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Cover by Al Capp. Stories and art by Al Capp, Ernie Bushmiller, Rudolph Dirks, Gus Mager, Dick Moores, Fred Methot, Paul Berdanier, Hal Forrest, Bernard Dibble, and Gus Arriola. Sometimes listed as Tip Top Comics Vol. 8 #10. Tip Top Comics presented color reprints of United Features newspaper comic strips. The Mirror Man and his team try to find Axis saboteurs who are targeting the forests of the Pacific Northwest. Bill Bumlin is repeatedly arrested by his brother-in-law, the cop. Jim Hardy shows up just in time to save Windy and Mollie from Plunk and Sugarcoat. Plus a Li'l Abner storyline by Al Capp. Li'l Abner; The Captain and the Kids; The Mirror Man; The Triple Terror; Jim Hardy; Tailspin Tommy; Stamp Tips; Gordo; Bill Bumlin; Nancy; Fritzi Ritz. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Al Capp. Stories and art by Al Capp, Ernie Bushmiller, Rudolph Dirks, Gus Mager, Dick Moores, Fred Methot, Paul Berdanier, Hal Forrest, Bernard Dibble, Abner Dean and Gus Arriola. Sometimes listed as Tip Top Comics Vol. 9 #1. Tip Top Comics presented color reprints of United Features newspaper comic strips. The Mirror Man and Slim go after Axis-backed opium dealers in China. Phil discovers that Fritzi's been watching his girl-watching on the beach, in a strip showcasing Ernie Bushmiller's swimwear designs and good-girl art. Plus a Li'l Abner storyline by Al Capp. Li'l Abner; The Captain and the Kids; The Mirror Man; The Triple Terror; Jim Hardy; Tailspin Tommy; Stamp Tips; Gordo; Bill Bumlin; Nancy; Fritzi Ritz; How It Began; Funny Side Up. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Ernie Bushmiller. Stories and art by Al Capp, Ernie Bushmiller, Rudolph Dirks, Gus Mager, Dick Moores, Fred Methot, Paul Berdanier, Hal Forrest, Bernard Dibble, John Hix and Gus Arriola. Sometimes listed as Tip Top Comics Vol. 9 #3. Tip Top Comics presented color reprints of United Features newspaper comic strips. The Mirror Man and Slim are on the trail of poisoned booze in China when they are caught between snipers and booby traps. A quiet day of fishing for the Captain and the Inspector is ruined when they accidentally upset a hippo. Just as Marryin' Sam is about to pronounce Li'l Abner married to Widder Wildcat, the lights go out. Li'l Abner; The Captain and the Kids; The Mirror Man; The Triple Terror; Jim Hardy; Tailspin Tommy; Stamp Tips; Gordo; Bill Bumlin; Nancy; Fritzi Ritz; How It Began; Strange as It Seems. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Al Capp. Stories and art by Al Capp, Ernie Bushmiller, Rudolph Dirks, Gus Mager, Dick Moores, Fred Methot, Paul Berdanier, Hal Forrest, Bernard Dibble, John Hix and Gus Arriola. Sometimes listed as Tip Top Comics Vol. 9 #6. Tip Top Comics presented color reprints of United Features newspaper comic strips. Menta discovers the fate of his brothers, the other two-thirds of the Triple Terror superhero team, in an Axis prison camp. Bimbo the elephant gives the Kids a taste of their own medicine when they try to use him to pull a prank on the Captain. Wealthy Bess Giltedge offers to travel back East with Windy, to help him care for the infant he's adopted. But she doesn't tell him that it's because she's fallen in love with him. Plus a Li'l Abner storyline by Al Capp. Li'l Abner; The Captain and the Kids; The Triple Terror; Jim Hardy; Tailspin Tommy; Stamp Tips; Gordo; Bill Bumlin; Nancy; Fritzi Ritz; How It Began; Strange as It Seems. