Kewpies #1
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeThis is an anthology issue featuring multiple stories about Kewpies, the cherubic characters that have been favorites of American children for over 40 years. "The Everyday Adventures of Scootles and Peter" follows twin Kewpies who receive five real baby Kewpies as dolls and decide to have adventures playing with them, discovering each doll has a distinct personality (Weepie, Happy, Winkie, Scrappy, and Nosey). The issue also includes "Miss Hickory," a Newbery Award-winning selection that follows a character carried by a crow across a winter landscape. An additional story depicts Kewpies discovering rubber balloons and attempting to sell them to townsfolk and a dinosaur they encounter.
When four mischievous bumblebees arrive in Kewpieville to deliver honey for Scootles' birthday party, they decide to stay and cause trouble—literally turning the entire town upside down. With the Kewpies helpless against the bees' strength, Scootles seeks out the aid of Bad Witch Elspeth from Goblin Forest, hoping the witch's magic can save the day and the party. It's a topsy-turvy adventure full of magical mishaps and outsized chaos in J. L. Kaye's "Bumblebee Trouble."
Scootles and his twin brother Peter discover that five identical quintuplets have arrived—babies that look just like the Kewpies from their favorite storybook—and the two boys set out to get to know each one's personality. From teaching the quints acrobatic tricks to staging a grand-scale mouse hunt with homemade traps, Scootles and Peter find that playtime with their new companions is full of surprises, mishaps, and the kind of everyday chaos that only five curious babies can create. Whether it's watching one of them say their first word or finding the perfect cure for hiccups, life at home has become a lot more lively.
Clifford is a bubble-gum enthusiast who practices his craft relentlessly—until he spots a sign for the Big Bubble Gum Contest and decides to enter with a secret bubble he's been perfecting. When his moment arrives at the competition, Clifford's ambition gets the better of him, with hilariously unexpected results that nobody in the stadium will forget.
A lazy girl named Liza faces an impossible task—spin three rooms full of flax or forfeit her chance to marry the prince—until she meets three mysterious little women who offer her an unexpected solution. When Liza keeps her word and invites them to the wedding, their strange appearances catch the prince's attention, leading to a revelation that changes everything. This charming fairy tale twist shows how cleverness and gratitude can break free from unwanted labor.
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Reprinted in Feiffer the Collected Works #1 (1988), The Golden Collection of Klassic Krazy Kool Kids Komics #[nn] (2010), The Collected Will Eisner's John Law #[nn] (2025)
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