Skippy comic books issue 1
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Issue #1-1ST
Published Sep 2012 by IDW Publishing.$30.00
$30.00
Volume 1 - 1st printing. "1925-1927!"
Story and art by> Percy Crosby.
Debuting in 1923 in Life magazine, Skippy moved to the comics pages in 1925 and soon became a sensation, published in 28 countries and 14 languages. In 1931, Skippy became the first comic strip to see its film version win an Academy Award. Percy Crosby continued writing and drawing the feature until 1945. Today Skippy can be seen as the spiritual ancestor to Peanuts and Calvin and Hobbes, among many other kid strips. Crosby influenced cartoonists from Charles Schulz to Walt Kelly to Garry Trudeau, and perhaps more than any other cartoonist before him, brought philosophy and politics to the American newspaper comic strip.
In the end, it would be his outspoken political and philosophical beliefs that would place him increasingly outside the mainstream of 1940s American culture, ultimately leading to his exile from comics and his forced incarceration in a mental institution for the last sixteen years of his life. As a result of his tragic end, Crosby's remarkable contributions to American culture have been largely eclipsed, until now.
Hardcover (Horizontal Format), 11-in. x 9-in., 304 pages, PC/PB&W. All Ages
NOTE: May or may NOT include Cover Sash. Cover price $49.99. -
Published 1929 by Grosset & Dunlap.$17.00
View scansGrosset & 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.
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Issue #1NDJ
Published 1929 by Grosset & Dunlap. -
Published 1929 by Greenberg Publishers.$195.00
View scans$15.00
View scans- Does not include original dust jacket.
$10.00
View scans- Water damage: Slight.
1st Edition - 1929. Humor cartoons illustrated by Percy L. Crosby. Hardcover with dust jacket, 11-1/4" x 8-5/8", 72 pages, PC/PB&W. Cover price $2.50.
