Four Color comic books issue 11

Indicia title is "WASH TUBBS, No. 11."U ntitled stories starring Wash Tubbs. Easy gets in the middle of a love triangle with Helga Zmith and Beverly Hill; Zmith turns out to be the mastermind of a mid-ocean robbery that nets her gang $3,000,000. With Easy gone, Wash decides to go back to his home town; He connects with an old pal, Gozy Gallup, but Gozy's wife tosses both of them out of the house. Wash gets a check for $3,000 for helping recover the S.S. Platonic's gold. Wash opens the Topsy-Turvey Club and is an immediate success. The law is helpless when Slaughter repeatedly vandalizes Wash's night club. Easy sets a trap for Slaughter, but Slaughter is warned and instead goes to the club where he roughs up Wash and demands the lease for the night club. Slaughter machine-guns Wash's limousine and one of his men threatens to disfigure Carol with acid. Scripts and art by Roy Crane. 68 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Smitty. Stories, Art and Cover by Walter Berndt. Featuring reprints of Smitty newspaper strips from 1936. George Bailey gives Smitty two shares of stock in his company for Christmas not realizing that his giving up those two shares costs him his position as majority stockholder. In gratitude for Smitty returning his shares of stock to George Bailey, restoring Bailey to his position as majority stockholder, the reinstated boss takes his office boy on a vacation to the North Woods. Wealthy Roger King plans to marry Mrs. Smith, whose husband disappeared years ago in an airline accident. Mr. Smith turns up as a helper to Roger King's gardeners, but with a case of amnesia, complicating the wedding plans. In further wedding woes, George Bailey does his best to extricate himself from an inadvertent promise to marry Miss Dolly Flutter. Also includes five additional Smitty 1-pagers. 64 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.