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Newspaper Comics
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I am Pleased to offer for sale the following The GUMPS Puzzle No.2 made by Stephens Kindred & co New york This is not Just the box, but Complete with puzzle inside! From a private collection This is not a reproduction A LITTLE ABOUT : The Gumps, a popular comic strip about a middle-class family, was created by Sidney Smith in 1917, launching a 42-year run in newspapers from February 12, 1917 until October 17, 1959. The Gumps were utterly ordinary: chinless, bombastic blowhard Andy, his wife Min (short for Minerva), their son Chester, rich Uncle Bim and their annoying maid Tilda. The idea was envisioned by Captain Joseph M. Patterson, editor and publisher of the Chicago Tribune, who was important in the early histories of Little Orphan Annie and other long-run comic strips. Patterson referred to the masses as "gumps" and thought a strip about the domestic lives of ordinary people and their ordinary happenings would appeal to the "gumps." He hired Smith to write and draw the strip, and it was Smith who breathed life into the characters. The Gumps made its debut in an unusual way. Cartoonist Sidney Smith had previously drawn and written Old Doc Yak, a talking-animal strip that sustained only a brief run. The very last Old Doc Yak strip depicted the Yak and his family moving out of their house, while wondering who might move into the house next. The last panel showed only the empty house. The next day's newspapers, in the space formerly occupied by Old Doc Yak, printed the very first strip of The Gumps, showing the Gumps moving into the house formerly occupied by the Yak family A NICE ADDITION TO ANY COMIC Collection!:) Image is actual product! GOOD LUCK BIDDERS!
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