Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn - 29 Newspaper pages & strips - 1918/1925
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Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn Sunday pages, 29 loose newspaper pages and strips by Clare Victor Dwiggins (Dwig), dating from 1918 to 1925, in very good condition.
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29 rare surviving episodes from period 1918-1925 from Sunday Comics sections featuring episodes of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn by Clare Victor Dwiggins on one each single full page.
9x 1918 (2x Buster Brown on the back)
1x 1919
2x 1921
2x 1922
14x 1923 (all Katzenjammer Kids on the back)
1x 1925
On a couple of pages there are little pieces of old transparent tape to repair tears.
Ohio-cartoonist Clare Victor Dwiggins, who used to sign "Dwig", initially focused on a career in architecture. He started his career as a cartoonist in 1897, when he published his first cartoons in the Saint Louis Dispatch and the New York World (owned by Joseph Pulitzer). He produced many gags and panels, that regularly referred to rural boyhood, such as 'J. Filliken Wilberfloss', 'Leap Year Lizzie', 'Them Was the Happy Days', 'Uncle Jim and Tad and Tim', 'Mrs Bump's Boarding House', 'Ophelia and Her Slate' and 'Bill's Diary'. His first actual comic strip was 'Gallant Cholly', that ran in the Philadelphia Inquirer for a couple of months in 1901.
One of his most memorable creations was 'School Days', a Sunday strip that appeared in the early 1910s. As the title suggests, it depicted the life of school children, evoking a Victorian atmosphere. Evolving from a one-panel strip into a continuing story, the strip ran until 1932.
By 1918, Dwig created the Sunday comic 'Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn', loosely based on the classic book by Mark Twain. For the Ledger Syndicate, Dwig created 'Nipper', which appeared from 1931 to 1937. Starting in 1940, he returned to 'Huckleberry Finn', this time published in Doc Savage Comics and Supersnipe Comics. In the latter comic book, he also drew 'Bobby Crusoe' in 1945. That same year, he left comics and focused on illustration. He has published five books with August Derleth until his death in 1958.
The pages are in good condition, although wrinkles, tears, flaking and missing pieces may occur.
Will be shipped with track&trace.
The lots in this auction can be shipped combined. This is taken into account up to a weight of 5 kg. If packages need to be split due to weight, an additional charge will apply. In this case, we will contact you.
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29 rare surviving episodes from period 1918-1925 from Sunday Comics sections featuring episodes of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn by Clare Victor Dwiggins on one each single full page.
9x 1918 (2x Buster Brown on the back)
1x 1919
2x 1921
2x 1922
14x 1923 (all Katzenjammer Kids on the back)
1x 1925
On a couple of pages there are little pieces of old transparent tape to repair tears.
Ohio-cartoonist Clare Victor Dwiggins, who used to sign "Dwig", initially focused on a career in architecture. He started his career as a cartoonist in 1897, when he published his first cartoons in the Saint Louis Dispatch and the New York World (owned by Joseph Pulitzer). He produced many gags and panels, that regularly referred to rural boyhood, such as 'J. Filliken Wilberfloss', 'Leap Year Lizzie', 'Them Was the Happy Days', 'Uncle Jim and Tad and Tim', 'Mrs Bump's Boarding House', 'Ophelia and Her Slate' and 'Bill's Diary'. His first actual comic strip was 'Gallant Cholly', that ran in the Philadelphia Inquirer for a couple of months in 1901.
One of his most memorable creations was 'School Days', a Sunday strip that appeared in the early 1910s. As the title suggests, it depicted the life of school children, evoking a Victorian atmosphere. Evolving from a one-panel strip into a continuing story, the strip ran until 1932.
By 1918, Dwig created the Sunday comic 'Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn', loosely based on the classic book by Mark Twain. For the Ledger Syndicate, Dwig created 'Nipper', which appeared from 1931 to 1937. Starting in 1940, he returned to 'Huckleberry Finn', this time published in Doc Savage Comics and Supersnipe Comics. In the latter comic book, he also drew 'Bobby Crusoe' in 1945. That same year, he left comics and focused on illustration. He has published five books with August Derleth until his death in 1958.
The pages are in good condition, although wrinkles, tears, flaking and missing pieces may occur.
Will be shipped with track&trace.
The lots in this auction can be shipped combined. This is taken into account up to a weight of 5 kg. If packages need to be split due to weight, an additional charge will apply. In this case, we will contact you.
#specialcollectionservice
Details
Number of objects
29
Language
English
Item
Newspaper pages & strips
Condition
Very good
Series
Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn
Binding
Loose page
Publisher
Various
Artist
Clare Victor Dwiggins (Dwig)
Year oldest item
1918
Year youngest item
1925
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