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I'd guess a few hundred at most. Heathcliff does not have the mass plebeian appeal of Garfield.

31 minutes ago, batman_fan said:

She also still to this day, 30+ years after graduating from college, thinks I like turkey pastrami on onion rolls.  Every time I came home from college she would buy turkey pastrami and onion rolls and have them waiting for me.  I always ate them but never cared for it.  I still have no idea how she thought I liked it but it always made her happy to think she was doing something special for me and it wasn't that big of a deal to accommodate her. 

You're a good lad.

Here's one more: Surgeon Stone by Richard Fletcher from 1949

11 hours ago, CartoonFanboy said:

My oldest would be 1951. Cisco Kid by Jose Luis Salinas.

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love the art!

12 hours ago, tth2 said:

1922

pic please!

Honestly I have no idea how the Garfield strips command as much as they do today. The art is shockingly pedestrian, and so is the humor. The 10,000 dump should normalize the market hopefully in a few years, if not immediately. 

1 hour ago, Sideshow Bob said:

Proud owner of two Dream of Rarebit Fiend by Winsor McCay. 1905 and 1908.

https://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=1398415

https://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?Piece=1244608

Those are just remarkable! 

1 hour ago, lobrac said:

Buck Rogers (and Wilma!) from April 19, 1932 by Calkins....

 

Very cool! How did you track down the image of the published version? 

Here's another: Watso's Hacksaw the Detective from 1945. A pretty decent Sherlock Holmes clone!

4 hours ago, zhamlau said:

Twin Earths Daily from  February 1962, i dont know why i just had to have this one. Something about it (and yeah maybe 2 somethings if im being honest) said buy me and frame me. I still think Al Williamson or FF worked on it with AMcW.

It's beautiful! 

2 hours ago, aokartman said:

Rube Goldberg from 1913.  Sorry it is just a cell phone snapshot.  David

Love the Goldberg! And the Pogo strip as well

3 hours ago, alxjhnsn said:

My earliest are from late 1957 - Carol Day's Problem Child. Click the image to embiggen. Click the links to see all Carol Day e-books or Problem Child specifically.

Very nice. What's your connection to Carol Day if you don't mind me asking?

Here's another: an adorable Gene Byrnes Reg'lar Fellers strip from 1934

Brian - these are beautiful. I love the Buck Rogers strip. That torn half of a Superman strip is interesting - kudos to whoever salvaged it!

26 minutes ago, NicoV said:

Mine is a Krazy Kat Sunday from 1922, by George Herriman:

I remember seeing this in one of his books a while ago - beautiful! 

1 hour ago, lobrac said:

MYRA NORTH, SPECIAL NURSE (7-5-1938) by Charles Coll:

 

very beautiful art and the 30s fashion at display here

1 hour ago, ATKokmen said:

I'm not much of a comic strip collector, but I do have a 1955 Fritzi Ritz piece in the collection:

 

made me laugh - wonderful piece!

1 hour ago, batman_fan said:

I only go back to 1959

love your peanuts art! Wish I could afford it

For the comic strip art collectors out there, what is the oldest (and perhaps most obscure) piece in your collection? I'll start with one (part of several) from my collection: Moncayo's "Don Quixote's Latest Adventures" from 1922.

Humor and parody are my primary art collection themes. Comic strips, parody mags (Mad/Cracked etc), Archie, Harvey, ... 

I also try to stick to art from content I either enjoyed earlier in my life (nostalgia) or currently enjoy.

A prelim for a 1 page gag from Mad magazine by the hilarious Duck Edwing!

And finally got my hands on several Horace and Buggy strips by Paul Coker and Duck Edwing!

A beautiful DeCarlo Sabrina cover