Twenty-Five Years Ago (1931) comic books 1931

With dust jacket. Twenty-Five Years Ago, text and illustrations by Camillus Kessler with an introduction by Charles Dana Gibson (creator of the Gibson Girls). Published 1931 by Coward-Mcann, Inc., reprinting multi-image box cartoons featuring famous events and people from the first quarter of the the 20th century which were originally published in newspapers via the Bell Syndicate. A platimun age precursor to modern day comic books. Hundreds of interesting people, some still famous, other long forgotten, populate this fascinating with their images (as rendered by Kessler) together with snippets of fact that explain their lasting (or fleeting) fame. 5-3/4 x 8-1/4 inches, hardcover, black-and-white, 328-pages plus dust jacket (dust jacket images are repeated on hardback covers).

No dust jacket. Twenty-Five Years Ago, text and illustrations by Camillus Kessler with an introduction by Charles Dana Gibson (creator of the Gibson Girls). Published 1931 by Coward-Mcann, Inc., reprinting multi-image box cartoons featuring famous events and people from the first quarter of the the 20th century which were originally published in newspapers via the Bell Syndicate. A platimun age precursor to modern day comic books. Hundreds of interesting people, some still famous, other long forgotten, populate this fascinating with their images (as rendered by Kessler) together with snippets of fact that explain their lasting (or fleeting) fame. 5-3/4 x 8-1/4 inches, hardcover, black-and-white, 328-pages plus dust jacket (dust jacket images are repeated on hardback covers).