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| Publication | December 1938 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
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| Synopsis | Tarzan battles a black panther. |
| Content | Characters: Tarzan [John Clayton, Lord Greystoke] |
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| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | Strip reprints take up the top half of three pages. |
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| Comic Story | The Case of the Crooked Wrestler (1.5 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Detective-mystery |
| Notes | Strip reprints take up bottom half of three pages. |
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| Comic Story | An Enemy Returns (5 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Jungle | Characters: Tarzan [John Clayton, Lord Greystoke]; Jim Gorrey; Rufus Flint; Princess Nakonia |
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| Content | Genre: Crime |
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| Text Story | The Fury of '49 (chapter 2) (3 pages) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier |
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| Content | Genre: Western-frontier |
| Notes | Strip takes up top half of 4 pages. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Children |
| Notes | Strip takes up bottom half of 4 pages. |
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| Content | Genre: Sports |
| Notes | Strip takes up top 2/3 of 4 pages. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Sports |
| Notes | Strip takes up bottom 1/3 of 4 pages. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Children |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Ella Cinders; Blackie |
| Notes | The top tier of each page is a two-panel gag entitled Chris Crusty. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Romance |
| Notes | Strip reprints take up top half of 3 pages. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | Strip takes up bottom half of 3 pages. |
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| Content | Genre: Children |
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| Comic Story | The Mailbox (2 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | No dialogue. |
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| Cartoon | Destination Unknown |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Domestic |
| Notes | Two one-panel jokes. |
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| Credits | Letters: typeset |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Animal; Children |
| Notes | Strip takes up top half of 3 pages. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor; Children |
| Notes | Strips take up bottom half of 3 pages. |
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| Featuring | Tip Top Cartoon Club |
| Credits | Pencils: Peter (signed) (illustration) | Inks: Peter (signed) (illustration) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Non-fiction | Characters: Buffalo Bob |
| Notes | Buffalo Bob problem number 14 for the readers to solve. |
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| Activity | Winners of the "Buffalo Bob Contest No. 11" (1 page) |
| Credits | Script:?; B. Shaw [as Shaw] (signed); W. Reusch [as Reusch] (signed); F. Babulak [as F. E. Babulak] (signed); M. Maguire [as Mike Maquire?] (signed, name signed in full hard to read) | Pencils: Peter (signed) (original contest cartoon); B. Shaw [as Shaw] (signed); W. Reusch [as Reusch] (signed); F. Babulak [as F. E. Babulak] (signed); M. Maguire [as Mike Maquire?] (signed, name signed in full hard to read) | Inks: Peter (signed) (original contest cartoon); B. Shaw [as Shaw] (signed); W. Reusch [as Reusch] (signed); F. Babulak [as F. E. Babulak] (signed); M. Maguire [as Mike Maquire?] (signed, name signed in full hard to read) | Letters: typeset; B. Shaw; W. Reusch; F. Babulak; M. Maguire |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | Contest solution submissions for the 11th Buffalo Bob contest. Cartoons from: B. Shaw (of Grants Pass, Oregon), W. Reusch (of Fort Worth, Texas), F. Babulak (of Perth Amboy, New Jersey), Mario DeMarco (of Worcester, Massachusetts), and M. Maguire (of Venice, California).
One of the first published art of Mario DeMarco. |
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| Comic Story | Among the Best Submitted by Our Own Tip Top Cartoonists (1 page) |
| Credits | Script: Peter Beter (signed) [as P. Beter] (credited) | Pencils: Peter Beter (signed) [as P. Beter] (credited) | Inks: Peter Beter (signed) [as P. Beter] (credited) | Letters: Peter Beter |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | Reader submitted comic strips, including one of the first published works of Jack Davis. Comic strips from: A. Lozano (of Chicago, Illinois), Peter Beter (of Huntington, West Virginia), Sam Brier (of Chicago, Illinois), and Jack Davis (of Atlanta, Georgia). |
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| Comic Story | Key West (1 page) |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction; History |
| Notes | Strips take up top half of 2 pages. |
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| Comic Story | The Stork's Gratitude (1 page) |
| Content | Genre: Historical |
| Notes | Story takes up bottom half of 2 pages. |
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| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Li'l Abner; Mammy Yokum |
| Notes | This issue also contains a Capp ad for a Li'l Abner Shooting Gallery, which is not part of the story. |
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