The Yellow Kid comic books issue 1

Copies in any grade are exceedingly rare!

A fortnightly magazine of wit, fiction, and illustration. 52 pgs, B&W. While this publication came out a little later and includes lots of text material, The Yellow Kid was one of the first Sunday supplement comic strips in an American newspaper. Creator Richard F. Outcault's use of word balloons was highly influential in subsequent newspaper comic strips and comic books. The cartoon was created to help educate the wealthy newspaper readers and show them the realities of living in poverty. Outcault's aim was to make these wealthy readers more sympathetic to the plight of the poor. The Yellow Kid and its social commentary also contributed to the coining of the term "yellow journalism." Cover price $0.05.

Copies in any grade are exceedingly rare!

A fortnightly magazine of wit, fiction, and illustration. 52 pgs, B&W. While this publication came out a little later and includes lots of text material, The Yellow Kid was one of the first Sunday supplement comic strips in an American newspaper. Creator Richard F. Outcault's use of word balloons was highly influential in subsequent newspaper comic strips and comic books. The cartoon was created to help educate the wealthy newspaper readers and show them the realities of living in poverty. Outcault's aim was to make these wealthy readers more sympathetic to the plight of the poor. The Yellow Kid and its social commentary also contributed to the coining of the term "yellow journalism." Cover price $0.05.

Copies in any grade are exceedingly rare!

A fortnightly magazine of wit, fiction, and illustration. Includes short stories by Wilfred Galt, Richard Duffy, Jack Tanner, and William Holcombe. 52 pgs, B&W. While this publication came out a little later and includes lots of text material, The Yellow Kid was one of the first Sunday supplement comic strips in an American newspaper. Creator Richard F. Outcault's use of word balloons was highly influential in subsequent newspaper comic strips and comic books.The cartoon was created to help educate the wealthy newspaper readers and show them the realities of living in poverty. Outcault's aim was to make these wealthy readers more sympathetic to the plight of the poor. The Yellow Kid and its social commentary also contributed to the coining of the term "yellow journalism." Cover price $0.05.

Copies in any grade are exceedingly rare!

A fortnightly magazine of wit, fiction, and illustration. Includes short stories by C. d'Ussy, Richard Duffy, Wilfred Galt, and Raymond Tennant. 52 pgs, B&W. While this publication came out a little later and includes lots of text material, The Yellow Kid was one of the first Sunday supplement comic strips in an American newspaper. Creator Richard F. Outcault's use of word balloons was highly influential in subsequent newspaper comic strips and comic books. The cartoon was created to help educate the wealthy newspaper readers and show them the realities of living in poverty. Outcault's aim was to make these wealthy readers more sympathetic to the plight of the poor. The Yellow Kid and its social commentary also contributed to the coining of the term "yellow journalism." Cover price $0.05.

Copies in any grade are exceedingly rare!

A fortnightly magazine of wit, fiction, and illustration. Includes short stories by Fernande Hauvet, Richard Duffy, Wilfred Galt, and Eugene Shade Bisbee. 52 pgs, B&W. While this publication came out a little later and includes lots of text material, The Yellow Kid was one of the first Sunday supplement comic strips in an American newspaper. Creator Richard F. Outcault's use of word balloons was highly influential in subsequent newspaper comic strips and comic books. The cartoon was created to help educate the wealthy newspaper readers and show them the realities of living in poverty. Outcault's aim was to make these wealthy readers more sympathetic to the plight of the poor. The Yellow Kid and its social commentary also contributed to the coining of the term "yellow journalism." Cover price $0.05.

Copies in any grade are exceedingly rare!

A fortnightly magazine of wit, fiction, and illustration. Includes short stories by Alfred Meers, Fernande Hauvet, Christopher Ardee, and Wilfrid Galt. 52 pgs, B&W. While this publication came out a little later and includes lots of text material, The Yellow Kid was one of the first Sunday supplement comic strips in an American newspaper. Creator Richard F. Outcault's use of word balloons was highly influential in subsequent newspaper comic strips and comic books. The cartoon was created to help educate the wealthy newspaper readers and show them the realities of living in poverty. Outcault's aim was to make these wealthy readers more sympathetic to the plight of the poor. The Yellow Kid and its social commentary also contributed to the coining of the term "yellow journalism." Cover price $0.05.

Copies in any grade are exceedingly rare!

A fortnightly magazine of wit, fiction, and illustration. Includes short stories by John C. Fleming, Clara Augusta Trask, Lurana W. Sheldon, and Wilfrid Galt. 52 pgs, B&W. While this publication came out a little later and includes lots of text material, The Yellow Kid was one of the first Sunday supplement comic strips in an American newspaper. Creator Richard F. Outcault's use of word balloons was highly influential in subsequent newspaper comic strips and comic books. The cartoon was created to help educate the wealthy newspaper readers and show them the realities of living in poverty. Outcault's aim was to make these wealthy readers more sympathetic to the plight of the poor. The Yellow Kid and its social commentary also contributed to the coining of the term "yellow journalism." Cover price $0.05.

Copies in any grade are exceedingly rare!

A fortnightly magazine of wit, fiction, and illustration. Includes short stories by Eugene Shade Bisbee, Richard Duffy, Ralph Graham Taber, and Wilfrid Galt. 52 pgs, B&W. While this publication came out a little later and includes lots of text material, The Yellow Kid was one of the first Sunday supplement comic strips in an American newspaper. Creator Richard F. Outcault's use of word balloons was highly influential in subsequent newspaper comic strips and comic books. The cartoon was created to help educate the wealthy newspaper readers and show them the realities of living in poverty. Outcault's aim was to make these wealthy readers more sympathetic to the plight of the poor. The Yellow Kid and its social commentary also contributed to the coining of the term "yellow journalism." Cover price $0.05.

Copies in any grade are exceedingly rare!

A fortnightly magazine of wit, fiction, and illustration. 52 pgs, B&W. While this publication came out a little later and includes lots of text material, The Yellow Kid was one of the first Sunday supplement comic strips in an American newspaper. Creator Richard F. Outcault's use of word balloons was highly influential in subsequent newspaper comic strips and comic books. The cartoon was created to help educate the wealthy newspaper readers and show them the realities of living in poverty. Outcault's aim was to make these wealthy readers more sympathetic to the plight of the poor. The Yellow Kid and its social commentary also contributed to the coining of the term "yellow journalism." Cover price $0.05.

1st printing. This volume collects R.F. Outcault's Yellow Kid in its entirety, for the first time since its original publication in 1895-1898, with extensive text on the antecedents of the Kid (aka Mickey Dugan) that includes historical information and discussion on the evolution of the first cartoon character loved by everyone, the ancestor to such icons as Mickey Mouse, Bugs Bunny, and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Hardcover, 9-in. x 12-in., 302 pages, PC/PB&W. Cover price $55.00.

1st printing. This volume collects R.F. Outcault's Yellow Kid in its entirety, for the first time since its original publication in 1895-1898, with extensive text on the antecedents of the Kid (aka Mickey Dugan) that includes historical information and discussion on the evolution of the first cartoon character loved by everyone, the ancestor to such icons as Mickey Mouse, Bugs Bunny, and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Softcover, 9-in. x 12-in., 302 pages, PC/PB&W. Cover price $39.95.