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Issue: Four Color #444
Publication Date: January 1953
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Issues: #444 of 1333 Issues (1484 Printings)
Title: Marge's Tubby
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagDell
Brand: Dell ComicView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: 11/25/1952
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 6 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
Disclose Notes: Indicia title is "MARGE'S TUBBY, No. 444." Code number is TUBBY O.S. #444-531. Copyright 1952 by Marjorie H. Buell. On-sale date is publication date in Catalog of Copyright Entries, 1953 Pamphlets, page 84.
Third of four Tubby Four Colors.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age U.S.; standard Silver Age U.S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: childrens
Character(s): Tubby
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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New Cowboy Outfit

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Inker(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: childrens
Character(s): Tubby
Synopsis: Tubby gets a new cowboy outfit and keeps it clean even when he is "shot."
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover; black and white; pantomime story.
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The Bank Robber

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: childrens
Character(s): Tubby; his mother; Willy; Eddie; Iggy; Gloria (cameo)
Synopsis: Tubby gets involved with a trio of kids playing cowboy outside a bank. When the trio go inside they actually rob the bank instead of pretending. Tubby is suspected of being an accomplice and has to flee. Eventually Willy, Eddie, and Iggy find him hiding in the forest and he turns himself in to the police for questioning. The police don't believe him and follow him when he's released. Tubby decides to find the robbers himself. He discovers there are midgets working the rodeo in the next town. He talks his way into the rodeo and finds that those midgets are the bank robbers.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 30
Disclose Notes: Tubby is wearing the same cowboy outfit that he got as a gift in the story on the inside front cover. He wears this same outfit in the rest of the stories in this issue. Tubby lives in Meadowville in this story.
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Lassoing the Dog Catcher

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: childrens
Character(s): Tubby
Synopsis: While aiming for a fire hydrant, Tubby accidentally lassoes the dog catcher while he's chasing a dog. Tubby escapes by tying the rope to a tree while the dog catcher is searching some bushes.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Tubby breaks Fourth Wall with comment "Gosh, I was in enough trouble in the last story!"
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Pint-Size Terror

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Inker(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: childrens
Character(s): Tubby; his mother
Synopsis: Tubby pretends to shoot his six-shooters at a tiny little girl, but then has to flee when she chases him with her doll.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover; black and white; pantomime story.
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Well-Ventilated

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: childrens
Character(s): Tubby; Eddie; Willy
Synopsis: Tubby fools his friends by drilling holes in a poster on a wood fence before demonstrating his "shooting" ability.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover; color; pantomime story.

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