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Rudolph Dirks. Stories and art by Al Capp, Ernie Bushmiller, Rudolph Dirks, Gus Mager, Dick Moores, Fred Methot, Paul Berdanier, Bernard Dibble, John Hix and Gus Arriola. Sometimes listed as Tip Top Comics Vol. 9 #10. Tip Top Comics presented color reprints of United Features newspaper comic strips. Superhero team the Triple Terror tries to track down a Chinese soldier, to give him the ancestral sword of his dying father. Bess realizes the truth about her sleazy ex Roger, after he loses his temper with the baby and gets into a fight with Windy. Phil Fumble goes backstage at a vaudeville show to get a beautiful performer's autograph, in a strip showcasing Ernie Bushmiller's good-girl art. Plus a Li'l Abner storyline by Al Capp. Li'l Abner; The Captain and the Kids; The Triple Terror; Jim Hardy; Joe Jinks; Back Home Again; Stamp Tips; Gordo; Bill Bumlin; Nancy; Fritzi Ritz; How It Began; Strange as It Seems. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Al Capp. Stories and art by Al Capp, Ernie Bushmiller, Rudolph Dirks, Dick Moores, Fred Methot, Paul Berdanier, and Bernard Dibble. Sometimes listed as Tip Top Comics Vol. 9 #12. Tip Top Comics presented color reprints of United Features newspaper comic strips. Superhero team the Triple Terror must help scientist Po-Ming retake his laboratory from Axis soldiers and secure his secret superweapon, the Tzing Formula. Escaping the rain, Hans and Fritz accidentally enter a lion's cave and get "adopted" by two lion cubs. While visiting the museum, Bill Bumlin dreams he's a caveman. Plus a Li'l Abner storyline by Al Capp. Li'l Abner; The Captain and the Kids; The Triple Terror; Jim Hardy; Stamp Tips; Bill Bumlin; Nancy; Fritzi Ritz; How It Began. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Al Capp. Stories and art by Al Capp, Ernie Bushmiller, Rudolph Dirks, Dick Moores, Fred Methot, Paul Berdanier, Sam Leff, Ed Dodd, Charles Plumb, and John Hix. Sometimes listed as Tip Top Comics Vol. 10 #9. Tip Top Comics presented color reprints of United Features newspaper comic strips. Boxing bully Kibby gets a chance to get even with Curly Kayoe when they meet in the ring for Curly's first fight. Bess, on the train to New York with the baby, doesn't realize her seatmate is a hired killer, and accidentally botches a hit when she has him watch the baby. Bill Bumlin feels like a failure, and volunteers to be a passenger on an experimental rocket flight to the Moon. Plus a Li'l Abner storyline by Al Capp. Li'l Abner; The Captain and the Kids; The Triple Terror; Jim Hardy; Stamp Tips; Curly Kayoe; Back Home Again; Ella Cinders; Bill Bumlin; Strange as It Seems; Nancy; Fritzi Ritz; How It Began. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Rudolph Dirks. Stories and art by Al Capp, Ernie Bushmiller, Rudolph Dirks, Dick Moores, Fred Methot, Paul Berdanier, Sam Leff, Ed Dodd, Arnie Mossler, Charles Plumb, and John Hix. Sometimes listed as Tip Top Comics Vol. 10 #11. Tip Top Comics presented color reprints of United Features newspaper comic strips. Just as Windy learns that the baby has inherited $50,000 from Klondyke, the mysterious Partha Plant shows up and ingratiates her way into Windy's life. Bill is in danger of being evicted after he accidentally assaults his landlord. Li'l Abner assumes a new radio identity as "The Flying Avenger." Li'l Abner; The Captain and the Kids; The Triple Terror; Jim Hardy; Stamp Tips; Curly Kayoe; The Young Idear; Ella Cinders; Bill Bumlin; Strange as It Seems; Nancy; Fritzi Ritz; How It Began. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Al Capp. Stories and art by Al Capp, Ernie Bushmiller, Rudolph Dirks, Sam Leff, Bernard Dibble, Ernest Hix, Raeburn Van Buren and Dick Moores. Sometimes listed as Tip Top Comics Vol. 11 #8. Tip Top Comics presented color reprints of United Features newspaper comic strips. In the strip finally called "Windy and Paddles" (after years as "Jim Hardy"), Windy manages to overcome deadly female rustler "Princess" with help from her noble daughter, Polly. Phil Fumble goes on a resort vacation, in a strip that showcases Ernie Bushmiller's "good girl" art. Mr. Biltybux eats some "magic roots" and hallucinates everything as its opposite. Plus a Li'l Abner storyline by Al Capp. Li'l Abner; The Captain and the Kids; Stamp Tips; Curly Kayoe; Abbie an' Slats; El Bombo; Back Home Again; Windy and Paddles; Nancy; Fritzi Ritz; Strange as It Seems; How It Began. