Comic books in 'Platinum Age'

Add to cart VG+ 4.5 $110.00 View scans Front cover detached 30%. Back cover detached 10%. Coupon/Piece missing, story not affected.

9x9 1/2", 28pgs, stiff cardboard cover, (D), Sunday strip reprints in color, "More of the Married Life of Mr. & Mrs."

Add to cart Very Good $300.00 View scans Back cover detached 5%.

Add to cart Good $165.00 View scans Front cover detached 5%. Cover Wrap Detached. Staple rust: Moderate.

Add to cart Fair $57.00 View scans Cover Wrap Detached. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Moderate.

Add to cart Poor $49.00 View scans No Front Cover.

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

Add to cart Good $59.00 View scans Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.

Add to cart Good $59.00 View scans Paper: Cream Cover Wrap Detached. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Extensive.

Add to cart FR/GD 1.5 $50.00 View scans Front cover detached 5%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.

Add to cart Fair $53.00 View scans Front cover detached 70%. Cover Wrap Detached. Staple rust: Slight.

"Second Series." Comic strip reprints. 10 in. x 10 in.; black and white; 52 pages; stiff cardboard cover. Publication date may be incorrect. Various issues in this serious may have been reprinted several times, each with a new publication date, and with the first printing publication date and later reprint date as yet unknown.

Add to cart GD+ 2.5 $77.00 View scans	Add to cart Good $59.00 View scans Paper: Cream Cover Wrap Detached. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.	Add to cart GD- 1.8 $56.00 View scans Cover Wrap Detached. Staple rust: Slight.	Add to cart FR/GD 1.5 $53.00 View scans Front cover detached 20%. Back cover detached 20%.
Add to cart Poor $30.00 View scans Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Moderate.

10x10", 52 pg, B&W, stiff cardboard cover. Publication date may be incorrect. Various issues in this series may have been reprinted several times, each with a new publication date, and with the first printing publication date and later reprint dates as yet unknown.

Add to cart GD/VG 3.0 $161.00 View scans

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

Add to cart Good $30.00 View scans Front cover detached 10%. Back cover detached 10%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Moderate.

Add to cart Fair $19.50 View scans

"6th series." Comic strip reprints from 1922. 9.75-in. x 10-in.; black and white; 48 pages; card stock covers; no cover price. Publication date may be incorrect. Various issues in this serious may have been reprinted several times, each with a new publication date, and with the first printing publication date and later reprint date as yet unknown.

Add to cart Fair $55.00 View scans Water damage: Moderate.

10x10", 52 pages, B&W, stiff cardboard cover. Publication date may be incorrect. Various issues in this series may have been reprinted several times, each with a new publication date, and with the first printing publication date and later reprint date as yet unknown.

Add to cart Fair $19.50 View scans Cover Wrap Detached. Staple rust: Slight.

10x10", 52 pages, B&W, stiff cardboard cover. Publication date may be incorrect. Various issues in this serious may have been reprinted several times, each with a new publication date, and with the first printing publication date and later reprint date as yet unknown.

Add to cart Poor $15.00 View scans Incomplete, See Notes. Water damage: Slight.

"9th series." Comic strip reprints from 1925. 9.75-in. x 10-in.; black and white; 48 pages; card stock covers; no cover price. Publication date may be incorrect. Various issues in this serious may have been reprinted several times, each with a new publication date, and with the first printing publication date and later reprint date as yet unknown.

Add to cart FR/GD 1.5 $32.50 View scans Water damage: Moderate.

10x10", 52 pages, B&W, stiff cardboard cover. Publication date may be incorrect. Various issues in this serious may have been reprinted several times, each with a new publication date, and with the first printing publication date and later reprint date as yet unknown.

Add to cart Good $64.00 View scans Water damage: Slight.

"12th series." Comic strip reprints from 1927. 9.75-in. x 10-in.; black and white; 48 pages; card stock covers; no cover price. Publication date may be incorrect. Various issues in this serious may have been reprinted several times, each with a new publication date, and with the first printing publication date and later reprint date as yet unknown.

Add to cart Poor $35.00 View scans

10x10", 52 pages, B&W, stiff cardboard cover. Publication date may be incorrect. Various issues in this serious may have been reprinted several times, each with a new publication date, and with the first printing publication date and later reprint date as yet unknown.

Add to cart Fair $130.00 View scans Water damage: Slight.

"Series No. 14." Comic strip reprints from 1928. 9.75-in. x 10-in.; black and white; 52 pages; card stock covers; no cover price. Publication date may be incorrect. Various issues in this serious may have been reprinted several times, each with a new publication date, and with the first printing publication date and later reprint date as yet unknown.

Add to cart FR/GD 1.5 $32.50 View scans Water damage: Slight.

