Real Screen Comics, #75
Published: June 1954
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Rolling Blunder (1)
Binky Says: "Act Your Age!"
"An exciting baseball game... ...has a disastrous climax..."
Storyline
Billy crashes through Mr. Jones' garden to catch a fly ball, and thinks nothing of it... until the baby throws a ball and breaks Billy's model airplane. This prompts Billy to fix up Mr. Jones' garden.
Characters
- Binky
- Billy
- Allergy
- Billy's Mom
- baby
- Mr. Jones
Credits
- Script: Jack Schiff
- Pencils: Win Mortimer
- Inks: Win Mortimer
- Letters: Ira Schnapp
Story Notes
Black and white on inside front cover.
Alias "Black Buford" (1)
"Dat's a insult!"
Storyline
The Crow poses as a desperate criminal to bedevil the Fox.
Characters
- Fauntleroy Fox
- Crawford Crow
- sheriff (walrus)
Credits
- Script: Cecil Beard
- Script: Alpine Harper
- Pencils: Jim Davis
- Inks: Jim Davis
Story Notes
Meta Moment: The Crow reads a "Fox and Crow" comic book - Page 5, Panel 3.
Tootsie Roll America's Favorite Candy
"Golly - Tootsie Rolls! We eat them all the time. And look at that smart clown juggling the Tootsie Pop!"
Story Notes
Ad for Tootsie Roll candy, with a full-page illustration of children at the circus, eating Tootsie Rolls while watching an elephant lift a huge Tootsie Roll with its trunk and a clown balancing an equally huge Tootsie Pop on his nose.
The (Free)joles Came at a Price! (1)
"Tito, what would you like for supper tonight?"
Storyline
Tito and Burrito do an extraordinary amount of hard work for a frijoles dinner.
Characters
- Tito
- Burrito
- Mamacita
- Papacita
Credits
- Script: Cecil Beard
- Script: Alpine Harper
- Pencils: Jim Davis
- Inks: Jim Davis
Scripto Guarantees the Best... in Writing!
"Always use Scripto leads and erasers."
Story Notes
Ad for Scripto Retractable Ball Pen and Scripto Self-Sharpening Pencil. Lower third of page.
Fun Shop
"With these letters you can spell the name of a tropical bird!"
Storyline
Learn what certain names mean. Unscramble six letters to spell the name of a tropical bird. "The Magic Eye" optical illusion.
Characters
- two boys
- girl
Credits
- Script: Martin Naydel
- Pencils: Martin Naydel
- Inks: Martin Naydel
Circles
"Even a slowpoke can catch this!"
Storyline
Unscramble the letters of four different words to arrive at a single-word answer to Crawford Crow's riddle.
Characters
- Crawford Crow
Credits
- Script: Martin Naydel
- Pencils: Martin Naydel
- Inks: Martin Naydel
"Let's go see the lions and tigers now..."
Storyline
At the zoo, an elephant can't resist snatching Butch's Fleer Dubble Bubble Gum with its trunk.
Characters
- Pud
- Butch
- Tim
- girl
- elephant
Credits
- Pencils: Ray Thompson
- Inks: Ray Thompson
Story Notes
Ad for Fleer's Dubble Bubble Gum, featuring "Pud", a kid resembling "Tubby" from Little Lulu. Top half of page.
Dotto Zoo
"Don't try to see me in the sky... 'cause I'm a bird that cannot fly!"
Storyline
Connect the dots and find a bird.
Characters
- boy with pencil
Credits
- Script: Martin Naydel
- Pencils: Martin Naydel
- Inks: Martin Naydel
Story Notes
Lower half of page.
Stall of the Wild! (1)
"Just look at those bills!"
Storyline
Faced with living as a "wild bird", Flippity turns to a vulture for lessons on how to get food. Unfortunately, he excels at it in vulture style.
