Issue: #1
Published: Spring 1948, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 36, Editing:
Color: Four Color Interiors; Full Color Covers Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U.S. Paper Stock: Newsprint Interior; Glossy Cover Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
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| Cover (1 page) |
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| Featuring: |
Moe & Schmoe |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Art Helfant (signed) | Inks: Art Helfant (signed) |
| Genre: |
Humor |
| Characters: |
Moe Schmoe |
| Comic Story (10 pages) |
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| Featuring: |
Moe & Schmoe |
| Synopsis: |
Schmoe opens a detective agency and Moe goes to work for him. Seeing a poster reading "Wanted! $5000 reward for Shlump, the Lump," they track down Shlump and bring him to the police. They learn it is Shlump who gets the reward, for winning the police raffle. |
| Credits: |
Script: Art Helfant (signed) | Pencils: Art Helfant (signed) | Inks: Art Helfant (signed) |
| Genre: |
Humor |
| Characters: |
Moe Schmoe Shlump, The Lump |
| Comic Story (2 pages) |
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| Featuring: |
Shlump, the Lump |
| Synopsis: |
Miss Meddle urges Shlump to make something of himself, so he attends art school to become an artist. |
| Credits: |
Script: Art Helfant (signed) | Pencils: Art Helfant (signed) | Inks: Art Helfant (signed) |
| Genre: |
Humor |
| Characters: |
Shlump, The Lump Miss Meddle |
| Comic Story (6 pages) |
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| Featuring: |
Moe & Schmoe |
| Synopsis: |
In New York, Hot-Foot says Schmoe is a member of the Schmoe Indian tribe and is entitled to a share of the oil found on their reservation. Schmoe and Moe take him home--at considerable expense to themselves--and learn there is no oil and Hot-Foot used them to win a bet. |
| Credits: |
Script: Art Helfant (signed) | Pencils: Art Helfant (signed) | Inks: Art Helfant (signed) |
| Genre: |
Humor |
| Characters: |
Moe Schmoe Hot-Foot The Indian |
| Text Story (2 pages) |
Hot Air and Cold Sweat |
| Credits: |
Letters: typeset |
| Genre: |
Humor |
| Comic Story (4 pages) |
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| Featuring: |
Moe & Schmoe |
| Synopsis: |
Moe and Schmoe undergo various difficult tests for a job at the Paramouse Studios. |
| Credits: |
Script: Art Helfant (signed) | Pencils: Art Helfant (signed) | Inks: Art Helfant (signed) |
| Genre: |
Humor |
| Characters: |
Moe Schmoe |
| Comic Story (7 pages) |
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| Featuring: |
Moe & Schmoe |
| Synopsis: |
Moe and Schmoe save the Maharajah of Pakisgoon from injury, so he rewards them with a box that he says contains a valuable bird's egg. Moe and Schmoe give the box away to a man they've repeatedly irritated, in hopes it will mollify him. They later learn the Maharajah was joking when he said there was an "egg" in the box--it really contained a valuable ruby! |
| Credits: |
Script: Art Helfant (signed) | Pencils: Art Helfant (signed) | Inks: Art Helfant (signed) |
| Genre: |
Humor |
| Characters: |
Moe Schmoe Maharajah Of Pakisgoon |
| Advertisement (1 page) |
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| Featuring: |
Personal Comic Album; Stravon Publishers |
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