Larry’s Original Comic Art Set Sale List! DeBeck, Berndt, Tuthill, TAD and more!

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THIS SALE STARTS NOW!

 

 

Howdy!

I thought I'd offer these originals for set sale instead of listing them on eBay! All are out of my personal collection and most haven’t seen the light of day for many years!

 

I need to raise money to pay my property taxes again so I pulled some sweet stuff out of the vault and hate to see it go, but that’s life!

 

All are first come, first served.

 

Postage & Insurance are extra. I can also ship FedEx if you have an account with them.

 

For payment, I prefer a check or US postal money order. I will also accept PayPal as payment if you pay the fees. Overseas customers can pay via bank transfer or PayPal.

 

Email me at lawrenceshell @ comcast.net to reserve an original or if you have any questions about any of them. I am in and out during the day but will answer all emails in the order received.

 

Alternate email if needed – sheltone55 @ yahoo.com

 

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PLEASE NOTE – Some of the artwork was scanned in two sections and stitched together so you will see a line or two through the art which do not appear on the originals.

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$799.95

Walter Berndt SMITTY Sunday Page Original, 1931

Dated April 5, 1931.this is a great example of SMITTY, the classic and underrated strip by Walter Berndt! Entirely in pantomime, i.e. no words, Smitty finishes his breakfast, races to catch the trolley, and then runs down the street and into the office where he works. He then rolls up his sleeves, sits at his desk and puts his feet up and reads the paper! Hilarious! A beauty of a page. Smitty dailies show up on somewhat of a regular basis but Sundays come around very rarely.

Comes with a HERBIE bottom strip at the bottom. Little Herbie won’t share his candy with a dog who follows him. The poor little guy trips and drops his candy breaking it into many pieces which the pooch proceeds to devour as an angry Herbie looks on! A cute strip!

 

Original is in two halves, which was standard for many of these large size strips. Full size combined is a large 20-1/2” x 29” and is in Very good condition except for the following. There is a tiny piece missing on the top left corner, can be easily trimmed even if you desire. There are a couple minor creases, very slight in a couple of panels and lastly, there is a slight tear in the Berndt signature area of the Herbie strip. Despite these little imperfections, the art appears overall in nice shape! I hate to let it go!

 

Images shown are photos of art behind glass, art is much sharper than it appears! Art is framed BUT I will be removing it to mail to the buyer. If you want it to remain framed and live within traveling distance of me, you are welcome to pick it up in person.

 

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$499.95

BILLY DeBECK “VOTES FOR WOMEN” EDITORIAL CARTOON ORIGINAL ART WITH WOODROW WILSON, circa 1915

Here is something you do not see every day! An early, circa 1915, editorial cartoon original by BILLY DEBECK!

The image features a well-dressed woman yelling at President Wilson who has his fingers in his ears. She carries a bag labeled “Votes For Women” which has papers and a raccoon inside. Reverse has typed label “Can’t Hear A Word! Pittsburgh Gazette-Times”.

 

Signed “DeBeck” on lower right. Drawn in India and brown accent ink on thin art board with image area measuring 17” x 18-3/4.” Margins have trace of edge wear, image area is clean and VF/Excellent.

A historic and well-drawn early example of DeBeck’s pre-comic strip art. Women would not get the right to vote until 1920.

 

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$799.95

Billy DeBeck BARNEY GOOGLE Daily Strip Original, 1920

Dated October 8, 1920, this is a VERY early example of the BARNEY GOOGLE Daily newspaper strip by Billy DeBeck! Pre-1930 examples do not come on the market too often and pre-1925 originals are especially scarce! I am a longtime DeBeck collector and this is the only one of this vintage I have ever seen!

Barney is attending the theatre and demands to see the manager! His complaint is that he is sitting right in front of a post. The manager tells him he can still see the stage, and Barney replies, “Who said anything about the stage? I’m lookin’ for my sweet woman in the audience!”

