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Issue: Top Notch Laugh Comics #42
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Brand: An MLJ MagazineView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: M. L. J. Magazines Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 60
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
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Content Items: 10 (9 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Harry Shorten
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
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Publishing Format: was ongoing
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
Indicia on this Page
Notation
Marked Image
Pencilling above masthead.
 
 

Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
Indicia on this Page
Notation
Marked Image
Pencilling above masthead.
 
 
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
?
?
Subject Matter
humorous, superhero
Black Hood; Pokey Oakey; Suzie; Señor Siesta; Dotty and Ditto
Black Hood; Pokey Oakey; Suzie; Señor Siesta; Dotty and Ditto
Who killed Rock Robin?
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
Subject Matter
humorous
Pokey Oakey; Doctor Zook; Ali Baba; Jesse James
After breaking up a bogus medicine show gang, who were fleecing the inhabitants of Catfish Creek, Pokey the hillbilly sheriff is approached by a mysterious stranger!!!
Pokey is part of Doctor Zook's great experiment in the supernatural.
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Miscellaneous
6
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
?
Subject Matter
humorous
Senor Siesta; Senor M.J.R.Q.V. Mopo
Well, dear readers, if you will remember the last we saw of Señor Siesta, he was in a tight spot...
The inventor needs an assistant to help sell his amazing product.
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Miscellaneous
6
The many close-up faces with big noses and the heavy inking are all by Vigoda.
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Claire S. Moe
Claire S. Moe (signed)
Claire S. Moe (signed)
?
?
Subject Matter
humorous
Suzie
Suzy; Mrs. Snobsnoot
What's this? Suzy on a yacht?
Suzy is hired as a governess.
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Miscellaneous
6
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Carl Hubbell
Carl Hubbell
?
?
Subject Matter
humorous, mystery
Snoop McGook
Snoop McGook; Waldo (squirrell); Sam (robber); Joe (robber)
Nothing like a good healthful walk..eh, Waldo!
Snoop chases two robbers.
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Miscellaneous
5
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Ed Goggin (signed)
Red Holmdale (signed)
Red Holmdale (signed)
?
?
Subject Matter
humorous
Gloomy Gus
Gloomy Gus [Gus Gloompuss]; St. Pete; Gabby; Caveman
We open our story in St. Pete's hangout...
Gus and Gabby are back in the stone age.
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Miscellaneous
6
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
?
Subject Matter
superhero
Black Hood [Kip Burland]; Barbara Sutton; Sergeant McGinty; Mrs. Marion; Kalimar [Glass Eye Gannet]
I the Black Hood do solemnly swear that neither threats nor bribes nor bullets nor death itself -- shall keep me from fulfilling my sacred vow...
A mystic and spiritualist gets his customers to tell where they keep their valuables then later robs them.
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FlagBlack Swan Comics #1 published January 1945
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagBlack Hood Comics #14 published January 1945
as The Sinister Spiritualist [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
9
A True Fact Story

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
? [as Black Hood]
typeset
Subject Matter
crime, non-fiction
Ephraim Littlefield; Dr. John Webster
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Miscellaneous
2
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Ed Groggin (signed)
Ed Goggin (signed)
Ed Goggin (signed)
?
?
Subject Matter
anthropomorphic, humorous, superhero
The 3 Monkey-Teers and Stupidman
The 3 Monkey-Teers [Sassafras; Small Fry; Yehudi]; Stupidman [Egbert]; Hermit
It is winter again...
The monkeys and Stupidman are out skiing
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Miscellaneous
6
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Bill Woggon
Bill Woggon (signed)
Bill Woggon (signed)
?
?
Subject Matter
humorous, western
Dotty and Ditto
Dotty; Ditto (parrot); Dottum (indian); Smokey (tramp); Stinkey (tramp)
Dotty and Ditto with their Indian pal...
The $2000 Dotty and her friends have won at the rodeo is stolen by two tramps.
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Miscellaneous
6

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