| Issue | #176 |
| Published | December 1947 |
| Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
| Pages | 52 |
| Editing | ? |
| 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. |
| Characters | Tillie |
| Genre | humor |
| Pencils | Jack Callahan |
| Inks | Jack Callahan |
| Letters | typeset |
| Characters | Tillie; Mac; Mumsy |
| Synopsis | Mac gets paint over his suit and goes to a costume party as a rainbow. |
| Genre | humor |
| Script | Jack Callahan |
| Pencils | Jack Callahan |
| Inks | Jack Callahan |
| Letters | Jack Callahan |
| Notes | Inside front cover; Black, red, and white. |
| Characters | 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. |
| Genre | humor |
| Script | Jack Callahan |
| Pencils | Jack Callahan |
| Inks | Jack Callahan |
| Letters | Jack Callahan |
| 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. |
| Characters | 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. |
| Genre | humor |
| Script | Jack Callahan |
| Pencils | Jack Callahan |
| Inks | Jack Callahan |
| Letters | Jack Callahan |
| Notes | Script, pencils, and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007). |
| Characters | 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. |
| Genre | humor |
| Script | Jack Callahan |
| Pencils | Jack Callahan |
| Inks | Jack Callahan |
| Letters | Jack Callahan |
| 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). |
| Characters | Tillie; Mac |
| Synopsis | Mac goes to a phrenologist to get the bumps on his head read. |
| Genre | humor |
| Script | Jack Callahan |
| Pencils | Jack Callahan |
| Inks | Jack Callahan |
| Letters | Jack Callahan |
| Notes | Inside back cover; Black, red, and white. |
| Characters | 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. |
| Genre | humor |
| Script | Jack Callahan |
| Pencils | Jack Callahan |
| Inks | Jack Callahan |
| Letters | Jack Callahan ? |
| Notes | Back cover. |