 

Signed “DeBeck” in the last panel. Original measures 21-1/2” x 5-1/2” and is in Very Good condition but the board has turned brown color with age BUT it is still in nice shape and NOT the least but brittle. There are about eight pinholes in the top margin which do not affect the art in any way. There are also some very small brown spots in the last panel at the bottom which should be visible on the scan.

 

The art was originally framed and mounted on to a piece of foam board by the use of double-sided tape on back along the edges by a previous owner. I removed it as carefully as possible but the top thin layer of board came off in spots showing as white.

 

There are pieces of tape still on back of the art which are sticky, I have tried removing them with a rubber cement pick-up but that did not work. I will place the art on to a piece of foam board or mat board before I pack it for mailing. It will stick to it but that is the best solution.

 

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$399.99

TAD / Thomas A. Dorgan CITY LIFE Sunday, 1918

Dated August 3, 1919, this is an excellent example of the work of THOMAS A. DORGAN, a legendary cartoonist, who is also known for creating or popularizing such words and expressions as "dumbbell" (a stupid person); "for crying out loud" (an exclamation of astonishment); "cat's meow" and "cat's pajamas" (as superlatives); "applesauce" (nonsense); "hard-boiled" (tough and unsentimental) and others.

This is an 8-panel Sunday strip called CITY LIFE with the subtitle “They Didn’t Believe Columbus Either.” The strip features two golfers with one informing his friend, Ed, that this is the best 9-hole golf course in the world! He’ll put a dollar on a nearby tree stump and when they come around for the second trip, the dollar will be replaced with a flask of scotch and two glasses of ice water! Ed insists of leaving the dollar himself and the pair go on to play and get more excited as they start to come around towards that same stump! HOWEVER, two minutes before they arrive, a bum comes upon the stump and grabs the scotch for himself! In the last panel, Ed’s friend is insisting this has worked for him a number of times but Ed is unhappy, not about losing the dollar, he claims, but thinks it was all a bum joke! A funny page!

 

Signed “Tad” in the last panel. Original is complete on one board. Two tiers, 8-panels. Measures 21” x 13-1/2.” There is blue pencil in the first five panels to denote the grass, either for the colorist or someone to add halftones I would assume. Art is in Very Good condition for its age and very clean aside for a couple of partial fingerprints on right hand margin and a couple minor spots of surface dirt.

 

Please note, the scanner gave the art a yellowish hue, it is actually white in color!

 

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$249.95

JAY IRVING FIREHOUSE CARTOON Full Color Framed Original Art, 40s

Great full-color cartoon original art from the 1940s by Jay Irving, best-known for his POTTSY comic strip! The image has a nervous fireman gripping a pole with a heavyset fireman telling him “No, Finnegan….For Up, We Got Stairs”. A happy dog with a bandaged tail watches nearby.

 

Artwork is framed. Signed “Jay Irving” on the upper right of art. Caption is hand lettered on to the mat. Art is bright and Excellent. Wood frame has archival mat containing art with 14-1/4 x 15-1/4” image area.

Jay Irving (1900-1970) worked at “Collier’s” weekly magazine 1932-1945 creating “Collier’s Cops”, and is best known for the “Pottsy“ comic strip which appeared 1955-1970. He was a founding member of the NCS, and his son is noted writer Clifford Irving. Wonderful example, ready for display.

 

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$299.95

Arthur "Pop" Momand KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESES Sunday Original Art dated 3-27-32

Dated March 27, 1932, this is a great example of this Husband and Wife strip by Arthur "Pop" Momand.

Al meets his old pal, Mel Sweeny, and they go off to reminisce about the old days after which he invites him to come over for dinner that night after assuring him it will be fine with his wife. Al’s wife isn’t happy about it but comes around when he tells her Mel is in the diamond business and knows a lot of important people! She thinks if she’s nice to him she can pick up a nice diamond cheap! Mel arrives and Al leaves for a minute to pick up a box of cigars while the wife chats with their guest who tells her this is his busy time of year. She replies she thought June was the big time for diamonds and he replies no, its April as he’s the one who keeps the baseball diamond in shape at the ball park! Al returns home to find Mel leaving as the wife suddenly left the room in a huff when he told her about his job. In the last panel, we find Al still outside, afraid to go into the house. A funny page!

