XOW Logo
Publisher: Toby
Years in Operation: 1949 - 1955
Disclose Detail
Country: Flag United States Web Site: Brands: 2 Indicia Publishers: 2 Series: 67 Printings: 351 Disclose Notes: Shared address with the publisher Graphic Information Service Inc:
http://www.comics.org/publisher/3923/
17 East 45th Street, NY17
  Does this data need corrections? Become an editor.
Series Name Years in Print Issues (Printings)
A-Laff-a-Minnit {Comic Books} 1953 - 1954 2
A-Laugh-a-Minnit {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Edited by Harold Betancourt.
1954 - 1956 15
Al Capp's Daisy Mae in Ham Sangwidges also Cousin Weakeyes {Comic Books} 1950 - 1
Al Capp's Dogpatch Comics {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: First issue numbered #71 either borrowing/continuing the numbering of the ongoing Al Capp's Li'l Abner (Toby, 1949 series) or in an error related to that series.
1949 - 3
Al Capp's Li'l Abner {Comic Books} 1949 - 1955 28
Al Capp's Li'l Abner in The Mystery o' the Cave!! {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: An Oxydol/Dreft premium. See also Al Capp's Shmoo in Washable Jones' Travels; Archie in Mask Me No Questions; Al Capp's Daisy Mae in Ham Sangwidges also Cousin Weakeyes; John Wayne: The Cowboy Trouble-Shooter!; Paul Terry's Terry-Toon Comics.
1950 - 1
Al Capp's Shmoo Comics {Comic Books} 1949 - 1950 5
Al Capp's Shmoo in Washable Jones' Travels {Comic Books} 1950 - 1
Al Capp's Wolf Gal {Comic Books} 1951 - 1952 2
Archie in Mask Me No Questions {Comic Books} 1950 - 1
Barney Google and Snuffy Smith {Comic Books} 1951 - 1952 4
Belly Laffs {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Adult/risque humor digest, with four color interiors, edited by Harold Betancourt.
1955 - 1956 6
Big Tex {Comic Books} 1953 - 1
The Big Top {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Cover title is "The Big Top Comics," but the word comics does not appear in the indicia of either issue. Based on the 1950-1957 children's TV series "Big Top"
1951 - 2
Billy the Kid Adventure Magazine {Comic Books} 1950 - 1955 29
The Black Knight {Comic Books} 1953 - 1
Buck Rogers {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Reprints 1947-1949 Buck Rogers comic strip dailies.
1951 - 3
Bust Out Laffin' {Comic Books} 1954 - 1955 15
Captain Tootsie {Comic Books} 1950 - 2
Cartoon Cuties {Comic Books} 1955 - ? 3
Danger Is Our Business! {Comic Books} 1953 - 1954 3
Dick Wingate of the United States Navy {Comic Books} 1951 - 1
Dick Wingate of the United States Navy [US Navy Recruiting Edition] {Comic Books} 1951 - 1
Dogpatch Styles Presents Li'l Abner {Comic Books} 1949 - ? 1
Dr. Anthony King, Hollywood Love Doctor {Comic Books} Public Domain 1952 - 1954 4
Felix and His Friends {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Issue #2 has Felix the Cat and His Friends on the cover, but Felix and His Friends in the indicia.
1953 - 1954 2
Felix the Cat 3-D Comic Book {Comic Books} 1953 - 1
Felix the Cat and His Friends {Comic Books} 1954 - 1
Felix the Cat Summer Annual {Comic Books} 1953 - 1
Felix the Cat Winter Annual {Comic Books} 1954 - 1
Fighting Leathernecks {Comic Books} 1952 - 6
Gabby Hayes {Comic Books} 1953 - 1
Great Lover Romances {Comic Books} 1951 - 1955 20
He-Man {Comic Books} 1954 - 2
John Wayne Adventure Comics {Comic Books} Public Domain 1949 - 1955 31
John Wayne: The Cowboy Trouble-Shooter! {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: An Oxydol/Dreft premium. See also Al Capp's Li'l Abner in The Mystery o' the Cave!!; Al Capp's Shmoo in Washable Jones' Travels; Archie in Mask Me No Questions; Al Capp's Daisy Mae in Ham Sangwidges also Cousin Weakeyes; Paul Terry's Terry-Toon Comics.
1950 - 1
Johnny Danger {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Title on cover: Johnny Danger Private Detective. Overstreet lists a Johnny Danger issue with a 1950 date, but no other evidence for that issue exists, and probably arose from a confusion over the difference between the indicia title and cover title.
1954 - 1
Jon Juan {Comic Books} 1950 - 1
Judy Joins the Waves {Comic Books} 1951 - 1
Kokey Koala {Comic Books} 1952 - 1
Li'l Abner {Comic Books} Public Domain 1951 - 1
Mammy Yokum and the Great Dogpatch Mystery {Comic Books} 1956 - 1
Meet Merton {Comic Books} Public Domain 1953 - 1954 4
