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Issue Details

Issue #11
Published 1942
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 68
Editing ?
Notes Indicia title is "WASH TUBBS, No. 11." No code number. Copyright 1937, 1938 by NEA Service, Inc. The first 36 story pages have a logo at the top of each page, even though they are daily strip reprints. They have been separated into three storylines. Beginning with Sequence 4, each sequence starts with a logo and is a reprint, likely from Red Ryder Comics.

Cover Details

Characters Wash Tubbs; Captain Easy
Genre adventure
Letters typeset
Notes Cover has "Dell Publishing Co." banner with flying horse.

19 page Wash Tubbs story "Piracy aboard the S.S. Platonic"

Characters Wash Tubbs; Captain Easy; Helga Zmith; Beverly Hill
Synopsis Easy gets in the middle of a love triangle with Helga Zmith and Beverly Hill. Zmith turns out to be the mastermind of a mid-ocean robbery that nets her gang $3,000,000. She also takes Beverly Hill along, for ransom and also to settle a grudge against Easy. Easy and Wash track Zmith to her island hideout.
Genre adventure
Script Roy Crane (signed)
Pencils Roy Crane (signed)
Inks Roy Crane (signed)
Notes Story begins on inside front cover in black, red, and white.
Reprinted from Wash Tubbs (NEA Service) daily newspaper strips from 1937.12.03-1938.02.16

9 page Wash Tubbs story "Wash Meets Carol McKee"

Characters Wash Tubbs; Gozy Gallup; Roxie Gallup; Sheriff McGuire; Carol McKee; J.P. McKee
Synopsis With Easy gone, Wash decides to go back to his home town. He connects with an old pal, Gozy Gallup, but Gozy's wife tosses both of them out of the house. After a night in a blizzard, Gozy's wife takes them back in. Gozy and his wife decide that Wash needs to get married and arranges a party with all the town's debutantes—which includes Carol McKee.
Script Roy Crane (signed)
Pencils Roy Crane (signed)
Inks Roy Crane (signed)
Letters Roy Crane (signed)
Reprinted from Wash Tubbs (NEA Service) daily newspaper strips from 1938.

8 page Wash Tubbs story "Wash buys the Topsy-Turvey Club"

Characters Wash Tubbs; Captain Easy; J.P. McKee; Carol McKee; Frankie Slaughter; Gozy Gallup; Roxie Gallup; Lucifer
Synopsis Wash gets a check for $3,000 for helping recover the S.S. Platonic's gold. He ends up leasing a run-down night club from Frankie Slaughter. Wash doesn't know that Slaughter is a gangster. Easy comes back after an unexplained absence. Wash gets the club ready to open, only to find out that the highway department is re-paving the highway and there is no access to the club.
Genre crime
Script Roy Crane (signed)
Pencils Roy Crane (signed)
Inks Roy Crane (signed)
Reprinted from Wash Tubbs (NEA Service) daily newspaper strips from 1938

6 page Wash Tubbs story "I'll borrow some money to pay the drivers, Easy, Hurry..."

Characters Wash Tubbs; Captain Easy; Lucifer; J.P. McKee; Carol McKee; Frankie Slaughter
Synopsis Wash opens the Topsy-Turvey Club and is an immediate success. Gangster Frankie Slaughter decides that he wants to buy the club and when Wash refuses, pulls the extortion racket on him.
Genre crime
Script Roy Crane
Pencils Roy Crane
Inks Roy Crane
Letters Roy Crane
Reprinted from Wash Tubbs (NEA Service) daily newspaper strips from 1938.04.14 [last panel (partially redrawn)], 1938.04.15-1939.04.16, 1938.04.18-1938.04.23, 1938.04.25, 1938.04.26, 1938.04.27 [half of first panel cut], 1938.04.28, 1938.04.29 [third panel cut], 1938.04.30, 1938.05.02 [third panel cut], 1938.05.03 [last panel cut]

5 page Wash Tubbs story "You've cost me $830"

Characters Wash Tubbs; Captain Easy; Frankie Slaughter; Flo; Trigger Murphy; Hallelujah Robinson; Smiles Tortoni
Synopsis The law is helpless when Slaughter repeatedly vandalizes Wash's night club. Easy imports a couple of hired guns to even the odds.
Genre crime
Script Roy Crane
Pencils Roy Crane
Inks Roy Crane
Letters Roy Crane
Reprinted from Wash Tubbs (NEA Service) daily newspaper strips from 1938.05.06 [last panel], 1938.05.07, 1938.05.09 [third panel cut], 1938.05.10-1938.05.14, 1938.05.16-1938.05.21 [first two panels]

5 page Wash Tubbs story "When I start home tonight, They'll be laying for me..."

