Issue Details

Issue	#823
Published	August 1957
Cover Price	0.10 USD
Pages	36
Editing	?
Notes	Indicia title is "TIMMY, No. 823." Code number is TIMMY O.S. #823-578. Copyright 1957 by Chicago Tribune-New York News Syndicate, Inc. Based on the "Timmy" newspaper strip by Howard Sparber. Second of four Timmy Four Color issues.

Cover Details

Characters	Timmy; Hanky
Genre	children
Letters	typeset

1 page Timmy story "Teaching Timmy to Hit a Baseball"

Characters	Timmy
Synopsis	Timmy's father tries to teach him how to hit a baseball.
Genre	children
Notes	Inside front cover; black and white; pantomime story.

8 page Timmy story "The Big Deal"

Characters	Timmy; Hanky
Synopsis	Timmy and Hanky go to their father's office, where they "help" him with his work.
Genre	children

7 page Timmy story "The Upper Crust"

Characters	Timmy; Hanky; Jane Ellen
Synopsis	Timmy and Hanky spend the day at their rich friend Jane Ellen's house, turning it into a shambles.
Genre	children

8 page Timmy story "Fun on the Frontier"

Characters	Timmy; Hanky
Synopsis	Timmy tells Hanky a story about how the pioneers lived.
Genre	children

3 page Timmy story "Backyard Bonanza"

Characters	Timmy; Hanky
Synopsis	Timmy's father thinks he's struck oil in the back yard, but it's just a broken pipe from the fuel oil tank for the furnace.
Genre	children

5 page Timmy story "The Dog-Sitters"

Characters	Timmy; Hanky
Synopsis	Timmy and Hanky start a dog-sitting business.
Genre	children

Half page Smokey Stover promo (ad from the publisher) "When the fire is thisaway..."

Characters	Smokey Stover (cameo)
Letters	typeset
Notes	Promo for Smokey Stover Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #827. Repro of cover is depicted.

1 page Timmy story "The Painless Dentist"

Characters	Timmy
Synopsis	Timmy goes to a "painless" dentist.
Genre	children
Notes	Inside back cover; black and white.

1 page Timmy story "The Trade-In"

Characters	Timmy; Hanky
Synopsis	Timmy and Hanky try to use their wind-up toy car as a trade-in on a larger kid-size car.
Genre	children
Notes	Back cover. The last panel is Dell's "A Pledge to Parents."