Dates
- Cover date
- October 1948
- On sale
- July 7, 1948
- Pages
- 52
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- Veteran Trouper! · 5 pages
Mickey asks Lana to a fancy-dress veterans affair.
- The Two Roles! · 5 pages
Swifty gets both Lana and Clara new roles. Clara, however, does not quite get the role she bargained for.
- Beauty Is as Beauty Does! · 7 pages
Clara treats all the studio crew members like dirt but pays a heavy price for it once the show starts.
- Help Wanted · 8 pages
At work, Johnny mistakes a tramp for a prospective client, to whom he gives the bum's rush.
- The Week-End Guest · 2 pages
- Oh, Murder! · 6 pages
Mickey gets in hot water when he mistakes a clothes dummy for a corpse.
- Hocus Focus! · 7 pages
Flicker gets jealous when Mr. Hanover assigns Millie to a kissing scene with hunky model Rod Bentley. Millie also gets jealous when she sees Flicker's new pretty assistant photographer, Flo.
- Dream Boy! · 5 pages
Mickey has his nap disturbed by everyone in the boarding house going about their daily activities.
- Untitled · 1 pages
Kurtzman character is reading a newspaper stating that Shmill Shmeisner (Will Eisner), does a take-off the cartoon strip Shm'il Shmabner (Li'l Abner) by Shmal Shmapp (Al Capp) who does a take off of Shick Shmacy (Dick Tracy) by Shmester Shmould (Chester Gould) who does a take-off on Shmondie by Shmick Shung (Chic Young)
Characters
Reprinted in
An Anthology of Graphic Fiction, Cartoons and True Stories (2006), Comics about Cartoonists: Stories about the World's Oddest Profession (2012)