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| Date | | Number: 22 | Lang: English (en) | |||
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| Name | Top Notch Comics 22 | Published |
| Publication | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 68 | Frequency: monthly | Editing: Harry Shorten |
| Notes | On sale date from the publication date as submitted to the U.S. Copyright Office found in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1941, New Series, Volume 36, Number 3. Class B periodical. Copyright registration number B 534507. |
| Cover | 1 page |
| Characters | Black Hood [Kip Burland]; Wizard [Blane Whitney]; Roy |
| Pencils | Al Camy Al Camy |
| Inks | Al Camy Al Camy |
| Advertisement | No Title (1 page) |
| Script | ? (ad copy) |
| Letters | typeset |
| First Line | Here they are! |
| Notes | Inside front cover. Ad for various mail order rings, talismans and charms. |
| Comic Story | The Stars Drip Blood / Black Hood (14 pages) |
| Characters | Black Hood [Kip Burland]; Scorpio; Dutch Gordon; Strecchi; Sgt. McGinty; Clancy; Barbara Sutton |
| Script | Harry Shorten |
| Pencils | Al Camy |
| Inks | Al Camy |
| Story | The Wizard (10 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Nazi Bund is forcing German-Americans to join them and contribute large sums of money. |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Characters | Wizard [Blane Whitney]; Roy the Super-Boy; Nazi Bund; Mr. Schultz; Heinrich; Jane Barlow |
| Script | Harry Shorten |
| Pencils | Harry Lucey |
| Inks | Harry Lucey |
| First Line | An elderly storekeeper... |
| Notes | This must be Lucey when comparing the close-up front view faces with ears directed outwards, as in his signed Hangman Special Case No.5 in #2. |
| Story | Fran Frazer (4 pages) |
| Synopsis | A meeting place for spies and plotters in Iran. |
| Genre | Spy |
| Characters | Fran Frazer (photographer); Hal Davis (reporter); Premier Kherman |
| Script | Harvey Biern |
| First Line | The only obstacle standing in the way... |
| Notes | Originally credited to Irv Novick, but the movement of the figures are too stiff and awkward, and none of his faces are found here. Notice inking and the narrow pointed ears, which can be found in some other stories in Fran Frazer and Zambini, Zip Comics #23. |
| Story | The West Pointer (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | A bridge washes out trapping a bus full of kids in a valley, including General Rael's son. |
| Characters | Keith Kornell; General Rael |
| Script | Harry Shorten |
| Pencils | Warren King |
| Inks | Warren King |
| First Line | Keith Kornell and his men of the combat engineers are on their way back to their camp... |
| Story | Firefly (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Masters and Harlow are partners in a pearl bed. Masters schemes to buy out Linda's share of the pearl bed by making the endeavor unprofitable. |
| Characters | Firefly [Harley Hudson]; Shark-Man [Lobrow]; Mr. Masters; Linda Harlow |
| Script | Harry Shorten |
| Pencils | Warren King |
| Inks | Warren King |
| First Line | The Shark-Man, mystery monster of the deep, has been killing divers digging for pearls... |
| Story | St. Louis Kid (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Kid is to fight against a big gorilla. |
| Genre | Sports |
| Characters | St. Louis Kid [Jim Jennings]; Robert Dykes; Willis; Molloy; Vic Gouno |
| Script | Harry Shorten |
| Pencils | Bob Montana (signed) |
| Inks | Bob Montana (signed) |
| First Line | 8, 9, 10 yer out! |
| Publisher advertisement | Wilbur in December Zip Comics, Archie in December Pep Comics, They're a Riot! (1 page) |
| Feature | Wilbur; Archie |
| Script | Sy Reit ? (promo copy) |
| Pencils | Sy Reit (signed) |
| Inks | Sy Reit (signed) |
| Genre | Humor; Teen |
| Characters | Wilbur Wilkin; J. Frank Wilkin; unnamed police officer; Archie Andrews [Archibald Andrews; Chick]; Fred Andrews; Edna Andrews |
| Notes | Promotional advertisement the December releases of Wilbur in Zip Comics (Archie, 1940 Series) #21 and Archie's feature start in Pep Comics (Archie, 1940 Series) #22. Archie has dark hair in this promotional advertisement. First cameo appearance in comic books of Archie (Top Notch Comics #22 released 5 days prior to Pep Comics #22 per the Catalog of Copyright Entries). Not a preview but specific artwork done for this promo only and not reprinted in Pep Comics. Reit's signature in lower left hand corner. |
| Story | Wings Johnson (6 pages) |
| Genre | Aviation; War |
| Characters | Wings Johnson; Henry Higgins |
| Script | Joe Blair |
| Pencils | Ed Smalle |
| Inks | Ed Smalle |
| First Line | Nazi bombers attempt to break through Britain's defenses... |
| Story | Bob Phantom (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Bob Phantom saves a man from a falling steel girders. It was meant to kill him by "accident". |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Characters | Bob Phantom [Walt Whitney]; Jinx Friday (secretary); Charlie Adams; Bugs Stanley (racketeer) |
| Script | Harry Shorten |
| Pencils | Warren King |
| Inks | Warren King |
| First Line | With a wild swinging of steel cables... |
| Notes | Originally credited to Bernard Klein, but this has none of his small heads with angry eyebrows in sideview. It is identical to King's signed stories in #19. |
| Publisher advertisement | No Title (1 page) |
| Feature | Jackpot Comics #3 |
| Characters | Steel Sterling; Clancy; Looney; Sgt. Boyle; Corporal Collins; Black Hood [Kip Burland] |
| First Line | Steel Sterling faced a deadline - a deadline of death! |
| Story | Kardak (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | A daughter of one of the richest men in America was given the bounce when she married young Blane. |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Characters | Kardak; Jeff Blane; Sally Blane; Cyrus Malcolm (millionaire); Ellen; Purnell |
| Script | Harry Shorten |
| Pencils | Bob Montana |
| Inks | Bob Montana |
| First Line | In the teeming tenement sections of New York... |
| Notes | Originally credited to Paul Reinman, but no wedge shaped faces with eyes out of line here. The art is similar to Montana's signed St. Louis Kid story, and he is credited on this feature by Jerry Bails' Who's Who. |
| Advertisement | No Title (1 page) |
| Script | ? (ad copy) |
| Letters | ?; typeset |
| Characters | Red Ryder |
| First Line | Ready for Christmas |
| Notes | Inside back cover. Ad for Daisy air rifles and for a Daisy catalog. |
| Advertisement | No Title (1 page) |
| Script | ? (ad copy) |
| Pencils | ?; Fred Harman (signed); ? (photographs) |
| Inks | ?; Fred Harman (signed); ? (photographs) |
| Letters | typeset |
| Characters | Red Ryder; Gene Autry (photograph); Sonja Henie (photograph) |
| First Line | Prizes! They're yours! |
| Notes | Back cover. Ad by the American Specialty Co. |
| The data in the additional content section is courtesy of the Grand Comics Database under a Creative Commons Attribution License. More details about this comic may be available in their page here | |
