Nemo Classic Comics Library (1983) comic books 1985-1987

News, articles and reprints celebrating the classic era of comic strips. A look at the classic illustrations of Charles Dana Gibson; reprints of Sams Strip by Mort Walker and Jerry Dumas; a profile of pioneering political and newspaper cartoonist James Montgomery Flagg, who created Uncle Sam; reprints of Flaggs work; a look at George Frinks early comic strips Circus Solly and Slim Jim; reprints of the 1930s strip Bills Diary by Clare Victor Dwiggins, a precursor of Family Circus. Edited by Rick Marschall. Black and white; magazine format. Cover by Gibson. Cover price $3.50. Cover price $3.50.

News, articles and reprints celebrating the classic era of comic strips. Classic World War II strips by Milton Caniff, Bill Mauldin and more; the lost science fiction strip Beyond Mars; pioneering woman cartoonist Rose ONeill; fantasy in the comics. Edited by Rick Marschall. Black and white; magazine format. Cover by Caniff. Cover price $3.50. Cover price $3.50.

News, articles and reprints celebrating the classic era of comic strips. Reprints of a classic Red Barry detective story from the 1930s by Will Gould; pioneering cartoonist Thomas A. Dorgan (TAD) remembered; adventure strip Major Hoople. Edited by Rick Marschall. Black and white; magazine format. Cover by Gould. Cover price $3.50. Cover price $3.50.

News, articles and reprints celebrating the classic era of comic strips. The art of George McManus, the cartoonist of Bringing Up Father; reprints of a Hairbreadth Harry adventure strip; Moon Mullins by Ferd Johnson; Sams Strip by Mort Walker and Jerry Dumas. Edited by Rick Marschall. Black and white; magazine format. Cover by McManus. Cover price $3.50. Cover price $3.50.

News, articles and reprints celebrating the classic era of comic strips. Reprints of Milton Caniffs first adventure strip, Dickie Dare; more reprints of the Hairbreadth Harry adventure strip; the pioneering strip Tim Tylers Luck; European adventure strips. Edited by Rick Marschall. Black and white; magazine format. Cover by McManus. Cover price $3.50. Cover price $3.50.

News, articles and reprints celebrating the classic era of comic strips. The connections between Mark Twains Huckleberry Finn and the early comic strips; Dwigs comic strip adaptation of the Twain characters; reprints of the Baron Bean strip by Krazy Kats George Herriman; fantasy illustrator Joseph Clement Coll; European adventure strip Corto Maltese. Edited by Rick Marschall. Black and white; magazine format. Cover by Dwig and E.W. Kemble. Cover price $3.50. Cover price $3.50.

News, articles and reprints celebrating the classic era of comic strips. A profile of Chester Gould and Dick Tracy: appreciations by Donald Phelps and Tom DeHaven; reprints of two classic Dick Tracy adventures; an interview with Gould by future Dick Tracy cartoonist Max Allan Collins. Edited by Rick Marschall. Black and white; magazine format. Cover by Gould. Cover price $3.95. Cover price $3.50.

News, articles and reprints celebrating the classic era of comic strips. An interview with Al Capp of Lil Abner, with annotations; reprints of the Lil Abner adventure The Bald Iggle; the design and illustration work of Little Nemos Winsor McCay; the golden age of the Sunday funnies. Edited by Rick Marschall. Black and white; magazine format. Cover by Capp. Cover price $3.50. Cover price $3.50.

News, articles and reprints celebrating the classic era of comic strips. Reprints of the Kerry Drake adventure The Case of the Missing Cartoonist by Alfred Andriola and Allen Saunders; the political cartoons of Gasoline Alleys Frank King; illustrator Russell Patterson; W.C. Fields and the Big Chief Wahoo strip. Edited by Rick Marschall. Black and white; magazine format. 64 pages. Cover by Andriola. Cover price $3.50. Cover price $3.50.

News, articles and reprints celebrating the classic era of comic strips. Reprints of The Adventures of Oaky Doaks by R.B. Fuller; the golden age of comics promotions; the fantasy strip The Terrors of the Tiny Tads, by Gustave Verbeek. Edited by Rick Marschall. Black and white; magazine format. 64 pages. Cover by Alex Raymond. Cover price $3.50. Cover price $3.50.

News, articles and reprints celebrating the classic era of comic strips. The forgotten Western strip Little Joe, by Harold Gray (Little Orphan Annie); the King Aroo strip by Jack Kent; the classic slum kid strips of Percy Crosby (Barnaby). Edited by Rick Marschall. Black and white; magazine format. 64 pages. Cover by Kent. Cover price $3.50. Cover price $3.50.

News, articles and reprints celebrating the classic era of comic strips. The comic strips of John Held, Jr.; the illustration and cartoon art of Jimmy Swinnerton; cartoonists during the era of labor unrest and unionizing; reprints of a classic Joe Palooka strip by Ham Fisher. Edited by Rick Marschall. Black and white; magazine format. 64 pages. Cover by Held. Cover price $3.50. Cover price $3.50.

News, articles and reprints celebrating the classic era of comic strips. Reprints of a classic Little Orphan Annie adventure from 1937, The Man Who Lived a Billion Years, by Harold Gray; remembering Fontaine Fox and the Toonerville Trolley strip; Hi and Lois by Mort Walker and Dik Browne. Edited by Rick Marschall. Black and white; magazine format. 64 pages. Cover by Gray. Cover price $3.50. Cover price $3.50.

News, articles and reprints celebrating the classic era of comic strips. The art of Rube Goldberg, creator of Boob McNutt and the classic Rube Goldberg inventions; political cartooning and radical politics. Edited by Rick Marschall. Black and white; magazine format. 64 pages. Cover by Goldberg. Cover price $3.50. Cover price $3.50.

News, articles and reprints celebrating the classic era of comic strips. An interview with pioneering cartoonist Edwina; comics history in the words of those who saw it happen; classic advertising by cartoonists Milton Caniff and Noel Sickles. Edited by Rick Marschall. Black and white; magazine format. 64 pages. Cover by Edwina. Cover price $3.50. Cover price $3.95.

News, articles and reprints celebrating the classic era of comic strips. The pioneering funny animal comics of T.S. Sullivant; reprints of the Henry strip by Carl Anderson; cartooning contests in history; cartoonist Everett True. Edited by Rick Marschall. Black and white; magazine format. 64 pages. Cover by Sullivant. Cover price $3.95. Cover price $3.95.

News, articles and reprints celebrating the classic era of comic strips. The forgotten early cartoons of illustrator Norman Rockwell; writer William Faulkner and the comics; chalk plate cartoons; the strange White Boy cartoon. Edited by Rick Marschall. Black and white; magazine format. 64 pages. Cover by Rockwell. Cover price $3.95. Cover price $3.95.

This issue cover features a comprehensive look at: "Ethnic Images in the Comics." Also, "From Dixie to Harlem, a complete sequence of the rare comic strip, "Torchy Brown." Articles, portfolios, cartoons, strips, history, essays and more, all relating to ethnic images in the comics. Cover price $3.95.