FAMOUS FUNNIES SERIES 1 #1
CGC VF-: 7.5
(Stock Image)
SOLD ON: Monday, 05/02/2022 4:27 PM
$8,500
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PUBLISHER: Eastern Color
COMMENTS: white pages; Ext (P) color touch, pieces added,tear seals,cover cleaned,reinforced
VERY, VERY, VERY, RARE! first-ever newsstand comic! Mutt 'n' Jeff, Joe Palooka
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VERY, VERY, VERY, RARE! first-ever newsstand comic! Mutt 'n' Jeff, Joe Palooka
DESCRIPTION
white pages; Ext (P) color touch, pieces added,tear seals,cover cleaned,reinforced
VERY, VERY, VERY, RARE! first-ever newsstand comic! Mutt 'n' Jeff, Joe PalookaThis is the beginning, the start of it all. Incredibly historic and immensely important, this piece of Americana is the first comic book to reach American newsstands and survives in such low numbers that, for decades, collectors believed it to be a myth invented by the Overstreet Guide to prevent counterfeits! Time has proved otherwise, as copies have surfaced but only few and far between. Cobbled together with reprints of popular newspaper strips and rushed to market to attempt to move the slowly-dying comic strip field into a new era, this comic unwittingly launched a whole new business and a whole new medium. The success of the comic later led to the launch of the Famous Funnies monthly series and proved the viability of the medium. It's hard to overestimate the importance of this artifact to American comics and American pop culture in general.
VERY, VERY, VERY, RARE! first-ever newsstand comic! Mutt 'n' Jeff, Joe PalookaThis is the beginning, the start of it all. Incredibly historic and immensely important, this piece of Americana is the first comic book to reach American newsstands and survives in such low numbers that, for decades, collectors believed it to be a myth invented by the Overstreet Guide to prevent counterfeits! Time has proved otherwise, as copies have surfaced but only few and far between. Cobbled together with reprints of popular newspaper strips and rushed to market to attempt to move the slowly-dying comic strip field into a new era, this comic unwittingly launched a whole new business and a whole new medium. The success of the comic later led to the launch of the Famous Funnies monthly series and proved the viability of the medium. It's hard to overestimate the importance of this artifact to American comics and American pop culture in general.