n

Isn’t Comrade
Furtive wonderful?
Only this morning
he invented the
camera sos we
can take a good -
^bye picture

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M ur story opens on the dark side of the moon
where a small group of scientists plan to
return to Earth bringing with them the
secrets of the Universe, the chart of the
stars, the keys to the Heavens.

By Nab! When I
say hold it,/
mean hold it!

How can
I hold
it when
1 gotta

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But up here
we don’t got
no Siberia. '

Send him by
parcel post;
send hivn by
air mail.

Comrade

Morose,

I orders
you to I
send
Comrade
Pogo to
' Siberia . ,

fJust for
^ that you.
/ can’t qo.

/ to here, /
Siberia is t -
Miami Beach.

f It cant be done 2-—
| Beloved Leader, until
i we aets down to

You mean our moon, ourY Every-
splendid new possession, thing

Please

send me

got no place worse than i up here to Siberia!

this

here

What’s never\

wrong, get any
Tovarish? breaks...

They won’t
y [ send me to
W%, ^ V Siberia.

Our revolution is out-
lawed all other , £

revolutions . . .you re

pinched

Us miserable common
people is gonna revolt
unless you gives us ^

our rights we T

demands you J~
sends Pogo to /
Siberia.

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I counter-counter- \ ( I’m tired of
revolutionizes! (I being arrested

You’re \ — I quit. A

M /j§8 pinched
' 0OH back!

1 counter-
revolutionizes
everything . . .

a rocket, you'll be

fired.

b You’re
pinched

'Good (
for you,\
Comrade.

s a moon
out of
snow? .

a moon.

As you kin see, Comrade^Out of Sftow?^The true scientist uses what I
Chum, I is startin' to A You're gonna \ is at his disposal, y ,

] Comrade Pal.

S'

^ Where
you gonna
dispose

of this t

moon ?

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How you
gonna get
a hot moon
into the
country
though ?

snow moon ought
to be worth a
cool million. >

I Aggers well Good! Then
fly the scaper ' they kin rent
back to the i it out to song
U. S. and sell 1 writers art
it to the A everybody ll
gummint. y\ be rich.

lie we wears
our brains ,
_ out. A

What are those two little^T Bah! Making a snow^YesJus t
revolutionaries up to? man. Playing childrens \ need ev

Hmmph, they seem to be
rolling a snow ball.

when we
every ounce
of brain power
at our command,
two of our
ounces is
mis sing.

Didn’t bring no Commander, you've
square r — "V plotted against
mnts iy the revolution.

We didn’t

, bring

As any fool would know.
I’m lookin’ for the
square root of one
so as to figure the
angle of celebration
on the disinclined
pandemonium.

> (

sputnocks! U Spitnik V What

brung ) Round
id roots? .

You would destroy our .

You’re a skeptnic! A lunatnic

f Hold^onT^S *1/ &ZT

v Hold on ! J ^ a /

in his 1 is round
eyeniky roots!
f-~b / — 7 Square roots
Y I / is outa date.

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Gimme that bag...Look^( Yeh, both of
see round roots l The them is out
world is round, the moon , rollin’ snow
is round. What's we wantU—r, balls,
with them squares'. ? / s ^— — ^

All right now. III need some 'y If you
figures. . .You start countin, says so.
Beloved Leader; Comrade
Melancholic, you go shoot

Okay,B.L. f
put the first
load on the
scale and

Okay it is.
Commander. . .
Let's see now, ,
one, two, ^
buckle my
shoe. . .

Three, four, shut the door;
five, six, pick, up sticks;
seven, eight, lay them straight.

Nine, ten, you’re a big fat he
eleven, twelve, dig an’ delve.

Just a minute!
What did you
chunk in there,
Beloved Leader?

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, You SAW it! \f Lot you cares ; ^ Pity it wasn't
v The ding thing T 1 almost lost j your head, Beloved
’ yyiy hand. Leader, . .I'm gone

see how Comrade
Middling is cornin'
with shootin
the sun.

N/

You've destroye

mechanical
7 brain!

our

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Ice cream or
wot , its rollin'
down on vs. ..

Say did ]
you notice
this aint a

real snowball?

It’s made of
strawberry
ice cream! /

Hold
it! .

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Yes, an’ looka
this nice big
-piece -just /
chuck full
. of nuts, j

Don’t eat me! I’m a
^ — j -ive orphan!

A snowman? A
abominable snowman L

Two of ’em! They is abominable,
all right; they is messin’ up our
ice cream, f.

It’s us, your
Comrade Pals
an Friends. ,

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Comrade
Commander
is b lowin’ up
f our rocket ship!

[He’ll destroy
.the moon!

lie's mad, mad!
But why?

Because he didnt
travel Pan Am ■.

You fell out of bed just
in time to see the nice
Independence Day fireworks
^ Albert. .

Good-bye,

Comrade

Sidekicks,

XSOog! That C
.'X ice cream!

You ate practically
a gallon of straw- ,

berry at the picnic—
but then, you’re livin’
in a country where
a man's free —

—even to make a) As a matter of fact, it’s
pig of himself ' one of the things I got
against it— why don't
the gover'ment protect
its citizens!?

pig
if he wants.

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