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Al Capp. Stories and art by Al Capp, Ernie Bushmiller, Rudolph Dirks, Sam Leff, Bernard Dibble, Ernest Hix, Raeburn Van Buren and Gustavo Arriola. Sometimes listed as Tip Top Comics Vol. 11 #11. Tip Top Comics presented color reprints of United Features newspaper comic strips. Bathless Groggins' latest invention makes him invulnerable to injury or pain, in an Abbie an' Slats strip with nice art by Raeburn van Buren. Curly Kahoe is declared champion after his double-knockout bout with Dynamite Dunn. Plus a Li'l Abner storyline by Al Capp. Li'l Abner; The Captain and the Kids; Stamp Tips; Curly Kayoe; Abbie an' Slats; El Bombo; Back Home Again; Gordo; Nancy; Fritzi Ritz; Strange as It Seems; How It Began. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories and art by Al Capp, Ernie Bushmiller, Rudolph Dirks, Sam Leff, Bernard Dibble, Ernest Hix, Raeburn Van Buren, Ving Fuller and Gustavo Arriola. Sometimes listed as Tip Top Comics Vol. 12 #12. Tip Top Comics presented color reprints of United Features newspaper comic strips. Mark Turkle, the Soup King, has a mission for Bathless Groggins, in an Abbie an' Slats strip with nice art by Raeburn van Buren. Curly Kahoe comes to a tragic misunderstanding after seeing Terry rehearsing a love scene with a fellow actor. Bombo falls asleep on the beach and dreams of a world where women prefer fat men, in a story featuring a Babe Ruth caricature. Plus a Li'l Abner storyline by Al Capp. Li'l Abner; The Captain and the Kids; Stamp Tips; Curly Kayoe; Abbie an' Slats; El Bombo; Gordo; Nancy; Fritzi Ritz; Strange as It Seems; Doc Syke; How It Began. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Stories and art by Jim Sasseville and others. Tip Top Comics presented stories featuring characters from United Features newspaper strips. One of the strips in the comic is Charles Schulz's Peanuts, featuring rare stories not written or drawn by Schulz, but by fellow artist Jim Sasseville. Charlie Brown reads up on Snoopy's fancy new dog food. Lucy gets a camera and immediately annoys everyone in the neighborhood by taking their picture. But she's not too clear on how photography actually works. Peanuts; Nancy: Cleaning Up; Getting Ready; Nancy: The Battle of the Sexes; The Captain and the Kids: Frozen Feud. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Ernie Bushmiller. Stories and art by Ernie Bushmiller, Al Capp, Sam Leff, Henning Mikkelsen, and Elsie Hix. Tip-Topper Comics collected some of United Features Syndicates most popular comic strips of the 1940s in full color, including Lil Abner and Fritzi Ritz. Fritzi was later known as "Aunt Fritzi" in the Nancy comic strip. Fritzi's first customer at the charity kissing booth is the last one she expects. Phil is mistaken for a bank robber who looks exactly like him. After losing the world championship, Curly Kayoe is suspected of assaulting press agent Tim Horn, but he refuses to identify the woman who actually committed the assault. Plus a Li'l Abner storyline by Al Capp and the Ripley-like Strange as It Seems. Fritzi Ritz; Li'l Abner; Curly Kayoe; Ferd'nand; Stamp Tips; Strange as It Seems. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover pencils by Lynn Karp. Stories by unknown. Art by Lynn Karp and unknown. Featuring: Two Droopy 1-pagers; Tom & Jerry tale with pencils by Lynn Karp; Jerry & Tuffy 2-pager; Adventures of Tom tale with pencils by Karp; Adventures of Jerry text story; Flip 'n' Dip tale; Wuff the Prairie Dog tale; Barney Bear & Benny Burro tale; and Fuzzy & Wuzzy tale. 52 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

