Comic books in 'Platinum Age'

Cartoons by Johnny Anderson. "A Brief Sketch - none brief - of our Struggle for Freedom." The Polygon Press, Hartford, Conn. 1926. 5-1/2" x 8", black ink on blue paper, softcover.

Add to cart Very Good $53.00 View scans Spine split 5%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.

Comic strip reprints from Ad Carter's long-running "Just Kids" strip. "Just Kids" was about a kid gang, inspired by the contemporary "Reg'lar Fellers" strip by Gene Byrnes. "Just Kids" ran daily in Hearst papers from 1923 to 1947, and continued to run in the Sunday funnies until Carter's death in 1957.

Add to cart GD 2.0 $89.95 or Best Offer View scans 3.5" cumulative spine split, cover coming loose. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor. Other items consigned by humble cow

#1A has price and issue number on cover. Done in the Ripley's Believe It or Not style that Hix used in his strip of the same name, as well as in his comic books from the late 1930's. 68 pages, black-and-white, 8.25-8.50 in. x 11 in., square binding. See also: Strange As It Seems Ex-Lax Giveaway, Strange As It Seems United Airlines Giveaway, and Strange As It Seems (1939 United Features Syndicate). Cover price $0.25.

Strange As It Seems (1932 Blue Star) 1B does not have a price and issue number on cover. Strange as It Seems by Jon Hix. The book is done in the Ripley's Believe It or Not style that Hix used in his strip of the same name and also in his comic books from the late 1930's. 24 pages, black-and-white, 5-in. x 7-in., no cover price.

Stuff and Nonsense (1884-1888) by early American illustrator A.B. Frost. An anthology of black and white picture-stories, some with words, some just illustrations. Stories include "The Fatal Mistake: A Tale of a Cat," "The Balloonists," and "Nonsense." 10 1/4 x 7 3/4", 100pg, hardcover.

Teck Haskins at Ohio State (1908) by W. A. Ireland features football cartoons from Columbus Ohio Evening Dispatch. 7-1/4-in. x 5-3/8-in., 84 pages, b&w, hardcover.

June 8, 1889. Weekly humor newspaper first published in Austin in 1881. 10-3/4" x 15", B&W, newsprint. Cover price $0.10.

By Clare Victor "Dwig" Dwiggins. reprints color Sunday strips from 1923/24, 1925. Stiff covers, 10" x 10-3/4", 52 color pages. Copyright 1925 by Clara Clemens Gabrilowitsch, by permission of the estate of Samuel L. Clemens and the Mark Twain Co.

Cupples & Leon Company, softcover set of five books in box - Little Orphan Annie, Reg'lar Fellers, Smitty, Harold Teen, How Dick Tracy & Dick Tracy Jr. Caught the Racketeers, 8-1/2 x 6-7/8, soft covers, 36 pages, abbreviated versions of hardcovers, 1934.

9-3/4 in. x 15-3/4 in., Sunday reprints in color, 46 pages.

Truth Save it From Abuse & Overwork Being the Episode of the Hired Hand & Mrs. Stix Plaster, Concertist

Uncle Bantam's Funny Books, for the Amusement of His Little Nephews and Nieces with Seventy Five Illustrations

Drawn by Anne Cleveland and Jean Anderson. Cartoons depicting daily student life at Vassar. 7" x 8-1/2", B&W, softcover.

A comics adaptation of the 1933 Columbia Pictures police drama starring Tim McCoy and Ward Bond. Young police officer Johnny befriends disabled veteran cop Regan and falls in love with his daughter, Helen. But the escape of Regan's old enemy Standish from prison will change all of their lives forever. A very early comic book, published the same year as Famous Funnies #1. 11-in. x 15-in., 32 pages, B&W.

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).

5th (1963) Edition - 1st printing. Written by John Rosenfield, Jr. Art by Jack Patton. A collection of Daily comic strips from the pages of the Dallas News covering topics from Texas History. Hardcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 218 pages, B&W.

Not numbered - 1st printing. Written by Robert D. Towne, cover art by C. A. Sieber, and illustrations by J. R. Bray. This classic children's picture book reprints "Little Johnny and the Teddy Bears" comic strips from Judge Magazine. One of eight different titles in The Teddy Bear Books series. Hardcover, 5 3/8" x 7", color, 24 pages.

1st (1928) Edition [Cardboard Cover] - 1st printing. Written by John Rosenfield, Jr. Art by Jack Patton. A collection of Daily comic strips from the pages of the Dallas News covering topics from Texas History. For may years, and as late as the mid-1960's, the little comic was used in Texas schools as a teaching aid. Cardboard Cover, 5 1/2-in. x 7 1/2-in., 56 pages, B&W.

1st (1928) Edition [9 1/2-in.x 12-in.] - 1st printing. Written by John Rosenfield, Jr. Art by Jack Patton. A collection of Daily comic strips from the pages of the Dallas News covering topics from Texas History. For may years, and as late as the mid-1960's, the little comic was used in Texas schools as a teaching aid. Hardcover, 9 1/2-in. x 12-in., 232 pages, B&W.

Add to cart Very Good $270.00 View scans Spine split 10%. Staple rust: Moderate.

Saalfield Publishing Company, 1929 strip reprints and some new Hal Foster art, 2 blown-up B&W panels to color per page and 1 colored example on opposite page, 15-1/4 x 10-3/4 inches, 24 pages, numbered 988, 1933.

2nd (1935) Edition - 1st printing. Written by John Rosenfield, Jr. Art by Jack Patton. Originally published in 1928 as a premium giveaway from the Magnolia (Mobil) Petroleum Company, this is the revised 1935 edition. A collection of Daily comic strips from the pages of the Dallas News covering topics from Texas History. For may years, and as late as the mid-1960's, the little comic was used in Texas schools as a teaching aid. Softcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 132 pages, B&W.

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WWI era comic strip about Army life in the trenches, featuring a naive Private Dubb as the main character. Written and illustrated by Percy Crosby, best known for his comic strip "Skippy". Hardcover. Green quarter-cloth binding over illustrated boards. No jacket as issued. 8" x 9", 64 pages, B&W.

First collected edition of the daily "Tillie the Toiler" newspaper comic strip by Russ Westover. Quarter-cloth binding over illustrated stiff boards. 48 newsprint pages of strips. B&W.

Cupples & Leon Company, by Russ Westover, 52pgs, B&W interior, daily strip reprints.

Add to cart Good $270.00 View scans Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 5%.

Add to cart Good $300.00 View scans Paper: Cream to off white Cover Wrap Detached. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.

Cupples & Leon Company, by Russ Westover, 52 pages, B&W interior, daily strip reprints.

Cupples & Leon Company, by Russ Westover, 52 pages, B&W interior, daily strip reprints.

Cupples & Leon Company, by Russ Westover, 52 pages, B&W interior, daily strip reprints.

Cupples & Leon Company, by Russ Westover, 52 pages, B&W interior, daily strip reprints, 1933.

3rd (1943) Edition - 1st printing. Written by John Rosenfield, Jr. Art by Jack Patton. Originally published in 1928 as a premium giveaway from the Magnolia (Mobil) Petroleum Company, this is the revised 1943 edition. A collection of Daily comic strips from the pages of the Dallas News covering topics from Texas History. For may years, and as late as the mid-1960's, the little comic was used in Texas schools as a teaching aid. Softcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 132 pages, B&W.