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Series: Top Notch Comics

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Publisher: Archie

Title: Top Notch Comics
Issue: 4
Page Count: 68
Publish Date: April 1940
Volume: 1
Contributors: Editor: Abner Sundell ?

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Top-Notch Comics #4
Owner: walclark

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Top-Notch Comics #4
Owner: walclark

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4.5
CGC



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Story Title: [ no title ] - cover
Features:The Wizard
Pages:1
Pencils:Edd Ashe [as Ashe] (signed)
Inks:Edd Ashe [as Ashe] (signed)
Genre:superhero
Characters:The Wizard [Blane Whitney]


Story Title: The Bundonians Bomb Texas!! - comic story
Features:The Wizard, The Man with the Super-Brain
Pages:11
Pencils:Edd Ashe
Inks:Edd Ashe
Characters:I: Jane (Wizard's fiancee) and her father (both are Texans!); V: The Bundonians (I)


Story Title: In South America - comic story
Features:Dick Storm
Pages:6
Pencils:Mort Meskin
Inks:Mort Meskin
Characters:I: Sr. Valera, Rana Valera; V: Pruvians (I), Gen. Callero (I)


Story Title: The Death of Prospector Joe - comic story
Features:Moore of the Mounted
Pages:6
Pencils:Mort Meskin
Inks:Mort Meskin
Genre:western-frontier
Characters:Sgt. Moore (a Mountie, introduction)), Prospector Joe (introduction, death); Vladimir (villain, introduction); Vladimir's partner partner (villain, introduction)
Synopsis:An old prospector is killed by two men, and Sergeant Moore sets after them on skis.


Story Title: The Devil Is a Mule - text story
Pages:2
Pencils:? [as JR] (signed)
Inks:? [as JR] (signed)
Letters:typeset
Genre:western-frontier
Characters:Buffalo Bill Cody
Synopsis:An Army mule cast the die that almost nipped Buffalo Bill's career in the bud.


Story Title: The Landing On Mars - comic story
Features:Streak Chandler
Pages:6
Pencils:William Wills [as Wm Wills] (signed)
Inks:William Wills [as Wm Wills] (signed)
Characters:I: Streak Chandler, Prof. Finlay, Vola Finlay, Lokis, Ferrugas; V: Two gangsters (I)


Story Title: Captured By the British - comic story
Features:Wings Johnson
Pages:8
Pencils:Ed Smalle (signed)
Inks:Ed Smalle (signed)
Characters:V: The Nazis


Story Title: [ no title ] - comic story
Features:Noodle
Pages:1
Pencils:Kin Platt ? [as Quincy]
Inks:Kin Platt ? [as Quincy]
Letters:Kin Platt ?
Genre:humor; children
Characters:Noodle; Queenie
Synopsis:Noodle tries to prove he could rescue a damsel in distress.


Story Title: Immigrant Smugglers Meet with Doom - comic story
Features:Bob Phantom
Pages:6
Pencils:Irv Novick [as Irving Novick] (signed)
Inks:Irv Novick [as Irving Novick] (signed)
Genre:superhero
Characters:Bob Phantom [Walt Whitney]; The Master (villain, introduction, death?); Princess Ah-Ku (villain); Trigger Slumm (villain); Butch (villain); other smugglers (villains, introduction for all)


Story Title: Moriarity, the Sports Gambler - comic story
Features:Stacey Knight
Pages:6
Pencils:Lin Streeter (signed)
Inks:Lin Streeter (signed)
Characters:V: Moriarity and his gang (I for all); I: Kid Burns, Pedro Lang


Story Title: Frozen Out of the Game - comic story
Features:The West Pointer
Pages:5
Pencils:Elmer Wexler [as El Wexler] (signed)
Inks:Elmer Wexler [as El Wexler] (signed)
Characters:Keith Kornell; Bob Seymour; Gerry Stevens; Two holdup men (villains)


Story Title: [ no title ] - promo (ad from the publisher)
Pages:1
Characters:The Shield; The Wizard; Midshipman; The West Pointer
Synopsis:Promo for Pep Comics 4 and Top Notch Comics 5, which will have cross-overs between 4 different features who "combine to smash the most dastardly of plots ever conceived for the destruction of the life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness of the United States of America."


Story Title: The Underseas Men - comic story
Features:Kardak
Pages:6
Pencils:C. A. Winter
Inks:C. A. Winter
Genre:superhero
Characters:Kardak; The Anderran Fishtails (mermen), Lorna Dorne; The Mocha Men and their Magator (villains, introduction for all)


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