Joe Musial (6 results)

Comic Book. Condition: Acceptable. 3rd Printing. Fair condition. Lower staple loose, upper staple detached from cover. Heavy spine wear. Crease on back cover. Pages unmarked. 16pp.

Small 4to; pictorial boards; hardcover; black and white illustrations; sunned boards with a chipped spine and sunned pages else a good copy in a chipped pictorial dust jacket.

Paperback. 77235 almost near fine color comics paperback,

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Matey Visits New York ( book with record, 4 original unsigned drawings, and a 1964 Camera Ready Sunday Comic Strip ( matted, the top of the margin lifts up and down and comic strip taped to a back and you can lift up the boarder. The front board looks good, some scuffs, the back board has a hole that goes. clear through the back board, last page and an end paper. A lot of edge wear to the bottom edge. Five pages have a small stain in the corner tip of the bottom of the page, does not get into any of the illlustrations or text. The book has a RCA Victor Recording with Sound Effects. I do not have a record player to play the record with to see how it sounds. Four unsigned Original drawings. One drawing has red heart stickers attached to the pencil drawing. Joe Musial 1905-1977. He was born in Yonkers, New York from a polish immigrant family. After graduating from the Pratt institute in Brooklyn, New York, he studied for a year at the Sorbonne University in Paris, France, before becoming in 1929 assistant on Billy DeBeck's Barney Google and Snuffy Smith. After joining the staf of "King Features Syndicate" in 1932 he drew as a "ghost" artist for comic strips, such as Blondie, Secrect Agent X9, Bringin Up Father, Tille the Toiler and often took anonymously the place of official artists when they weren't at work. Joe Musial also drew comic strips as Jan and Aloysius, Teddy and Sitting Bull, Dollar a Dither, and wrote several Flash Gordon story books. Following the death of Charles H. Winner in 1956, he took over the comic strip The Katzenjammer Kids (the worlds oldest continuing comic strip) untill 1976. He also wrote several books, The career Guide for Cartoonists' and Matey Visits New York (1941). Learn How Dagwood Splits the Atom (1949) and Popeye, How to Draw Cartoons, to name a few.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. Hardcover with dustjacket. Pictorial color illustrated boards bright and sharp, sliver of age toning to edges, and a tear to top edge of rear board. Book is firm in binding, 14 pages, b&w and color illustrations. Protected, price unclipped, dustjacket bright, age toning and shelf wear to edges. Joe Musial did 'The Katzenjammer Kids' beginning in 1956, several Flash Gordon picture story books, and other comic strips. Illustrated endpapers, clean and bright. Sound effects recording RCA Victor disc included. Free of any markings, not ex-library. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 14 pages.

Editions Opera Mundi / KFS ( King Features Syndicate ), sans date ( années 1950/60 ). In-4 broché a l'italienne, non paginé, au format 37 x 27 cm. Couverture avec titre. Dos toilé bordeaux. Livre publicitaire présentant les séries déssinées KFS, traduites en plus de 30 langues dans 100 pays et publiés dans plus de 500 journaux. Tirage sur couché. Reproductions en noir de planches en strip dont : Blondie par Chic Young, La Famille Illico par Vern Greene, M.Abernaty par Ralston Jones et Frank Ridgeway, Hippolyte et Clémentine par Mark Walter et Dik Brownen, Popeye par Tom Sims, Mme Sidonie par Frank Roberge, La Famille Flop par Swan, Henry par Carl Anderson, Félix le Chat par Joe Oriolo, Myrtille par Dudley Fisher, Beetle Bailey par Mort Walker, Nestor le futé par Burnett Crandall, Pim Pam Poum par Joe Musial, Le Petit Roi par O.Soglow, Le Colonel Duchesse par Chic Young, Les nouvelles Eves par Don Flowers, Juliette de mon coeur par Stan Drake, Rip Kirby par John Prentice, Guy l'Eclair par Dan Barry et Mac Raboy, Agent Secret X9 par Bob Lewis, Johnny Hazard par Frank Robbins, Luc Bradefer par Paul Norris, Le Fantôme par Lee Falk et Wilson McCoy, Mandrake par Lee Falk et Phil Davis, Steve Canyon par Milton Caniff, Prince Valiant par Hal Foster, Mickey, Donald, Scawp, etc par les studios Walt Diney. Superbe état général. Très rare édition originale en petit tirage hors commerce.