Men of Daring (1933) comic books

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No dust jacket; item graded based on book only. Men of Daring, text and illustrations by Stookie Allen with an introduction by newsman Lowell Thomas. Published 1933 by Cupples & Leon Co., reprinting multi-image box cartoons featuring heroic individual from history and the contemporanious world, all originally published via newspaper syndication. A platimun age precursor to modern day comics book. Hundreds of interesting people, some still famous, other long forgotten, populate this fascinating book with their images (as rendered by Allen) together with snippets of fact that explain their lasting (or fleeting) fame. 7 x 8-3/4 inches, hardcover, black-and-white, 100 pages with dust jacket (dust jacket images are repeated on hardback covers. Cover price $0.10.