United Comics (1940/1950) 17
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Issue #17
Published Aug 1951 by United Features Syndicate.$33.00
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Cover by Ernie Bushmiller. Stories and art by Ernie Bushmiller, Russell Patterson and Raeburn van Buren. The comic-strip adventures of aspiring model Fritzi Ritz and her boyfriend, the bumbling Phil Fumble. Fritzi's friends have a "Gay '90s" party, in a strip that shows Bushmiller's design sense. Phil visits an old-time penny arcade. Fritzi figures out how to get Phil to pay for watching her TV, in a strip that showcases Bushmiller's "good girl" art. Bathless Groggins realizes that the voice on a radio quiz show is his old crony in crime, Forked Tongue Freddie, in an Abbie an' Slats strip with art by Raeburn van Buren. Fritzi Ritz; Mamie; Abbie an' Slats; Stamp Tips. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
