Romance of Money, The (1937 White Cover 1st Printing) comic books
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Issue #1937
Published 1937 by National Savings Bank.This item is not in stock at MyComicShop. If you use the "Add to want list" tab to add this issue to your want list, we will email you when it becomes available.
The Romance of Money (1937, 1st printing with white cover), illustrated by H.T. Elmo (a pseudonym for Jack Kirby), is promotional advertising comic booklet that was distributed by the National Savings Bank, Albany, New York. Elmo (Jack Kirby) is listed in the Who's Who of Comic and Cartoon Illustrators. Kirby's artwork here is similar in style to the famed Ripley's Believe It or Not series. The Romance of Money tells the story of money from the earliest barter systems to the sophisticated monetary systems we know today. The cover illustrates the famous story of George Washington throwing a silver dollar across the Rappanannock River. The word doller is derived from the Bohemian "thaler." "From thaler the word evolved to "daler" and then to our familiar dollar. 24 pages, black-and-white, 4-7/8-in. x 6-1/4-in.
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