Comic books in 'Platinum Age'

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Issue #83 - February, 1896. This issue of Judge's Library Magazine contains cartoons and prose all focusing on the subject of "On, and Off the Stage". 8 1/8" x 11 1/8", b&w, 32 pages. Cover price $0.10.

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Issue #101 - August, 1897. This issue of Judge's Library Magazine contains cartoons and prose all focusing on the subject of "Breakers". 8 1/8" x 11 1/8", b&w, 32 pages. Cover price $0.10.

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Life of Thomas A. Edison in Word and Picture (1928), by Arthur J. Palmer and illustrated by Frank Kuchenmeister, was a Platinum Age book featuring reprints of a newspaper strip featuring the life story of Edison which ran August to November 1927. Edited by William H. Meadowcroft (author of The Boy's Life of Edison), this book includes a forward by Arthur J. Palmer. 52 pages, card-stock cover, B&W, 8-in. x 10-in.

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Memorial Edition, The Drawings of Clare Briggs: The Days of Real Sport (1 of 7 posthumously published editions released in a boxed set). Published 1930 Wh. H. Wise & Co., NYC, reprinting, Clare Briggs single panel cartoons originally published via newspaper syndication. A platimun age precursor to modern day comics book. 8-1/2 x 7-1/2 inches, semi-hardcover with pebbled false black leather cover, black-and-white, 284 pages.

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Memorial Edition, The Drawings of Clare Briggs: Real Folks at Home (3 of 7 posthumously published editions released in a boxed set). Published 1930 Wh. H. Wise & Co., NYC, reprinting, Clare Briggs single panel cartoons originally published via newspaper syndication. A platimun age precursor to modern day comics book. 8-1/2 x 7-1/2 inches, semi-hardcover with pebbled false black leather cover, black-and-white, 284 pages.

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Without dust jacket. Minute Biographies by Nieson and Parker. Published 1931 by Grosset & Dunlap, reprinting multi-image box cartoons featuring famous individual from history and the contemporanious world, all originally published via newspaper syndication. A platimun age precursor to modern day comics book. 7-3/4 x 10-1/4 inches, hardcover, black-and-white, 168 pages with dust jacket.

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Hardcover, 15-1/2" x 5-3/4", 68 pages, B&W Cover price $0.50.

Add to cart FR 1.0 $90.00 View scans Back cover detached. Cover and interior oxidation. Corner chipping. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

Reprints 56 of the 88 cartoons from the 1907 edition.

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Pictures of Life and Character, 8-1/2 x 6 1/4" inches, 212 pages (counting endpaper and covers), color cover (inset full-color litho), black-and-white cartoons with sub-text, reprinted John Leech cartoons from Punch Magazine. Note: This item was published without a dust jacket.

Add to cart Very Good $53.00 View scans Spine split 5%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.

Comic strip reprints from Ad Carter's long-running "Just Kids" strip. "Just Kids" was about a kid gang, inspired by the contemporary "Reg'lar Fellers" strip by Gene Byrnes. "Just Kids" ran daily in Hearst papers from 1923 to 1947, and continued to run in the Sunday funnies until Carter's death in 1957.

Add to cart GD 2.0 $89.95 or Best Offer View scans 3.5" cumulative spine split, cover coming loose. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor. Other items consigned by humble cow

#1A has price and issue number on cover. Done in the Ripley's Believe It or Not style that Hix used in his strip of the same name, as well as in his comic books from the late 1930's. 68 pages, black-and-white, 8.25-8.50 in. x 11 in., square binding. See also: Strange As It Seems Ex-Lax Giveaway, Strange As It Seems United Airlines Giveaway, and Strange As It Seems (1939 United Features Syndicate). Cover price $0.25.

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Verses by Wilbur D. Nesbit accompanied by non-sequential cartoon illustrations by Claire Briggs. Published by P.F. Volland & Co., 1914. 9 x 11-1/2". No number. 104 pages.

