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6October-December 1953
$0.10

Marge's Tubby #6

Dell · October-December 1953 · on sale 1953

First appearance: Gloria
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Identification plate

Series
Marge's Tubby (Dell, 1953 series)
Issue
#6
Publication date
October-December 1953
Key date
1953-10-00
On-sale date
1953
Indicia publisher
Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
Price
$0.10
Pages
36

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Why this issue matters

First appearance of Gloria - 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.

Contents

SeqStoryTypePagesCreditsCharacters
0-cover1Tubby
1Raft in Halfcomic story1
2Tubby the Naturalistcomic story10Gloria First, Tubby
3Tubby the Chemistcomic story10
4Tubby the Castawaycomic story12
5Too Short Hosecomic story1
6Puttingcomic story1

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Series context

‹ #52 of 45#7 ›

Sources

  • Grand Comics Database, issue record (CC BY-SA 4.0)
  • Wikidata, Q108477018 (Gloria), first-appearance property (CC0)

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