Comic books in 'Platinum Age'

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Giveaway souvenir from the Morrison Hotel, "the home of the Terrace Garden, Chicago's Famous Restaurant." Reprints of the Gumps comic strips. 14 in. x 5.5 in.; black and white; 20 pages; softcover; no date.

REPRINT EDITION Norwegian language strip reprints

1902 first printing

Hearst's New York American & Journal, Book 1 (1902)- And His Brother Gloomy Gus, by Fred Opper, 10 x 15-1/4, 86 pages counting covers, black and yellow, 1901/02 reprints.

"New Edition, 1903, with many additional new pictures."

Hearst's New York American & Journal, New Edition (1903), by Fred Opper, 10 x 15, 86 pages in color counting covers.

6-7/8 x 8-11/16 in. book with stiff covers; 96 pages. Comic strips; black-and-white with color covers.

Add to cart CGC 7.0 $105.00 View scans Paper: Off white to white Slab: See item notes Bottom left corner peg broke off inside slab. Label #4314165003

Cupples & Leon Company, Treasure Box of Famous Comics: Harold Teen, 8-1/2 x 6-7/8, 36 pages, soft cover, abbreviated version of hardcover edition, copyright 1931, published 1934 or later.

Harvard Celebrities, "A Book of Caricatures & Decorative Drawings," by Frederick Garrison Hall and Edward Revere Little, Verses by Henry Ware Eliot Jr. 8" x 10", hardcover.

By Elmer E. Hagler, Jr., with illustrations by the author. 20 drawings with accompanying texts poking fun at Harvard professors of the day. Keystone Publishing Service, Boston, 1916. B&W, 4-3/4" x 6", hardcover.

Original 1930 edition (without dust jacket) of the famously wordless "He Done Her Wrong, the Great American Novel, and Not a Word in It, No Music, Too" by Milt Gross. Hardcover, 276 pages, 7-in x 8-in., published by Doubleday. This graphic masterpiece is the result of Gross' prior collaboration with Charlie Chaplin on the 1928 silent-era film classic "The Circus." Sharing the same goofy, over-the-top comic mayhem that was Chaplin's trademark, and preceding the expressive, cartoony art style of "MAD" magazine legend Harvey Kurtzman, all of "He Done Her Wrong"'s hilarious slapstick, tragic heartbreak, heroism and villainy, character development, high emotions and raucous thrills somehow manages to take place, astonishingly, without a single word of text, or conversation, or even a footnote. The story follows the convoluted misadventures of a naive frontiersman with superhuman strength exploited by a larcenous robber baron, who eventually double crosses our hero and steals his girl. The pursuit leads to New York City, where a sordid cast of cantankerous salesmen, officious government bureaucrats, bumbling hospital attendants, a lusty widow with a defensive Chihuahua and one angry barber wreak more havoc in our characters' lives than a hundred Little Rascals in a Marx Brothers film. Born in the Bronx in 1895, Gross would go on to spend his teenage years working as an office assistant at the Hearst publication "The New York Evening Journal." He befriended the paper's renowned comic strip bullpen that included such early 20th century comics legends as Tad Dorgan, Cliff Sterrett, Harry Hershfield and Tom McNamara, who allowed Gross to cut his teeth drawing background and dialogue lettering jobs on their strips. He eventually won space on the paper's sports page for his first large daily strip titled "Kinney B. Alive," making its debut in 1916. The strip only lasted for one week, but subsequent efforts, such as "Frenchie, White Feitlebaums in the South Seas," "Count Screwloose of Toulouse," and the best-selling books "Hiawatta Wit No Udda Pomes" and "Nize Baby, enjoyed longer lives.

Hardcover with original dust jacket

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Cupples & Leon Company, hardcover WITHOUT dust jacket, 8-1/2 x 7, 88pgs, volume 2 (numbered on page 84), continuation from Stooge Viller (volume 1), strips 8/3/33-11/8/33 reprinted, 1933.

"How Dick Tracy & Dick Tracy Jr. Caught the Racketeers"

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How to Draw: a Practical Book of Instruction in the Art of Illustration by Leon Barrett (editor) presenting Numerous Reproductions of Original Drawings by America's Famous Illustrators, Cartoonists and Comic Artists (1904, Harper and Brothers). Hardcover, 124 pages, 12-in. x 9-in., black and white illustrations. Features comic strip illustrations by Windsor McKay, T. E. Powers, Ferdinand Long (Little Mr. Pewee), R. F. Outcailt (Buster Brown) Walt McDougal, R. Dirks (Katzenjammer Kids), Frederick Opper (Happy Holligan), Paul Bransom, Hy. Mayer, F. M. Follett (The Kid), Carl Schultze (Foxy Grandpa) , George McManus (Panhandle Pete), Gebe Carr (Lady Bountiful), James Swinnerton (Mr. Jack) , F. M. Howarth (Mr. E. Z. Mark), W. P. Bodfish, William Marriner and T. S. Allen.

