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Issue Details

Issue #4
Published Spring 1958
Cover Price .10
Pages 36
Editing ?
Notes Pines Comics logo. Boy's Clubs of America Golden Anniversary Award presented to Pines Comics on cover. Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) logo on cover as well. Approved by the Comics Code Authority seal on cover. Exclamation point for Tom Terrific is only on the cover. The indicia title reads only as "Tom Terrific".

Cover Details - "Tom Terrific!"

Characters Tom Terrific; Manfred the Wonder Dog
Genre super hero; humor
Notes Pines Comics logo. Boy's Clubs of America Golden Anniversary Award presented to Pines Comics on cover. Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) logo on cover as well. Approved by the Comics Code Authority seal on cover. Exclamation point for Tom Terrific is only on the cover. The indicia title reads only as "Tom Terrific".

1 page Mighty Manfred the Wonder Dog story "Toy Mighty Manfred"

Characters Tom Terrific; Manfred the Wonder Dog; Crabby Appleton
Synopsis Crabby tries to steal Manfred.
Genre super hero; humor

8 page Tom Terrific story "Crabby Strikes Out"

Characters Tom Terrific; Manfred the Wonder Dog; Crabby Appleton
Synopsis Crabby buys the baseball factory and refuses to sell baseballs so no one can play.
Genre super hero; humor

8 page Tom Terrific story "Weather or Not"

Characters Tom Terrific; Manfred the Wonder Dog; Dr. Instant
Synopsis Manfred's tail predicts a nice day, but Dr. Instant has other ideas.
Genre super hero; humor

1 page Mighty Manfred the Wonder Dog story "Dog of Courage"

Characters Tom Terrific; Manfred the Wonder Dog
Synopsis Manfred is fooled by Tom once but not twice.
Genre super hero; humor

2 page Gandy Goose text story "Busy Gandy"

Characters Gandy Goose; Sourpuss
Genre funny animal

7 page Tom Terrific story "The Land of Strange Discoveries"

Characters Tom Terrific; Manfred the Wonder Dog; Crabby Appleton
Synopsis Tom and Manfred find a time machine and go back to the Middle Ages, only to find that Crabby Appleton is a mean king.
Genre super hero; humor

6 page Sick Sick Sidney story "Tusk, Tusk"

Characters Sidney the Elephant; Stanley the Lion; Cleo the Giraffe
Synopsis Sidney wants tusks, but then finds they can be a liability.
Genre funny animal
Notes Sidney refers to his giraffe friend as Carol, but she is called Cleo in cartoons.

1 page Gandy Goose story "One Good Whack Deserves Another"

Characters Gandy Goose; Sourpuss; Junior
Genre funny animal

1 page Gaston Le Crayon story "Genuine Picasso"

Characters Gaston Le Crayon
Synopsis Gaston thinks he has found a valuable painting.
Genre humor