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Issue Details

Issue #9
Published May 1958
Cover Price 0.15 USD
Pages 36
Editing Harvey Kurtzman; Jack Davis (assistant); Will Elder (assistant); Al jaffee (assistant); Arnold Roth (assitant)

Cover Details

Genre satire
Pencils Bleckman
Inks Bleckman

1 page Humbug Holiday Album story "Saint Patrick's Day"

Genre satire
Pencils Arnold Roth
Inks Arnold Roth
Letters Arnold Roth?

4 page story "The Best Television Commercials 1958"

Genre satire
Script Al Jaffee?
Pencils Al Jaffee?
Inks Al Jaffee?
Letters Al Jaffee?

2 page story "Log of the Solar Hawke"

Genre satire
Script Ed Fisher
Pencils Arnold Roth
Inks Arnold Roth
Letters Arnold Roth?

3 page And Who Gets Killed story "Finding The Mummy"

Synopsis On pages 9, 18 and 32
Genre gag
Script Jack Davis?
Pencils Jack Davis
Inks Jack Davis
Letters Jack Davis?

2 page education story "Russia Spurs U.S. Education"

Genre humor
Script Jack Davis?
Pencils Jack Davis?
Inks Jack Davis?
Letters typeset

3 page story "U.S. Armnaviator's Handbook"

Genre humor
Script Larry Siegel
Pencils Arnold Roth? (illoes)
Inks Arnold Roth? (illoes)
Letters typeset

2 page story "Sports Car Racing"

Genre humor
Script Al Jaffee?
Pencils Al Jaffee
Inks Al Jaffee
Letters typeset

4 page story "The Little Goldy Book Alphibet book"

Genre humor
Script Arnold Roth?
Pencils Arnold Roth
Inks Arnold Roth
Letters Arnold Roth

3 page story "Like nothing you have seen before"

Synopsis After a warning that the following pages are like nothing seen before are two blank pages. Before Byrne did in Alpha Flight it had already been done here.
Genre humor
Script Harvey Kurtzman
Letters typeset

1 page Humbug Heroes Of Month story "Panicky Patriots"

Genre humor
Script Jack Davis?
Pencils Jack Davis
Inks Jack Davis
Letters Jack Davis?

3 page story "Spring Training"

Genre humor
Script Jack Davis?
Pencils Jack Davis
Inks Jack Davis
Letters Jack Davis?

1 page story "Adhesive Bandages"

Genre humor
Script Will Elder?
Pencils Will Elder
Inks Will Elder
Letters typeset

1 page story "I will train you to make big money repairing Television-Radio"

Synopsis Fake ad.
Genre satire
Script Al Jaffee?
Pencils Al Jaffee (signed)
Inks Al Jaffee (signed)
Letters typeset
Notes Back cover.