The simple act of walking her dog leads a young woman through a series of hardships, though everything seems to work out just fine in the end. This is a very cute and funny (though poorly printed), dialogue free, 4 page filler quickie from the April 1946 one-shot issue of Scooter Comics #1, by Rucker Publications. The story artist remains unknown, but the signed cover illustration is by Sam Singer who also did a great deal of work for ACG, Pines, and most notably Ace Magazines.
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Fun gag strip, and does it without any captions.
Page 3, panel 2, now that's some great cartooning!
Coloring is so weird. I'm not sure if it's the printing but it looks like half the time they forgot to color the blond hair, but that yellow is so light its hard to tell if it's a mistake or not.
Some nice good girl, art, too, along with some great animals, all rendered in a really clean style.
I wonder if this was lifted from a silent movie, it has the type of plot a viewer would see in a keystone cops film.
I also wonder if this tale was meant to be reprinted overseas, change the words of the background noises and it could be sold in comics in Spain, Brazil, France, Belgium, etc.
The dog and cat received more facial detail while the humans are drawn with the minimum of imagery. maybe the artist preferred drawing animals over people.
This was a neat bit of comedy from a one shot comic.
Everything on page two is just great, but that first panel is my favorite. Her billowing hair is really dashing, and pain stars have been one of my favorite special effects since V.T. Hamlin.
I love a wordless caper, and I feel like they are difficult to pull off in comics. This was did it admirably.
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