By Clare Victor "Dwig" Dwiggins. reprints color Sunday strips from 1923/24, 1925. Stiff covers, 10" x 10-3/4", 52 color pages. Copyright 1925 by Clara Clemens Gabrilowitsch, by permission of the estate of Samuel L. Clemens and the Mark Twain Co.

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Cover by Lee Elias. Stories and art by Abe Simon, Moe Marcus, Rudy Palais and Joe Certa. Tomb of Terror was one of Harvey Comics' notorious pre-Code horror comics. Astronauts awaken in a future world inhabited by apelike creatures. An apprentice magician murders his boss, but didn't count on magical revenge from beyond the grave. A volcano god reanimates the dead to show his displeasure with the local village. The Survivors; Return from the Grave; Blood Ghost; Volcano of Doom; Doomed To Die; Found: The Lair of the Snow Monster. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Stories and art by Bill Woolfolk and others. A one-shot from St. John, reprinting Hector the Inspector stories from EC's Animal Fables (back when EC was owned by Max Gaines). The villainous Unknown puts out a call among the underworld for suggestions on how to kill Hector the Inspector. Hector appears on a radio quiz show, which proves an irresistible lure for the criminal known as The Brain. Dangerous Dan offers a million-dollar bounty on Hector the Inspector, in a reprint of Hector's first case. A Case for the Inspector; Hector's Quiz Show!; Case of the Missing Mummy!; Hector the Inspector Meets the World's Dumbest Crook!; Korky Kangaroo; Hector the Inspector. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Red Holmdale. Edited by Harry Shorten. Stories by Don Dean, Sam Cooper, Carl Hubbell, Gerald Kean, Red Holmdale, Ed Goggin, Vivian Berg (as V. Lipman), Scott Meredith, George Kean, Harry Sahle, and Bill Woggon. Super-heroic and humorous tales, many of them filled with action and adventure—these are Top Notch Laugh comics! 68 pages, full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Don Dean. Edited by Harry Shorten. Stories by George Harrison, Don Dean, Carl Hubbell, Gerald Kean, Red Holmdale, Ed Groggin, and Bill Woggon. Super-heroic and humorous tales, many of them filled with action and adventure—these are Top Notch Laugh comics! 60 pages, full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Groggin, Red Holmdale, and Bill Woggon. Super-heroic and humorous tales, many of them filled with action and adventure—these are Top Notch Laugh comics! 60 pages, full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Don Dean. Edited by Harry Shorten. Stories by Clem Weisbecker, Don Dean, Carl Hubbell, Claire Moe, Ed Groggin, Virginia Hubbell, Red Holmdale, Janice Valleau, and Bill Woggon. Super-heroic and humorous tales, many of them filled with action and adventure—these are Top Notch Laugh comics! 60 pages, full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

