The Skipper June 9 1934 Vintage Comic

Splendid fun for the 1930′s boy!

Cost 2d. Quite costly, considering I paid 3d. for my Beano and Dandy in 1959..

Here’s a sample of World News for Boys..

Australia.
Buffalo-shooting wasn’t nearly thrilling enough for Jack Gaden and O. Jennings, of Darwin, North Australia. There wasn’t sufficient danger in it for their tastes, so they decided to become crocodile hunters instead.
In their new line of business they got all the excitement they wanted, and it paid them, too. Within a month their ” bag ” of crocodiles numbered one hundred and twenty. They were paid well for the skins, and were able to sell the crocs’ teeth at threepence a time.
England.
While working in a Derbyshire pit, a coal-miner, lost his false teeth. After a long search he gave up hope of seeing them again. A few weeks ago the teeth were returned to htm. They had been discovered ,unbroken in a truck of coal which had been sent to Cheshire.
New Zealand.
A plague of white butterflies caused so much trouble in the Waikato district of New Zealand that the authorities offered prizes to the boys and girls who could catch the largest number of them in a certain period.
The winning boy collected ten thousand, and several others caught over four thousand each. The total number killed amounted to 160,000.
Oregon.
There’s nothing impossible to a man who uses his brains.
Fred Menkenn, of Hillsboro, Oregon, wanted a motor car, but he didn’t have enough cash to buy one. So, collecting a part each week with his spare cash’, he built his own three-wheel runabout, using motor-bike wheels, a motorbike engine, an aeroplane propeller, a steering wheel, and other cast-offs.
His home-made bus can travel, too. He has reached a speed of fifty-five miles an hour in it.
Russia.
Russian scientists are not content with breaking the world’s record for high flying. They’re at present building a new balloon in which they expect to reach a height of over 15 miles and break their own record.
The attempt will be made some time this summer, and as this time the pilots will travel in an open basket instead of a sealed gondola, special clothing is being made for them to protect them from the intense cold.
South Africa.
Natives working in South African mines are the cutest smugglers in the world, and thousands of pounds have been lost every year by mine owners owing to thieving among the miners. A favourite dodge is to swallow the diamonds, and bring them back into their mouths after they are clear of the mine workings.
But this stunt isn’t going to work any longer. The mine exits are being fitted with X-ray apparatus, and if a man has swallowed a stone, it is shown up by the X-ray as a soft greenish glow.
Scotland.
The Rutherglen works of the British Ropes, Ltd., have just completed a steel haulage rope seven miles in length, and all in one piece. It weighs almost fifty-seven tons.
The rope is to be used in the Glasgow Corporation subway, and will probably be the last one installed there, as the subway will shortly be electrified.
U.S.A.
Some people have queer ways of keeping their money. But the queerest of the bunch is surely that of the woman who entered a Boston bank a few weeks ago and gave the cashier the shock of his life.
The woman searched in her shopping bag, and took out a paper bag full of walnuts.
Cracking one of the nuts she showed the astonished cashier that the nut contained a golden coin instead of a kernel.
Each nut had been emptied, a coin put in it, and the shell glued together again.