Tip Top Comics Vol. #81 – Key Highlights
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Publisher: United Features Syndicate
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Publication Date: January 1943
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Cover Artist: Rudolph Dirks
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Interior Artists and Contributors: Al Capp, Ernie Bushmiller, Rudolph Dirks, Gus Mager, Dick Moores, Fred Methot, Reg Greenwood, Hal Forrest, Bernard Dibble, Ed Dodd, and John Hix
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Genres: Humor, Adventure, Superhero, and Newspaper Comic Reprints
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Pages: 64
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Original Cover Price: $0.10
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Alternate Listing: Sometimes listed as Tip Top Comics Vol. 7 #9.
🔥 Key Significance
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Features a cover by Rudolph Dirks and a substantial lineup of reprinted United Features newspaper comic strips.
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Includes a wartime adventure featuring The Triple Terror, who travel to the Aleutian Islands to assist Allied forces.
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Features a Li'l Abner storyline by Al Capp.
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Brings together an impressive roster of Golden Age newspaper-strip creators, including Al Capp, Ernie Bushmiller, and Rudolph Dirks.
📖 Story Highlights
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The Triple Terror: The superhero team travels to the Aleutians to aid Allied forces.
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Phil Fumble: Phil finds himself in trouble after Fritzi Ritz catches him with a matchbook from the “Hotfoot Ball Room.”
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Mr. Sniggling: Appears to be a gangster but proves he can outshoot any soldier on the Army firing range, including Iron Vic.
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Li'l Abner: Features a storyline by Al Capp.
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The Captain and the Kids
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The Mirror Man
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Jim Hardy
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Tailspin Tommy
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Iron Vic
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Fritzi Ritz
📌 Additional Features & Comic Strips
The issue includes the following additional features and newspaper-strip reprints:
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Li'l Abner
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The Captain and the Kids
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The Mirror Man
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The Triple Terror
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Jim Hardy
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Stamp Tips
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Looy Dot Dope
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Tailspin Tommy
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Iron Vic
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Phil Fumble
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Fritzi Ritz
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Funny Side Up!
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Strange as It Seems
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Back Home Again
Tip Top Comics Vol. 7 #9 is a strong wartime-era anthology, combining familiar newspaper comic-strip characters with superhero action, humor, and patriotic adventure. The variety of features and the presence of creators such as Al Capp and Rudolph Dirks make it an interesting snapshot of United Features' comic-strip publishing during 1943.
