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Issue: Top Notch Laugh Comics #43

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Publication Date: February 1944

Issue #43
- Top Notch Comics
- #33
- #34
- #35
- #36
- #37
- #38
- #39
- #40
- #41
- #42
- ✔ #43
- #44
- #45
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Issues: #43 of 18 Issues

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Variant: unnamed

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Publisher: Flag

Archie Publications, Inc.

Brand: An MLJ Magazine

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 (uncredited)

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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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Content Items (10 total)

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Illustration on Cover, Front

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Genres: humorous, superhero

Character(s): Black Hood; Pokey Oakey

First Line: Hain't nobody gonna be robbed while Ah'm depooty shurriff!!

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Pages: 1

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Genres: humorous

Character(s): Pokey Oakey; Pappy Oakey; Mammy Oakey; Dude Snagnasty

First Line: Yessuh, this hyar bein' Shuriff of Catfish Creek...

Synopsis: Dude is back to the hills and is courting Mammy Oakey.

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Pages: 6

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Genres: humorous

Character(s): Senor Siesta; Pancho (wanted outlaw)

First Line: It seems that someone is always trying to get Senor Siesta off this Earth...

Synopsis: Senor Sieste is mistaken for an outlaw called Pancho.

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Pages: 5

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Genres: humorous

Character(s): Suzy; Mr. Birdseed; Madame Renee

First Line: Hoe do I look like as a dummy..?

Synopsis: Suzie is a model at the Model Agency.

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Pages: 6

Notes: Art similar to Moe's signed story in #40. Compare the eyes.

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Genres: humorous, mystery

Character(s): Snoop McGook; Waldo (squirrell); Swami Rivah (hypnotist)

First Line: Snoop has decided to relax...

Synopsis: Snoop is hypnotized.

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Pages: 4

Notes: Originally credited to Carl Hubbell, but the many close-up faces with big noses, and rough inking are Vigoda.

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Genres: humorous

Character(s): Gloomy Gus [Gus Gloompuss]; St. Pete; Gabby (angel); Cavegirl; Kermit the Hermit

First Line: Where is St. Pete?

Synopsis: The time machine brings back Gus and a cavegirl, but not Gabby.

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Pages: 6

Black Hood Battles the Book Worm

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Genres: superhero

Character(s): Black Hood [Kip Burland]; Barbara Sutton (reporter); Sergeant McGinty; Hiram Sykes (rare-book collector); A. Bookworm (crank villain)

Synopsis: A crank bookworm is searching for a first edition of Treasure Island.

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Pages: 9

Notes: Originally credited "Al Camy?", but not him. The art is very similar to Clem and Pen's signed stories, so most probably them.

Killer's Final Curtain

Text Story on Interior Page(s)

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Writer(s): Wilbur S. Peacock

Letterer(s): Typeset

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Pages: 2

"There is a legend among sea faring men..."

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Genres: anthropomorphic

Character(s): The 3 Monkey-Teers [Sassafras; Small Fry; Yehudi]; Stupidman [Egbert]; Lorelei (mermaid)

Synopsis: Lorelei with her enchanting music has come back and worried shipowners approach Stupidman for help.

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Pages: 6

Notes: Scott Meredith was suggested as writer of this script, but he was gone from MLJ by this time, and Ed Goggin wrote and drew most, if not all,of his stories, and is known as a writer for others as well.

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Genres: childrens, humorous, western

Character(s): Dotty; Ditto (parrot); Dottum (Indian); Gramps; Sheriff

First Line: Dotty won $2,000 in prizes...

Synopsis: Dotty and friends are back home with the prize money.

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Pages: 6