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No dust jacket. Little Orphan Annie by Harold Grey, copyright 1926, Cupples & Leon Company. Hardback, 100-pages, 7 x 8-3/4 inches, color cover with black-and-white newspaper preprints interior, no cover price. NOTE: Spine color may be blue or red.

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No dust jacket. Little Orphan Annie in the Circus (1927), written and illustrated by Harold Gray, is a comic published by Cupples & Leon Company. It is book 2 in the Little Orphan Annie book series and reprints 1926 strips. Follow the adventures of Little Orphan Annie as she tries to make it big in the circus. 92 pages, squarebound, color cover with black and white illustrations, 6-in x 8.75-in., no cover price.

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With dust jacket. Little Orphan Annie and the Haunted House (1929), written and illustrated by Harld Gray, is a comic published by Cupples & Leon Company. It is book 3 in the Little Orphan Annie book series and reprints 1927 strips. Follow the adventures of Little Orphan Annie as she tries to solve the mystery of the haunted house. 92 pages, squarebound, color cover with black and white illustrations, 6-in x 8.75-in., no cover price.

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Add to cart GD- 1.8 $22.00 View scans Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Moderate.

No dust jacket. Little Orphan Annie and the Haunted House (1929), written and illustrated by Harld Gray, is a comic published by Cupples & Leon Company. It is book 3 in the Little Orphan Annie book series and reprints 1927 strips. Follow the adventures of Little Orphan Annie as she tries to solve the mystery of the haunted house. 92 pages, squarebound, color cover with black and white illustrations, 6-in x 8.75-in., no cover price.

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With dust jacket. Little Orphan Annie Bucking the World (1929), written and illustrated by Harld Gray, is a comic published by Cupples & Leon Company. It is book 4 in the Little Orphan Annie book series and reprints 1928 strips. 92 pages, squarebound, color cover with black and white illustrations, 6-in x 8.75-in., no cover price.

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No dust jacket. Little Orphan Annie Bucking the World (1929), written and illustrated by Harold Gray, is a comic published by Cupples & Leon Company. It is book 4 in the Little Orphan Annie book series and reprints 1928 strips. 92 pages, squarebound, color cover with black and white illustrations, 6-in x 8.75-in., no cover price.

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With dust jacket. Little Orphan Annie Never Say Die! (1930), written and illustrated by Harld Gray, is a comic published by Cupples & Leon Company. It is book 5 in the LIttle Orphan Annie book series and reprints 1929 strips. 92 pages, squarebound, color cover with black and white illustrations, 6-in x 8.75-in., no cover price.

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No dust jacket. Little Orphan Annie Never Say Die! (1930), written and illustrated by Harld Gray, is a comic published by Cupples & Leon Company. It is book 5 in the LIttle Orphan Annie book series and reprints 1929 strips. 92 pages, squarebound, color cover with black and white illustrations, 6-in x 8.75-in., no cover price.

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No dust jacket. Little Orphan Annie Shipwrecked (1931), written and illustrated by Harld Gray, is a comic published by Cupples & Leon Company. It is book 6 in the Little Orphan Annie book series and reprints 1930 strips. Follow the adventures of Little Orphan Annie as she finds herself on a tropical island. 92 pages, squarebound, color cover with black and white illustrations, 6-in x 8.75-in., no cover price.

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Add to cart Very Good $68.00 View scans Water damage: Slight.

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No dust jacket. Little Orphan Annie A Willing Helper (1932), written and illustrated by Harld Gray, is a comic published by Cupples & Leon Company. It is book 7 in the Little Orphan Annie book series and reprints 1931 strips. 92 pages, squarebound, color cover with black and white illustrations, 6-in x 8.75-in., no cover price.

