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Country:
United States
Language:
English
Issues:
#1 - #15 (15 Issues)
Continued From:
none
Continued In:
none
Tracking Notes:
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"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.
Format
Sample Issue Image
| Issue # | Publication Date | Pages | Content Items | Issue Images Count |
| #1 | March 1952 | 36 | 4/3/1 |  |
| #2 | May 1952 | 36 | 10/4/1 |  |
| #3 | July 1952 | 36 | 11/2/1 |  |
| #4 | September 1952 | 36 | 14/6/1 |  |
| #5 | November 1952 | 36 | 7/6/1 |  |
| #6 | January 1953 | 36 | 13/3/1 |  |
| #7 | May 1954 | 36 | 4/3/1 |  |
| #8 | July 1954 | 36 | 5/4/1 |  |
| #9 | September 1954 | 36 | 7/4/1 |  |
| #10 | November 1954 | 36 | 6/4/1 |  |
| #11 | January 1955 | 36 | 5/4/1 |  |
| #12 | March 1955 | 36 | 5/4/1 |  |
| #13 | May 1955 | 36 | 7/3/1 |  |
| #14 | June 1955 | 36 | 6/5/1 |  |
| #15 | July 1955 | 36 | 9/8/1 |  |
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