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Issue: Tessie the Typist Comics #1
Publication Date: June 1944
 
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Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: 20th Century Comic Corp.
On Sale Date: 04/04/1944
Volume: 1
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 15 (10 stories, 1 cover)
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Disclose Notes: The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1944, New Series, Vol. 39, No. 2.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Four Color
Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U.S.
Paper Stock: Glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: Saddle-Stitched
Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
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Hurry, Skidsy--or you'll miss your train!!
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Wow! This Is What I Want

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Mail order advertisement for books from Knickerbocker Publishing Company, Dept. B-494, 120 Greenwich St., New York 6, New York.
Indicia at bottom of page.
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Act One

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Sam Barnham (circus owner); Spike Lenkins (rival circus owner)
Help! Stop this mad beast before I'm torn to pieces!
Wanting to do something exciting while Skidsy goes on maneuvers, Tessie responds to an ad and joins the circus, shortly becoming a fantastic and popular lion tamer for the Bailey, Barnham and Barnham Circus.
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Screwy and Looie
Hey, Looey--will you go down and get me a bottle of milk?
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What do they want?
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Prof. Ploop's Parade of Peculiar People
Beeman McDemon can view the back of his head...
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Carving Compartment
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Waiting Room
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The Adventures of Chico and His Pals
Chico; Squawky; Amigo; Toothless Pingo
Bounce! Bounce!
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Mr. Seedy (farmer); Jones (press agent); Mr. Topps (producer)
Look, Mr. Seedy!
Tessie wants a job in a play, but Skidsy, wanting her to work in a more patriotic job, switches the signs for play auditions and apple picking jobs, causing a lot of problems for himself and everyone else.
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Lucky Dugan
Joe 'Lucky' Dugan; John Dugan; Mary Dugan; Percival 'Poicy' Van Farring
Hey, you kids!
Though only sixteen, Joe 'Lucky' Dugan enlists in the Army Air Corps and becomes an accomplished pilot fighting against the Japanese in the Pacific.
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S. S. Sputter (defense plant manager); Spud (worker); Bud (worker)
Wasn't it awfully silly of Mr. Sputter...
Tessie goes to work for the war effort and takes a job at a defense plant. Against all odds, she manages to repair an abandoned machine, which almost immediately starts spitting out new tanks. Tessie advises the reader that if they are female, they should take over a man's job so that he can enlist in the military.
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Free With This Offer!

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Ad offers three self-defense books for $1.00 from Pickwick Co., Dept. 6201, 73 West 44th St., New York 18, N.Y.
Help Uncle Sam - Make Official Plane Models

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Ad for X-acto knife sets from X-acto Crescent Products Co., Dept. 1801, 440 4th Avenue, New York 16, N.Y.
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Remove Ugly Blackheads or No Cost

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Jim; Bob
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Send for blackhead removal device from Ballco Products Company, Dept. A403, 516 Fifth Ave., New York, N.Y.
On back cover.

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