r/ComicsPre1940

found this in a second-hand shop in Japan and I really liked it, so I bought it. I didn't really know what it was at first 😂

It seems to be a handmade bound collection of around 300 old Japanese newspaper comic strips. The strips are all different from what I checked, and they seem to follow the story. I also checked some pages in the middle and it still seems to continue.

The comic is 親爺教育 (Oyaji Kyōiku), the Japanese version of Bringing Up Father / Jiggs and Maggie by George McManus.

Some strips have © 1923 International Feature Service, Inc., and you can still see the original Japanese newspaper text, advertisements and articles around the comics. I found references to publications from around 1923–1924.

Someone seems to have collected the strips and hand-bound them into this little book. It's quite fragile and definitely looks very old.

I'm really curious about what I found. 😅

Does anyone know more about this kind of collection, and what it might be worth?

Thanks!

r/ComicsPre1940

It took a couple years but I just finished my set of these 4 early Platinum Age comics with variant covers. Overstreet lists the “Famous Comics” versions but the “Funnies” version isn’t listed. The first is Captain Easy And Washtub. (Whitman 1934).

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Daily comic strip from October 24, 1935, for "Brick Bradford." by Clarence Gray

Amos Roach comic for June 14, 1912 by Andy Hettinger

Need help identifying and valuing a 1920s Japanese collection of ~300 original newspaper comic strips

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Krazy Kat - The Demon Enlarger, 1930s, by George Herriman

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Recent pickup. Perce Pierce wrote and drew this strip while serving in the US Navy during World War I. Seaman Si (1918 Reilly & Britton Co.). A book of cartoons about the funniest “Gob” in the navy.

Almanacs were among the first publications to regularly feature comics. This is The Comic Almanac For The Year 1886, which likely was published in the fall of 1885.

r/ComicsPre1940

It took a couple years but I just finished my set of these 4 early Platinum Age comics with variant covers. Overstreet lists the “Famous Comics” versions but the “Funnies” version isn’t listed. The first is Captain Easy And Washtub. (Whitman 1934).

Went to a small invite only minicomic over the weekend. More pulps than comics. Every year the host serves a cake. This was this year’s version of the cake.

It took a couple years but I just finished my set of these 4 early Platinum Age comics with variant covers. Overstreet lists the “Famous Comics” versions but the “Funnies” version isn’t listed. The first is The Captain And The Kids (Whitman 1934).

Comic adjacent. A book dealer friend of mine picked this up for me. The Book Of Lies (1996) straight from the library of Walt Disney Studio. The book itself is cool in itself (illustrated by Frank Verbeck) but even cooler is that it may have been handled by Walt himself or one of his Nine Old Men.

Recent pick up. Frederick Burr Opper, creator of Happy Hooligan, had a career in comic strips that spanned the Victorian and Platinum Ages. This early PA collection I had never seen before. Up To Date Conundrums. (1903).

Recent pick up. Very cool Platinum Age promotional comic for Junket, a popular dessert brand. Bobby And Betty “The Smiling Twins” Painting Book. This is a hybrid comic/coloring book with comic panels printed in both color and black &amp; white. (1932 Junket).

A little rougher than I like but a very tough comic to find. To quote the Country Bears, she ain’t pretty but I ain’t too. Bobby Thatcher was a short lived adventurer strip (1927-1937) starring a 5 year old runaway. Bobby Thatcher’s Romance (1931 Altemus).

Daily comic strip from October 24, 1935, for "Brick Bradford." by Clarence Gray

Amos Roach comic for June 14, 1912 by Andy Hettinger

Need help identifying and valuing a 1920s Japanese collection of ~300 original newspaper comic strips

Recent pick up. Frederick Burr Opper was a pioneer of comic strips in the US, with a career that spanned the Victorian and Platinum Ages. His most famous creation was Happy Hooligan. This is Willie And His Papa And The Rest Of The Family (1901 Grosset &amp; Dunlop).

Recent pick up. Buster Brown And His Chum Tige by R. F. Outcault (1915 Frederick A. Stokes). Amazing color for 111 years old.

Krazy Kat - The Demon Enlarger, 1930s, by George Herriman

Recent pick up. This character was a huge pop culture figure from the 1880s to the 1940s in books, comic strips, movies and stage shows. Peck’s Bad Boy And His Country Cousin Cynthia (1907 Charles C. Thompson Co).

Recent pickup. Perce Pierce wrote and drew this strip while serving in the US Navy during World War I. Seaman Si (1918 Reilly &amp; Britton Co.). A book of cartoons about the funniest “Gob” in the navy.

Almanacs were among the first publications to regularly feature comics. This is The Comic Almanac For The Year 1886, which likely was published in the fall of 1885.

Recent pick up. Very cool Platinum Age promotional comic for Junket, a popular dessert brand. Bobby And Betty “The Smiling Twins” Painting Book. This is a hybrid comic/coloring book with comic panels printed in both color and black & white. (1932 Junket).

Recent pick up. Frederick Burr Opper was a pioneer of comic strips in the US, with a career that spanned the Victorian and Platinum Ages. His most famous creation was Happy Hooligan. This is Willie And His Papa And The Rest Of The Family (1901 Grosset & Dunlop).

Recent pickup. Perce Pierce wrote and drew this strip while serving in the US Navy during World War I. Seaman Si (1918 Reilly & Britton Co.). A book of cartoons about the funniest “Gob” in the navy.