Richardwong Posted January 10, 2023 Share Posted January 10, 2023 Hi, this is my first time use CGC chat, hope post on correct board. Recently I got a comic called Top Comics: Tom and Jerry #1, but when I lgoogle Top Comics, I only know it was published by KK publication, it is a reprint, and top comics: Tom and Jerry series only has three comics as shown below. So my question is, why KK publication, or Western publishing wants to publish top comics series and what is Top Comics? Because its imprint gold key had already continued publishing tom and jerry series since 1962, which is the time they separated with DELL. Besides, I couldn't find the other two comics from CGC Census. Further more, I saw there are several titles by Top comics, eg Bugs Bunny, Uncle Scrooge, Woody Woodpecker. They also only have one comics under title Top Comics in CGC Census, while I found several more series in eBay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadroch Posted January 11, 2023 Share Posted January 11, 2023 www.mycomicshop.com has a number of different Gold Key Top Comics. I never collected them so know nothing else about them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlowUpTheMoon Posted January 11, 2023 Share Posted January 11, 2023 Open the comic to the first page and look at the bottom eight of the page, called the indicia. That will give you more info about the book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lazyboy Posted January 11, 2023 Share Posted January 11, 2023 https://www.comics.org/indicia_publisher/83/ https://www.comics.org/brand_emblem/5104/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OtherEric Posted January 11, 2023 Share Posted January 11, 2023 They were published by Western, the same company behind Gold Key/ Whitman. They were sold in multipacks, which is why the individual issues don't have prices. I found some of them at a Toys R Us sometime around 1990 (sorry I can't narrow it down further) and to my regret, only bought one of the bags, which I opened. But the bag was decades old at the point I found it, even if it was being sold as new... they must have had copies sitting in a warehouse forever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djzombi Posted January 26, 2023 Share Posted January 26, 2023 I didn't realize Top Comics were only in multipacks. I have a couple of these and seem to recall Overstreet indicating they were reprints of some sort. I'd likened it to Superior or Modern's M.O. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zzutak Posted January 26, 2023 Share Posted January 26, 2023 (edited) The complete list of all 37 issues (via the GCD link provided by Lazyboy above): And the originals of the three Tom & Jerry issues: Tom & Jerry Comics (Dell, 1949 Series) #145-146-147: Edited January 26, 2023 by zzutak Artifiction 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
