Omar Super Book of Comics #20 Oswald The Rabbit - Western Publishing - 1946
Contents[]
- Oswald The Rabbit - [Here's the best hatchet in my store, Oswald ... and cheap at the price!] - 8 pages
- Adventures of Omar - [Prince, this is a real vacation - after all the excitement we've been through!] - 6 pages
Characters[]
- Oswald The Rabbit
- Toby Bear
- Hi-yah Wahoo
- Mrs. Possum
- Maggie Lou
- Mister Grizzly Bear
Reprints[]
- New Funnies #74 Dell April 1943 (1)
Notes[]
- Giveaway comics. Entire series reprinted as Super-Book of Comics [Hancock Oil Co.] (Western, 1947 series).
- The Omar Baking Company in the 1930s daily delivered freshly baked bread (Omar Kayam: "Here with a loaf of bread beneath the bough, a flask of wine, a book of verse -- and thou") to homes throughout the midwest. In the 1940s the Omar Man also distributed the Omar Super-Book of Comics exclusively to members of the Omar Junior Comic Book Club. Each monthly issue featured a new episode in the continuing Adventures of Omar, an adventure strip written for the series by Gaylord Du Bois, in which Prince Omar, in a blue suit, orange turban, and white cape, by the power of his golden kernel of wheat, commands the whirlwind.
Story[]
Hi-yah, taking offense, intends to boycott Oswald's proposed change of venue for his birthday party. Hi-yah praises his own hunting skill after he lifts Grizzly's seemingly abandoned bearskin coat of fur and recovers his own canoe filled with Toby and Oswald's catch of fish, but after he makes off with Mrs. Possum's birthday cakes he is found out with his swag and mends his ways, like a naughty child yielding to his peers' morally authorotative implied threat of force by aggrieved Grizzly.