Real Screen Comics, #87
Published: June 1955
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Greetings From the Big Apple! (1)
"Here’s a real big apple, Foxie! Catch!"
Storyline
While apple picking, the Crow tosses a hornet's nest to the Fox.
Characters
- Fauntleroy Fox
- Crawford Crow
Credits
- Script: Cecil Beard
- Script: Alpine Harper
- Pencils: Dean Trippe
- Inks: Dean Trippe
"Do you want spending money?"
Story Notes
Ad for selling patriotic and religious mottoes. Black and white ad on inside front cover.
The Extraordinarily High Spite Fence (1)
"I have a feeling I'm being watched!"
Storyline
To keep the Crow from seeing his beautiful garden, the Fox builds “…the highest fence in the world!â€
Characters
- Fauntleroy Fox
- Crawford Crow
- Crow's gardner (1 panel)
Credits
- Script: Cecil Beard
- Script: Alpine Harper
- Pencils: Dean Trippe
- Inks: Dean Trippe
Daisy Gunbook Ready!
"For boys - girls - and dads"
Story Notes
Ad offering “Daisy’s Red Ryder Gun Bookâ€, containing gun stories written by gun collectors, western lore, ranch-cowboy cartoons, jokes, comic strips – plus the latest Daisy Air Rifle Catalog – for 25-cents.
To the Boys and Girls of America…
Featuring DC Comics; The Fox and the Crow; Leading Screen Comics
"This famous symbol is your guarantee of the best in comics reading"
Characters
- Fauntleroy Fox
- Crawford Crow
- Peter Porkchops
- Wolfie
Credits
- Pencils: Dean Trippe
- Pencils: Otto Feuer
- Inks: Dean Trippe
- Inks: Otto Feuer
Story Notes
DC house ad for The Fox and the Crow and Leading Screen Comics. Reproduces the cover illustration for The Fox and the Crow (DC, 1951 series) #25 June 1955 and for Leading Screen Comics (DC, 1950 series) #76 June-July 1955.
Flippy Birthday! (1)
"Oh -- No! It can't be!"
Storyline
Is it Flippity’s birthday, or is it not? If so, should Flop and Sam give him gifts, or risk his crabby-canary-ish wrath? It’s enough to drive a canary, cat, and dog birthday-batty!
Credits
- Script: Cecil Beard
- Script: Alpine Harper
- Pencils: Dean Trippe
- Inks: Dean Trippe
Fun Shop
"How many different three-letter words can you find hidden in the key-word?"
Credits
- Script: Martin Naydel
- Pencils: Martin Naydel
- Inks: Martin Naydel
Story Notes
Word and picture-matching puzzles.
Comicode
"The symbols in the Comicode represent letters."
Credits
- Script: Martin Naydel
- Pencils: Martin Naydel
- Inks: Martin Naydel
Story Notes
Decode a sentence that goes with a provided gag illustration.
Tito and the Beans... Took! (1)
"We must hurry, Burrito! As soon as we get back, Mamacita ees goeeng to geeve os each a piece of cactus candy!"
Storyline
A con-man takes Tito for his Mamacita’s “very preety piece of potteryâ€, in exchange for a phony “magic jumping bean†that only jumps because there's a worm inside it.
Credits
- Script: Cecil Beard
- Script: Alpine Harper
- Pencils: Dean Trippe
- Inks: Dean Trippe
Circles
"This has knots you can't untie!"
Credits
- Script: Martin Naydel
- Pencils: Martin Naydel
- Inks: Martin Naydel
Story Notes
Scrambled word puzzle.
The Silly Serpent
"“Hey, come on, Sullivan, lend me your watch,†begged Owen Oyster."
Storyline
Sullivan Serpent delights in using nonsensical words and phrases, annoying Owen Oyster - until it backfires, confusing Sullivan himself.
Characters
- Sullivan Serpent
- Owen Oyster
When Foxhood was in Flower! (1)
"Hey! Here comes Foxie luggin' his moneybags!"
Storyline
The Fox gives his money and his food-stocked house to the Crow, and declares that he is giving up civilized existence “…to live like the fox of old†– strictly by his wits.
Characters
- Fauntleroy Fox
- Crawford Crow
Credits
- Script: Cecil Beard
- Script: Alpine Harper
- Pencils: Alpine Harper
- Pencils: Dean Trippe
- Inks: Alpine Harper
- Inks: Dean Trippe
Superman Playsuit (1)
"Boys and Girls! Now you can get the official Superman playsuit… and join my fan club, too!"
Characters
- Superman
- a boy and a girl dressed in Superman playsuits
Story Notes
Ad offering “The Official Superman Playsuit in long-lasting Rayon gabardine, complete with billowing cape… only 6.98â€, from Anra, Inc.
Buzzy Says: "There May Be a Career in Health for You!"
"There’s something I’ve been wanting to ask you, Dr. Norton... How come you became a veterinarian?"
Storyline
Dr. Norton speaks to Buzzy and Jimmy about the different occupations available in the field of health care.
Characters
- Buzzy Brown
- Jimmy
- Dr. Norton (veterinarian)
- Mr. Walters (school guidance counselor)
Credits
- Script: Jack Schiff
- Pencils: Win Mortimer
- Inks: Win Mortimer
- Letters: Ira Schnapp
Story Notes
Black and white on inside back cover.
Tootsie Roll America’s Favorite Candy
"Tootsie Rolls, they’re so chocolaty, so tasty – that’s why everybody likes them."
Story Notes
Ad for Tootsie Roll candy, with a full-page illustration of Tootsie Roll-eating children watching a passing circus parade. Color ad on back cover.