Scribbly #14

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Scribbly

Clover is at home thinking how Scribbly is *late*, which is entirely unlike him. Daffodil says he'll have *some excuse*. The phone rings and Daffodil answers and then hangs up, telling her the date is off. Daffodil offers their cat, Pussy, wait for a double-take. Clover realizes that Scribbly *broke* their date and is stunned, beginning to rage that he break off things with *her* on *Saturday*. Bentley hears this from outside and goes to have a secret window meeting with Scribbly, taunting him about what he's done, but Scribbly insists that Clover *is* still his girl, but Mrs. Jibbet leans in to tell him that “Violet” is waiting at the station. Thus, Bentley puts on a green suit and decides to take Clover out *himself*, lying to claim that he's out with a girl named Violet at the train station. However, when Scribbly goes to help Violet's bags out, he spots Clover and Bentley and instead just **throws them back at Violet, declaring their visit is going to be this short** and the train takes off again. Clover says that's *some way* to treat a girl, but Scribbly claims this is his *male* cousin, Violet, whose mother gave him a feminine name due to her want for a girl. Thus, Bentley challenges that they can *drive* to the next train stop at Millville by taxi and forcibly drag Scribbly with them. Doing so, they drive off to Millville where Bentley keeps an eye on Scribbly while Clover legs it to the train as Bentley taunts that this will *surely* ruin things for them, but Scribbly points out that *they'll both* be ruined now. Bentley is shocked to see that Violet is actually a *rather attractive* male cousin of his and he's *also* a real *wolf*, already trying to whisper sweet things to Clover!

| Appearing1 = **Featured Characters:** * Scribbly) **Supporting Characters:** * Clover Cooley **Antagonists:** * Bentley Bilgewater * Violet Jibbet **Other Characters:** * Mrs. Clara Jibbet **Locations:** * Millville, NY **Items:** * Luggage **Vehicles:** * A Taxicab * A Train

| Editor2_1 = Larry Nadle | Writer2_1 = Sheldon Mayer | Penciler2_1 = Sheldon Mayer | Inker2_1 = Sheldon Mayer | Colorist2_1 = | Letterer2_1 =

| StoryTitle2 = Scribbly (2) | Synopsis2 = Scribbly and Clover are at a carnival and offers they get their fortunes told, though Scribbly is dismissive of such things. The fortune-teller says that Clover has a “great power” over men and has that “irresistible **something**” that Queen Cleopatra VI & the Comtesse du Barry (Royal Mistress of King Louis XV.) She says that *no man* can resist her will and she can **make them do *anything* she wants**, which is legitimate-sounding enough that Clover pays her two bits for it. She walks outside to test this and Scribbly sees a look in her eye. She asks what something he *wouldn't* like to do and he tries being evasive. She offers something he wouldn't *ordinarily* do, but he instead offers jumping off a roof, which she says is too insensible. Scribbly sees some men standing in line for something and says he *wouldn't* wait on line for *anything*, forcing Clover to think he *could* if *she* asked him to. He insists she *won't* ask him to and she does so, so he stands by. Clover is terrified to find that, **since neither of them checked**, they didn't notice this is the line for a *kissing booth* for boys and girls for a dollar apiece (for charity.) Scribbly now *refuses* to get out of the line, since she *told him to*, which Clover feels like a trick. He returns that she *was* trying to *actively* make him do something he said he didn't want to. Scribbly points out her “testing” her “powers” is also akin to him just *being weak-willed* and she offers that instead of *paying* for a kiss, she *could* give him one for free if he leaves the line, which he accepts and she lays one on him.

She takes this to mean that she *does* have this power, but Scribbly says she doesn't. She reasons that he *was* going to pay a dollar for a kiss, so she must have used her power to make him not want to instead. He corrects that she's wrong in two ways: Firstly, he *doesn't have a dollar* and secondly, he's *technically* still in line for the kissing booth… which has turned into *a bunch of men standing behind him*, saying that he only “**moved it over a little**!”

| Appearing2 = * Scribbly) **Supporting Characters:** * Clover Cooley **Antagonists:** * An Unscrupulous Fortune-Teller **Other Characters:** * Kissing Booth Men **Locations:** * A Carnival **Items:** * **Vehicles:** *

| Editor3_1 = Larry Nadle | Writer3_1 = Sheldon Mayer | Penciler3_1 = Sheldon Mayer | Inker3_1 = Sheldon Mayer | Colorist3_1 = | Letterer3_1 =

