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Issue Details

Issue #12
Published April-May 1968
Frequency bi-monthly
Cover Price 0.12 USD
Pages 36
Editing Joe Orlando

Cover Details

Characters Scooter; Cookie; Sylvester; Penny; Malibu; Cynthia; Kenny
Genre teen
Pencils Bob Oksner ?: Joe Orlando ?
Inks Tex Blaisdell
Letters Ira Schnapp
Notes Pencils by Joe Orlando credited by Tex Blaisdell and Bob Oksner via email from Bob Bailey, 2002-04-16. Edited by Per Sandell.

6 page Swing with Scooter story "Live and Lion"

Characters Scooter; Sylvester; Malibu; Cynthia; Penny; Cookie; Kenny
Synopsis The gang is at a costume party and Sylvester gets mistaken for an escaped lion from the zoo -- and vice versa.
Genre teen
Pencils Bob Oksner
Inks Tex Blaisdell
Notes Inker credited by Tex Blaisdell and Bob Oksner via email from Bob Bailey, 2002-04-16. Edited by Per Sandell.

1 page Swing with Scooter text article "Scooter's Hip Humor"

Genre humor
Pencils Joe Orlando; Bob Oksner; Tex Blaisdell; Wally Wood (illustrations)
Inks Joe Orlando; Bob Oksner; Tex Blaisdell; Wally Wood (illustrations)
Letters typeset
Notes One page of jokes with four illustrations. Pencils and inks credited by Tex Blaisdell and Bob Oksner via email from Bob Bailey, 2002-04-16. Edited by Per Sandell.

1 page Scooter's Aunt Hatta letters page

Synopsis humorous answers to (made-up?) reader letters
Pencils Joe Orlando (illustrations)
Inks Bill Draut ? (illustrations)
Letters typeset
Notes Inker credited by Tex Blaisdell and Bob Oksner via email from Bob Bailey, 2002-04-16. Edited by Per Sandell.

1 page The Flash promo (ad from the publisher) "The Flashiest News of the Year"

Genre superhero
Pencils Ross Andru
Inks Mike Esposito
Letters Gaspar Saladino
Notes house ad for The Flash (DC, 1959 series) #178 [80 Page Giant #G-46]

4 page Sylvester story "Diet Riot"

Characters Sylvester; Scooter; Kenny; Malibu
Synopsis The guys try to get Sylvester to diet, until a new girl shows up who likes him fat. Then they all want to put on weight.
Genre teen
Pencils Joe Orlando
Inks Mike Esposito ?
Notes Inker credited by Tex Blaisdell and Bob Oksner via email from Bob Bailey, 2002-04-16. Edited by Per Sandell.

1 page Kicky Kenny story "He's Only a Paper Tiger!"

Characters Kenny; Scooter
Genre teen
Script Joe Orlando ?
Pencils Joe Orlando
Inks Mike Esposito
Notes Script, pencils and inks credited by Tex Blaisdell and Bob Oksner via email from Bob Bailey, 2002-04-16. Edited by Per Sandell.

5 page Malibu story "Mali-BOO"

Characters Malibu; Scooter; Kenny; Sylvester; Cookie; Penny; Cynthia
Synopsis Malibu gets the gang to agree to stay in a haunted house until midnight to prove to the real estate agent that the place isn't haunted, but no one lasts until the deadline.
Genre teen; occult
Script Joe Orlando ?
Pencils Joe Orlando?; Bill Draut (finishes) ?
Inks Bill Draut ?; Mike Esposito ?
Notes Script, pencils and inks credited by Tex Blaisdell and Bob Oksner via email from Bob Bailey, 2002-04-16. Edited by Per Sandell.

1 page Stanley and His Monster promo (ad from the publisher) "A boy named Stanley has a pet."

Genre humor
Pencils Win Mortimer ?
Inks Win Mortimer ?
Letters Ira Schnapp ?
Notes house ad for Stanley and His Monster (DC, 1968 series)

5 page Cookie and Penny story "It's No Picnic"

Characters Penny; Cookie; Scooter; Cynthia; Sylvester; Malibu; Kenny; Major Orpheus Otis
Synopsis At the annual high school picnic, the girls compete in various games to win the chance to spend the afternoon with the boy of their choice.
Genre teen
Pencils Bob Oksner
Inks Tex Blaisdell
Notes Inker credited by Tex Blaisdell and Bob Oksner via email from Bob Bailey, 2002-04-16. Edited by Per Sandell.

1 page Malibu story "The Rage from Finksville!"

Characters Malibu; Scooter; Sylvester
Genre teen
Script Joe Orlando ?
Pencils Joe Orlando
Inks Mike Esposito
Notes Script, pencils and inks credited by Tex Blaisdell and Bob Oksner via email from Bob Bailey, 2002-04-16. Edited by Per Sandell.

1 page Direct Currents promo (ad from the publisher)

Pencils Irv Novick; Neal Adams (illustrations)
Inks Irv Novick; Neal Adams (illustrations)
Letters typeset
Notes listing of DC comics on sale the second half of February 1968; includes covers of Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #374 and Strange Adventures (DC, 1951 series) #211