(March 1952)
Superior,
1952 Series
- Price
- 0.10 CAD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- Bi-monthly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Superior Publishers Limited
- Brand
-
Toby Press
[Book Offer]
advertisement / 1 page
- Synopsis
- Full-page, inside front cover ad for mail-order book, "Beat the High Cost of Living".
Operation Petticoat
Tell It To The Marines / comic story / 12 pages
- Genre
- war; humour; adventure
- Characters
- Spike; Bat; Lotus Blossom
- Synopsis
- Spike and Bat, two brawny, lusty, best-buddy Marines on the Korean front, are sent behind enemy lines to retrieve valuable information from an elderly, wounded Korean acting as an agent for the United States. Before dying, the agent tells the boys the information is sewn into the dress hem of his lovely granddaughter, Lotus Blossom. Spike and Bat head back to camp with Lotus Blossom in tow and have several close calls with Korean soldiers before recrossing enemy lines. The story is punctuated with the two Marines playing pranks on one another and lusting after "dames".
- Reprints
-
from Tell It to the Marines (Toby, 1952 series) #1 (March 1952)
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Arabian Nightmare
Tell It To The Marines / comic story / 14 pages
- Genre
- war; humour; adventure
- Characters
- Spike; Bat; Boris; Shah of Ariq
- Synopsis
- A big mistake is made in Washington and the boys are sent to the Middle East to secure oil concessions for the western powers. Boris, a Russian emissary, is trying to do the same for his country. The Shah of Ariq, a boxing fan, decides the issue will be settled via a boxing match between Boris and Spike, a renowned Corps heavyweight champion celebrated for a punch of his own devising called the Double Reverse Pretzel Bolo. The story features scantily clad harem girls and a transvestite scene for Spike and Bat.
- Reprints
- from Tell It to the Marines (Toby, 1952 series) #1 (March 1952)
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The Fighting Leathernecks March On!
text article / 2 pages
- Genre
- non-fiction; war
- Synopsis
- Nonfiction account of early 19th century United States Marine Corps history.
- Keywords
- Military History
[no title indexed]
Lover O'Leary and His Liberty Belles / comic story / 4 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- We hear that you two jokers...
- Characters
- Lover O'Leary; Blue Plate Blossom; Queenie Quadrille; Marlene; Three-Quarters-of-a-Mile Miriam; two nerdy, lusting young Marines
- Synopsis
- Lover O'Leary is the "pre-eminent gal-hound" of the United States Marine Corps and agrees to take two nerdy, young "chowderheads" out on the town. The three pass their time ogling busty, leggy Good Girls in little clothing.
- Reprints
- from Tell It to the Marines (Toby, 1952 series) #1 (March 1952)
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Table of Contents
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0.
["Did I ever tell you about..."]
Tell It To the Marines -
1.
[Book Offer]
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2.
Operation Petticoat
Tell It To The Marines -
3.
Arabian Nightmare
Tell It To The Marines -
4.
The Fighting Leathernecks March On!
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5.
["We hear that you two jokers..."]
Lover O'Leary and His Liberty Belles -
6.
[Religious Pictures Offer]
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7.
[Tool Set Offer]
This issue was modified by
- Peter Croome
- Jim Van Dore
- Kathryn Wright
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