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Issue: Top Comics The Three Stooges #2
Publication Date: January 1967
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Issues: #2 of 2 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagWestern
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Indicia Publisher: K. K. Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 1967
Volume:
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: none entered
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 14 (3 stories, 1 cover)
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Disclose Notes: Contains the exact interior content of The Three Stooges (Western, 1962 Series) #36 (September 1967), including non-character related editorial features and ads. Cover is modified to present the "Top Comics" logo, rather than the "Gold Key" brand and the typical "The Three Stooges" series title logos. Beyond that, the cover illustration is also the same.

No cover price is displayed on the issue, leaving some flexibility in the cover price charged. Merchants have been known to place "19¢" (or other price) stickers on the covers of such books, which normally sold for 12¢.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Silver Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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FlagThe Three Stooges #36 published September 1967 was The Yankee Doodle Dummies [Illustration on Cover, Front] cover
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The Yankee Doodle Dummies

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Penciller(s): ? (photograph)
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Colorist(s): ? (photograph)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: historical, humorous
Character(s): The Three Stooges [Moe Howard (photo); Larry Fine (photo); Curly-Joe DeRita (photo)]
First Line: The Stooges make hysterical history when they crash a tea party in Boston!
Synopsis: The Three Stooges are fife and drummers in the American Colonial Period.
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Gold Key - The World Famous Comics

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Feature(s): Gold Key Comics
Character(s): Donald Duck; Huey; Dewey; Louie; Napoleon Solo; Ben Cartwright; Little Joe Cartwright; Herman Munster; Lily Munster
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Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: Twenty different Gold Key Comics titles are listed at the bottom of the ad. The Gold Key Comics logo appears at center, logos of various studios for which Western Publishing held a comics publishing license appear at left, and cover reproductions of four contemporary Gold Key Comics appear at right.

Studio logos: Warner Bros., Universal City Studios, Hanna-Barbera, NBC (television network), Marge's, 20th Century Fox, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Television, Walter Lantz, ABC (television network), Walt Disney's, CBS (television network).

The following comic book covers are reproduced: Walt Disney's Comics and Stories (Western, 1962 Series) #304 (January 1966), The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (Western, 1965 Series) #2 (October 1965), Bonanza (Western, 1962 Series) #18 (February 1966), and The Munsters (Western, 1965 Series) #7 (June 1966).

All comic cover reproductions appearing in this ad are pen and ink drawings while, except for the Walt Disney's Comics and Stories cover, all of the original covers were photo covers. The pencilers and inkers for these cover reproductions are unknown. The WDC&S cover is based on Carl Barks pencils and inks, but is not actually by Barks.

Black and white ad on inside front cover. Top half of page.
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Exclusive Fun Products by Mail!

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Disclose Notes: A half-page of small, single panel advertisements for novelty items, tiny cameras, binoculars, etc. Black and white ad on inside front cover. Lower half of page.
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The Yankee Doodle Dummies

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: historical, humorous
Character(s): The Three Stooges [Moe Howard; Larry Fine; Curly-Joe DeRita]; Paul Revere; Samuel Adams; various patriots; various Redcoats; British magistrate; Silas (patriot); Ephram Skinner (fur trader); lots of skunks; Robert Newman (patriot); Mrs. Newman (patriot); three high-ranking British officers
First Line: The Time... 1773!
Synopsis: In 1773, arriving in Boston from England, the Stooges blunder through the Boston Tea Party, get thrown in jail, are sprung by patriots, help Paul Revere on his famous ride after first mixing up the lights in the church tower, unleash a wagon load of skunks on the Redcoats, and finally steer the British forces into a marsh to win the battle. They even get to lead the parade, "because [they] don't know which end of a musket the trigger is on!"
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Pages: 21
Disclose Notes: Story is interrupted between pages 14 and 15 for four pages of Gold Key Comics Club material comprising the centerfold.

