Tip Top Comics
#v5#8 (56)
(December 1940)
United Feature,
1936 Series
- Volume
- 5
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 68
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1940
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- United Feature Syndicate Inc.
- Editing
- ?
[no title indexed]
Li'l Abner / comic story / 4 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Look! It says 'Dining, Dancing, Moosic'! It also says 'Kum On Inn'!
- Genre
- humor
[no title indexed]
Iron Vic / comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Bernard Dibble [as DIB] (signed)
- Inks
- Bernard Dibble [as DIB] (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Trouble on the Panther ball club!
- Genre
- sports
- Characters
- Iron Vic; Buck O'Brien;
Indexer Notes
Signed on last page at bottom.
[no title indexed]
The Captain and the Kids; Hawkshaw the Detective / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- humor
Indexer Notes
The 2 strips share 5 pages.
[no title indexed]
Tarzan / comic story / 3 pages
- Script
- Don Garden [as Edgar Rice Burroughs] (credited)
- Pencils
- Hal Foster [as H Foster] (signed); Burne Hogarth [as Hogarth] (signed)
- Inks
- Hal Foster [as H Foster] (signed); Burne Hogarth [as Hogarth] (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- For long hours, Tarzan observed Flint's army; then, with his prisoner...
- Genre
- adventure; jungle
- Characters
- Tarzan [John Clayton, Lord Greystoke]; Queen Nakonia
- Reprints
- from Tarzan Sundays (United Features Syndicate) 1936-02-05 - 1936-02-16. These feature the transition from Hal Foster (the first strip here) to Burne Hogarth (the final pair).
[no title indexed]
Fritzi Ritz; Phil Fumble / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- humor
Indexer Notes
The two strips share 5 pages.
[no title indexed]
Tailspin Tommy / comic story / 4 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Tomkins, take full control... with Mr. Milligan as co-pilot.
- Genre
- adventure; aviation
Guiana's Famous Stamps
Stamp Tips on Guiana / text article / 2 pages
- Genre
- non-fiction
Indexer Notes
With stamp ads.
[no title indexed]
The Mirror Man / comic story / 5 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- To save young Benton from mad professor Gregg, The Mirror Man becomes visible...
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Mirror Man [Dean Alder]; Benton (student at Alder Academy); unnamed Police Captain; Bennett (Academy instructor); Drew Thorne (member of the State Boys Reformatory); Bob Britt (Tommy's brother); Tommy Briit; Professor Gregg (villain)
- Synopsis
- Mirror Man saves young Benton from the clutches of the evil Professor, but takes a bullet in the should doing so. Benton assists him to a mirror, through which the hero passes, rests and recovers from his wound. After Gregg is jailed, Alder is informed of young Tommy Britt being cheated out of money at the Cattail Club, so Mirror Man takes a hand before Tommy's brother Bob takes on the thugs at the club alone.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- Alder Academy; Cattail Club
in Indexer Notes
Continued from previous issue.
Blurb at the bottom of the last page states: "Continued in Tip Top Comics No. 57 top be published Friday, November 29, 1940."
[no title indexed]
Jim Hardy / comic story / 5 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The mysterious murder of 'Clocker' Colik is the talk of Hub City.
- Genre
- adventure
[no title indexed]
Abbie an' Slats / comic story / 4 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- So this is that phoney's big idea! Jasper Hagstone and all his chiselling pals think...
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Bathless Groggins
[no title indexed]
Broncho Bill; Bumps / comic story / 4 pages
- Genre
- humor; domestic; western-frontier
Indexer Notes
The two strips share 4 pages.
[no title indexed]
The Triple Terror / comic story / 5 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- This burning oil is closing in on us --
- Genre
- superhero; adventure; war
- Characters
- The Triple Terror [Chemix [Barton Brandon]; Lectra [Richard Brandon]; Menta [Bruce Brandon]]; Professor Walters (inventor, death); Diana Walters (daughter of Professor Walters); Dr. Mario (villain, Walter's lab assistant); The Glove (villain, death); the Glove's gang (villains, all die)
- Synopsis
- Having rescued the daughter of Professor Walters, whose death ray is in the possession of the villainous Glove and his gang, the Triple Terror are happy to have recovered the radium stolen by the Glove, even though the inventor was murdered by the Glove's men. When Diana points out that Mario was somehow involved with the Glove, the theft of the invention and the murder of her father, the Triple Terror vow to return the stolen radium, capture the Glove and Mario, and destroy the Glove's island hideout.
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Story continued from previous issue and continued next issue. Some told in flashback.
Inks credit suggested by the Who's Who.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
[no title indexed]
Li'l Abner -
1.
Roll Call of the Dead!
Strange as It Seems -
2.
["Look! It says 'Dining, Dancing, Moosic'! It also says 'Kum On Inn'!"]
Li'l Abner -
3.
["Trouble on the Panther ball club!"]
Iron Vic -
4.
[no title indexed]
The Captain and the Kids; Hawkshaw the Detective -
5.
[no title indexed]
What's Your Hobby? -
6.
[no title indexed]
Ella Cinders -
7.
["For long hours, Tarzan observed Flint's army; then, with his prisoner..."]
Tarzan -
8.
[no title indexed]
Fritzi Ritz; Phil Fumble -
9.
["Tomkins, take full control... with Mr. Milligan as co-pilot."]
Tailspin Tommy -
10.
Guiana's Famous Stamps
Stamp Tips on Guiana -
11.
["To save young Benton from mad professor Gregg, The Mirror Man becomes visible..."]
The Mirror Man -
12.
["The mysterious murder of 'Clocker' Colik is the talk of Hub City."]
Jim Hardy -
13.
["So this is that phoney's big idea! Jasper Hagstone and all his chiselling pals think..."]
Abbie an' Slats -
14.
[no title indexed]
Broncho Bill; Bumps -
15.
[no title indexed]
Little Mary Mixup -
16.
["This burning oil is closing in on us --"]
The Triple Terror -
17.
[no title indexed]
Frankie Doodle -
18.
America, Begorra!
Strange as It Seems
This issue was modified by, among others
- Keith Chandler
- Craig Delich
- Tony R. Rose
- Ramon Schenk
- David Wilt
- Len Wolinsky
- Warren Zeigler
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