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Issue: Tops Comics #[nn]
Publication Date: January 1944
 
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Variant: unnamed
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On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume:
Pages: 60
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: none entered
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 8 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Jim McMenomy
Disclose Notes: This book is stapled to the Ace Kelly comic, no cover price, no indicia. Throughout the book on the bottom of the pages are riddles and jokes with illos.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color Cover; Partial Two-Color & Full Color (#2000); Color (#2001-2003)
Dimensions: 5" x 7 1/4" (issues 2001-2004)
Paper Stock: Newsprint Interior
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Don On The Farm

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
?
?
?
?
Subject Matter
humorous
Don On The Farm
Don
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
[untitled]

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Mort Greene
Mort Greene
Mort Greene
?
?
Subject Matter
Inside front cover intro page for the Don On the Farm Story.
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
Don On the Farm

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Mort Greene
Mort Greene
Mort Greene
?
?
Subject Matter
humorous
Don On the Farm
Don (a pranky little city boy); Uncle Hank
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
12
story is printed with both four color pages and pages with just red/black ink
[untitled]

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Lou Lilly
Lou Lilly
Lou Lilly
?
?
Subject Matter
humorous
1/2 page text gag with illo and 1/2 4 panel gag. 2 page text with illo and another 1/2 page text gag with illo and 1/2 4 panel gag.
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Miscellaneous
4
2 color/4 color/2 color
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Mort Greene
Mort Greene
Mort Greene
?
?
Subject Matter
humorous
Don on the Farm
Don; Uncle Hank
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Miscellaneous
12
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Albert Magarian (signed); Florence Magarian (signed)
Albert Magarian (signed); Florence Magarian (signed)
?
?
Subject Matter
superhero
The Black Orchid
The Black Orchid [Diana Dawn] (Richard Day's secretary); Richard Day (District Attorney); Captain O'Reilly (mention only); Killer Orbit (villain, image only, death); Doctor Marvane (villain, mention only, death); Doctor Arso (villain, death); Wisp (villain, Dr. Arso's assistant, death); unnamed assistant to Dr. Arso (villain, death)
Glamorous Diana Dawn, District Attorney Day's secretary, masquerades as the mysterious female sleuth the Black Orchid and solves crime with the aid of her Orchid Ring, which releases paralyzing black vapors.
Reprinting
in Men of Mystery (AC, 1999 series) #113 (2019) in black and white
Miscellaneous
10
Printed with 4 color pages and 2 color pages (red/black).

The Who's Who indicates both of the Magarians penciled and inked this strip, but there is no indication that the pair (or one of them) wrote the feature. So ? replaces their names for the script credit. There is no extant evidence that either of them wrote the feature.
[untitled]

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Lou Lilly
Lou Lilly
Lou Lilly
?
?
Subject Matter
humorous
1/2 page text gag with illo and 1/2 page 4 panel gag.
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
[untitled]

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Don
Don
Don
?
?
Subject Matter
humorous
Clown
gag 4 panels
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
On back cover.

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