Buzzy #34 is an issue of the series Buzzy (Volume 1) with a cover date of November, 1950.
Synopsis for "Buzzy"
Buzzy is out with Susie and her cousin, Carol, on a boating excursion. Carol worries since she can't swim, but Buzzy says they'll be fine. He immediately loses the boat to the tide when they eat on a tiny island and goes off to find the boat. He runs off to a nearby boathouse and tries to borrow a rowboat, but finds he can't fit it through the window, then steals a canoe instead... then realizes that he didn't still any oars. He paddles his way to the island and then paddles them back to land and tries to "return" the canoe, accidentally throwing it through the closed window... right in front of a cop! Susie and Carol return in their car to pick him up, but the Cop says he already did! He finds out this is the Judge's canoe and boathouse and the Judge rides up, honking on his horn like a gavel to hear about it. Susie "swears herself in" to him and then explains it all and how they didn't even get to enjoy their picnic lunch. They take a "recess" of 15 minutes as Buzzy whispers to the Cop, asking if the Judge will go easy on him, but the Cop points out he's not going easy on him, since he's already eaten three more sandwiches than him!
Appearing in "Buzzy"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Susie Gruff
- Carol Gruff
Villains:
- The Cop
Other Characters:
- The Judge
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Synopsis for "Buzzy (2)"
Susie's friend Louise has brought over "Consequence-Board" a punch-out board that describes punishments if they cannot get quiz questions wrong. The consequence he gets for not knowing the speed of light is to bring back a shoe in a half-hour, "but not one for walking. Susie offers a horseshoe could work, but Louise points out they also walk and that his running shoes are also used in a walking race. He runs off to a construction site. He tries to ask for help from a construction worker, but doesn't realize he's on an elevator before it's too late. A man walking the girders tells him to go talk to the Foreman and Buzzy walks off, nearly falling off and grabbing a rope. He slips and falls into a barrel sitting in a wheelbarrow, but rolls off while Susie is freaking out about his safety. Susie worries that he's fallen into the foundation and they call the Emergency Squad. However, Buzzy instead runs into a power pole and is nearly hit by the cops on their way there. He runs back and tries to meekly ask who she's looking for, only for her to find he's alive! THey tell him to watch out for the "shoe," which it turns out is a base girder, but isn't light enough to be carried there. Louise says that he has to bring one back, or it doesn't count, so he offers that his broken shoe certainly isn't for walking anymore!
Appearing in "Buzzy (2)"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Susie Gruff
Antagonists:
- Louise
Other Characters:
- Construction Workers
Locations:
Items:
- A "Shoe"
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Synopsis for "Pam"
Pam's friend Sally says that she's going to a dude ranch for the weekend with her parents for the weekend and she'll probably meet tons of guys there. Pam asks if she can find her a friend too and Sally deigns she may do so. Pam requests he be tall, dark and handsome and offers her a picture she can pass around. Days later, she does show him a picture of a guy she seems keen on... only to say that she intends to only call him so she can complain he's already two-timing her, since he's in the picture next to Sally!
Appearing in "Pam"
Featured Characters:
- Pam
Supporting Characters:
- Sally
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Other Characters:
Locations:
Items:
- A Photo of a Man
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Synopsis for "Scribbly"
Clover bids Scribbly a good night and Scribbly confirms that they're meeting at the Skating Rink at 8pm sharp. Daffodil answers the phone for her sister and says it's for her to say that the date has to be off. Scribbly asks why not, but Clover says she can't explain just now. Scribbly takes this poorly and decides that she's being fickle and he decides to call up another girl, Alice, who flatly rejects him. He tries to call up other girls in the phonebook, getting turned down by Althea & Clover's friend, Addie, then eventually all the way down to the portly Zorina. That night, Scribbly heads home and finds that it's his birthday, which he's forgotten about entirely, finding that no one could make it because they all showed up to his party! Despite this, he's still despondent, since he reveals he's already bought a highly expensive How to Be Successful Socially book by “Doctor Lovemore” that costs $10 now and a weekly $5 for the next six months.
Appearing in "Scribbly"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Clover Cooley
Antagonists:
Other Characters:
- Daffodil Cooley
- Addie
- Alice
- Althea
- Zorina
Locations:
Items:
- Books in the How to Be Successful Socially Series by "Doctor" Lovemore
- How to Knock 'Em Dead at Parties
- How to Be Popular!!! by "Prof." Poopdeck
- Don't Be a Dud!
