Tip Top Comics #40 – Key Highlights
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Publisher: United Features Syndicate
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Publication Date: August 1939
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Alternate Listing: Sometimes listed as Tip Top Comics Vol. 4 #4
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Cover Artist: Not specified
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Interior Artists and Contributors: Hal Foster, Al Capp, Mort Walker, Ernie Bushmiller, Bill Conselman, Charlie Plumb, Rudolph Dirks, Gus Mager, Dick Moores, Paul Berdanier, Harry O'Neill, Fred Methot, Alan Maver, Ed Dodd, J. Carver Pusey, R. M. Brinkerhoff, Robert Dickey, and Ben Batsford
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Genres: Adventure, Humor, Funny Pages, and Newspaper Comic Reprints
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Pages: 64
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Original Cover Price: $0.10
🔥 Key Significance
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Features Sunday newspaper-strip reprints of Tarzan of the Apes, illustrated by legendary artist Hal Foster.
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Includes a Tarzan adventure in which Tarzan and his army discover a fortress after taking an armory.
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Features Li'l Abner by Al Capp, including a storyline in which Li'l Abner encounters The Super Brain.
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Contains an early cartoon by Mort Walker, who would later become famous as the creator of Beetle Bailey.
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Offers an extensive selection of United Features newspaper comic strips from the late 1930s.
📖 Story Highlights
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Tarzan of the Apes – Sunday newspaper-strip reprints illustrated by Hal Foster. Tarzan and his army find a fortress after taking the armory.
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Li'l Abner – By Al Capp. Li'l Abner encounters The Super Brain.
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The Captain and the Kids – By Rudolph Dirks.
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Jim Hardy
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The Emerald Empire
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Bumps
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Divot Diggers
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Broncho Bill
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Opportunity Knox
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Benny
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Home Towners
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Frankie Doodle
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Bucky and His Pals
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Buster Beans
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Hawkshaw the Detective
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Phil Fumble
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Fritzi Ritz
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Joe Jinks Featuring Dynamite Dunn
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Little Mary Mixup
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Ella Cinders
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Chris Crusty
📌 Additional Features & Comic Strips
The issue also includes:
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Stamp Tips
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How It Began
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Tip Top Cartoon Club
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Twice Told Tales
Tip Top Comics Vol. 4 #4 is a fascinating prewar anthology, bringing together an impressive collection of newspaper-strip talent. Hal Foster's Tarzan and Al Capp's Li'l Abner are major highlights, while the early Mort Walker cartoon adds an interesting historical connection to the future creator of Beetle Bailey.
