Comic Title: Greatest Golden Age Stories Ever Told HC
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 1990
On Sale Date: December 12, 1989 Shipping Date December 12, 1989
Source: Amazing Heroes, #174

Shipping Date December 12, 1989
Source: Comic Shop News, #119

Shipping Date December 12, 1989
Source: Previews, #10

Shipping Date December 14, 1989
Source: Advance Comics, #12

Direct Market Date December 14, 1989
Source: Comic Shop News, #126, #128, #129

Direct Market Date January 18, 1990
Source: Comic Shop News, #132, #133
Listed as delayed from December

Cover Price: $24.95
Page Count: 288
Editor: Mike Gold

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

Title: "The Cartoonist"
Pages: 4

Feature(s):
Scribbly

Writer/Artist: Sheldon Mayer

Reprinted From:
All-American Comics #6 (1939)

Feature Character(s)

• Scribbly (last appearance in All-American Comics #5; next appearance in All-American Comics #7)

Supporting Character(s)

• Mike Macklin (last name revealed; last appearance in All-American Comics #5; next appearance in All-American Comics #7)
• Mrs. Jibbet (last appearance in All-American Comics #5; next appearance in All-American Comics #9)
• Dinky Jibbet (last appearance in All-American Comics #5; next appearance in All-American Comics #9)
• Ma Hunkel (last appearance in All-American Comics #4; next appearance in All-American Comics #11)
• Huey Hunkel (last appearance in All-American Comics #5; next appearance in All-American Comics #11)

Other Character(s)

• Charley Phelps (last appearance in All-American Comics #5; no further appearances)
• Agnes (name revealed; last appearance in All-American Comics #5; no further appearances)
• Gus Hunkel (last appearance in All-American Comics #5; next appearance in All-American Comics #11)
• Herman Hunkel (last appearance in All-American Comics #5; next appearance in All-American Comics #11)

Comments:
Scribbly's age is given as 13 in this story. His mother doesn't believe he had a previous job as a cartoonist despite the publication of the strip as shown in Funnies #7.

This story features topper strips entitled "Why Big Brudders Leave Home".

This story was not originally titled; the title shown here was given on the contents page of the Greatest Golden Age Stories Ever Told in which this story is reprinted.

This story is continued from All-American Comics #5.

Synopsis:
Scribbly is hired as a cartoonist for the Dispatch. His mother doesn't believe him until the publication of his first cartoon. Around the neighborhood, Scribbly becomes instantly famous, but now he is struggling to find new ideas for the strip.