By: Ted Dawson,
on 4/21/2010
The early Batman newspaper strips seem to be kind of scarce. This dates from 1944, the second year of the strip. Practically everything signed by creator Bob Kane was ghosted, and this was probably drawn by either Dick Sprang, Jack Burnley, Charles Paris or Alvin Schwartz. Click to Supersize
By: Ted Dawson,
on 4/20/2010
Frazetta original art from Heroic Comics #72, (Famous Funnies) 1952.Click to Supersize
By: Ted Dawson,
on 4/19/2010
For over thirty years, Chic Young drew this "topper" for his Sunday Blondie comic strip. It's hard to imagine the day when cartoonists had so much room on the comics pages that they actually had to draw an extra comic strip to fill up the space. If you're young enough to not know, or old enough to have forgotten, a page of the Sunday comics used to be about as wide as a computer keyboard, and
By: Ted Dawson,
on 4/16/2010
Alex Raymond is probably most famous for co-creating and drawing Flash Gordon, but before that he illustrated the Dashiell Hammett-scripted Secret Agent X-9. This original strip dates from 1934, when Flash Gordon, Jungle Jim and Secret Agent X-9 were all launched. Click to Supersize
By: Ted Dawson,
on 3/30/2010
Amazing Spider-man #108 Barbie Fashion #1
By: Ted Dawson,
on 3/26/2010
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By: Ted Dawson,
on 3/25/2010
By: Ted Dawson,
on 3/24/2010
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By: Ted Dawson,
on 2/4/2010
I ran across a few more originals of Stan Drake and Bill Yates' Annie's Li'l Orphans comic strip. I posted the first batch here. These strips must have been their pitch to the comics syndicate. I'll post another batch next week.Click to Supersize
Very cool, and nice to see.<br /><br />My theory on why they're scarce is, they're kind of a bastard child. Comic book readers aren't great fans of comic strips and comic strip collectors tend to gravitate more toward strips that are not adaptations of something, but rather created specifically for that medium.<br /><br />I am a fan of both, but still view comic book adaptaions in
This may have been written by Schwartz, actually. He did a great run of Batman from i think 43-46. He also wrote the Superman strip in it's earliset days, which is where he cooked up Bizarro.
This is great, thanks! What is the significance of the line 3/4 down the panels? Is that where it might be cropped in some papers?
Hey, Ed... Yeah, it is my understanding that some paper cropped the strips at that size. <br /><br />Brad, you must have Brainiac knowledge of these things. That's interesting to find out that the comic strip contributed Brainiac. Like Jeff said, nowadays the comic strips are considered the red-headed step-child of the comic books... probably because things are more valuable when the creators