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Issue Details

Issue #13
Published June-July 1968
Frequency bi-monthly
Cover Price 0.12 USD
Pages 36
Editing Joe Orlando

Cover Details

Characters Scooter; Penny; Cookie
Genre teen
Pencils Joe Orlando (signed)
Inks Tex Blaisdell (signed)
Letters Gaspar Saladino

1 page promo (ad from the publisher) "Coming Your Way -- A New DC Brand"

Genre superhero; spy
Pencils Nick Cardy; Bob Brown (illustrations)
Inks Nick Cardy; Bob Brown (illustrations)
Letters Gaspar Saladino
Notes house ad for Secret Six (DC, 1968 series) #2 and The Brave and the Bold (DC, 1955 series) #78

5 page Swing with Scooter story "Odd Jobs by Oddballs!"

Characters Scooter; Sylvester; Malibu; Penny; Cookie; Cynthia; Kenny; Major Orpheus Otis
Synopsis The gang agrees to paint Major Otis's house while he is away on vacation but things don't work out as planned.
Genre teen
Pencils Joe Orlando

1 page Scooter's Hip Humor text story World's Most Famous "Dear John" Letters

Genre humor
Letters ?; typeset

1 page Scooter's Hip Humor cartoon

Genre humor
Script Sergio Aragones
Pencils Sergio Aragones (signed)
Inks Sergio Aragones (signed)
Letters ? (logo)
Notes three gag cartoons

1 page Superman promo (ad from the publisher) "From Us to You -- Only the Best"

Genre superhero
Pencils Neal Adams
Inks Neal Adams
Letters Gaspar Saladino
Notes house ad for Superman (DC, 1939 series) #207 [80 Page Giant #G-48], on sale April 9

5 page Swing with Scooter story "Scooter's Hip History"

Characters Scooter; Cynthia; Kenny; Sylvester; Malibu; Cookie; Penny
Synopsis Scooter and the gang in various scenarios from American history
Genre teen
Pencils Joe Orlando ?

6 page Swing with Scooter story "Oh, Happy, Happy, Here's Cap'n Clappy!"

Characters Scooter; Cookie; Kenny; Malibu; Cynthia; Penny; Sylvester
Synopsis Scooter's Uncle Clappy pilots a tugboat, and the gang is aboard when two bank robbers try to commandeer the boat for a getaway.
Genre teen
Pencils Bob Oksner
Inks Tex Blaisdell

4 page Penny and Cookie story "Buy Me, Give Me, Buy Me!"

Characters Penny; Cookie; Scooter
Synopsis Penny and Cookie secretly follow Scooter around a department store, thinking he's picking out gifts for them.
Genre teen
Pencils Joe Orlando ?

1 page Malibu story "The Rage from Finksville!"

Characters Malibu
Genre teen
Pencils Joe Orlando ?

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 in late April 1968; includes cover art from Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #376 and Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #369

Half page Cap's Hobby Hints activity "I just put new brushes on my slot car."

Genre fact
Script Henry Boltinoff
Pencils Henry Boltinoff
Inks Henry Boltinoff
Letters Henry Boltinoff
Notes Hobby Hint by Terry Thomas, Bay City, Michigan.