TIP TOP COMICS #6 (OCTOBER 1936)

Published by United Features, Tip Top Comics reprinted various newspaper comic strips syndicated by United.  It was a quick and easy way to make a bit more money from their properties.  In this issue we get to read:

• George Lichtenstein's Grin and Bear It
• Gus Mager's Hawkshaw the Detective
• Bernard Dibble's The Captain and the Kids
• Freddie and Fritz, an unsigned comic featuring a Bear (Freddie) and a squirrel (Fritz)
• Dudley T. Fisher, Jr.'s For Junior Readers (A miscellany section featuring a paper cut-out doll)
• Bill Conselman's Chris Crusty and his much better-known Ella Cinders 
• Paul Berdanier's How It Began and Of All Things
• Vic Forsythe's Joe Jinks (later renamed Curly Kayoe in the Dailies and Davy Jones in the Sunday strips) and his Divot Diggers
• Ed Dodd's Back Home Again and his Home Towners
• R. M. Brinkerhoff's All in the Family and Little Mary Mixup
• Bernard Dibble's Danny Dingle and his Dub Dabs
• Ernie Bushmiller's Phil Fumble, along with Fritzi Ritz (sans Nancy)
• Alan Maver's Grid Oddities
• Becky Sharp and La Verne Harding's Cynical Susie
• J. Carver Pusey's Opportunity Knox and Benny
• Harry O'Neill's Bronco Bill and Bumps
• Robert L. Dickey's Bucky and His Pals, along with Mr. and Mrs. Beans
• Milt Gross' Looy Dot Dope (drawn this time by Bernard Dibble)
• Colonel Wowser (possibly drawn by Bernard Dibble)
• H. E. Homan's Billy Make Believe and Homan's How To Make It
• Olive Ray Scott's Alice in Wonderland and Knurl the Gnome
• Mo Leff's Peter Pat and his Percy Penguin
• Chapter Six of Dan Chadwick's text story The Boys of Wynnecastle
• Dick Richards'  The Boomers 
• A text article, Stamp Tips
• Ben Batford's Freddie Doodle
• Tippity Top, The Puzzle Page (Tippity Top is evidently Tip Top Comics code word for origami)
• A crossword puzzle and a color-it-yourself cartoon panel
• Bob Brinkerhoff tells kids how to make their own movies and also how to draw comics, followed by an invitation to submit your own comics.
• Five comics strips submitted by readers, aged 7 to 15
• Opdyke's The Young Idear
• We close the issue with ads, including a full-page back cover ad for Daisy Air Rifles, from $1.00 to $3.95

Not included in this post because of copyright issues are Hal Foster's Tarzan and Al Capp's L'il Abner.  Nonetheless, there's a lot of reading here from some familiar and some unfamiliar names.

Enjoy.

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