Regular Edition - no cover price. Not numbered. 1920 copyright. Contains reprints of Clare A. Briggs Sunday Strips. Softcover, horizontal format, 11" x 9 1/4", b&w, 52 pages.

Buffalo Bill, line drawn cover. World Syndicate Publishing Company, 4-1/2 x 4, 288 pages, daily strip reprints.

Daniel Boone, line drawn cover. World Syndicate Publishing Company, 4-1/2 x 4, 288 pages, daily strip reprints.

Kit Carson, line drawn cover. World Syndicate Publishing Company, 4-1/2 x 4, 288 pages, daily strip reprints

Pioneers of the Wild West, line drawn cover. by J. Carroll Mansfield. World Syndicate Publishing Company, 4-1/2 x 4, 288 pages, daily strip reprints

Winning of the Old Northwest, line drawn cover. World Syndicate Publishing Company, 4-1/2 x 4, 288 pages, daily strip reprints.

With dust jacket. 1926 edition of How to Draw Cartoons by Clare Briggs. Note: There is also a 1937 2nd edition). Published by Harper & Brothers Publishers, NY. 7-1/2 x 10 inches, 150 pages, text with profuse illustrations and examples, with plenty of examples by Briggs, Fischer, Goldberg, King, Webster, Opper, Tad, Hershfield, Ding and other giants of their day. One of the first books to explain how budding cartoonists might go about breaking into the synidicated comics business.

No dust jacket. 1926 edition of How to Draw Cartoons by Clare Briggs. Note: There is also a 1937 2nd edition). Published by Harper & Brothers Publishers, NY. 7-1/2 x 10 inches, 150 pages, text with profuse illustrations and examples, with plenty of examples by Briggs, Fischer, Goldberg, King, Webster, Opper, Tad, Hershfield, Ding and other giants of their day. One of the first books to explain how budding cartoonists might go about breaking into the synidicated comics business.

1937 edition of How to Draw Cartoons by Clare Briggs. Hardcover with dust jacket. 7.5" x 10", 150 pages, text with profuse illustrations and examples, with plenty of examples by Briggs, Fischer, Goldberg, King, Webster, Opper, Tad, Hershfield, Ding and other giants of their day. One of the first books to explain how budding cartoonists might go about breaking into the syndicated comics business.

No dust jacket. 1937 edition of How to Draw Cartoons by Clare Briggs. Note: There is also a 1937 2nd edition). Published by Harper & Brothers Publishers, NY. 7-1/2 x 10 inches, 150 pages, text with profuse illustrations and examples, with plenty of examples by Briggs, Fischer, Goldberg, King, Webster, Opper, Tad, Hershfield, Ding and other giants of their day. One of the first books to explain how budding cartoonists might go about breaking into the synidicated comics business.

ICKPA ("Spark") was "the only Ukrainian humoristical paper in U.S. and Canada." Cartoons and Cyrillic text, newsprint. B&W, 8-1/2" x 11". Cover price $0.05.

1944 edition of How to Draw Funny Pictures - A Complete Course in Cartooning by E.C. Matthews. Features 200 illustrations by Zim. 6-3/8" x 9-1/2", B&W, 162 numbered pages.

First printing. Adaptation with text by Edgar Rice Burroughs and 300 illustrations by Harold Foster. Includes the first B&W Tarzan newspaper comics from 1929. 6-3/4 x 8-3/4, B&W, 80 pages. Cloth reinforced spine and dust jacket. Cover price $0.50.

Second printing. Adaptation with text by Edgar Rice Burroughs and 300 illustrations by Harold Foster. Includes the first B&W Tarzan newspaper comics from 1929. 6-3/4 x 8-3/4, B&W, 80 pages. Cover price $0.25.

The Gumps (Cupples and Leon Co.), Book 4, by Sidney Smith. Features comic strips about a middle-class family. Popular during its day, it ran in newspapers from 1917 to 1959. The strips in Book 4 are dated 1926. 10" x 10", 52 pages, B&W.

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By Sidney Smith. The Gumps was a comic strip about an ordinary middle-class family. Popular during its day, it ran in newspapers from 1917 to 1959. 10" x 10", 52 pages, B&W.

By Sidney Smith. The Gumps was a comic strip about an ordinary middle-class family. Popular during its day, it ran in newspapers from 1917 to 1959. 10" x 10", 52 pages, B&W.

By Sidney Smith. The Gumps was a comic strip about an ordinary middle-class family. Popular during its day, it ran in newspapers from 1917 to 1959. 10" x 10", 52 pages, B&W.

Collection of editorial cartoons arguing against the Prohibition laws. Edited and with a foreword by Arthur Bartlett Maurice. Includes selections by Winsor McCay and James Montgomery Flagg (one each), plus many others. 9-in. x 10-in.; black and white; 98 pages.