Top Notch Laugh Comics #35 for Sale - First Appearance of Ditto - Where to Buy

Identification plate

Series: Top Notch Laugh Comics (Archie, 1942 series)
Issue: #35
Publication date: April 1943
Key date: 1943-04-00
Indicia publisher: M. L. J. Magazines Inc.
Price: $0.10
Pages: 68

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Why this issue matters

First appearance of Ditto - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

First appearance of Dotty - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

The evidence

Claims here come from the story records for this issue, listed under Sources at the bottom of the file. Character hubs with full evidence tables are coming to this site.

Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	-	cover	1	pencils: Red Holmdale; inks: Red Holmdale
1	-	comic story	6	script: Don Dean; pencils: Don Dean; inks: Don Dean
2	Will of Death	comic story	10	pencils: Sam Cooper; inks: Sam Cooper
3	-	comic story	6	script: Don Dean; pencils: Don Dean; inks: Don Dean
4	-	comic story	6	pencils: Carl Hubbell; inks: Carl Hubbell
5	-	comic story	6	script: Gerald Kean; pencils: Red Holmdale; inks: Ed Goggin
6	-	comic story	6	script: Gerald Kean; pencils: Vivian Berg; inks: Vivian Berg	Suzie
7	-	comic story	6	script: Scott Meredith; pencils: Ed Goggin; inks: Ed Goggin
8	-	comic story	6	script: George Kean; pencils: Harry Sahle; inks: Harry Sahle
9	-	comic story	6	script: Bill Woggon; pencils: Bill Woggon; inks: Bill Woggon	Ditto First, Dotty First

Before you buy

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Series context

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Sources

Grand Comics Database, issue record (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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