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No dust jacket. Little Orphan Annie in Cosmic City (1933), written and illustrated by Harold Gray, is a comic published by Cupples & Leon Company. It is book 8 in the Little Orphan Annie book series and reprints 1932 strips. Follow the adventures of Little Orphan Annie as she tries to make money in the weeks leading up to Christmas. 92 pages, squarebound, color cover with black and white illustrations, 6-in x 8.75-in., no cover price.

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Add to cart GD/VG 3.0 $86.00 View scans

No dust jacket.

Add to cart CGC 7.0 $300.00 View scans Paper: Off white to white Slab: Minor side/edge crack(s) Label #4314165004

Add to cart VG/FN 5.0 $230.00 View scans Water damage: Slight.

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Cupples & Leon Company, Treasure Box of Famous Comics: Little Orphan Annie, 8-1/2 x 6-7/8, 36 pages, soft covers, 1926. NOTE: 1 of 5 different titles from boxed set.

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Story by Floyd Gottfredson. Art by Earl Duvall and Floyd Gottfredson. One of the earliest Mickey Mouse comics, from pioneering comics publisher David McKay. Collects comic strips from Jan. 19 - Feb. 25, 1931 and Nov. 16 - Dec. 5, 1931. Mickey and his rival Kat Nipp get into a contest to tie knots in each other's tails. (This volume contains the only known reprint of the infamous strip of 2/4/31, where Kat Nipp actually snips off the end of Mickey's tail with a pair of scissors!) Also, Mickey works as volunteer fireman. Mickey Mouse vs Kat Nipp; Fireman Mickey; Clarabelle's Boarding House. Final issue of the series. 10-in. x 10-in., 48 pages, B&W.

Add to cart FR/GD 1.5 $49.95 or Best Offer View scans 2.75" Cumulative spine split. Coloring on interior illustration pages. Interior page tears. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor. Other items consigned by humble cow

Softcover version. "Story and Illustrations by Staff of Walt Disney Studio." Book No. 2. Text accompanied by animation stills from Mickey Mouse cartoon shorts. Laffs a-plenty with Mickey, Minnie and Pluto in "Pioneer Days," "The Delivery Boy," "The Castaway," and "The Moose Hunt." 6-1/4" x 8-1/2", SC, B&W with color cover.

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Cupples & Leon by Bud Fisher, thick book, hardcover with NO dust jacket, contains 3 previous issues rebound, 1929. 10 1/4" x 10 1/4", b&w, 140 pages.

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Picture Life of a Great American (1928) #0R is a "Pictorial Life of Herbert Hoover" by Bob Satterfield, creator of comic strips such as "Oh, Thunder," "The Family Next Door," and others. This 1928 Presidential campaign giveaway contains 18 pages of black and white cartoons by Satterfield and four pages of text, all detailing the life of the Grand Old Man, plus one page entitled "Pungent Epigrams from Herbert Hoover's Acceptance Speech." Two versions of this item exist, one with a text cover, and this one with an illustrated cover. Both contain the same original comics material by Satterfield. 24 pages, black and white, 7 in. x 9 in.

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Hardcover, 7-1/2 x 8-3/4, 92 pages, B&W

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Treasure Box of Famous Comics: Reg'lar Fellers - Cupples & Leon Company, softcover, 8-1/2 x 6-7/8, 36 pages, abbreviated version of hardcover, 1934.

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Grosset & Dunlap reprint edition. Written and illustrated by Percy Crosby. Illustrated frontispiece. Hardcover with dust jacket. 5-1/4 x 7-1/2 inches", 335 pages, text with B&W illustrations.

Add to cart CGC 8.0 $265.00 View scans Paper: Off white to white Label #4314165002

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Does not have dust jacket; grading is based on book itself. Smitty by Walter Berndt. Newspaper reprints, Cupples and Leon Co., New York. 7 x 8-3/4 inches, 86 pages, color hardbound cover with black-and-white interior. No cover price.

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Does not have dust jacket.

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Add to cart VG 4.0 $17.00 View scans Staple rust.