10x10", 48 pages, B&W, stiff cardboard cover. Publication date may be incorrect. Various issues in this serious may have been reprinted several times, each with a new publication date, and with the first printing publication date and later reprint date as yet unknown.

Add to cart GD+ 2.5 $54.00 View scans

10x10", 52 pages, B&W, stiff cardboard cover. Publication date may be incorrect. Various issues in this serious may have been reprinted several times, each with a new publication date, and with the first printing publication date and later reprint date as yet unknown.

Add to cart GD 2.0 $43.00 View scans Water damage.

Add to cart Fair $27.50 View scans Water damage: Slight.

"Series number 17." Comic strip reprints from 1930. 9.75-in. x 10-in.; black and white; 48 pages; card stock covers; no cover price. Publication date may be incorrect. Various issues in this serious may have been reprinted several times, each with a new publication date, and with the first printing publication date and later reprint date as yet unknown.

Add to cart Very Good $74.00 View scans Water damage: Slight.

Add to cart GD+ 2.5 $54.00 View scans Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 10%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.

"Series no. 19." Comic strip reprints from 1930. 9.75-in. x 10-in.; black and white; 48 pages; card stock covers; no cover price. Publication date may be incorrect. Various issues in this serious may have been reprinted several times, each with a new publication date, and with the first printing publication date and later reprint date as yet unknown.

Add to cart VG+ 4.5 $110.00 View scans Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 5%.

Add to cart GD/VG 3.0 $75.00 View scans Water damage: Slight.

Add to cart GD+ 2.5 $68.00 View scans Front cover detached 10%. Cover Wrap Detached. Staple rust: Slight.

10x10", 52 pages, B&W, stiff cardboard cover. Publication date may be incorrect. Various issues in this serious may have been reprinted several times, each with a new publication date, and with the first printing publication date and later reprint date as yet unknown.

Add to cart GD+ 2.5 $39.00 View scans 1" Spine split from bottom. Cover detached.

Add to cart Poor $17.50 View scans

10x10", 52 pages, B&W, stiff cardboard cover. Publication date may be incorrect. Various issues in this serious may have been reprinted several times, each with a new publication date, and with the first printing publication date and later reprint date as yet unknown.

Add to cart Good $74.00 View scans

10x10", 52 pages, B&W, stiff cardboard cover. Publication date may be incorrect. Various issues in this serious may have been reprinted several times, each with a new publication date, and with the first printing publication date and later reprint date as yet unknown.

Add to cart FN- 5.5 $303.00 View scans Water damage: Slight.

Cupples & Leon Company, hardcover WITHOUT dust jacket, no number, 8-1/2 x 7, 100 pages, reprints 1932/33 daily strips, 1933.

Add to cart Good $33.00 View scans Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Moderate.

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.

Add to cart VG- 3.5 $65.00 View scans 1.5" cumulative spine split, staple rust/migration, residue. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor. Other items consigned by Bud Plant

10.5" x 13.5", 28 pages, B&W.

Add to cart VG/FN 5.0 $145.00 View scans

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.

Add to cart FR 1.0 $18.00 View scans 8" Cumulative spine split. Cover detached at one staple and loose at other.

April, 1903. Humor and fiction magazine from the turn of the century. Stories and illustrations by a variety of writers and artists. 8-1/4" x 11-1/8", 40 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart GD- 1.8 $60.00 View scans Front cover detached 10%. Back cover detached 20%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Moderate.

Written and illustrated by Pops Momand. 9.25" x 9.25", 52 pages, B&W

Add to cart FN- 5.5 $26.00 View scans

Add to cart VG/FN 5.0 $24.00 View scans

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.

Add to cart Good $56.00 View scans Cover Wrap Detached.

All the Funny Folks (1926), "The Wonder Tale of How the Comic-Strip Characters Live and Love Behind the Scenes." Includes character creations of George McManus, Chester Gould, P.E. Sumner, Cliff Sterretts, James E. Murphy, and many others. Illustrations by Louis Biedermann, story by Jack Lait. When Jiggs from Bringing Up Father and Barney Google have a horse race, a veritable Who's Who of Platinum Age characters from the Land of Fun attend the event: Barney Google, Spark Plug, Jiggs & Maggie, Tillie the Toiler, Happy Hooligan, Hans & Fritz, Toots & Casper, Krazy Kat and Ignatz, Offissa Pupp, Dinty Moore, Nemo, Olive Oyl, Felix the Cat, and many others. 9.5-in. x 11.5-in., 112 pg, full color, hardcover. No dusk jacket.

Add to cart FN 6.0 $80.00 View scans

Add to cart VG- 3.5 $33.00 View scans

Buster Brown Abroad by Richard F. Outcault. Hardback edition published 1904 by Frederick A. Stokes Company, 68 pages plus endpaper and cover, text with black-and-white spot illustrations on every page. Published without a dust jacket.

