Four Color comic books issue 7

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Indicia title is "SMOKEY STOVER, No. 7." Cover art by Bill Holman. Untitled stories starring Smokey Stover. Smokey sees a man to whom he owes $50; To escape, he hides in a box full of dynamite. Smokey gets to be chief for one day. Smokey is supposed to be raking leaves, but decides to take a nap in the pile of leaves. Smokey gives an exploding cigar to a friend and it makes the round until it comes back to him. Fiddling Finnegan practices his awful fiddling at Smokey's firehouse. Smokey's son is supposed to practice the violin, but rigs it up with a clock's pendulum. Smokey decides to go to Texas for a vacation because it's all downhill on the map. Cookie bakes the Chief a birthday cake, but the only "candle" Smokey can find turns out to be a firecracker. Smokey and the Chief hide their clothes in a pile of sand while they go swimming, but the sand turns out to be cement. Scripts and art by Bill Holman. 68 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Jim Chambers. Gang Busters. Stories and art by Tom Hickey, Jim Chambers, Al McWilliams and Bill Ely. Four Color is the collective title for Dell's long, irregularly published series of one-shots. This issue reprints the crime drama based on Philip H. Lord's radio program (later a TV show) that appeared in Popular Comics. The Gang Busters go after the Markey Brothers gang. His gang captured, Jack Markey tries to lay low, but he keeps bootlegging. G-Man John Winston has a showdown in Baltimore with the Tri-State Gang. 64 pages, Full Color. 10c cover price. Cover price $0.10.