Characters
- Flippity
- Flop
- Sam
- master of the house (unseen, off-panel)
- woodpecker
- Virgil Vulture
- mule
- two pigs
- cow
- chicken
- duck
- sheep
- goat
Credits
- Script: Cecil Beard
- Script: Alpine Harper
- Pencils: Jim Davis
- Inks: Jim Davis
Low Tide
"The Very Old Walrus sat on the sand, holding something very secret in his closed hand."
Storyline
The Very Old Walrus tells beach/ocean-life children the story of Olga Oyster and her pearl.
Characters
- Very Old Walrus
- Mary Mussel
- Christopher Crab
- Amy Abalone
- Owen Oyster
- Olga Oyster
- Olga's father (oyster)
- Mr. Turtle
- Mr. Seal
Play Boxes
"Can you find 7 small birds"
Storyline
Find the names of seven small birds within a mosaic of scrambled letters.
Characters
- parrot
- two lovebirds
Credits
- Script: Martin Naydel
- Pencils: Martin Naydel
- Inks: Martin Naydel
Story Notes
Top half of page.
Editorial Advisory Board
Storyline
A list of doctors and other consultants that make up the DC Comics Editorial Advisory Board, followed by a list of (presumably) all the titles published at the time by DC. In response to the real-life 1950s crusade against comic books.
Story Notes
Lower half of page.
My Dinner with The Caliph of Crabmeat (1)
"It boins me up!"
Storyline
The Crow shows how effort-intensive it is to con a meal out of the Fox. He poses as a telegram messenger boy, an employment agent for domestic help, a butler; The Caliph of Crabmeat's food-taster, and finally as The Caliph himself. Later he complains about how hard he has to work to feed himself.
Characters
- Fauntleroy Fox
- Crawford Crow
Credits
- Script: Cecil Beard
- Script: Alpine Harper
- Pencils: Jim Davis
- Inks: Jim Davis
Story Notes
Meta Moment: Crawford Crow acknowledges that he is a comic character, when complaining about all the thinking he has to do to con a meal out of the Fox. CRAWFORD CROW: "Dat Fox has it easy! I do all da brain woik in dis strip!"
Step Right Up Folks, and Get the Greatest Laugh-Show on Earth!
"America's Funniest Pair! -- Good for a million laughs whether you're 8 or 80!"
Storyline
A carnival barker, looking somewhat similar to DC Comics version of Bob Hope (only with a moustache), touts DC's Mutt & Jeff title.
Characters
- Mutt (on cover of comic)
- Jeff (on cover of comic)
- carnival barker
- boy
- girl
- older man
- older lady
Credits
- Pencils: Sheldon Mayer
- Inks: Sheldon Mayer
Story Notes
House ad for DC Comics' Mutt & Jeff title. The cover of Mutt & Jeff (DC, 1939 Series) #71 (June 1954) is pictured in the ad. https://www.comics.org/issue/116029/cover/4/ On final interior page of the comic.
In just 10 minutes of FUN a day I changed myself from this bloodless, pitiful skinny shrimp to this NEW muscular red-blooded head-to-toe HE-MAN!
"Now, Buddy YOU mail the coupon below as I did!"
Story Notes
Ad for muscle-building courses from Jowett Institute of Physical Training. Black and white ad on inside back cover.
Hello, Bob - Have You Found that Underseas Treasure?
"Given! Boys! Girls! Ladies! Men! We give you Cash! Or Premiums!"
Storyline
Bob fruitlessly searches the ocean floor for treasure, until Sam tells of his own "treasures" he received for selling Cloverine Brand Salve.
Characters
- Bob
- Sam
- girl
- lady
Credits
- Pencils: Ray Thompson
- Inks: Ray Thompson
- Letters: Ray Thompson
Story Notes
Ad for Wilson Chemical Co., offering prizes or money for the sales of Cloverine Brand Salve. Among the many prizes offered in the ad is a live pony. "Look! Live Pony! Yessiree, a real, live pony for your very own!" Color ad on back cover.