Auctions: comic books published by United
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Item #65147633
Tags: Comic Strip ReprintsPublished Mar 1951 by United Features Syndicate.Comics on Parade (1938) 76 CGC 3.0
Paper: Off white
Label #4726568009
Starts Jul 27 Cover by Ernie Bushmiller. Stories and art by Ernie Bushmiller and Ed Dodd. Comics on Parade features reprints of Ernie Bushmiller's popular Nancy strip, featuring precocious Nancy and her streetwise pal Sluggo. Sluggo uses his little dog to send Nancy a message. Nancy meets the new kid who moved in next door, in a multi-page original story. Nancy; Stamp Tips; Back Home Again. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
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Item #65110665
Fritzi Ritz (1948) 7 VG 4.0
Centerfold detached at one staple. Cover and interior oxidation.
Starts Jul 27 Cover by Ernie Bushmiller. Stories and art by Ernie Bushmiller and Raeburn van Buren. The comic-strip adventures of aspiring model Fritzi Ritz and her boyfriend, the bumbling Phil Fumble. Fritzi was later known as "Aunt Fritzi" in the Nancy comic strip. Phil and Fritzi each prepare for a date in their own ways, in a strip that includes a Fritzi lingerie panel! Fritzi tires of Phil's wandering eye, in a strip that showcases Bushmiller's ability to draw beautiful women. His skill at women's fashions is likewise highlighted in a couple of strips satirizing women's hat styles of the 1930s. Plus Abbie an' Slats strips by Raeburn van Buren. Fritzi Ritz; Abbie an' Slats. Title changes to United Comics (1940/1950) with issue #8, and resumes under this title with issue #27. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
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Item #63569035
Fritzi Ritz (1948) 39 GD/VG 3.0
1.75" Cumulative spine split.
Starts Jul 4 Cover by Ernie Bushmiller. Stories and art by Ernie Bushmiller, Charles Schulz, Ernest G. Osborne, George Jahns, Elsie Hix and Leonard Sansone. The comic-strip adventures of aspiring model Fritzi Ritz and her boyfriend, the bumbling Phil Fumble. Fritzi was later known as "Aunt Fritzi" in the Nancy comic strip. Fritzi wants Phil to help advertise the charity bazaar, but he wants to watch the game, so he figures out a way to do both. Phil comes to the Western-themed costume party dressed as a cactus. One of the backup strips in the comic is Charles Schulz's Peanuts, including his first Sunday baseball strip. Other backup strips include the Dennis the Menace-like Willie, and the Ripley-like Strange As It Seems by Elsie Hix. The Family Scrapbook; Fritzi Ritz; Strange as it Seems; Willie; Peanuts; Little Ike: The Case of the Missing Peanuts. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
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