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What Am I Doing Here? HC (1947 Simon and Schuster) comic books

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    What Am I Doing Here? HC (1947 Simon and Schuster) 1-REP


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    What Am I Doing Here? HC (1947 Simon and Schuster) #1-REP
    Published 1947 by Simon & Schuster.
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    Later printing. Story and art by Abner Dean. What Am I Doing Here? is a startling masterwork by one of the forgotten innovators of American comics. In 1945, after more than a decade as a commercial illustrator, Abner Dean invented a genre all his own: One might call it the Existential Gag Cartoon. He used the elegant draftsmanship and single-panel format of the standard cartoons of the day, but turned them to a deeper, stranger purpose. What Am I Doing Here? depicts a world at once alien and familiar, in which Dean's unclad Everyman searches for love, happiness, and the answers to life's biggest questions. Hardcover, 160 pages, B&W. Mature Readers Cover price $2.75.