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Issue Details

Issue	#793
Published	April 1957
Cover Price	0.10 USD
Pages	36
Editing	?
Notes	Indicia title is "MORTY MEEKLE, No. 793." Code number is MORTY M.O.S. #793-574. Copyright 1957 by NEA Service, Inc. Based on the NEA newspaper strip "Morty Meekle" (later re-titled "Winthrop") by Dick Cavalli.

Cover Details

Characters	Morty Meekle
Genre	humor
Letters	typeset
Notes	Cover says "By Dick Cavali" (sic) in typeset letters, but is not likely to be by him.

1 page Morty Meekle story "Over-Exercised"

Characters	Morty Meekle; Jill Wortle
Synopsis	Morty is told to exercise, but over-does it.
Genre	humor
Notes	Inside front cover; black and white.

6 page Morty Meekle story "Flying High"

Characters	Morty Meekle; Jill Wortle; Winthrop Wortle
Synopsis	Winthrop wants to invent a flying machine. Morty helps.
Genre	humor

8 page Morty Meekle story "Love's Labor Lost"

Characters	Morty Meekle; Jill Wortle; Mr. Wortle: Mr. Boomer
Synopsis	Mr. Wortle and Mr. Boomer try to use a Bohemian love potion called Shushkataniabopnik to get Morty to propose to Jill.
Genre	humor

6 page Morty Meekle story "Plane Figures"

Characters	Morty Meekle; Jill Wortle; Winthrop Wortle; Mr. Wortle; Mrs. Wortle.
Synopsis	Morty folds Winthrop's math homework into a paper airplane and has to chase it down, causing lots of damage in the process.
Genre	humor

6 page Morty Meekle story "Of Moose and Men"

Characters	Morty Meekle; Jill Wortle; Mr. Wortle; Winthrop Wortle
Synopsis	Morty gets a moose head stuck on his head.
Genre	humor
Notes	The title is a take-off on the title of the 1937 novel "Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck.

6 page Morty Meekle story "Feeding Time"

Characters	Morty Meekle; Jill Wortle; Winthrop Wortle
Synopsis	Winthrop causes havoc at the zoo when Morty and Jill take him with them.
Genre	humor

1 page Morty Meekle story "Overdone Shoeshine"

Characters	Morty Meekle; Jill Wortle
Synopsis	Morty's shoes are ruined by an incompetent shoe-shiner.
Genre	humor
Notes	Inside back cover; black and white.

1 page Morty Meekle story "Choice Menu"

Characters	Morty Meekle
Synopsis	Morty can't decide what to order at a restaurant.
Genre	humor
Notes	Back cover. The sixth panel is Dell's "A Pledge to Parents," in the middle of the story.