- How to Play the Harmonica
- How to Keep Your Friends
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Synopsis for "Buzzy (3)"
Wolfie challenges Buzzy to a cross-country roller-skating race where the winner gets to teach Susie about skating and Wolfie tries to cheat by just having a taxi pick him up, but has to take off his skates while inside it. He removes the scarf he put on the Old Abandoned House, proving he made the circuit there from the Sugar Lump (as planned.) Wolfie finds his taxi has left with the skates inside and frantically goes to buy a new pair of roller skates, which he still needs shoes to put on over them. Wolfie finds he can't just walk across an asphalt street in socks and instead gets a boy in a sailor suit to help him by pushing him on a single roller skate across the street where he can get his shoes as needed. Dashing back, the kids are rejoicing that Buzzy won, but Wolfie insists that he still has the scarf and demands to know how Buzzy can prove he went to the house, only for Buzzy to show he tore up the old gate the scarf was on!
Appearing in "Buzzy (3)"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Susie
Antagonists:
- Wolfie
Other Characters:
Locations:
- The Sugar Lump
- The Old Abandoned House
Items:
- Roller-Skates
- Shoes
- A Scarf
- An Old Gate
Vehicles:
- A Taxicab
Synopsis for "Liz"
Liz and her friend Freddie see Stanley seems like he's going out with Shirley, despite the fact that she's going with Albert! They see Albert come in and worry about him and assume that he's already resigned himself to this sad fate. Freddie offers that Shirley isn't smart to not appreciate Albert, who is the smartest kid in class, has a good personality, knows how to party, he's a good dancer, is on the basketball and swim team, has a nice car and is voted "best-dressed man" in school. He wonders how it feels to sit alone and have a soda without a girl to talk to and Liz says that, with all he's talking him up for, he's going to find out really fast!
Appearing in "Liz"
Featured Characters:
- Liz Leeds
Supporting Characters:
- Freddie
Antagonists:
- Shirley
Other Characters:
- Stanley
- Albert
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Synopsis for "Buzzy (4)"
Buzzy and Susie are at the beach with her annoying cousin Arnold, who is tossing sand at his back and then a bucket of ocean water on his back. Wolfie comes up to offer taking her away to ice cream, but Susie declines. Arnold says he's fine with free ice cream and is even willing to ignore Wolfie calling him "something the tide washed in" (if it gets him free ice cream.) Buzzy says he'll just buy ice cream for Arnold himself, essentially tricking him into going to get him some. Arnold demands an ice cream soda, but Buzzy says that that'll take too long and he should get a cone so he can just eat on the way. Arnold wolf-whistles at a girl, earning Buzzy a punch in the jaw from her boyfriend. He tries it again, but this girl is single and mildly pleased by the attention, only for Arnold to pretend Buzzy is his father, immediately repelling them. Buzzy says he's not getting any ice cream with how he's acting and Arnold suddenly runs off, saying he's got it coming to him now. He whispers something to some girls and they go after Buzzy and Arnold reveals he lied, saying he's a talent scout and lying about it otherwise to eschew their attention. When he agrees to do it if he can get out of this, Arnold threatens to throw ice water on anyone who bothers him. Wolfie tries to seduce Susie, who seems to take the idea that Buzzy's "popularity" might not be as better as Wolfie, a guy who can't get anyone else and therefore won't cause trouble about him running around.
Buzzy is despondent when he finds Susie isn't as interested in him and Arnold almost consoles him about it until they explain that the girls were chasing Buzzy and that he ran as hard as he could.
However, things aren't to last, since Wolfie tries to bribe Arnold with a hot dog. Arnold asks for the hot dog first, but rats him out to a cop when he returns, saying that food isn't allowed on the beach and Wolfie is foiled again
Appearing in "Buzzy (4)"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Susie Gruff
- Little Arnold Gruff
Antagonists:
- Wolfie
Other Characters:
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Notes
- Also appearing in this issue of Buzzy was:
- A half-page Jerry the Jitterbug story by Henry Boltinoff.
- "...In a Manner of Speaking", a two-page Datewise story.
- A one-page Peg story by Henry Boltinoff.
- A one-page Bonny story.
- "Nature Loves a Nature-Lover", a one-page public service announcement starring Buzzy that appeared in many DC Comics in this time period.
- This issue marks the beginning of the end of Scribbly, since the backup feature goes on hiatus for five issues, returning only once in Buzzy# 39 before the cast are relegated to cameo appearances in Sugar and Spike, a more childish comic about the antics of babies who can secretly talk to each other.
Trivia
- Despite the cover, Buzzy doesn't assist Susie in making the world's most dangerous jump-rope by using a jacked car and sitting in it with a rope attached.
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