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Tip Top Comics (1936) 129

  • Issue #129
    Tip Top Comics (1936) 129
    • 1" Cumulative spine split. Centerfold detached. Cover detached at one staple.

    Cover by Ernie Bushmiller. Stories and art by Al Capp, Ernie Bushmiller, Rudolph Dirks, Sam Leff, Bernard Dibble, Ernest Hix, Raeburn Van Buren and Dick Moores. Sometimes listed as Tip Top Comics Vol. 11 #9. Tip Top Comics presented color reprints of United Features newspaper comic strips. Notorious bandit Billy the Goat is released from prison after 99 years. He returns to Crabtree Corners to seek revenge on Bathless Groggins, descendant of the sheriff who arrested him, in an Abbie an' Slats strip with fine art by Raeburn van Buren. Fritzi Ritz strikes a deal with the March Wind itself to show off her new skirt, in a strip that showcases Ernie Bushmiller's "good girl" art. El Bombo tries to get a troubled boy to change his violent ways. Plus a Li'l Abner storyline by Al Capp. Li'l Abner; The Captain and the Kids; Stamp Tips; Curly Kayoe; Abbie an' Slats; El Bombo; Back Home Again; Windy and Paddles; Nancy; Fritzi Ritz; Strange as It Seems; How It Began. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.