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A giveaway item from Life magazine to promote subscriptions. Issue number 2. Printed in 1913. 5-3/4" x 4-5/8". 20 pages. Colored. Newspaper stock. Cover price $0.10.

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#871 - 1931. Full color covers. Interior pages feature full page color or half pages in full color with the second half repeating the same image in B&W for children to color. 32 pages, 10.75-in. x 15.25-in., saddle stitch binding via three staples, no cover price.

Add to cart Good $40.00 View scans Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 20%. Cover Wrap Detached. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.

Publication date may be incorrect. Various issues in this serious may have been reprinted several times, each with a new publication date along with different ad pages, and with the first printing publication date and later reprint date as yet unknown. 9-7/8 x 9-7/8 inch book reprints newspaper strips. Black-and-white. 52 pages. Stiff cover.

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Publication date may be incorrect. Various issues in this serious may have been reprinted several times, each with a new publication date along with different ad pages, and with the first printing publication date and later reprint date as yet unknown..

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Add to cart GD- 1.8 $30.00 View scans Water damage: Extensive. Staple rust: Extensive.

Publication date may be incorrect. Various issues in this serious may have been reprinted several times, each with a new publication date along with different ad pages, and with the first printing publication date and later reprint date as yet unknown. Issue #8 - March 1922. Written and illustrated by Bud Fisher. 10" x 10". 52 pages. Black and white.

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Publication date may be incorrect. Various issues in this series may have been reprinted several times, each with a new publication date along with different ad pages, and with the first printing publication date and later reprint date as yet unknown. Cupples & Leon Company, by Bud Fisher, stiff color cover, 9-1/2 x 9-1/2, 52 pages, B&W interior, strip reprints.

Add to cart GD/VG 3.0 $37.00 View scans Front cover detached 5%. Staple rust: Moderate.

Publication date may be incorrect. Various issues in this serious may have been reprinted several times, each with a new publication date along with different ad pages, and with the first printing publication date and later reprint date as yet unknown. Mutt and Jeff (1919-33 Cupples & Leon) Book #11 by H.C. "Bud" Fisher, copyright 1926. 10" x 10", 52pg, B&W

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Publication date may be incorrect. Various issues in this serious may have been reprinted several times, each with a new publication date along with different ad pages, and with the first printing publication date and later reprint date as yet unknown. 1930 copyright date. 9 1/2 x 9 1/2", 52pg, b&w, stiff cover. Bud Fisher. Book #15.

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Oh Skin-Nay! The Days of Real Sports by Briggs (1913) with verses by Wilbur D. Nesbit. N = BOOK ONLY, does not have illustrated box. Hardcover, black and white with skin-toned hands, faces, etc.,136 pages, 8 1/2 by 13 inches.Published in the shop of P.F. Volland & Co., Chicago, U.S.A.

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Whitman Publishing Company, by Briggs, 9 x 9-1/2, no number, 52 pages, cardboard cover, B&W, 1922.

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Saalfield Publishing Company, 1929 strip reprints and some new Hal Foster art, 2 blown-up B&W panels to color per page and 1 colored example on opposite page, 15-1/4 x 10-3/4 inches, 24 pages, numbered 988, 1933.

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WWI era comic strip about Army life in the trenches, featuring a naive Private Dubb as the main character. Written and illustrated by Percy Crosby, best known for his comic strip "Skippy". Hardcover. Green quarter-cloth binding over illustrated boards. No jacket as issued. 8" x 9", 64 pages, B&W.

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Collection of cartoon postcards and strips by Clare Victor Dwiggins. Hardcover. Publisher's quarter-cloth over illustrated boards, 5-1/2" x 6-1/2", 96 pages, B&W.

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Add to cart Good $300.00 View scans Paper: Cream to off white Cover Wrap Detached. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.

Cupples & Leon Company, by Russ Westover, 52 pages, B&W interior, daily strip reprints.