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Issue Details

Issue #444
Published January 1953
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?
Notes Indicia title is "MARGE'S TUBBY, No. 444." Code number is TUBBY O.S. #444-531. Copyright 1952 by Marjorie H. Buell. Third of four Tubby Four Colors.

Cover Details

Characters Tubby
Genre children
Pencils John Stanley
Inks John Stanley

1 page Tubby story "New Cowboy Outfit"

Characters Tubby
Synopsis Tubby gets a new cowboy outfit and keeps it clean even when he is "shot."
Genre children
Script John Stanley
Pencils John Stanley
Notes Inside front cover; black and white; pantomime story.

30 page Tubby story "The Bank Robber"

Characters Tubby; his mother; Willy; Eddie; Iggy; Gloria (cameo)
Synopsis Tubby gets involved with a trio of kids playing cowboy outside a bank. When the trio go inside they actually rob the bank instead of pretending. Tubby is suspected of being an accomplice and has to flee. Eventually Willy, Eddie, and Iggy find him hiding in the forest and he turns himself in to the police for questioning. The police don't believe him and follow him when he's released. After being given the cold shoulder by the rest of the kids, who all think he was part of the gang, Tubby decides to find the robbers himself. He discovers there are midgets working the rodeo in the next town and spends almost all his money taking a bus there. He talks his way into the rodeo and finds that those midgets are the bank robbers. Tubby survives an attempt to trample him and then ends up in a horseback chase with the robbers.
Genre children
Script John Stanley
Pencils John Stanley
Notes Tubby is wearing the same cowboy outfit that he got as a gift in the story on the inside front cover. He wears this same outfit in the rest of the stories in this issue. Tubby lives in Meadowville in this story.

2 page Tubby story "Lassoing the Dog Catcher"

Characters Tubby
Synopsis While aiming for a fire hydrant, Tubby accidentally lassoes the dog catcher while he's chasing a dog. Tubby escapes by tying the rope to a tree while the dog catcher is searching some bushes.
Genre children
Script John Stanley
Pencils John Stanley
Notes Tubby breaks Fourth Wall with comment "Gosh, I was in enough trouble in the last story!"

1 page Tubby story "Pint-Size Terror"

Characters Tubby; his mother
Synopsis Tubby pretends to shoot his six-shooters at a tiny little girl, but then has to flee when she chases him with her doll.
Genre children
Script John Stanley
Pencils John Stanley
Notes Inside back cover; black and white; pantomime story.

1 page Tubby story "Well-Ventilated"

Characters Tubby; Eddie; Willy
Synopsis Tubby fools his friends by drilling holes in a poster on a wood fence before demonstrating his "shooting" ability.
Genre children
Script John Stanley
Pencils John Stanley
Notes Back cover; color; pantomime story.