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Issue Details

Issue #31
Published November-December 1956
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?
Notes Indicia says "Published bi-monthly". Cover credits form the GCD mailing list.

Cover Details - "untitled"

Characters Lassie
Genre Animal
Pencils Mo Gollub (painting)
Inks Mo Gollub (painting)
Colors Mo Gollub (painting)
Notes Indicia says "Published bi-monthly". Cover credits form the GCD mailing list.

1 page Romantic Legends of South America text article "The Gilded King"

Synopsis Facts about the legend of El Dorado.
Genre Fact
Letters Typeset
Notes Inside front cover.

10 page Lassie story "Danger Ahead"

Characters Lassie; Rocky; Timbu; Cesar (trucker); Mayor of Rosario; Serdo (trucker); Magre (trucker)
Synopsis The mayor of Rosario asks Rocky to act as a guide and advisor for the engineers who are going to build a new railroad. Serdo and Magre try to get the other truckers to sabotage the building of the railroad, so they can take over their businesses, expecting truck traffic to increase after the railroad has been built.
Genre Animal
Pencils Bob Forgione
Inks Bob Forgione
Letters Typeset
Notes Art credits for this issue from David A. Roach via Steve Whitaker. Cesar, the trucker and would-be saboteur, first appeared as a circus strong man in 'King of the Amazon' in issue #28.

10 page Lassie story "Boy of the Wilderness"

Characters Lassie; Rocky; Timbu; Capitao Jorge; Diego Gomes (son of Luis Gomes); Luis Gomes (a seringueiro - rubber gatherer)
Synopsis Lassie, Rocky and Timbu visit Luis Gomes to make a series of photos on the life of a seringueiro (rubber gatherer). On their way to gather rubber from the scattered trees, Luis hurts his leg. The next day his son Diego goes to the jungle to gather the rubber. Lassie and Timbu follow him, and with the help of Lassie's nose, trailing Luis' trip of the day before, they find the trees - and a whole lot more.
Genre Animal
Pencils Bob Forgione
Inks Bob Forgione
Letters Typeset

1 page text story "My Friend Pinto"

Synopsis A dying indian gives Martin his dog, Pinto. Martin is going to the Fazenda Arosa to hunt down a jaguar, and he thinks the presence of a dog will make the job more difficult, but Pinto has a big surprise for him.
Letters Typeset

4 page Reina the Black Panther story "untitled"

Characters Reina; Kugar (peccary); Tarr (brown panther orphan)
Synopsis As Reina watches a herd of peccaries finish off a jaguar, she finds Kugar, the leader of the herd, charging against Tarr, apparently the cub of the killed jaguar. Having saved Tarr, she brings him up with her own slightly older cubs.
Genre Animal
Letters Typeset

6 page Lassie story "Lassie Finds a Star"

Characters Lassie; Rocky; Gerry; Timbu; Star (colt)
Synopsis In the jungle, Lassie helps a colt fight off a jacare (alligator). The colt follows Lassie to the homestead where he is adopted by Timbu, who names him Star. Rocky wants to bring Star to Rosario to sell him, but on the way he gets hurt in a car accident, and Lassie helps him ride Star to town for medical treatment.
Genre Animal
Pencils Bob Forgione
Inks Bob Forgione
Letters Typeset

Half page Tom and Jerry promo (ad from the publisher) "Riddle Rhyme:"

Characters Tom; Jerry; Tuffy
Genre funny animals
Pencils Harvey Eisenberg
Letters Typeset
Notes Front cover of Tom and Jerry Comics #148.

Half page text article "The Sea of Grass"

Synopsis Facts about the Pampas.
Genre Fact
Letters Typeset
Notes Inside back cover.

Half page promo (ad from the publisher) "A Pledge to Parents"

Letters Typeset
Notes Inside back cover

1 page advertisement "Schwinn Phantom"

Letters Typeset
Notes "Most beautiful bike in the world!"