Tip Top Comics #175

(July-August 1952)

Fireworks (Table of Contents)

Rich Bros. Fireworks Co. / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

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Inside front cover; black and white. Illustrated ad for fireworks. $4.95 and $5.95 assorted sets. Available by railroad express from Rich Bros. Fireworks Co., Sioux Falls, S.D.

"Girls are so conceited--Always looking in mirrors" (Table of Contents)

Nancy / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

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Script:

Ernie Bushmiller

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Ernie Bushmiller

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Ernie Bushmiller

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Content Information

Genre:

humor

Characters:

Nancy; Sluggo

Synopsis:

Girls are conceited; collecting alarm clocks; bouncing a ball; bed without supper; painting the keyhole; finding a picnic spot; the rich man's swimming pool; on Aunt Martha's farm.

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• from Nancy (United Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper pages.

Mystery on Mercury (Table of Contents)

Major Mars; Popsicle / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

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Genre:

science fiction

Characters:

Major Mars

Synopsis:

Major Mars uses his rocket ring to thwart a Venusian scheme to use Mercury as a base of operations.

Indexer Notes

Illustrated ad in comic form for Popsicle frozen confections. Premium is Rocket Ring that will print photos with the sun's rays. Cost is 25 cents and one bag from Popsicle, Fudgesicle, Creamsicle, or Dreamsicle. Joe Lowe Corporation, New York, N.Y. Ad comes after page four of sequence one.

"O.K..Napoleum Here comes der nature lesson..." (Table of Contents)

The Captain and the Kids / comic story / 9 pages (report information)

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Script:

R. Dirks

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R. Dirks

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R. Dirks

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Content Information

Genre:

humor; jungle

Characters:

Hans; Fritz; Mama; Der Captain; Der Inspector;

Synopsis:

The goat and the walrus; the vacuum cleaner; An ape steals pirate treasure (multi-page); drawing pictures on cows; a bird steals Mama's market basket; moonlight fishing.

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• from The Captain and the Kids (United Features Syndicate) Sunday newspaper pages.

Tomas Estrada Palma (Table of Contents)

Stamp Tips / text article / 2 pages (report information)

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Genre:

biography

Synopsis:

Biography of Cuban patriot Tomas Estrada Palma.

Indexer Notes

Text with color logo and no illustration. About one-half of each page consists of small classified-type ads for stamps to be sent on approval. Sequence comes after page six of sequence four.

How It Began! (Table of Contents)

text article / 1 page (report information)

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Genre:

non-fiction

Synopsis:

Short facts or definitions about whaling, workhouses, mechanical toys, ghosts casting no shadows, and other topics.

Indexer Notes

Text with illustrated header and small illustration.

"Tarzan drifted about his beloved Congo, reveling in the wild, free life." (Table of Contents)

Tarzan / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

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Genre:

jungle

Characters:

Tarzan

Synopsis:

Tarzan is captured by Gunnar Milo, who is using natives as slave labor in a copper mine he has acquired by deception, and is put to work in the mine.

Reprints:

• from Tarzan (United Features Syndicate) newspaper pages.

Indexer Notes

Three tiers of panels per page. Apparently reformatted Sunday pages?

Get the Most and the Best from the Biggest! (Table of Contents)

Ace Fireworks Company / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

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Illustrated ad for 1,000 piece fireworks set for $4.95 shipped by railway express from Ace Fireworks Company, Maywood, Calif.

Learn to Dance.. (Table of Contents)

Pickwick Co. / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

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Indexer Notes

Inside back cover; black and white. Illustrated ad for illustrated book on dance instruction for $1.98 plus postage from Pickwick Co., New York, N.Y.

Uncle Bernie's Fun Shop (Table of Contents)

Novelty Mart / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

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Characters:

Mr. Peanut (cameo)

Indexer Notes

Back cover. Illustrated ad for "magic money machine" trick; Mr. Peanut character bank; model car; "Ginger" doll; and "Happy the Cowboy" ventriloquist dummy. Novelty Mart, New York, N.Y.