Spooky #29 for Sale - First Appearance of Tiny - Where to Buy

Identification plate

Series: Spooky (Harvey, 1955 series)
Issue: #29
Publication date: March 1959
Key date: 1959-03-00
On-sale date: 1958-12-09
Indicia publisher: Harvey Publications Inc.
Price: $0.10
Pages: 36
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

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Why this issue matters

First appearance of Tiny - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

The evidence

Claims here come from the story records for this issue, listed under Sources at the bottom of the file. Character hubs with full evidence tables are coming to this site.

Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	Black Tie and (Turn) Tails!	cover	1	pencils: Warren Kremer; inks: Warren Kremer	Spooky
2	Woiming His Way	comic story	1	pencils: Howie Post; inks: Howie Post	Spooky
4	Spooky Makes a Survey	comic story	5	pencils: Howie Post; inks: Howie Post	Spooky
6	High Society	comic story	5	pencils: Howie Post; inks: Howie Post	Spooky
7	Two's a Crowd	comic story	5	pencils: Howie Post; inks: Howie Post	Spooky
8	The White Stripe	text story	0.75	letters: typeset	Shiela Skunk; Norman (Shiela's cousin); Penelope Possum
9	Statement of Ownership, Management and Circulation	statement of ownership	0.25	script: Robert B. Harvey
10	Big Date	text story	0.75	letters: typeset	Minnie the Moth; Oscar the Fly; Mama Moth
11	She's Slick -- She's Quick -- She's Full of Tricks	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.25		Little Audrey, Tiny First
12	The Sleep Walkers	comic story	5	pencils: Warren Kremer; inks: Warren Kremer	Wendy

Plus 7 pages of advertisements and other matter across 6 sequences, as published.

Where to read it

Collection	Year
Little Lotta #29	1960	On eBay ›
Spooky #35	1959	On eBay ›
Spooky Spooktown #13	1965	On eBay ›

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Before you buy

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Series context

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Sources

Grand Comics Database, issue record (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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