{"id":5476,"date":"2019-05-27T09:00:10","date_gmt":"2019-05-27T14:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/?p=5476"},"modified":"2019-05-25T09:15:04","modified_gmt":"2019-05-25T14:15:04","slug":"the-little-scouts-comic-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/?p=5476","title":{"rendered":"The Little Scouts comic books"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"565\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/LittleScouts5-565x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5477\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/LittleScouts5-565x800.jpg 565w, https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/LittleScouts5-176x250.jpg 176w, https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/LittleScouts5.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 565px) 100vw, 565px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am sure I am not the only long time Scouter that has accumulated a fair amount of Scouting memorabilia over the years. I think it is inevitable. But when you actively collect anything you come across the collection grows a lot faster, and you develop a lot of subcategories within the collection. Handbooks, novels, coffee mugs and patches are probably the most common Scouting related collections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last year I discovered that there was a short comic book series that featured a comical look at Boy Scouting. This series, printed in 1951, was named <strong>The Little Scouts<\/strong>. According to the Comic Vine website, there were five issues printed in this series, but a few more stories were printed in Dell <strong>Four Color<\/strong> comic series that featured the same characters. Each comic book featured a few short stories of a group of Boy Scouts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was able to pick up one of these comic books. It is shown above. According to the information on Comic Vine this is #5 in the series. I have looked through it and found it to be entertaining and fun to read. It may not be quite &#8220;socially correct&#8221; by today&#8217;s standards but it was published over 60 years ago. It like reading the humor found in the books back then. I think I need to begin the hunt to see if I can find the rest of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Do you know of any other Scouting related comic book series? Leave a comment and let us know about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am sure I am not the only long time Scouter that has accumulated a fair amount of Scouting memorabilia over the years. I think it is inevitable. But when you actively collect anything you come across the collection grows a lot faster, and you develop a lot of subcategories within the collection. Handbooks, novels, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,17,182],"tags":[288,163],"class_list":["post-5476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collections","category-film-books","category-memorabilia-2","tag-collection","tag-comics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5478,"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5476\/revisions\/5478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}