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Issue: The Big Top #1

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Publication Date: January 1951

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Publisher: Flag

Toby

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Indicia Publisher: Toby Press Inc.

On Sale Date: 07/26/1951

Volume: none

Pages: 36

ISBN: none

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $0.10 USD

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Content Items: 10 (5 stories, 1 cover)

Editor(s): ?

Notes: Based on a CBS TV show. Copyrighted by WCAU, Philadelphia.
On-sale date is publication date in Catalog of Copyright Entries, 1951 Periodicals, page 180.

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: color

Dimensions: standard Golden Age U. S.

Paper Stock: newsprint

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Publishing Format: was ongoing series

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Content Items (10 total)

TV's Great Circus Show

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Genres: adventure

Character(s): Laffy; Topper; Ringmaster Jack

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Welcome to the Biggest Show in the World!!

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Synopsis: Inside front cover, a text introduction of some of the characters and a list of local TV stations that play the TV show on Saturdays.

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Genres: adventure

Character(s): Topper [Jimmy O'Leary]; Ringmaster Jack

First Line: Ste-e-ep right up, folks...

Synopsis: Jimmy O'Leary joins the circus and becomes Topper, the tight-rope walker.

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Pages: 12

The Circus Robbery

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Genres: adventure

Character(s): Topper; Tom Clanton; Ringmaster Jack; Colonel; Ronald

Synopsis: Topper is accused of stealing $5000 after it's found in his things.

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Laffy the Clown Goes On Safari!!

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Character(s): Laffy the Clown

Synopsis: Maze page.

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Genres: humorous, informational, non-fiction

Feature(s): True Tales from the Big Top as Told By Sawdust Trails

Character(s): Sawdust Trails

Synopsis: Sawdust Trails, a clown, tells stories of the early days of circuses.

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Dude Ranche

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Genres: humorous

Synopsis: Dude mistakes the desert for the beach.

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What Makes Laffy Cry?

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Genres: adventure

Character(s): Laffy the Clown; Poodles; Ringmaster Jack; Bongo

Synopsis: Bongo is jealous of Laffy the Clown, so he dog-naps Laffy's dog, Poodles.

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Laffy the Clown's Fun Page

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Character(s): Laffy the Clown

Synopsis: Three different puzzles.

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Notes: Inside back cover.

Television Circus Every Saturday

Promotional Material (from Publisher) on Interior Page(s)

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Synopsis: Ad for The Sealtest Big Top.

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Notes: Backcover of comic.