The story title and splash panel caption (the latter in the form of a tattered, unfurled parchment) get the reader in a "Stooge-frame-of-mind" from the get-go:

TITLE: "The Yankee Doodle Dummies*" (with trailing asterisk)

CAPTION 1: "The Time... 1773! The Place...Boston! The Heroes... Guess who!"
CAPTION 2: "*Any similarity to historical fact is purely a big fat boo-boo on our part." (with leading asterisk)
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Can You Create a Monster?

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Letterer(s): typeset
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First Line: Help? Can you do it?
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Disclose Notes: Readers are invited to submit drawings of monsters for possible publication. Six reader-contributed drawings of monsters are printed.
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The Joke's on You

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Character(s): Gold Key Kid
First Line: Hi, gang! What is the most talented tool in the world?
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Disclose Notes: Jokes and riddles submitted by readers. Middle left page of centerfold.
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What's Your Line?

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First Line: Try your humor I.Q. What line do you think best suits the picture below?
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Disclose Notes: Readers are invited to submit gag captions for a series of provided single-panel cartoon illustrations. Two finished examples are provided. Middle right page of centerfold.
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Readers Complete the Comic

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Letterer(s): typeset
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First Line: We knew you could do it!
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Disclose Notes: Readers provide the third and final panel illustration to a three-panel cartoon. Six reader submissions are included.
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Dear Stooges:

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): The Three Stooges [Moe Howard; Larry Fine; Curly-Joe DeRita]
First Line: Dear Larry: What would you do if you came face to face with a skunk?
Synopsis: The Three Stooges answer readers' letters.
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Disclose Notes: A presumably faux letter column hosted by the Stooges themselves, who print readers' letters and answer them. All of the "letters" are perfect straight lines that are set up for the Stooges to reply with snappy one-liners. For example...

"Dear Curly-Joe: My girl friend doesn't like me because my shoes squeak. I can't afford a new pair, so what shall I do? -- George Tuttle."

"Dear George: Tell her you have music in your sole! N-Yuk! N-Yuk!"

It shall be assumed that these questions and answers are editorially produced until decisively proven otherwise.
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The Little Monsters Meet the Abominable Blue Blob

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, humorous
Character(s): The Little Monsters ['Orrible Orvie; Awful Annie]; Mildew Monster (Papa); Demonica Monster (Mama); The Abominable Blue Blob; passing motorist; Orvie's pet spider
First Line: Boo!
Synopsis: Ordered to "go scare somebody else for a change" after scaring their parents, the kids decide to find the legendary Abominable Blue Blob (a creature so horrible it scares the fearsome fellow monster Eerie McFearsin) and scare it!
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Disclose Notes: The Monster Family's recurring foe, Eerie McFearsin, is mentioned but does not appear in this story.

The name Eerie McFearsin is a good joke in itself, given that it contains the words "eerie", "fear", and "sin".
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Can You Complete the Comic?

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First Line: Our gag artist is in trouble again... HELP HIM!
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Disclose Notes: Readers are invited to submit their completed versions of a third and final panel illustration to a three-panel cartoon. Three such cartoons are presented, sans third and final panel.
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Famous Name Prizes or Cash...from Olympic

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First Line: New! Gold Medallion Plan!
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Disclose Notes: Ad for Olympic Sales Club, Inc., offering prizes or money for the sales of personalized Christmas or "all-occasion" cards. On final interior page of the comic.
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Boys, Girls, Men, Women

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First Line: If you need extra money & you know just 10 people…
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Disclose Notes: Ad for selling Christmas cards for Wallace Brown, Inc. Color ad on inside back cover.
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Nationally Famous Prizes at No Cost to You!

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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First Line: Or a big 55 cent profit for each box you sell
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Disclose Notes: Ad for Junior Sales Club of America, offering prizes or money for the sales of "lovely all occasion cards" or "sensational new Christmas cards". Inflation Alert: The 1964 version of this very same ad offered "a big *50* [vs. 55] cent profit for each box you sell". Color ad on back cover.

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