Top Cat
#8
(January 1972)
Charlton,
1970 Series
- Volume
- 3
- Price
- 0.20 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bimonthly
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Charlton Press Inc.
- Brand
-
Charlton Comics
- Editing
- Sal Gentile (managing editor)
Vanishing Vacation
Top Cat / comic story / 5 pages
- Job Number
- D-2184
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Quick, gang, duck behind the fence!
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
- Characters
- Top Cat; Choo Choo; Benny the Ball; Brain, Spook; Fancy-Fancy; Officer Dibble
- Synopsis
- Top Cat decides he needs a vacation, so he sends the rest of the gang away and prepares to relax at home. It doesn't work out that way.
- Keywords
- alarm clock; hospital; stairs; telephone pole
Friends Till the End
Top Cat / comic story / 1 page
- Job Number
- D-2163
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- What's wrong, Fancy?
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
- Characters
- Top Cat; Fancy-Fancy
- Synopsis
- Top Cat is confused when Fancy-Fancy tells him he was told not to play with him.
- Keywords
- measles
Litter Litter
Top Cat / comic story / 1 page
- Job Number
- D-2187
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
- Characters
- Officer Dibble; Top Cat
- Synopsis
- Top Cat shows Officer Dibble that a cat has a litter of kittens under a box.
Indexer Notes
Clash in styles, as the cat with kittens is drawn like a regular cat, not like Top Cat and his gang.
Cooks Tour
Top Cat / comic story / 3 pages
- Job Number
- D-1924
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Sorehead! You're fired!
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
- Characters
- Top Cat; Choo Choo; Benny the Ball; Spook; Brain; Fancy-Fancy; Officer Dibble
- Synopsis
- Top Cat gets a cook book and the gang gathers various ingredients to make a fish chowder.
- Keywords
- chowder; cook book
Summer Snow
Top Cat / comic story / 1 page
- Job Number
- D-2165
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- C'mon in, Top Cat, the water's fine!
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
- Characters
- Top Cat; Choo Choo; Benny the Ball; Spook; Reggie Moola (a rich kid)
- Synopsis
- Top Cat passes up playing in an open fire hydrant in order to have a snowball fight with a rich kid, using ice cream!
- Keywords
- fire hydrant; ice cream
Hot-Line!
Top Cat / comic story / 2 pages
- Job Number
- D-2188
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Now I'll catch the guy who's using this phone!
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
- Characters
- Top Cat; Officer Dibble
- Synopsis
- Officer Dibble wires his patrol phone so it will shock whoever uses it.
- Keywords
- electricity; police phone; trash can
Pin-Up
Top Cat / illustration / 2 pages
- Job Number
- D-1982
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
- Characters
- Top Cat; Choo Choo; Benny the Ball; Brain; Spook; Officer Dibble
- Synopsis
- Under a full moon, Top Cat and the gang are peaceably sleeping on top of garbage cans in the alley, as Office Dibble strides toward them.
- Keywords
- alley; garage cans
Indexer Notes
Two-page spread across the centerfold, meant to be viewed sideways.
Bug-Off
Top Cat / comic story / 2 pages
- Job Number
- D-2189
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Care to buy one, Officer Dibble.
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
- Characters
- Top Cat; Choo Choo; Officer Dibble
- Synopsis
- Top Cat sells a very low-tech bug killer. Officer Dibble takes him to the police station, but TC shows that it actually works.
- Keywords
- invention
The Vanishing Ring Trick
text article / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- They say that magic knows no age limit.
- Genre
- non-fiction
- Synopsis
- An article tells how to perform a magic trick.
- Keywords
- magic trick
Swinging Gang
Magilla Gorilla / comic story / 3 pages
- Script
- George Wildman ?
- Pencils
- George Wildman (signed as Geo. Wildman)
- Inks
- George Wildman (signed as Geo. Wildman)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Charlotte Jetter
- Job Number
- D-1933
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Willie, look, that's it!
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals
- Characters
- Magilla Gorilla; Mr. Peebles; two bank robbers
- Synopsis
- Two robbers rent Magilla to help them rob a bank, but Magilla's ill-timed sneeze ruins their plans.
- Keywords
- bank robbery; safe
Cat Nap
Top Cat / comic story / 4 pages
- Job Number
- D-2185
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Gang, buddies, pals, I got the job.
- Genre
- anthropomorphic-funny animals; humor
- Characters
- Top Cat; Choo Choo; Benny the Ball; Spook; Brain; Fancy-Fancy
- Synopsis
- Top Cat tries to get some sleep for his new job, but everything keeps him awake.
- Keywords
- job; mattress; snoring; telephone
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[Targeted]
Top Cat -
1.
Vanishing Vacation
Top Cat -
2.
Friends Till the End
Top Cat -
3.
Litter Litter
Top Cat -
4.
Cooks Tour
Top Cat -
5.
Summer Snow
Top Cat -
6.
Hot-Line!
Top Cat -
7.
Pin-Up
Top Cat -
8.
Bug-Off
Top Cat -
9.
The Vanishing Ring Trick
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10.
Swinging Gang
Magilla Gorilla -
11.
Cat Nap
Top Cat
This issue was modified by, among others
- Nick Caputo
- Merlin Haas
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Ramon Schenk
- Warren Zeigler
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