Showing posts with label TIP TOP COMICS. Show all posts
Showing posts with label TIP TOP COMICS. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 10, 2017

Tip Top Comics #6, 4 of 4

Here's more forgotten comic strips from United Features' Tip Top Comics #6 in October 1936. The other three installments are here, here, and here.
Here are some examples of Looy Dot Dope, a creation of the great Milt Gross (though these were unfortunately done by someone else, probably his assistant). The only information I can find about bottom strip Colonel Wowser are a few other strips and a Tijuana Bible...
… And here are some examples of Billy Make Believe...
...plus some Alice In Wonderland strips b/w Knurl the Gnome...
...plus a couple Peter Pat strips by Mo Leff, assistant to Ham Fisher...
...Frankie Doodle...
...and finally How It Began by Paul Berdanier.
I have no idea who did this or what it's from. The signature looks like “Bob Brinkenhoff”.
Strips by readers. I wonder how many, if any, are still alive.
I think this strip was done for magazines.

Wednesday, April 19, 2017

Tip Top Comics #6, 1 of 4

The first few comic books were just reprints of Sunday strips, such as this issue of Tip Top Comics from October 1936.
Grin and Bear It by George Lichty
Hawkshaw the Detective by Gus Mager
The Captain and the Kids by Bernard Dibble.
Not sure who did Freddie and Fritz, but the main strip is by Dudley T. Fisher, Jr.
These features were written by Bill Conselman and drawn by Charlie Plumb.
Both the top and bottom are by Paul Berdanier.
Don't know who did these Joe Jinks strips. There's a signature on one but the strip's not of a high enough resolution to read it.
Ed Dodd

Wednesday, April 15, 2015

Tip Top Comics #65

Tip Top Comics started out reprinting most of the strips from United Features Syndicate but eventually used fewer and fewer as their page count reduced over time. This issue, their 65th, is from September 1941.

One of their main attractions was The Katzenjammer Kids
Fritzi Ritz and Phil Fumble were pre-Nancy strips by Ernie Bushmiller
Another recurring feature was reprints of Al Capp's Li'l Abner