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Issue Details

Issue #563
Published June 1954
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?
Notes Indicia title is "RHUBARB, THE MILLIONAIRE CAT, No. 563." Code number is RHUBARB O.S. #563-546. Copyright 1954 by Doubleday and Company, Inc. Based on the character "Rhubarb" created by H. Allen Smith. Third of three "Rhubarb" Four Colors.

Cover Details - "Rhubarb The Millionaire Cat"

Characters Rhubarb (cat)
Genre animal
Pencils ? (painting)
Inks ? (painting)
Colors ? (painting)

1 page filler "Cats"

Synopsis Facts about cats.
Genre fact
Letters typeset
Notes Inside front cover; black and white. Large illustration and typeset text.

17 page Rhubarb story "Rhubarb Wins by a Whisker"

Characters Rhubarb (cat); Eric Yaeger; Polly Yaeger; Len Sickles
Synopsis Rhubarb the cat is the owner of the Brooklyn professional baseball team. He and his guardians, Eric and Polly Yaeger, are in Florida for spring training. A conceited ball player, jealous of Rhubarb's celebrity status, feeds info to opposing managers so the Brooklyn team will lose its Grapefruit League games.
Genre animal; sports

17 page Rhubarb story "Circus Capers"

Characters Rhubarb (cat); Eric Yaeger; Polly Yaeger
Synopsis Eric and Polly take Rhubarb to the circus, where the cat becomes part of the show. That night the cat returns to the circus and is taken captive by an unscrupulous animal trainer, who gets a hypnotist to make Rhubarb think he's a dog.
Genre animal
Notes Story continues on inside back cover in black and white and concludes on the back cover in color.