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Issue: Tip Top Comics #1 (85)
Publication Date: June 1943
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Issues: #1 (85) of 188 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagUnited Feature
Brand: object(PgSql\Result)#3 (0) { }
Indicia Publisher: United Feature Syndicate Inc.
On Sale Date: 04/20/1943
Volume: 8
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 15 (12 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
Disclose Notes: The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1943, New Series, Vol. 38, No. 2.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: 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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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Rudolph Dirks
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): The Captain and the Kids
Character(s): der Captain; Hans; Fritz
First Line: Ride 'em cowboy!
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Pages: 1
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Rudolph Dirks
Penciller(s): Rudolph Dirks (signed)
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): The Captain and the Kids
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Pages: 3
Disclose Notes: On the top half of 6 pages.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Rudolph Dirks
Penciller(s): Rudolph Dirks
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, mystery
Feature(s): Hawkshaw the Detective
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Fred Methot
Penciller(s): Reg Greenwood
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, war
Feature(s): The Triple Terror
First Line: Carrying out their work of stalking Jap outposts in the Aleutians...
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Pages: 7
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Gustavo Arriola
Penciller(s): Gustavo Arriola
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: drama, humorous
Feature(s): Gordo
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Pages: 6
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bernard Dibble
Penciller(s): Bernard Dibble [as Dib]
Inker(s): Bernard Dibble
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Feature(s): Iron Vic
Character(s): Iron Vic; Mac; Sgt. Barol
First Line: After weeks of warfare in the South Pacific, Marine sergeant Vic arrives home on leave
Synopsis: Vic comes home on leave and tells his old pal Mac about fighting in the Pacific. He says Japanese soldiers are different from American troops, and relates the tale of one who "surrendered" and claimed he was an American citizen forced into fighting for Japan. It's a ruse and Vic and his men are nearly fooled by it, but in the end they defeat the Japanese troops.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Ernie Bushmiller
Penciller(s): Ernie Bushmiller
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Fritzi Ritz
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Pages: 3
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Ernie Bushmiller
Penciller(s): Ernie Bushmiller
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Nancy
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Pages: 3
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On Norway - Norwegian Raider

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: non-fiction
Feature(s): Stamp Tips
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: With stamp ads.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Dick Moores
Penciller(s): Dick Moores
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Jim Hardy
First Line: Among his stage and screen offers for the now-famous Paddles...
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Pages: 7
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Fred Methot
Penciller(s): Reg Greenwood
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Feature(s): The Mirror Man
First Line: Called from frozen Russia to the North African coast by military intelligence...
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Pages: 7
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Impossible Brown

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Al Capp
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Small Change
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: A 2-page strip promoting war bonds.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Hal Forrest
Penciller(s): Hal Forrest
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, aviation
Feature(s): Tailspin Tommy
First Line: Lieutenant Fernando is about to reveal to Don Casmetto the name of the person...
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Pages: 6
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Your May Issue Went to War!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: non-fiction
Feature(s): Tarzan
Synopsis: A 1-page strip promoting Sparkler Comics, that explains why UFS is skipping the May issues of Sparkler and Tip Top are being skipped to save paper.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Al Capp
Penciller(s): Al Capp (signed)
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Li'l Abner
First Line: In their fight-to-a-finish (of the Ratfield-Roy fued) mother Ratfield and Mammy Yokum...
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Pages: 6

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