Issue: #73
Published: [1945], Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 36, Editing:
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U.S.; Standard Silver Age U.S. Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Notes: Indicia title is "The Gumps, No. 73." No code number. Copyright 1936, 1937 by Chicago Tribune-N.Y. News Syndicate, Inc.
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After reading a book about flies, Andy goes hunting for one with a flyswatter. |
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Andy Gump Min Gump |
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Andy and Chester find a treasure chest on the beach, or so it seems. |
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Andy Gump Chester Gump |
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Andy builds a doghouse for Chester's dog. |
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Andy Gump Julius (dog) |
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Andy tricks Min into mending his winter coat. |
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Andy Gump Min Gump |
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Chester helps a reluctant little boy across the street. |
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Chester Gump |
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Andy teaches Julius how to fetch and Julius learns the lesson too well. |
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Andy Gump Min Gump Julius (dog) |
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The Library |
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Chester looks through shelves and shelves of books at the library before asking the librarian when they will be getting some new books. |
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Chester Gump |
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Andy spends so much time showing a handyman how to mow the lawn that he ends up doing most of the job himself. |
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Chester Gump Min Gump |
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Min wants Andy to take a package to the post office. |
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Andy Gump Min Gump |
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Andy spends a lot of time rehearsing a speech, but the meeting gets canceled. |
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Andy Gump Min Gump |
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Andy looks for the sports section of the newspaper, only to find that Chester has made a kite out of it. |
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Andy Gump Chester Gump |
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Andy decides he wants to sleep outdoors. |
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Andy Gump Min Gump |
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Andy has trouble getting an outboard motor started on a boat. |
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Andy Gump |
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Min gets a chair fitted up with pillows and an umbrella, but Andy borrows them to go fishing. |
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Andy Gump Min Gump Bim Gump |
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Andy falls asleep while fishing and dreams he's a fish. |
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Andy Gump |
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Andy has trouble when he tries out Chester's kayak. |
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Andy Gump Chester Gump |
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Chester does chores around the house before showing his father a note from the teacher. |
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Andy Gump Chester Gump |
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Andy makes a treacherous trip to the top of his house's chimney, only to be wanted on the phone. |
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Andy Gump Min Gump (cameo) |
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Andy has to walk miles after he runs out of gas. |
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Andy Gump |
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Min has a special place for the set of books Andy just received--the attic. |
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Andy Gump Min Gump |
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Andy tells Chester tall tales of how he excelled in the classroom when he was a boy. |
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Andy Gump Chester Gump |
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The Gumps' maid Tilda takes beauty treatments. |
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Andy Gump Min Gump Tilda |
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Andy gets in trouble when he drops some flowers in the park. |
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Andy Gump |
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The Fountain Pen |
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A salesman in a store window tries to sell Andy a fountain pen. |
| Characters: |
Andy Gump |
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