Still scanning Adventures of Patsy dailies by Mel Graff... Unfortunately these 1937 strips are a bit "butchered". But still better than nothing. :)
If you're not familar with the strip please check out the samples below. They are from January 1937 and Patsy has now arrived in Hollywood. Please notice that these are only my unretouched scans. However, I doubt I'll restore these since they were cropped by the newspaper. Enjoy!
PS. The name "Joe Kaplan" sounds familar. Anyone who knows who Graff was refering to?
Don't know any "Kaplan" except for the guy in "North by Northwest." Might be the Caplin Brothers, Al and Elliot, though misspelled. Al Capp was an old NEA hand.
ReplyDeleteAh! Naturally "North by Northwest" is why "Kaplan" sounded so familar! Thanks!
ReplyDeleteImpressive stuff.
ReplyDeleteI also know about Arie Kaplan, writer of comics-related stuff, and a librarian at the Swedish comics library.
ReplyDeleteThose show so much Noel Sickles. Thank you so so much for posting them. I've been looking for them for a while.
ReplyDeleteYes, and Graff just gets better and better during the late 30's.
ReplyDeleteIn a perfect world there would be a nice reprint edition of his (and Raabs!) run of Patsy.
Until then I'll continue to scan my own, and borrowed, tearsheets.
It should be noted that there's actually a reprint series going on (Raiola) but it leaves much to be desired.
Enjoyed this posting. Adventures of Patsy and Secret Agent X9 by Mel Graff among the many great comic strips that existed. Went to a swapmeet where this guy was selling old mid 1950s to late 1960s newspaper comic sections from three California papers, two from Los Angeles, one of the Los Angeles papers (1950s) had Secret Agent X9 as part of the lineup. Bought over 50 pages. Couldn't resist, just favor the old comic strips, popular and little known.
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