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Issue Details

Issue #237
Published July 1949
Frequency quarterly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing ?
Notes Indicia title is "Tillie the Toiler, No. 237." Code number is T.T.O.S. #237-497. Copyright 1949 by King Features Syndicate.

Cover Details

Characters Tillie; Mac
Genre humor
Pencils Jack Callahan
Inks Jack Callahan
Notes Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).

1 page Tillie the Toiler story "What's to eat, Tillie? I'm famished!"

Characters Tillie; Mac
Synopsis Mac gets sick after eating Tillie's biscuits.
Genre humor
Script Jack Callahan
Pencils Jack Callahan
Inks Jack Callahan
Notes Inside front cover; black and white. Script, pencils, and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).

18 page Tillie the Toiler story "Go West Young Woman!"

Characters Tillie; Mac; Mumsy; Poke; Six-Gun Sidney (villain)
Synopsis Tillie and Mumsy win a trip on a radio program. They decide to go west to a dude ranch where Mac is employed. Tillie falls for a handsome ranch hand named Poke. Discouraged, Mac plans to go back east, but a desperate judge appoints him Sheriff of the town of Slickpot.
Genre humor; western
Script Jack Callahan
Pencils Jack Callahan
Inks Jack Callahan
Notes Script, pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).

9 page Mac story "Who Said That?"

Characters Mac
Synopsis Mac becomes a ventriloquist and plays a series of pranks on people.
Genre humor
Script Jack Callahan
Pencils Jack Callahan
Inks Jack Callahan
Notes Script, pencils, and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).

5 page Wallace Whipple (The Social Climber) story "Pardon My Upper Crust"

Characters Wallace Whipple; Tillie; Mac; Mumsy
Synopsis Wallace Whipple tries to break into high society by taking Tillie to the Van Snobb's swanky party, but Mac is there as a butler and ruins Whipple's charade.
Genre humor
Script Jack Callahan
Pencils Jack Callahan
Inks Jack Callahan
Notes Script, pencils, and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).

1 page Tillie the Toiler story "Watch me do a figure eight, Tillie!"

Characters Tillie; Mac
Synopsis Mac tries to impress Tillie with his ice-skating skills, but gets upstaged by an old flame of Tillie's.
Genre humor
Script Jack Callahan
Pencils Jack Callahan
Inks Jack Callahan
Notes Inside back cover; black and white. Script, pencils, and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).

1 page Tillie Cutouts illustration "Tyrolean Outfit"

Characters Tillie
Synopsis Paper doll figure of Tillie, with Tyrolean outfit to cut out.
Genre fashion
Pencils Jack Callahan
Inks Jack Callahan
Notes Back cover. Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).