May 11, 1948

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November 10, 1960 issue. Cover price $0.10.

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Presenting fiction and non-fiction stories, many of which are religious in nature—a Treasure Chest of fun and facts! Includes a puzzle page, "Happy 1963," (artist and illustrator uncredited), "Our Curious Calendar," by D.H. Johnson, "Fearless Ferdy," by Capt. Frank Moss, "Talking It Over with Father John," "America, the Melting Pot," by Marian Pehowski, illustrated by Lloyd Ostendorf, "Chuck White and His FRiends," by Fran Matera, "Treasure Jests," "Static Electricity," (writer and artist uncredited), "The Story of Pope John XXIII, Who Won Our Hearts," (writer and artist uncredited), and "Pierre," (writer and artist uncredited). This issue has a beautiful wraparound Happy New Year-related full-color cover. 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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January 25, 1968. Joe Sinnott cover and art ("Douglas MacArthur, Battlefield General"; 6 pages). Cover price $0.10.

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Edited by Samuel Bierman. Cover by Bernie Krigstein. Stories by Mort Meskin, George Roussos, Dan Barry, R. Teaney, Lit-Win, Dorothy Davis, Red Holmdale, W. Truett, and H. C. Kiefer. Adventure stories starring such characters as The Treasure Keeper, Carrot Topp, Wild Bill Hiccup, and Teen-Age Tommy --these are comics to Treasure! 52 pages, full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Matt Baker. Stories and art by Matt Baker, Warren King, Chuck Miller and Dana Dutch. Torrid tales of romance from St. John, with great covers by Matt Baker. Nancy gets a chance at stardom, but she's not sure she wants to compromise, in a story with art by celebrated good-girl artist Matt Baker. College librarian Arlene is flattered that star athlete Tommy asks her out, so she postpones with steady Steve, but does Tommy have ulterior motives? Cynthia tries to shake a reputation for being "boy-crazy." Plus the "Correspondence Club" page tries to find love for men (and women) stationed overseas. Risque cover by Baker seems very modern. Men Offered Me Stardom If I Would Pay Their Price; I Was a Victim of Deceit; The Navy Was My Target; And Now I'm in Trouble Because I Couldn't Control My Desires; Correspondence Club; I Was Too Free with Boys. Final issue of the series. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

May 31, 1997. Cover: Michael Richards. Inside: Richards article/interview; Hannah Storm; TV stars on Broadway Cover price $1.19.

Sea Captain McCallister cover. October 21, 2000. Inside: profiles of 24 supporting characters from "The Simpsons," with comments from Matt Groening; Karen Fowler of "Big Brother"; Tim Russert; various experts discuss Eminem. Cover price $1.99.

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Issue features Tweety and Sylvester in "Parcel Pest," "Robin-Cat Crusoe," "What Fur?" and "Cat-Fished." Issue also has an untitled story with Bugs Bunny, one-page gag strips, and a one-page text feature "Tweety Goes Shopping." Story and art credits: unknown. Inside front cover has Dell's "Pledge to Parents" ensuring that Dell's code "eliminates entirely, rather than regulates, objectionable material." 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Whitman only edition. Cover price $0.60.

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Number on the cover is 10016-611. Anthology type comic with suspenseful, mystery, and spooky stories done in the style of the classic TV series "The Twilight Zone" which starred Rod Serling as your host. Painted cover art by George Wilson. The Mysterious Gambler, art by Joe Certa. Second Hand Clothes, art by Nevio Zeccara; suits change a man. When the Lights Go Out, art by Joe Certa. Dead Man's Train, art by Joe Certa. Man In the Green Coat, art by Joe Certa. The Green Children text story, art by Joe Certa. Programmed Vacation, art by Joe Certa. The Impressionist, pencils by Giovanni Ticci, inks by Alberto Giolitti. Strange Reunion, art by Joe Certa. 36 pgs. $0.12. Cover price $0.12.

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Newsstand edition. This edition can be identified by the Disney Comics Marvel logo (instead of Gladstone) on cover and a barcode. Cover art by Don Rosa. The Master of the Mississippi--The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck starring Uncle Scrooge, Angus McDuck, Ratchet Gearloose, Porker Hog, Blackheart Beagle, and The Beagle Boys, script and art by Don Rosa. The Making of the Life & Times of Scrooge McDuck (part 2) article by Don Rosa, art by Carl Barks. The Skipper, script and art by Vic Lockman; Uncle Scrooge buys a new sailing outfit and spyglass in order to boat through his money bin. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $1.50.

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Will Eisner's one-eyed detective is back in a brand-new four-part series by award-winning creator, Gary Chaloner. The heat in Crossroads begins to rise as John Law and Nubbin face off against mobsters, movie stars and monsters. This series will mark an important change in Law's life, as he moves closer to learning the truth behind his father's death... with tragic consequences in this very first issue. Co-starring Nubbin, the Shoeshine Boy, Enzo 'The Angel' D'Angelo, Lady Luck, Mr. Mystic, and featuring the debut of Melba, Private Eye-ful!-a Texas cactus with city-bloomed thorns! Best of all, every issue will feature a full 28 pages of story and art from Chaloner. Cover price $3.99.

Circa 1917-1925. "A Review of A.E.F. Humor - Trench and Billet"(A..E.F stands for American Expeditionary Forces). Printed in Paris during World War 1. This trench humor magazine collects excerpts from regimental and unit publications, known as trench or camp papers and contains text, cartoons, and advertisements, 6 1/4-in. x 8 1/2, b&w.