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Issue: Four Color #11
Publication Date: January 1942
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Issues: #11 of 1333 Issues (1484 Printings)
Title: Wash Tubbs
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagDell
Brand: Dell Publishing Co.View Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 11 (10 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
Disclose Notes: Indicia title is "WASH TUBBS, No. 11." No code number. Copyright 1937, 1938 by NEA Service, Inc. The first 36 story pages have a logo at the top of each page, even though they are daily strip reprints. They have been separated into three storylines. Beginning with Sequence 4, each sequence starts with a logo and is a reprint, likely from Red Ryder Comics.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age U.S.; standard Silver Age U.S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Wash Tubbs
Character(s): Wash Tubbs; Captain Easy
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Piracy aboard the S.S. Platonic

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Wash Tubbs
Character(s): Wash Tubbs; Captain Easy; Helga Zmith; Beverly Hill
Synopsis: Easy gets in the middle of a love triangle with Helga Zmith and Beverly Hill. Zmith turns out to be the mastermind of a mid-ocean robbery that nets her gang $3,000,000. She also takes Beverly Hill along, for ransom and also to settle a grudge against Easy. Easy and Wash track Zmith to her island hideout.
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Reprint Notes: from Wash Tubbs (NEA Service) daily newspaper strips from 1937.12.03-1938.02.16
Miscellaneous
Pages: 19
Disclose Notes: Story begins on inside front cover in black, red, and white.
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Wash Meets Carol McKee

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Wash Tubbs
Character(s): Wash Tubbs; Gozy Gallup; Roxie Gallup; Sheriff McGuire; Carol McKee; J.P. McKee
Synopsis: With Easy gone, Wash decides to go back to his home town. He connects with an old pal, Gozy Gallup, but Gozy's wife tosses both of them out of the house. After a night in a blizzard, Gozy's wife takes them back in. Gozy and his wife decide that Wash needs to get married and arranges a party with all the town's debutantes—which includes Carol McKee.
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Reprint Notes: from Wash Tubbs (NEA Service) daily newspaper strips from 1938.
Miscellaneous
Pages: 9
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Wash buys the Topsy-Turvey Club