Characters Wash Tubbs; Captain Easy; Flo; Frankie Slaughter; Dinwiddy; Smiles Tortoni; Carol McKee
Synopsis Easy sets a trap for Slaughter, but Slaughter is warned and instead goes to the club where he roughs up Wash and demands the lease for the night club. When Wash doesn't produce the lease the next day, Slaughter sets up an series of attacks to eliminate Wash and disfigure Carol McKee.
Genre crime
Script Roy Crane
Pencils Roy Crane
Inks Roy Crane
Letters Roy Crane
Reprinted from Wash Tubbs (NEA Service) daily newspaper strips from 1938.05.21 [last two panels], 1938.05.23-1938.05.26, 1938.05.27 [last panel cut], 1938.05.28, 1938.05.30, 1938.06.01 [first panel cut], 1938.06.02 [third panel cut], 1938.06.03, 1938.06.04, 1938.06.06

5 page Wash Tubbs story "Give her the gas, Beany! It's a clear get-away!"

Characters Wash Tubbs; Captain Easy; Carol McKee; Hallelujah Robinson
Synopsis Slaughter machine-guns Wash's limousine and one of his men threatens to disfigure Carol with acid. The police chase Slaughter's car which smashes into a roadblock. His men are captured, but Slaughter escapes. All this activity has ruined Wash's business, so he decides to throw one last big party at the night club. Slaughter is brazen enough to attend, confident that he has an iron-clad alibi for the afternoon's action. Wash weasels a deal for the club from Slaughter, while Easy goes and gets the police.
Genre crime
Script Roy Crane (signed)
Pencils Roy Crane (signed)
Inks Roy Crane (signed)
Letters Roy Crane (signed)
Reprinted from Wash Tubbs (NEA Service) daily newspaper strips from 1938.06.07-1938,06.11, 1938.06.13- 1938.06.15, 1938.06.16 [second panel cut], 1938.06.17, 1938.06.18, 1938.06.20, 1938.06.21 [first panel]

5 page Wash Tubbs story "I happen to like pictures, Frankie. Here's one that shows you..."

Characters Wash Tubbs; Captain Easy; Frankie Slaughter; Smiles Tortoni; Hallelujah Robinson; J.P McKee; Carol McKee
Synopsis Easy confronts Frankie Slaughter with evidence that he tried to murder Wash. Slaughter tries to escape, but is killed. Wash closes the night club and goes to ask Carol McKee to marry him. Her father is not happy.
Genre crime
Script Roy Crane (signed)
Pencils Roy Crane (signed)
Inks Roy Crane (signed)
Letters Roy Crane (signed)
Reprinted from Wash Tubbs (NEA Service) daily newspaper strips from 1938.06.21 [last three panels]-1938.06.25, 1938.06.25-1938.07.01, 1938.07.03, 1938.07.04

3 page Wash Tubbs story "Being my only child, Carol will some day inherit an estate..."

Characters Wash Tubbs; J.P. McKee; Carol McKee; Dauntless (dog)
Synopsis Carol's father doesn't approve of Wash marrying his daughter and takes her on a trip to Europe to get away from him. Wash gets "adopted" by a stray dog.
Genre soap
Script Roy Crane (signed)
Pencils Roy Crane (signed)
Inks Roy Crane (signed)
Letters Roy Crane (signed)
Reprinted from Wash Tubbs (NEA Service) daily newspaper strips from 1938.07.05-1938.07.09, 1938.07.11, 1938.07.12 [first two panels]

2 page Wash Tubbs story "Easy disappeared once before, an' when I tried to question him..."

Characters Wash Tubbs; Dauntless (dog); Mother Grey; Virginia
Synopsis Easy has disappeared. Wash tries to give a cowering mongrel dog some confidence and takes a room in a house with a woman and her crippled daughter.
Script Roy Crane (signed)
Pencils Roy Crane (signed)
Inks Roy Crane (signed)
Letters Roy Crane (signed)
Notes Story begins on inside back cover in black, red, and white and concludes on back cover in color.
Reprinted from Wash Tubbs (NEA Service) daily newspaper strips from 1938.07.16 [last panel]-1938.07.21