Tijuana bible
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Tijuana bibles were palm-sized erotic comics produced in the United States from the 1920s to the early 1960s. The earliest Tijuana bibles, particularly early "Tillie and Mac" and "Maggie and Jiggs" st
Final page of the Tijuana bible Chris Crusty, drawn by "Mr. Prolific", which borrowed the syndicated comic strip character Chris Crusty created by William Conselman and Charles Plumb for a topper strip which ran above their Ella Cinders
Panel from a Tillie and Mac Tijuana bible strip drawn by "Elmer Zilch"
The Rubber Salesman (c. 1935), drawn in the hand of "Elmer Zilch", showing the "Ornate Border" design
A set of Tijuana bibles drawn by "Mr. Prolific". This set was released in 1936 and usually sold for a quarter each. Nine of the ten comics in the set are shown.
Topper (comic strip)
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A topper in comic strip parlance is a small secondary strip seen along with a larger Sunday strip. In the 1920s and 1930s, leading cartoonists were given full pages in the Sunday comics sections, allo
Billy DeBeck's Barney Google (October 7, 1934), a page featuring two toppers: Bunky and the single-panel Knee-Hi-Knoodles.
