BLBcomics-migration

Bob, forgive me if you mentioned this before, but are these copies from your personal collection or scans of books that you have sold over the years (and retained the scan) or items currently in your inventory for sale?

A little bit of both, some are for sale, some are personal copies - just depends, i have dups on some of these,

I have not yet begun to post ones i do not have any more like sold off copies - notice i did not yet post a scan of Mutt & Jeff #5 In the Trenches cuz some lawyer sweet talked me out of it in NYC last Feb -

Happy Hooligan sheet music cover from 1902 by Opper - one of my favorite ones

F Fox's Funny Folk by the creator of Toonerville Trolley, Fontaine Fox 1917 published by George Doran Company 228 page hard cover

BUSTER BROWN Swimming Nugget series 1907 Outcault

TRACY #3 Cupples & Leon 1933 hard cover with dust wrapper 100 pager

JOYS AND GLOOMS by TE Powers 1912 Reilly & Britton publishers of the Wizard of Oz Baum series - newspaper strip reprints - 72 page hard cover

Here are all three if Steve's Humor books for you to enjoy easier

- elements of all three of these can be found on the Superman cover i saved from extinction back in 1970 - the first Superman cover Joe Shuster drew up in early 1933

Publisher & Fitzgerald comic book from the 1870s,

a reprint of the 1852 original issued by Garrett,

an original American home grown comic strip creation by ALC

- we do not yet know his real name, probably never will

American-Journal-Examiner Joke Book #2 Dec 17 1911 during the short time Bud Fisher worked for Hearst - a supplement insert placed inside newspapers - 16 pages

LIFE'S LITTLE JOKES #1 by Rube Goldberg 1924, excuse this scan, it be cropped sadly

YELLOW KID MAGAZINE #4 1897

James Montgomery Flagg in 1904, long before Uncle Sam.

 

Bob, I sent you info on this last year for possible inclusion in the guide. Do you want me to resend it or did it just not make the cut?

I missed it i think - never on purpose. Sometimes when i am out of town at some comic show for a week, emails pile up and i can miss stuff in the download dump

- please resend the data to Robert@BLBcomics.com

just for clarification, Brainy Bowers is the first DAILY newspaper comic strip compilation

Why would that be a comic book and nothing else posted here is?

because it is a folded-over saddle-stitched stapled pamphlet?

you did not qualify your term

i bring this up because the Rube Goldberg FOOLISH QUESTIONS Comic Monthly is a series of un-inter-related single panel cartoons, four to a page, no continuity betweenst the panels

- kind of like picking on Dennis the Menace which was at least recurring characters

oh, must be the word balloons, but also used in 99% of everything i posted so far,

SMITTY Cupples & Leon comic book series 96 pagers with dust wrappers

ran once a year for 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932. #2 from 1929 is a special

on Babe Ruth, with The Babe on the front cover even - highly sought

after by baseball collectors these days.

MR TWEE DEEDLE'S FURTHER ADVENTURES by Johnny Gruelle, very rare, 1917,

pre Raggedy Ann newspaper comic strip reprint book

by this personal favorite of mine. This newspaper strip ran 1911-1918

ending when Raggedy Ann and Andy began to take off

The 1913 #1 is even scarcer

PERCY AND FERDIE #1 Cupples & Leon

48 pager from 1921 reprinting newspaper daily strips

Says "Cartoon Book", but don't let that description fool you.

This is a Popeye comic book from 1934 reprinting strips in color

It is unique in that one read the panels left to right across both

double page spreads at a time. If read one page at a time,

the story makes no sense. A great Segar comic book!

VAUDEVILLES AND OTHER THINGS By Carl "Bunny' Schultz,

who invented Foxy Grandpa later in the year of 1900, when this

was published - reprinting newspaper comic strips with no

recurring characters, which, according to some (minority)

view points means this does not contain "real" comic strips,

which i categorically reject that concept - this is a comic book

Not a comic book, but comic strip sheet music of Yellow Kid from 1987

which one BUF do you still need?

 

I just need #15--not that difficult to find on ebay, so I've been holding out for a nice one.

I have a couple extra copies of this number

BUSTER BROWN AT HOME 1913

BILLY THE BOY ARTIST 1910 by Ed Payne - this strip began in The Boston Globe in 1899 and ran thru 1955 - one of the longest running comic strips of all time

Bob, any theory as to why they skipped #25 and #26?

Well, Mark, there was a huge amount of mistakes in the Plat stuff which lived in the Overstreet PG for years,sometimes decades.

Go back to the two Katzenjammer Kids 1902 1903 I posted a couple pages back. Once upon a time until maybe 6 years ago, the Overstreet had the 1903 as merely a reprint of the 1902.

same on the happy Hooilgan 1902 and 1903

One could come to that seemingly conclusive conclusion based on the concept the first page, what we Plat collectors call the Title Page, was identical.

If one did not place them side by side, one would assume the comic strip pages were the same as well

I bought these to fix the listings, and then began a process of trying to buy one of each as well as look at copies in other collector's houses who shared the same vision of an accurate price index for these early comic books which most collectors dis so dramatically at times as not being "real" comic books

And then i discovered how wide ranging the 1800s comic book business was, and got really side tracked for a while

but to get back to your query, Bob Overstreet for the longest time did not care about anything prior to Funnies On Parade slash Famous Funnies.

The Plat data was collected rather haphazardly - and no double checking was done

These days to get a listing into his Guide, you must submit a cover, and indica page to prove what it is - a major step forward

I do not know anyone who has BUF 25 and 26

For that matter, i do not remember ever seeing a Popeye #2 David McKay 1935 either - yet it is listed in the Guide also

Maybe some of these errors were brought in back when he peppered the Guide with non-existent books when other price guides were stealing his data mix - helped a lot in court

then after a while, Bob forgot what the salted errors were

which one BUF do you still need?