Rare surviving episodes from various Sunday Comics sections, featuring amazing episodes of Alley Oop, Jungle Jim, Apple Mary, and other series: This bundle contains more than 350 (!) pages/strips, published between 1936 and 1957 and is about 20cm thick. Each series is bagged in a separate brown bag. Most pages have comics printed recto/verso. The verso side can feature various comics. Due to the high volume of pages in this lot, only some images were selected. - Alley Oop 1942. x35. half page - Jungle Jim 1945. by Paul Norris - Sappo 1937 x25 half page by Segar - Closer than we think 1958. x24 half page - Cynthia 1947 1948. x48 half page - Little Orphan Annie 1947-1948. x92 half page - Invisible Scarlet O 'Neil 1942 x36 half page - Apple Mary 1932-1935 x70 half page - Abbey an' Slats 1941. x31 half page - Sappo was created by EC Segar in response to King Features' dissatisfaction over his tendencies to leave work early. The daily strip initially revolving around diminutive everyman John Sappo's everyday misadventures, chiefly the struggle to catch the 5:15 train. By November 1921, Segar introduced Sappo's significantly larger, more domineering wife Myrtle, thus increasingly centering the strip on domestic humor. Sappo characters sometimes have supporting roles in Popeye stories. -Alley Oop is a syndicated comic strip created December 5, 1932, by American cartoonist V. T. Hamlin, who wrote and drew the strip through four decades for Newspaper Enterprise Association. Hamlin introduced a cast of colorful characters and his storylines entertained with a combination of adventure, fantasy, and humor. Alley Oop, the strip's title character, is a sturdy citizen in the prehistoric kingdom of Moo. He rides his pet dinosaur Dinny, carries a stone axe, and wears only a fur loincloth. Alley Oop's name was derived from the French phrase allez, hop! ("here we go"). - Jungle Jim is the fictional hero of a series of jungle adventures in various media. The series began on January 7, 1934, as an American newspaper comic strip chronicling the adventures of Asia-based hunter Jim Bradley, who was nicknamed Jungle Jim. Illustrator Alex Raymond and pulp magazine author Don Moore created the original strip as a topper to run above Raymond's Flash Gordon. Jungle Jim and Flash Gordon were launched simultaneously on January 7, 1934. The character was named after Alex's brother Jim Raymond. During World War II, artist Raymond enlisted as a Marine. One of his successors was Paul Norris (creator of DC Comics' Aquaman). - Apple Mary was a successful comic strip created in 1932 by Martha Orr, about an elderly woman who sells apples around her neighborhood -Invisible Scarlet O'Neil is a 1940–1956 American comic strip written and drawn by Russell Stamm, who had previously been an assistant to Chester Gould on Dick Tracy. The strip focused on Scarlet O'Neil, a plainclothes superhero (and one of the first superheroines) with the power of invisibility The pages are in good condition, although wrinkles, tears, flaking and missing pieces may occur. The pages were conserved in brown paper bags and will be delivered as such, however also wrapped in plastic. Will be shipped with track&trace. #specialcollectionservice