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Issue: Four Color #176
Publication Date: December 1947
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Issues: #176 of 1331 Issues (1412 Printings)
Title: Tillie the Toiler
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagDell
Brand: A Dell Magazine [circle]View Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: 10/28/1947
Volume: none
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 7 (6 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
Disclose Notes: Indicia title is "TILLIE THE TOILER, No 176." Code number is T.O.S. #176-4712. Copyright 1947 by King Features, Inc. Based on the "Tillie the Toiler" newspaper strip. Eighth of twelve Tillie the Toiler Four Colors.

On sale date is date of publication per Copyright Entries 1947. Same as issue #175.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age U.S.; standard Silver 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): Jack Callahan
Inker(s): Jack Callahan
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Tillie the Toiler
Character(s): Tillie
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Mac Paints Himself

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Jack Callahan
Penciller(s): Jack Callahan
Inker(s): Jack Callahan
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Jack Callahan
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Tillie the Toiler
Character(s): Tillie; Mac; Mumsy
Synopsis: Mac gets paint over his suit and goes to a costume party as a rainbow.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover; Black, red, and white.
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Mac, the Iceman Goeth

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Jack Callahan
Penciller(s): Jack Callahan
Inker(s): Jack Callahan
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Jack Callahan
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Tillie the Toiler
Character(s): Tillie; Mac; Spike Etaks; Doc
Synopsis: Mac comes up with an invention for an ice-making machine. He teams up with a doctor, who wants to make a sandwich machine, and opens a skating rink. He hires Spike Etaks as a skating instructor, but becomes jealous when Spike spends all of his time skating with Tillie.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 16
Disclose Notes: Script, pencils, and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007). Title is a take off on the title of the 1939 Eugene O'Neill play "The Iceman Cometh." The skating instructor's name, Etaks, is "skate" spelled backwards.
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At Last Mac Is In the Dough

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Jack Callahan
Penciller(s): Jack Callahan
Inker(s): Jack Callahan
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Jack Callahan
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Tillie the Toiler
Character(s): Tillie; Mac; Honky Biltops (intro); Mumsy
Synopsis: Tillie promises to bake a cake for Mrs. Biltops' sale. Trouble is, Tillie can't bake and her mother has always baked the cakes for her. This time her mother refuses. Tillie tries and fails and then Mac tries his hand at the task.
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Pages: 16
Disclose Notes: Script, pencils, and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
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The Tillie Jones Orchestra Is Born and Mac Gets the Blame

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Jack Callahan
Penciller(s): Jack Callahan
Inker(s): Jack Callahan
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Jack Callahan
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Tillie the Toiler
Character(s): Tillie; Mac; Mumsy; Corny Earblaster; Sasha Stradington; Fingers Sharpo
Synopsis: Tillie thinks Mac is a natural drummer and organizes a band. Tillie is the singer and Mac writes a song, "Pick a Paper Hat." The band keeps getting thrown out of the members' houses when they practice and they finally end up setting up in a barn.
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Pages: 16
Disclose Notes: The complete lyrics to Mac's song are shown. It is to be sung to the tune "London Bridge is Falling Down." Script, pencils, and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
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Prof. Knoggin, Phrenologist

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Jack Callahan
Penciller(s): Jack Callahan
Inker(s): Jack Callahan
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Jack Callahan
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Tillie the Toiler
Character(s): Tillie; Mac
Synopsis: Mac goes to a phrenologist to get the bumps on his head read.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover; Black, red, and white.
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The Broken Heel

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Jack Callahan
Penciller(s): Jack Callahan
Inker(s): Jack Callahan
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Jack Callahan ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Tillie the Toiler
Character(s): Tillie; Mac
Synopsis: Tillie breaks a heel on her shoe. She and Mac get in trouble when Mac breaks the window on the door of a shoe repair shop.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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