Rare surviving episodes from various Sunday Comics sections of Elmer / Alexander Smart by Charles H. (Doc.) Winner on one each single full page. comic on the back: Joe Jinks by Vic Forsythe Only some pages have been selected for being photographed. Published in period 1929-1931 70 full pages Elmer: Doc Winner was an American comic artist who created the newspaper gag-a-day comic 'Tubby' (1923-1926), later remodeled and retitled as 'Elmer' (1926-1956). Between 1938 and 1939, he was the second artist to continue 'Thimble Theater' ('Popeye'), while also being the third artist to continue the iconic gag series 'The Katzenjammer Kids', which he did between 1949 and 1956. He also ghosted 'Barney Google and Snuffy Smith'. Joe Jinks: Vic Forsythe was born in 1885 in Southern California as Victor Clyde Forsythe, and was known as Clyde (1885-1962). He grew up in Tombstone, Arizona, and studied art at the Los Angeles School of Art & Design and then in New York at the Arts Students League. Forsythe's early work were comics made for New York papers. Forsythe is the creator of the newspaper strip 'Joe Jinks' (4 June 1917 - June 1971), which first appeared in the New York World (owned by Joseph Pulitzer), under the name 'Joe's Car'. Its title character is a balding, agitated man with a passion for automobiles (later airplanes), and his nagging wife, Blanche. The Sunday page was accompanied by the topper 'Divot Diggers'. Forsythe left the strip in 1933 to work on 'Way Out West'. From then on, the strip was drawn by a succession of different artists until 1971, including: Pete Llanuza, Sam and Mo Leff, Bill Holman, Henry Formhals, Al McWilliams, John Celardo and Wayne Boring. Forsythe lived in New Rochelle, NY and shared a studio with Norman Rockwell. In 1920, he returned to the West with his bride. In addition to various strips, Forsythe was also an illustrator and a painter of western landscapes. The pages are in good condition, although wrinkles, tears, flaking and missing pieces may occur. Will be shipped with track&trace. #specialcollectionservice