Tip Top Comics

Running for nearly two decades from 1936 to 1954, United Feature Syndicate's Tip Top Comics was a pioneering comic-book anthology that brought popular newspaper strips to a new format, collecting fan-favorite characters like the Katzenjammer Kids, Fritzi Ritz and Nancy, and Li'l Abner into one tidy package. The series is most closely associated with the talents of Ernie Bushmiller and Bernard Dibble, whose work—alongside contributions from Edgar Rice Burroughs and Hal Foster—helped define the cheerful, gag-driven tone of the era. With 188 issues, it stands as a key artifact of the transition from newspaper funnies to the comic-book medium, offering readers a reliable dose of familiar, family-friendly humor.