Add to cart Good $18.00 View scans Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Extensive.

Cartoons by Murray Wade from the Capital Journal of the 1915 Thirty-First Assembly of the Oregon Legislature. 10-1/4" x 6-3/4", B&W, stiff cover.

Add to cart FN+ 6.5 $57.00 View scans Staple rust: Extensive.

Cartoons by Murray Wade from the Capital Journal of the 1921 Thirty-First Assembly of the Oregon Legislature. 10-1/4" x 6-3/4", B&W, stiff cover.

Add to cart FN/VF 7.0 $56.00 View scans Staple rust: Extensive.

Add to cart Fine $53.00 View scans Staple rust: Extensive.

Cartoons by Murray Wade from the Capital Journal of the 1923 Thirty-First Assembly of the Oregon Legislature. 10-1/4" x 6-3/4", B&W, stiff cover.

Add to cart FN/VF 7.0 $56.00 View scans Staple rust: Extensive.

Add to cart Fine $53.00 View scans Staple rust: Extensive.

10-1/4" x 6-3/4", B&W, stiff cover.

Add to cart FN/VF 7.0 $56.00 View scans Staple rust: Extensive.

Cartoons by Murray Wade from the Capital Journal of the 1927 Thirty-Fourth Assembly of the Oregon Legislature. 10-1/4" x 6-3/4", B&W, stiff cover.

Add to cart FN+ 6.5 $57.00 View scans Staple rust: Extensive.

10-1/4" x 6-3/4", B&W, stiff cover.

Add to cart FN/VF 7.0 $56.00 View scans Staple rust: Slight.

10-1/4" x 6-3/4", B&W, stiff cover.

Add to cart FN+ 6.5 $57.00 View scans Staple rust: Extensive.

Add to cart VG+ 4.5 $40.00 View scans Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Extensive.

Cartoons by Murray Wade from the Capital Journal of the 1933 Thirty-Seventh Assembly of the Oregon Legislature. 10-1/4" x 6-1/2", B&W, stiff cover.

Add to cart Very Good $26.00 View scans

Add to cart VG 4.0 $15.00 View scans

First Edition. R.H. Russell and Son Publishers, 1895, by Frank P.W. "Chip" Bellew. 64 pages. 8-7/8" x 11-3/4". Publisher's original quarter cloth binding with paper over boards. Title stamped in red to front board with surrounding decoration in brown. Spine plain and unstamped. B&W. NOTE: 1897 reprint exists.

Add to cart Very Good $70.00 View scans

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.

Add to cart VG/FN 5.0 $210.00 View scans	Add to cart VG+ 4.5 $140.00 View scans	Add to cart Very Good $115.00 View scans	Add to cart Good $65.00 View scans Staple rust: Moderate.
Add to cart Fair $29.00 View scans Staple rust: Slight.	Add to cart Fair $40.00 View scans

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 pre-prints interior, no cover price. NOTE: Spine may be one of several colors.

Add to cart VG 4.0 $15.00 View scans

3rd Series - 1st printing. Collection of captioned cartoons first published in Life Magazine. Gilted Hardcover, 10 1/4-in x 8-in, 76 Pages, B&W.

Add to cart GD/VG 3.0 $89.00 View scans Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Moderate.

Add to cart Good $59.00 View scans Paper: Cream Cover Wrap Detached. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.

Add to cart Poor $24.00 View scans Back Cover Detached. Incomplete, See Notes.

Add to cart Poor $24.00 View scans No Front Cover. Incomplete, See Notes.

10x10", 52 pages, B&W, stiff cardboard cover. Publication date may be incorrect. Various issues in this serious may have been reprinted several times, each with a new publication date, and with the first printing publication date and later reprint date as yet unknown.

Add to cart Good $525.00 View scans Front cover detached 40%. Cover Wrap Detached. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.

1906 - Cupples and Leon Company. Sunday strip reprints by R.F. Outcault. 11-1/4 x 17-1/2, 58 pages, full-color.

Add to cart GD/VG 3.0 $95.00 View scans

Limited Edition Hardcover. Hand numbered and limited to 1,000 copies. by Sewell T. Collins, Jr. A collection of caricatures depicting portraits of theatrical stage actors, from a series of sketches originally published in the Chicago Sunday Tribune. Formatted single panel per page, non-sequential art. 10" x 12-1/2", 52 pages, B&W.

Add to cart Poor $32.00 View scans Front cover detached 50%. Back cover detached 50%. Incomplete, See Notes.

Issue #1200. 1934. "The Captain & the Kids" by Bernard Dibble. Hardcover. 8 x 7-1/4, 72 pages, B&W, daily strip reprints.

Add to cart Poor $25.00 View scans Water damage: Slight.

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.