 

This Sunday from 1932 consists of two sections which have a combined image area of 16-1/2" x 17-3/4. Some light overall paper ageing, and the strip has been glued on to a piece of mat board; otherwise, the work is in Very Good condition. The title and artist’s name have been printed on the mat also.

 

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$99.99

Timothy Truman THE SPIDER #2 (First Series), Page 13

Page 2 from THE SPIDER #2 (Eclipse Comics, 1991), art by Timothy Truman (story & pencils) and Enrique Alcatena (Inks).

Millionaire Richard Wentworth visits Flandry of his publishing wing to see how its new magazine, URBANE, which is about to launch is progressing. The first issue will be devoted to the noted playwright, George S. Kaufman, and Flandry is telling his boss he would like to devote the next issue to a major expose of that deplorable SPIDER character and assign a couple of top-notch investigative reporters on the story who might even be able to find out who he is! Wentworth tells him absolutely not!

 

Signed and inscribed in the bottom right corner as follows – “For Joel - Spider Forever – Timothy Truman – 7/93.” Original measures 11” x 17” and is in Very Good condition. The magazine title and text lettering in the first and second panels are paste-ups. There are a couple dabs of white-out also. Overall the page is very clean and in great shape!

 

Timothy Truman’s first SPIDER mini-series gave the classic 1930s pulp character a unique Truman twist and updated the time period to the 1990s! His twin 45s spitting out death and justice, The Spider was one of the major pulp heroes of the pre-war era. Created in 1933, The Spider was millionaire playboy Richard Wentworth, a WW1 veteran and a man with a deep hatred of evil. He took care of the latter by adopting a fear-filled alter ego, THE SPIDER, Master of Men who went out at night to right wrongs and squash evils too powerful for normal law authorities!

 

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Harry Tuthill BUNGLE FAMILY Sunday Page Originals

 

Known as "the finest, most inventive and socially critical of the family strips, THE BUNGLE FAMILY, was a popular domestic comedy that emphasized dialogue and realistic situations. The titular patriarch of the strip, long-suffering, cantankerous George Bungle, voiced the petty frustrations and joys of the common man during the Jazz Age and through the Depression.

 

HARRY J. TUTHILL left Chicago at the age of fifteen to seek his fortune and traveled the U.S. finding employment with a foot surgeon, selling baking powder, eggbeaters and pictures, plus working as a medicine show barker in a street carnival.

At 37 years old, trying to break in as an artist, Tuthill still hadn't sold a single drawing, until finally a few of his editorial cartoons were bought by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. He was hired by The St. Louis Star during World War I where he produced "topical" cartoons and comics full-time.

This opportunity helped him develop new ideas for comic strips. In 1918, Tuthill created “Home Sweet Home”, based on the crazy dramas of apartment life he lived as a young man. The strip followed the domestic adventures of Mabel (later Josephine) and George, a young couple beset on all sides by in-laws, neighbors and businessmen. After six years, the strip was bought by the McClure Syndicate and retitled THE BUNGLE FAMILY in 1924. The strip was carried by 100 to 150 U.S. newspapers at its height. Tuthill continued to draw it for the syndicate until 1942 and then on his own until 1945, after which he retired and led a quiet life until his death in 1957.

 

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$249.95

8/28/32

Harry Tuthill THE BUNGLE FAMILY Sunday Comic Strip Original with Little Brother Topper -- 8-28-32

Titled “Help, and Help!” -- Bungle's neighbor wants a little help getting into his apartment before the wife gets home, but it turns into quite the ordeal -- in other words a normal day for poor Bungle! He gets kicked in the face, knocked into a wall and beaten with a broom in his effort to be a good neighbor! Turns out the neighbor had his key in his pocket all the time and after the shellacking Bungle took, he takes off after him but the neighbor is too fast, so he lies in wait for him to return and get his revenge! Meanwhile, in the top strip, LITTLE BROTHER tires to add to his tab at the candy store.

