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Issue: Top Notch Laugh Comics #43
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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 (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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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
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Title Page
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Harry Sahle (signed)
Harry Sahle (signed)
?
?
Subject Matter
humorous, superhero
Black Hood; Pokey Oakey
Black Hood; Pokey Oakey
Beware of Pickpockets
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Don Dean (signed)
Don Dean (signed)
Don Dean (signed)
?
?
Subject Matter
humorous
Pokey Oakey
Pokey Oakey; Pappy Oakey; Mammy Oakey; Dude Snagnasty
Yessuh, this hyar bein' Shuriff of Catfish Creek...
Dude is back to the hills and is courting Mammy Oakey.
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6
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Bill Vigoda (signed)
Bill Vigoda (signed)
?
?
Subject Matter
humorous
Senor Siesta
Senor Siesta; Pancho (wanted outlaw)
It seems that someone is always trying to get Senor Siesta off this Earth...
Senor Sieste is mistaken for an outlaw called Pancho.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Claire Moe
Claire Moe
?
?
Subject Matter
humorous
Suzie
Suzy; Mr. Birdseed; Madame Renee
Hoe do I look like as a dummy..?
Suzie is a model at the Model Agency.
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Miscellaneous
6
Art similar to Moe's signed story in #40. Compare the eyes.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Bill Vigoda
Bill Vigoda
?
?
Subject Matter
humorous, mystery
Snoop McGook
Snoop McGook; Waldo (squirrell); Swami Rivah (hypnotist)
Snoop has decided to relax...
Snoop is hypnotized.
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4
Originally credited to Carl Hubbell, but the many close-up faces with big noses, and rough inking are Vigoda.
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Red Holmdale (signed)
Red Holmdale (signed)
?
?
Subject Matter
humorous
Gloomy Gus
Gloomy Gus [Gus Gloompuss]; St. Pete; Gabby (angel); Cavegirl; Kermit the Hermit
Where is St. Pete?
The time machine brings back Gus and a cavegirl, but not Gabby.
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Miscellaneous
6
Black Hood Battles the Book Worm

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Clem Weisbecker
Pen Shumaker
?
?
Subject Matter
superhero
Black Hood
Black Hood [Kip Burland]; Barbara Sutton (reporter); Sergeant McGinty; Hiram Sykes (rare-book collector); A. Bookworm (crank villain)
A crank bookworm is searching for a first edition of Treasure Island.
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Miscellaneous
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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)
Credits
Wilbur S. Peacock
Typeset
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Miscellaneous
2
"There is a legend among sea faring men..."

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Ed Groggin
Ed Goggin (signed)
Ed Goggin (signed)
?
?
Subject Matter
anthropomorphic
Stupidman and the Three Monkeyteers
The 3 Monkey-Teers [Sassafras; Small Fry; Yehudi]; Stupidman [Egbert]; Lorelei (mermaid)
Lorelei with her enchanting music has come back and worried shipowners approach Stupidman for help.
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Miscellaneous
6
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.
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Bill Woggon
Bill Woggon (signed)
Bill Woggon (signed)
?
?
Subject Matter
childrens, humorous, western
Dotty and Ditto
Dotty; Ditto (parrot); Dottum (Indian); Gramps; Sheriff
Dotty won $2,000 in prizes...
Dotty and friends are back home with the prize money.
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Miscellaneous
6

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