| StoryTitle3 = Scribbly (3) | Synopsis3 = Clover and Scribbly seem to break up over the phone and Scribbly is despondent, moping in a chair for *hours* then. Mrs. Clara Jibbet tells Mr. Wilton Jibbet that she's *worried* about him, but he says he's taking her on their first formal date since they've *had children*, so he's *not worrying about the kids* whatsoever and wants her to do the same. Littul Snoony tries to shout loud Navy submarine tactics at Scribbly before driving his tricycle on to his groin and stomach, only to find he's unaffected altogether. He runs to warn their parents, so Mr. Jibbet tells Scribbly to do *something* productive and orders him outside to do some work. Mr. Jibbet insists he's fine and going to mow the lawn, only to look outside and realize that he's mowing their *snow-covered* lawn. He goes out to ask what's wrong with Scribbly, but he quietly thumbs to Bentley going out with Clover, getting in a car together. Mr. Jibbet tells Mrs. Jibbet about it and she reveals that *Mrs. Cooley* is the one behind this, having **decided for her daughter that she's “too young” to “go steady” with one boy and therefore will just be forced to date other boys**. She goes off to talk to Scribbly about it, but her husband insists this is “a **father's** job” and calls him in. Mrs. Jibbet braces for him to imminently ruin this. Mr. Jibbet tells his son that 20 years ago, a real fancy “shiek” / “finale hopper” / “cake-eater” (a wolf trying to steal his girl) and goes to tell him about his youth:

When Wilton was a young man, he was a *snappy* dresser but saw a different car in front of Clara's house. He finds that in her mother's living room was *Horace*, a boy who mildly resembles Bentley in frame, but dresses like a clown, playing the ukelele as Clara told him their date is canceled so she can listen to him. However, instead he reaches *into his jacket pocket*, leading Clara to think he intends on **shooting Horace**, but he instead makes it clear that he's just **taking a card out of his pocket to instead demand that he show up for *a duel tomorrow morning***. They would end up going with pistols as their seconds check the guns and Clara begging him to accept Horace's apology, but Wilton refuses, saying this “incident” has gone too far. He soon gets an hour deep and finds that Horace has overslept and didn't feel like showing up to a duel, instead offering Wilton just shoot anyways without him. He insists to Scribbly this made Horace a *coward*, which proves some point of his that his wife interrupts, pointing out **that that was all entirely nonsense:**

When he was young, Wilton dressed not like a snappy gentleman, but a goofy “cornball” with horribly clashing styles. Having to entertain her second cousin Horace, she decided to make a better night of it by *inviting* Wilton to join them, which already wasn't going well when Horace was forced to *tow* Wilton's cheap little “flivver” (what we would now call a “jalopy.”) Horace politely offers Wilton candy, but Wilton is antisocial and soon picks a fight with him, saying he could beat him with a hand tied behind his back, then confusingly puts a spoon on his shoulder, *daring* him to knock it off. Horace mildly tells him to *relax* and Clara tells him to go home, but Wilton reveals he instead just **hanged around outside her house so he could sucker-punch her second-cousin Horace**. However, Clara points out that Horace didn't just *stand still* to get hit and we see him the next day with his eyes blacked hard, claiming he “**walked into a door! And don't ask so many questions!**” Wilton argues that he slapped the ears off of Horace, but he was *struck with a club*. Clara states he merely *felt* like it because he was a Princeton Boxing Champion. She argues that he *was* a gentleman and *his wife* is now *rich* and has a maid *and* a butler. Wilton is furious that his salary isn't good enough and Scribbly breaks off to wander back outside to mow the lawn in the falling snow. Clara storms off, slamming the door and telling Wilton he can go to his formal dance *himself*, leaving him to join his son in being utterly *depressed*.

| Appearing3 = **Featured Characters:** * Scribbly) **Supporting Characters:** * Mr. Wilton Jibbet * Mrs. Clara Jibbet **Antagonists:** * Bentley Bilgewater * Horace **Other Characters:** * Littul Snoony) * Clover Cooley **Locations:** * **Items:** * **Vehicles:** * Wilton's Flivver * Horace's Tin-Lizzie

| Notes = * This issue also includes: ** Two one-page Peg stories by Henry Boltinoff. ** A one-page Fireball story. ** A one-page Varsity Vic story by Henry Boltinoff. ** "Lost -- A Free Education!", a one-page public service announcement starring Binky) that appeared in many DC Comics in this time period. | Trivia = * Despite the cover, Scribbly and Clover **don't** spend an entire weekend telling each other "G'Night" and staring lovingly into each other's eyes, nor do either of Clover's parents show up at all. What's more, two of three stories involve Scribbly *losing* Clover's affections! * The Fortune-Teller seems to imply an ill future for Clover: Queen Cleopatra VI famously *kills* herself with an asp rather than be arrested and executed by Roman forces and the Comtesse du Barry was executed at the guillotine for "treason" of helping émigrés escape the Reign of Terror (and owning slaves.) | Recommended = | Links =

Creative credits

Writers: Sheldon Mayer, Sheldon Mayer, Sheldon Mayer

Interior art: Sheldon Mayer, Sheldon Mayer, Sheldon Mayer

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