Monty Hall of the U.S. Marines {Comic Books} Public Domain 1951 - 1953 11
The Most {Comic Books} 1955 - ? 2
Pat Sullivan's Felix the Cat {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: The indicia for issues #20-25 reads "Felix the Cat", while the indicia for the rest of the series reads "Pat Sullivan's Felix the Cat".
1951 - 1955 42
Pat Sullivan's Felix the Cat Special {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: This book was mistakenly listed in The Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide for several years but has been removed. Thanks to Dan Stevenson for the correction on 10 August 2008. Non-existent title formerly listed in Overstreet.
1952 - 0
Paul Terry's Terry-Toon Comics {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: An Oxydol/Dreft premium. See also Al Capp's Li'l Abner in The Mystery o' the Cave!!; Al Capp's Shmoo in Washable Jones' Travels; Archie in Mask Me No Questions; Al Capp's Daisy Mae in Ham Sangwidges also Cousin Weakeyes; John Wayne: The Cowboy Trouble-Shooter!
1950 - 1
Pin-Up Pete {Comic Books} Public Domain 1952 - 1
The Purple Claw {Comic Books} 1953 - 3
Ramar of the Jungle {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: The advertising in order of placement in the issue matches that of other Toby issues: Great Lover Romance #18 (Oct 1954), Billy the Kid Adventure Magazine #25 (Oct-Nov 1954), Tell It To The Marines #10 (Nov 1954), Tales of Horror #13 (Oct 1954), and John Wayne Adventure Comics #28 (Oct 1954). The advertising that was in previous issues and subsequent issues of those titles were different than this.
Public Domain
1954 - 1
Return of the Outlaw {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Overstreet and Gerber list 8-11, but there is no evidence that they exist.
Public Domain
1953 - 1955 7
Sands of the South Pacific {Comic Books} Public Domain 1953 - 1
Socko {Comic Books} 1955 - 1956 1
Sorority Secrets {Comic Books} 1954 - 1
Super-Brat {Comic Books} Public Domain 1954 - 4
T.N.T. {Comic Books} 1954 - 1956 10
Tales of Horror {Comic Books} Public Domain 1952 - 1954 13
Tales of Terror {Comic Books} 1952 - 1
Tell It to the Marines {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: "Tell It to the Marines" was one of several United States Marine Corps-themed comic books published by Toby Press in the early 1950s. The first six issues of the series starred brawny Pfc. James "Spike" Dowdy, and suave Pfc. Battingsley "Bat" Bentley in stories that took them from the battlefields of Korea to the oil fields of the Middle East to the beaches of Hawaii to the bistros of Paris. The artwork was crude and the humor unsophisticated. Transvestite scenes (especially for Spike) were common. Problems were solved with fists, and both men found frequent opportunity to display the exaggerated muscularity of their torsos. Though best buds on the battlefield, Spike and Bat often competed for the same "dames" with one gyrene usually left in the dust nursing his wounds while the other walked away with a trophy gal on his arm. With their emphasis on male camaraderie, inflated battlefield derring-do, muscular physiques, and sex-suffused womanizing, the Spike and Bat stories gave young men an idealized vision of the Corps. A 4-page supplemental feature of the series, "Lover O'Leary and His Liberty Belles", starred USMC "gal hound" Lover O'Leary in frame stories that were nothing more than an excuse for exhibiting four or five vertical panels of Good Girls with alliterative names such as Jivin' Judy and Railroad Rhoda.
Public Domain
1952 - 1955 15
True Movie and Television {Comic Books} 1950 - 1951 4
Two-Bit the Wacky Woodpecker {Comic Books} 1951 - 1953 3
Washable Jones and the Shmoos {Comic Books} 1953 - 1
Wise Cracks {Comic Books} 1955 - 1956 12
With the Marines on the Battlefronts of the World {Comic Books} 1953 - 1954 2
Yo' Bets Yo' Life! {Comic Books} 1955 - 1
Young Lover Romances {Comic Books} 1952 - 2

Site designed and hosted by XOWTech, Inc..
Any questions or problems with this site should be directed to REMOVE-webmaestro-THESE@xowcomics.com.

XOW, XOWComics.com, XOWTech and XOWTech.com are registered trademarks of XOWTech, Inc.
© XOWTech, Inc., 2010 - 2026. All rights reserved.

Some data courtesy of the Grand Comics Database under a Creative Commons Attribution license.