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Issue: Tell It to the Marines #1
Publication Date: March 1952
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Issues: #1 of 4 Issues
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Publisher: FlagSuperior
Brand: Toby Toby Press
Indicia Publisher: Superior Publishers Limited
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 CAD
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Content Items: 8 (3 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: colour
Dimensions: standard Golden Age U.S.
Paper Stock: newsprint interior; glossy cover
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Genres: adventure, humorous, war
Feature(s): Tell It To the Marines
Character(s): Spike; Bat
First Line: Did I ever tell you about...
Synopsis: Full-page, front cover illustration depicting Spike and Bat casually and confidently gunning-down Asian soldiers.
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Synopsis: Full-page, inside front cover ad for mail-order book, "Beat the High Cost of Living".
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Operation Petticoat

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Genres: adventure, humorous, war
Feature(s): Tell It To The Marines
Character(s): Spike; Bat; Lotus Blossom
Synopsis: Spike and Bat, two brawny, lusty, best-buddy Marines on the Korean front, are sent behind enemy lines to retrieve valuable information from an elderly, wounded Korean acting as an agent for the United States. Before dying, the agent tells the boys the information is sewn into the dress hem of his lovely granddaughter, Lotus Blossom. Spike and Bat head back to camp with Lotus Blossom in tow and have several close calls with Korean soldiers before recrossing enemy lines. The story is punctuated with the two Marines playing pranks on one another and lusting after "dames".
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Arabian Nightmare

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Genres: adventure, humorous, war
Feature(s): Tell It To The Marines
Character(s): Spike; Bat; Boris; Shah of Ariq
Synopsis: A big mistake is made in Washington and the boys are sent to the Middle East to secure oil concessions for the western powers. Boris, a Russian emissary, is trying to do the same for his country. The Shah of Ariq, a boxing fan, decides the issue will be settled via a boxing match between Boris and Spike, a renowned Corps heavyweight champion celebrated for a punch of his own devising called the Double Reverse Pretzel Bolo. The story features scantily clad harem girls and a transvestite scene for Spike and Bat.
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The Fighting Leathernecks March On!

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Genres: informational, military
Synopsis: Nonfiction account of early 19th century United States Marine Corps history.
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Feature(s): Lover O'Leary and His Liberty Belles
Character(s): Lover O'Leary; Blue Plate Blossom; Queenie Quadrille; Marlene; Three-Quarters-of-a-Mile Miriam; two nerdy, lusting young Marines
First Line: We hear that you two jokers...
Synopsis: Lover O'Leary is the "pre-eminent gal-hound" of the United States Marine Corps and agrees to take two nerdy, young "chowderheads" out on the town. The three pass their time ogling busty, leggy Good Girls in little clothing.
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Synopsis: Full-page, inside back cover ad for mail-order religious pictures depicting Pope Pius XII, the Savior, and Madonna.
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Tool Set Offer

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Synopsis: Full-page, back cover ad for a set of mail-order hand tools.
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