Issue: #16
Published: April 1952, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 36, Editing:
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Silver Age US Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
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| Table Of Contents (1 page) |
Little Max Contents April No. 16 |
| Characters: |
Little Max Alice |
| Comic Story (6 pages) |
Little Max Sambo |
| Featuring: |
Little Max |
| Synopsis: |
While waiting for Alice to buy some butter, Max imagines himself in the story of Little Black Sambo. |
| Genre: |
Children |
| Characters: |
Little Max Alice |
| Comic Story (2 pages) |
Light Lunch |
| Featuring: |
Little Max |
| Synopsis: |
Little Max and Casey go hiking; Max wonders what Casey has in his big, heavy lunchbox, and it turns out to be a watermelon. |
| Genre: |
Children |
| Characters: |
Little Max Casey |
| Activity (1 page) |
Game Page |
| Featuring: |
Little Max |
| Synopsis: |
Max needs to go from Island 1 to Island 4 by crossing each of the 15 bridges once. |
| Characters: |
Little Max |
| Text Story (1 page) |
The Mysterious Shadow |
| Featuring: |
Little Max |
| Synopsis: |
Someone is following Little Max; it turns out to be a monkey, whose owner gives Max a dollar for finding. |
| Credits: |
Letters: ? (illustration); typeset (story) |
| Genre: |
Children |
| Characters: |
Little Max Bobo Alice (illustration Only) |
| Comic Story (2 pages) |
Size Isn't Everything |
| Featuring: |
Little Max |
| Synopsis: |
Casey is mystified when Max takes home two slippers from the junkyard; it turns out he wants them to put flowers in. |
| Genre: |
Children |
| Characters: |
Little Max Casey |
| Comic Story (2 pages) |
On the Bottom of the Sea |
| Featuring: |
Little Max Rhymes with Reason |
| Synopsis: |
Little Max is shown swimming among different ocean creatures, with rhyming captions describing them. |
| Genre: |
Nature |
| Characters: |
Little Max |
| Comic Story (4 pages) |
On the Beam |
| Featuring: |
Little Max |
| Synopsis: |
Max and Casey play at an empty construction site; Max gets his pants stuck on a nail, but Joe comes along and rescues him. |
| Genre: |
Children |
| Characters: |
Little Max Casey Joe Palooka Ann Howe |
| Comic Story (2 pages) |
The Piper |
| Featuring: |
Little Max |
| Synopsis: |
Joe is told that Max is the "piper" for the basketball game in the vacant lot; it turns out that that means he's the only one small enough to crawl into a pipe when the ball rolls in it. |
| Genre: |
Children |
| Characters: |
Little Max Joe Palooka Alice |
| Cartoon (1 page) |
Wouldn't It Be Funny! |
| Synopsis: |
Series of five illustrated wordplay jokes (example: "If ducks really had BILLS!" with a drawing of a duck at a desk, surrounded by bills to pay). |
| Genre: |
Humor |
| Comic Story (2 pages) |
Hot Dip |
| Featuring: |
Humphrey |
| Synopsis: |
Humphrey sees Ichabod running and runs with him; they fall into the water, enabling Ichabod to show Humphrey that it's warm enough to go swimming. |
| Genre: |
Humor |
| Characters: |
Humphrey Pennyworth Ichabod |
| Statement Of Ownership (0 pages) |
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| Credits: |
Letters: typeset |
| Comic Story (2 pages) |
Funny Face |
| Featuring: |
Little Max |
| Synopsis: |
Joe shows the kids the spear, shield and mask he was given by an African chief; Max tries them on and scares himself. |
| Genre: |
Children |
| Characters: |
Little Max Alice Joe Palooka |
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