 

The image area measures 21.25" x 28.25". The art is in Good condition with some staining, heavy edge wear, and a chip out along the top edge that DOES affect the artwork in the first panel.

 

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$249.95

11/13/32

Harry Tuthill THE BUNGLE FAMILY Sunday Comic Strip Original with Little Brother Topper -- 11-13-32

Titled “Another Big Bargain” -- Bungle comes across a coat sale but just can't seem to decide on the style and keeps coming back to exchange it with hilarious results, too big, too long, etc. He finally gets so exasperated he tries to cut through the crowd to see the manager and in the last panel, we see a police car racing to a complaint about a man creating a disturbance and who else could it be, but George Bungle! Lots of tomfoolery in this amusing Sunday.

 

The image area measures 21.5" x 28" and the art is in Very Good condition with edge wear.

 

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$249.95

1/14/34

Harry Tuthill THE BUNGLE FAMILY Sunday Comic Strip Original with Little Brother Topper -- 1-14-34

Titled “Stymie” -- Bungle thinks having the wife out of the house is going to make getting rid of the Christmas tree easier -- but this fir has other ideas. It rips down drapes, knocks over a chair and trips George when he is distracted by a barking dog in the hallway! As he heads down the stairs with the tree, he yells back at the yapping pooch and both he and the tree fall down the stairs with Bungle the worse for wear! Once he’s downstairs, he realizes he should have taken it out the back way! A funny page!

 

The image area measures 21.25" x 28" and the art is in Fair condition with some margin chipping, edge wear, a 7.5" tear on the left side, and moisture damage with some overall warping.

 

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$249.95

3/25/34

Harry Tuthill THE BUNGLE FAMILY Sunday Comic Strip Original with Little Brother Topper -- 3-25-34

Titled "Ah! Those Neighbors Again" – George’s neighbor knocks at the door and informs him he’s had enough of his wife and is leaving home, he asks to use his phone to inform her of same and he is keeping the shoe she threw at him for evidence! Hen then continues to babble on about her and their relationship and tries to call her again when the doorbell rings, and George says, he knows its her! The wife comes in and begs forgiveness but he harps on the shoe she threw at his head, but finally he relents and forgives her and they return upstairs where minutes later, they’re fighting again with such vigor the entire building is yelling for them to shut up! A funny page!

 

This Sunday has an image area of 22" x 27.5". There is some slight aging apparent overall, some soiling, and heavy edge and corner wear; otherwise, the work is in Very Good condition.

 

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$249.95

4/1/34

Harry Tuthill THE BUNGLE FAMILY Sunday Comic Strip Original with Little Brother Topper -- 4-1-34

Titled "The Big Day" -- George suddenly realizes its April 1st and sets out to fool his wife. He starts moaning in pain loudly, and claiming he has double vision, going on and on. His wife, Jo, comes back in and shoves a bottle of a nasty liquid in his mouth which he swallows down! He then says, he was only fooling, it was an April Fool’s joke. Then the wife exclaims “Oh no, what did I do,” implying there was something wrong with what she gave him, and tells him to get into bed and she’ll call the doctor! Yikes! She then tells the doctor on the phone he’s turning green, then purple! The doctor arrives, he’s got a long beard and in his hat and coat. He looks at George and says nothing can be done. George tells the doc to try and spare no expense and the doctor turns away and starts laughing! He then reveals himself to be his wife, Jo, in disguise! April Fool! Did she ever get him good. As she leaves the room, George tries to figure out how he can get her back even better!

 

This Sunday has an image area of 22" x 27.5". There is some slight aging apparent overall, some staining, and edge and corner wear; o

otherwise, the work is in Very Good condition.

 

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