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25-October-2011 3:48 pm
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Username: jfglade
Comment: Nice scans, but the content is slight. Slugger is one of the Little Wise Guys but he (and the other Little Wise Guys) appear in pedestrian short stories that seem more like they are juvenile humor stories from another company. The cover may be by Charles Biro but none of the contents are.
 
 

Issue: #1
Published: April 1956, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 36, Editing: Charles Biro
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Golden Age US Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format:
Notes: Indicia states "published quarterly" but only this one issue was ever published. Indicia title is simply "SLUGGER", cover title is Little Wise Guys Starring Slugger.
 Comic Contents:
Cover (1 page)
Featuring: Slugger [The Little Wise Guys]
Credits: Pencils: Charles Biro (signed) | Inks: Charles Biro (signed)
Genre: Humor
Characters: The Little Wise Guys
Comic Story (4 pages) Don't Let It Out Of The Bag
Featuring: Slugger
Synopsis: Slugger suggests they take Scarecrow on a snipe hunt. And Scarecrow brings home a "snipe".
Credits: Pencils: Tony DiPreta [as T. DiPreta] | Inks: Tony DiPreta [as T. DiPreta]
Genre: Humor
Characters: The Little Wise Guys
Comic Story (2 pages) Halp! Wanted!
Featuring: Slugger
Synopsis: Slugger is working at a corner store and his boss asks him to run everywhere.
Genre: Humor
Characters: Slugger
Comic Story (1 page) Shades of John L.
Featuring: Slugger
Synopsis: Slugger does some shadow boxing, until his shadow boxes back.
Genre: Humor
Characters: Slugger
Comic Story (3 pages) Haunting Dream
Featuring: Slugger
Synopsis: Slugger tells Scarecrow about a dream he had about a giant.
Genre: Humor
Characters: Slugger Scarecrow
Comic Story (2 pages) No Ribbing Allowed
Featuring: Slugger
Synopsis: Slugger and the Little Wise Guys visit a museum but get kicked and head for the zoo.
Genre: Humor
Characters: Slugger The Little Wise Guys
Comic Story (3 pages) Food For Thought
Featuring: Slugger
Synopsis: Slugger goes to the doctor because of a hit on the head, but accidentally is given a prescription for meatloaf.
Genre: Humor
Characters: Slugger The Little Wise Guys
Comic Story (2 pages) Take A Note
Featuring: Slugger
Synopsis: Slugger tries to learn to play the harp.
Genre: Humor
Characters: Slugger The Little Wise Guys
Comic Story (1 page) Dim View
Featuring: Slugger
Synopsis: The Little Wise Guys blow a fuse and ask Slugger to change it... twice!
Genre: Humor
Characters: Slugger The Little Wise Guys
Comic Story (2 pages) Whooooooo Me??
Featuring: Slugger
Synopsis: Slugger spends the night in a haunted house and defeats two burglars who he thought were the Little Wise Guys.
Genre: Humor
Characters: Slugger
Comic Story (3 pages) His Silent Partner
Featuring: Slugger
Synopsis: Slugger show the Little Wise Guys how to sell boxed greeting cards.
Genre: Humor
Characters: Slugger The Little Wise Guys
Text Story (2 pages) Fifty-Four Times A Hero
Featuring: Slugger
Credits: Letters: Typeset
Genre: Humor
Characters: Slugger The Little Wise Guys
Comic Story (2 pages) Political Blunder
Featuring: Slugger
Synopsis: Slugger and the Little Wise Guys try to make some money shovelling snow, but are beaten to the punch by the Mayor's son.
Genre: Humor
Characters: Slugger The Little Wise Guys
Comic Story (1 page) Oh My Aching Back!
Featuring: Slugger
Synopsis: Slugger catches a train, at the next station along the line!
Genre: Humor
Characters: Slugger
Activity (2 pages)
Featuring: Lev Gleason's Fun Time
Synopsis: Includes making a small parachute and a marble game.
Characters: Slugger
Advertisement (5 pages) Various
Synopsis: Ads for a Davy Crockett Tent (inside front cover); 318 stamps for 25 cents; boxed greeting cards to sell door to door; Art Instruction Inc scholarship; selling American Seeds door to door.
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