Issue: #436
Published: November 1952, 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 BROWNIES, No. 436". Code number is BROWNIES #436-5211. (No "O.S." in code number.) Copyright 1952 by Western Printing & Lithographing Co. Seventh of ten Brownies Four Colors.
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| Cover (1 page) |
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| Featuring: |
The Brownies |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Don Gunn | Inks: Don Gunn |
| Genre: |
Fantasy |
| Characters: |
The Brownies |
| Comic Story (1 page) |
Hobo Brownies meet on a road |
| Featuring: |
[The Brownies] |
| Synopsis: |
Two hobo Brownies meet on a road. |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Don Gunn | Inks: Don Gunn |
| Genre: |
Fantasy |
| Characters: |
The Brownies |
| Comic Story (8 pages) |
The False Duckling |
| Featuring: |
The Brownies |
| Synopsis: |
The Brownies find an egg, just as a duckling hatches out of it. The Brownies glue the egg back together with the Wizard inside, but before they can release him, the mother duck returns and takes control of the egg. When the Wizard breaks out of the egg, the duck thinks he is her baby. The other Brownies have to go find the real duckling to return it to its mother. |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Don Gunn | Inks: Don Gunn |
| Genre: |
Fantasy |
| Characters: |
The Brownies [Brainy Wizard Wobble] |
| Comic Story (10 pages) |
The Brownies and the Splooks |
| Featuring: |
The Brownies |
| Synopsis: |
The Wizard warns the other Brownies that they should stay inside the day after Halloween to avoid goblins and witches. The rest ignore his advice and go exploring. They find the Splooks, who live underground and only go out on Halloween to scare people. The Splooks are frustrated when the Brownies aren't scared of them and take them to see the Grand Splook. They inadvertently insult the Grand Splook and have to flee back to the surface. |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Don Gunn | Inks: Don Gunn |
| Genre: |
Fantasy |
| Characters: |
The Brownies [Wizard Brainy Muddle Droopy] Splooks |
| Comic Story (8 pages) |
The Brownies on Castaway Island |
| Featuring: |
The Brownies |
| Synopsis: |
The Brownies launch a tin can submarine, but it gets caught on the back of a turtle and is taken to Castaway Island. There they find Jettison, a long-bearded Brownie who supposedly has been on the island for 600 years. |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Don Gunn | Inks: Don Gunn |
| Genre: |
Fantasy |
| Characters: |
The Brownies [Brainy Wobble Muddle Weeseed Spindly] |
| Comic Story (6 pages) |
Stealing Doughnuts |
| Featuring: |
The Badkins |
| Synopsis: |
The Badkins steal and eat all the Brownies' doughnuts. When they return for more baked goods, the pair is trapped in a glob of bread dough. |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Don Gunn | Inks: Don Gunn |
| Genre: |
Fantasy |
| Characters: |
The Brownies [Brainy Spindly Wobble] The Badkins |
| Comic Story (1 page) |
Time for lunch |
| Featuring: |
[The Brownies] |
| Synopsis: |
The Brownies' cart is pulled by three bugs, but they try to pull the cart down a hole when it's the bugs' lunchtime. |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Don Gunn | Inks: Don Gunn |
| Genre: |
Fantasy |
| Characters: |
The Brownies |
| Comic Story (1 page) |
A Change in Leaders |
| Featuring: |
[The Brownies] |
| Synopsis: |
A trumpet player is off-key, so the leader of the band changes places with him. |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Don Gunn | Inks: Don Gunn |
| Genre: |
Fantasy |
| Characters: |
The Brownies |
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