Max and Maurice (1871) comic books 1898
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Issue #1898
Max and Maurice (1871) #1898Tags: Victorian AgePublished 1898 by Roberts Brothers/Little B.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.
"Max and Maurice: a Juvenile History in Seven Tricks" by Wilhelm Busch. Little, Brown, and Company, Boston. 1898, 1899 reprint (5 3/4" x 8 1/8", 72 pgs, hardcover, black ink on orange paper). OVERSTREET HISTORICAL NOTES: "Seminal inspiration for William Randolph Hearst to acquire as a "new comic" (following the wild success of Outcault's Yellow Kid) to license M&M from Busch and hire Rudolph Dirks in late 1897 to create a New York American newspaper incarnation. In Hearst's English language newspapers it was called The Katzenjammer Kids and in his German language NYC newspaper it was titled Max and Moritz, Busch's original title...Translated from the 1865 Germain original."