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Feature(s): Wash Tubbs
Character(s): Wash Tubbs; Captain Easy; J.P. McKee; Carol McKee; Frankie Slaughter; Gozy Gallup; Roxie Gallup; Lucifer
Synopsis: Wash gets a check for $3,000 for helping recover the S.S. Platonic's gold. He ends up leasing a run-down night club from Frankie Slaughter. Wash doesn't know that Slaughter is a gangster. Easy comes back after an unexplained absence. Wash gets the club ready to open, only to find out that the highway department is re-paving the highway and there is no access to the club.
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Reprint Notes: from Wash Tubbs (NEA Service) daily newspaper strips from 1938
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Feature(s): Wash Tubbs
Character(s): Wash Tubbs; Captain Easy; Lucifer; J.P. McKee; Carol McKee; Frankie Slaughter
First Line: I'll borrow some money to pay the drivers, Easy, hurry...
Synopsis: Wash opens the Topsy-Turvey Club and is an immediate success. Gangster Frankie Slaughter decides that he wants to buy the club and when Wash refuses, pulls the extortion racket on him.
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Reprint Notes: from Wash Tubbs (NEA Service) daily newspaper strips from 1938.04.14 [last panel (partially redrawn)], 1938.04.15-1939.04.16, 1938.04.18-1938.04.23, 1938.04.25, 1938.04.26, 1938.04.27 [half of first panel cut], 1938.04.28, 1938.04.29 [third panel cut], 1938.04.30, 1938.05.02 [third panel cut], 1938.05.03 [last panel cut]
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Feature(s): Wash Tubbs
Character(s): Wash Tubbs; Captain Easy; Frankie Slaughter; Flo; Trigger Murphy; Hallelujah Robinson; Smiles Tortoni
First Line: You've cost me $830
Synopsis: The law is helpless when Slaughter repeatedly vandalizes Wash's night club. Easy imports a couple of hired guns to even the odds.
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Reprint Notes: from Wash Tubbs (NEA Service) daily newspaper strips from 1938.05.06 [last panel], 1938.05.07, 1938.05.09 [third panel cut], 1938.05.10-1938.05.14, 1938.05.16-1938.05.21 [first two panels]
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Feature(s): Wash Tubbs
Character(s): Wash Tubbs; Captain Easy; Flo; Frankie Slaughter; Dinwiddy; Smiles Tortoni; Carol McKee
First Line: When I start home tonight, they'll be laying for me...
Synopsis: Easy sets a trap for Slaughter, but Slaughter is warned and instead goes to the club where he roughs up Wash and demands the lease for the night club. When Wash doesn't produce the lease the next day, Slaughter sets up a series of attacks to eliminate Wash and disfigure Carol McKee.
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Reprint Notes: from Wash Tubbs (NEA Service) daily newspaper strips from 1938.05.21 [last two panels], 1938.05.23-1938.05.26, 1938.05.27 [last panel cut], 1938.05.28, 1938.05.30, 1938.06.01 [first panel cut], 1938.06.02 [third panel cut], 1938.06.03, 1938.06.04, 1938.06.06
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Feature(s): Wash Tubbs
Character(s): Wash Tubbs; Captain Easy; Carol McKee; Hallelujah Robinson
First Line: Give her the gas, Beany! It's a clear get-away!
Synopsis: Slaughter machine-guns Wash's limousine and one of his men threatens to disfigure Carol with acid. The police chase Slaughter's car which smashes into a roadblock. His men are captured, but Slaughter escapes. All this activity has ruined Wash's business, so he decides to throw one last big party at the night club. Slaughter is brazen enough to attend, confident that he has an iron-clad alibi for the afternoon's action. Wash weasels a deal for the club from Slaughter, while Easy goes and gets the police.
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Reprint Notes: from Wash Tubbs (NEA Service) daily newspaper strips from 1938.06.07-1938,06.11, 1938.06.13- 1938.06.15, 1938.06.16 [second panel cut], 1938.06.17, 1938.06.18, 1938.06.20, 1938.06.21 [first panel]
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Feature(s): Wash Tubbs
Character(s): Wash Tubbs; Captain Easy; Frankie Slaughter; Smiles Tortoni; Hallelujah Robinson; J.P McKee; Carol McKee
First Line: I happen to like pictures, Frankie. Here's one that shows you...
Synopsis: Easy confronts Frankie Slaughter with evidence that he tried to murder Wash. Slaughter tries to escape, but is killed. Wash closes the night club and goes to ask Carol McKee to marry him. Her father is not happy.
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Reprint Notes: from Wash Tubbs (NEA Service) daily newspaper strips from 1938.06.21 [last three panels]-1938.06.25, 1938.06.25-1938.07.01, 1938.07.03, 1938.07.04
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: drama, romantic
Feature(s): Wash Tubbs
Character(s): Wash Tubbs; J.P. McKee; Carol McKee; Dauntless (dog)
First Line: Being my only child, Carol will some day inherit an estate...
Synopsis: Carol's father doesn't approve of Wash marrying his daughter and takes her on a trip to Europe to get away from him. Wash gets "adopted" by a stray dog.
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Reprint Notes: from Wash Tubbs (NEA Service) daily newspaper strips from 1938.07.05-1938.07.09, 1938.07.11, 1938.07.12 [first two panels]
Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Wash Tubbs
Character(s): Wash Tubbs; Dauntless (dog); Mother Grey; Virginia
First Line: Easy disappeared once before, an' when I tried to question him...
Synopsis: Easy has disappeared. Wash tries to give a cowering mongrel dog some confidence and takes a room in a house with a woman and her crippled daughter.
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Reprint Notes: from Wash Tubbs (NEA Service) daily newspaper strips from 1938.07.16 [last panel]-1938.07.21
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Story begins on inside back cover in black, red, and white and concludes on back cover in color.

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