The Smithsonian Collection of Newspaper Comics by Bill Blackbeard

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Due to the huge size and heavy weight of this item, extra postage will be needed. The unclipped jacket is of Fine quality-it has no tears, chips or fading all it has is extremely light general shelf wear and it retains its shininess. Except for original owner's name/date inked on the top of the FFEP, the interior is completely free of writing, stray marks, stains of any sort and page damage of any type. The book is bound in one-piece mustard-yellow cloth with blue lettering on the spine and front panel it is free of edge dings and corner bumps heel of spine is very lightly bumped, but all edges are virtually free of wear both boards are clean as is the spine. A very attractive Fine quality book with 8 chapters, each begun with a 2-3 page introductory essay the majority (I'd estimate 65%) of the cartoons are in color. & New York, New York, stated 'Fifth Printing 1986'. First edition (presumed no earlier dates stated). RT LukeEpplin: This is a wild must-watch for any comics fans on Bill Blackbeard, who amassed six tons of newspaper comic strips over the decades and donated his collection to the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library in Columbus, Ohio. Light crease to spine, extremely little wear to spine head & foot, few faint marks to spine, else near fine(+). Caudle, Sherlock Holmes, and the Artless dodger / popular images in the early daily comic strip, 1907-1925 - Old cunning stagers : Long-lived stars of the comic strip's second two decades, 1916-1936 - Sunny Toonerville and the darkling world : anecdote and narrative in the daily comic strip, 1917-1933 - Popeye, the Skipper, and the abyss of space and time : anecdote and narrative in the Sunday comic strip, 1930-1941 - Shadow shapes in moving rows : extended narrative in the daily and Sunday comic strip, 1928-1943 - Cats, dogs, possums, counts, and others : a comics miscellany, 1928-1950 - Little people, wise guys, and witches : the return of the funnies. || Contents: Struwwelpeter, Pagliacci, and Puss and Boots : folklore figures in the early Sunday comic strip, 1896-1916 - Mr.

The Smithsonian Collection of Newspaper Comics by Bill Blackbeard