And He's Pretty, Too

Last time we met Tippy Taylor, sort of an American Tintin in jodpurs from George Loomis. Tippy is a young reporter whose global travels have dropped him on Fantasy Isle and into Lemuel Gullivar's world. Let's rejoin him now for his travels through the Underworld to the House Of Mystery to meet Satan. 

With dinosaurs, wizards, and robots, oh my...

Despite the blurb, there was no "Next Month"
Issue #24 was the final issue for Amazing Mystery Funnies.

However, the following month, Tippy appeared in The Arrow #2 to continue the tale -

This time they didn't even pretend there was going to be another episode. They got him out of his immediate predicament, and we must assume that Tippy either made his way back home, or built himself a home here on Fantasy Isle.

page art by George Loomis from Amazing Mystery Funnies #s 19-24 and The Arrow #2 (1940)

Skyrocket To Fantasy Isle

When last we left off with Skyrocket Steele, i was off to hunt for the other issue #3 of Amazing Mystery Funnies to see if we could find out what happened next.

After consulting with Hamir, it didn't seem very likely that we'd find that next issue. Fortunately, we don't have to!

Fantagraphics released a multi-volume collection of Bill Everett's work nearly a decade ago. Damn nice of them.

So here's the cover to issue #3b, and the ongoing story -

The Fantagraphics collection is in two volumes - Amazing Mysteries, from which these pages come, and Heroic Tales. Both have lots of good stuff in them. They released another book the previous year - Fire & Water: Bill Everett, the Sub-Mariner and the Birth of Marvel Comics. I haven't checked it out yet, but my expectations are high.

In that same post, i mentioned i was hunting for the first chapter of Tippy Taylor's tale since my copy was too trashed to use. I did find a digital copy, but it was little more that oversized thumbnails. I've done what i can to clean it up and enlarge it for easier reading and a better look at the artwork of George Loomis, so let's go visit Fantasy Isle, shall we?

On to chapter 2!

There were only 9 episodes in total for Tippy and  Lilliput  Fantasy Isle, so we'll be back to follow along and see what's in that cave...

page art by Bill Everett and George Loomis for Amazing Mystery Funnies #s 3b, 4, 17 & 18 (1938, 1940)