team of 1906!!!"

Characters Smitty; Mr. Bailey
Synopsis A football coach wants Mr. Bailey to give him a never-fail football play from his playing days in 1906.
Genre humor; sports
Script Walter Berndt
Pencils Walter Berndt
Inks Walter Berndt
Reprinted from Smitty (Chicago Tribune) daily newspaper strips from 1941

4 page Smitty story "Monday again! It's the old grind again after a pleasant weekend"

Characters Smitty; Mr. Bailey
Synopsis Mr. Bailey thinks a girl in the building across the street is flirting with him when she puts signs in the window.
Genre humor
Script Walter Berndt
Pencils Walter Berndt
Inks Walter Berndt
Reprinted from Smitty (Chicago Tribune) daily newspaper strips from 1941

16 page Smitty story "Ah! A letter for me!!"

Characters Smitty; Mr. Bailey; Herby
Synopsis Mr. Bailey puts in a Victory Garden on the roof of his office building. Later Herby tries to get up the nerve to buy a war stamp from a booth and get a kiss from a girl he likes.
Genre humor
Script Walter Berndt
Pencils Walter Berndt
Inks Walter Berndt
Notes Copyright in the logo is 1941, but story events make it more likely it is 1942 or later.
Reprinted from Smitty (Chicago Tribune) daily newspaper strips from 1941?

1 page Smitty story "Who's trying to be funny?"

Characters Herby
Synopsis Someone is writing graffiti about Herby.
Genre humor
Script Walter Berndt
Pencils Walter Berndt
Inks Walter Berndt
Reprinted from Smitty (Chicago Tribune) Sunday newspaper strip from 1941

2 page Smitty story "Aw, Be a good guy and let me join the Army!"

Characters Smitty
Synopsis Smitty tries to join the Army and the Navy but is turned down.
Genre humor
Script Walter Berndt
Pencils Walter Berndt
Inks Walter Berndt
Notes Begins on inside back cover in black, red, and white and concludes on the back cover in color.
Reprinted from Smitty (Chicago Tribune) daily newspaper strips from 1941