(December 1947)
- Price:
- 0.10 USD
- Pages:
- 52
- Indicia frequency:
- ?
- Indicia Publisher:
- Dell Publishing Co., Inc.
- Brand:
- A Dell Magazine
- Editing:
- ?
- Format:
- Color; standard Golden Age and later Silver Age formats; saddle-stitched; newsprint; was an On-Going Series
Issue Notes
Indicia title is "TILLIE THE TOILER, No 176." Code number is T.O.S. #176-4712. Copyright 1947 by King Features, Inc. Based on the "Tillie the Toiler" newspaper strip. Eighth of twelve Tillie the Toiler Four Colors.
[Mac Paints Himself]
Tillie the Toiler / comic story / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- Jack Callahan
- Pencils:
- Jack Callahan
- Inks:
- Jack Callahan
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- Jack Callahan
Content Information
- Genre:
- humor
- Characters:
- Tillie; Mac; Mumsy
- Synopsis:
- Mac gets paint over his suit and goes to a costume party as a rainbow.
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover; Black, red, and white.
Mac, the Iceman Goeth
Tillie the Toiler / comic story / 16 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Jack Callahan
- Pencils:
- Jack Callahan
- Inks:
- Jack Callahan
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- Jack Callahan
Content Information
- Genre:
- humor
- Characters:
- Tillie; Mac; Spike Etaks; Doc
- Synopsis:
- Mac comes up with an invention for an ice-making machine. He teams up with a doctor, who wants to make a sandwich machine, and opens a skating rink. He hires Spike Etaks as a skating instructor, but becomes jealous when Spike spends all of his time skating with Tillie.
Indexer Notes
Script, pencils, and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007). Title is a take off on the title of the 1939 Eugene O'Neill play "The Iceman Cometh." The skating instructor's name, Etaks, is "skate" spelled backwards.
At Last Mac Is In the Dough
Tillie the Toiler / comic story / 16 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Jack Callahan
- Pencils:
- Jack Callahan
- Inks:
- Jack Callahan
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- Jack Callahan
Content Information
- Genre:
- humor
- Characters:
- Tillie; Mac; Honky Biltops (intro); Mumsy
- Synopsis:
- Tillie promises to bake a cake for Mrs. Biltops' sale. Trouble is, Tillie can't bake and her mother has always baked the cakes for her. This time her mother refuses. Tillie tries and fails and then Mac tries his hand at the task.
Indexer Notes
Script, pencils, and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
The Tillie Jones Orchestra Is Born and Mac Gets the Blame
Tillie the Toiler / comic story / 16 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Jack Callahan
- Pencils:
- Jack Callahan
- Inks:
- Jack Callahan
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- Jack Callahan
Content Information
- Genre:
- humor
- Characters:
- Tillie; Mac; Mumsy; Corny Earblaster; Sasha Stradington; Fingers Sharpo
- Synopsis:
- Tillie thinks Mac is a natural drummer and organizes a band. Tillie is the singer and Mac writes a song, "Pick a Paper Hat." The band keeps getting thrown out of the members' houses when they practice and they finally end up setting up in a barn.
Indexer Notes
The complete lyrics to Mac's song are shown. It is to be sung to the tune "London Bridge is Falling Down." Script, pencils, and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007).
[Prof. Knoggin, Phrenologist]
Tillie the Toiler / comic story / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- Jack Callahan
- Pencils:
- Jack Callahan
- Inks:
- Jack Callahan
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- Jack Callahan
Content Information
- Genre:
- humor
- Characters:
- Tillie; Mac
- Synopsis:
- Mac goes to a phrenologist to get the bumps on his head read.
Indexer Notes
Inside back cover; Black, red, and white.
[The Broken Heel]
Tillie the Toiler / comic story / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- Jack Callahan
- Pencils:
- Jack Callahan
- Inks:
- Jack Callahan
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- Jack Callahan ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- humor
- Characters:
- Tillie; Mac
- Synopsis:
- Tillie breaks a heel on her shoe. She and Mac get in trouble when Mac breaks the window on the door of a shoe repair shop.
Indexer Notes
Back cover.
Editing
Table of Contents
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1.
[Mac Paints Himself]
Tillie the Toiler -
2.
Mac, the Iceman Goeth
Tillie the Toiler -
3.
At Last Mac Is In the Dough
Tillie the Toiler -
4.
The Tillie Jones Orchestra Is Born and Mac Gets the Blame
Tillie the Toiler -
5.
[Prof. Knoggin, Phrenologist]
Tillie the Toiler -
6.
[The Broken Heel]
Tillie the Toiler
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- Jim Walls
- Terry Vraspir
- Gary Perlman
- Jerry Hillegas
- Craig Delich
- James Ludwig
- Ray Bottorff Jr
- Kenneth Blair
- Mike Nielsen
- David Porta
- Matthew Torrance
- Ken Kwilinski
- Gary L. Watson
- Gregg Whitmore
- Max Capp
- Tony R. Rose
- Lou Mazzella
- Rodney Hinkle
- Jan Roar Hansen
- Donald Dale Milne
- Karl Wilcox
- Darrel McCann
- Peter Croome
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