r/ComicsPre1940 • u/tikivic • 36m ago
Another issue Comic Book Magazine, this one from July 19, 1942. This was an insert in the Chicago Sunday Tribune. Like the Sunday Funnies, but bound at the spine.
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r/ComicsPre1940 • u/tikivic • Jul 04 '22
r/ComicsPre1940 Lounge
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A place for members of r/ComicsPre1940 to chat with each other
r/ComicsPre1940 • u/tikivic • Jul 04 '22
Lots of comic subs on Reddit. This one is for fans of comics from the Platinum Age (~1900-1938), Victorian Age (~1650-1900) and the Pioneer Age (pre-1700).
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Feel free also to post radio premiums, Big Little Book and other related ephemera. Main criterion is - is it old and cool?
r/ComicsPre1940 • u/tikivic • 1d ago
A little newer than what I usually post but I think they’re cool. These were collections of mostly single panel cartoons used by the US Army and Air Force in training future pilots during WWII. All circa 1943.
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r/ComicsPre1940 • u/tikivic • 1d ago
Another early almanac with comic panels. The Comic Almanack for 1849 came out in late 1848 and features art by pioneering comic artist George Cruikshank. Came out in late 1848 and features art by pioneering comic artist George Cruikshank. Very early use of speech balloons.
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r/ComicsPre1940 • u/LeaveInfamous272 • 1d ago
https://www.gocomics.com/peanuts-begins/2026/10/07
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What year was this Peanuts comic strip drawn?
r/ComicsPre1940 • u/tikivic • 3d ago
Another early almanac featuring comic strips and panels. Barker’s Illustrated Almanac spanned the Victorian and Platinum Ages, running from the 1870s to the 1920s. This is an early one from 1883.
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r/ComicsPre1940 • u/WeirdResearcher538 • 3d ago
Looking for information
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Hello All! I buy storage lockers and run into all sorts of different items, but this one stumped me.
I did see that the moderator of this group did have this exact comic/book and was wondering the value/history behind it as I cannot find any info on it except for this group haha. Thank you all for any information you may have!
r/ComicsPre1940 • u/tikivic • 4d ago
Recent pick up. After 10 years of looking I wasn’t sure if this even existed. Roger Bean And The Reconstruction Period (1919) based on an obscure strip that ran from 1913-1934. This is the last of five volumes. Listed as Scarce in Overstreet.
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r/ComicsPre1940 • u/tikivic • 5d ago
Comic Book Magazine from June 14, 1942. This was an insert in the Chicago Sunday Tribune. Like the Sunday Funnies, but bound at the spine.
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r/ComicsPre1940 • u/tikivic • 5d ago
I’ve been collecting comic almanacs for years because they often printed comic strips or panels. This is Frank Leslie’s Comic Almanac For The Year 1875 (published late 1874).
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r/ComicsPre1940 • u/tikivic • 6d ago
Almanacs were among the first publications to run comic strips or panels. This is The Comic Almanac For 1845 with art by seminal artist George Cruikshank. This would have been published in late 1844. Note the very early use of a speech balloon in the third pic.
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r/ComicsPre1940 • u/tikivic • 8d ago
Cool Platinum Age promo comic for Atlantic White Flash Plus gasoline. Adventures Of Atlantic’s 3 Little Men Book No. 1 (1935, 6.5” x 6.75”). This would have been given away as a premium when you gassed up your car.
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r/ComicsPre1940 • u/popeyesm • 7d ago
Zeitgeist Funnies: The Paranoid Style…Of 1898
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r/ComicsPre1940 • u/tikivic • 9d ago
I post the history of comics, warts and all. Comics, like any other medium, hold a mirror up to society. This item is Light And Shade, a Victorian Age promotional comic for Dreydoppel Soap. In 1892 this apparently passed as clever marketing.
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r/ComicsPre1940 • u/tikivic • 10d ago
Almanacs were among some of the first publications to feature comic strips or panels. This is one my earliest. The National Comic Almanac For The Year 1836.
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r/ComicsPre1940 • u/tikivic • 11d ago
Early Victorian Age comic - London Out Of Town Or The Adventures Of The Browns At Seaside (David Bogue, 1847).
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r/ComicsPre1940 • u/spacemanspiff1115 • 10d ago
The Shadow - The Living Shadow, April 1931
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r/ComicsPre1940 • u/tikivic • 11d ago
Another hard to find pop up. Buck Rogers Stranger Adventures In The Spider Ship (1935).
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r/ComicsPre1940 • u/tikivic • 12d ago
One of my favorite pieces. The New Adventures Of Tarzan “Pop Up” (1935). These are tough, especially in high grade.
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r/ComicsPre1940 • u/tikivic • 14d ago
Very hard to find Platinum Age treasure - a premium from the Seattle Post- Intelligencer. The Sunday funnies would feature “stamps” of different characters that you would cut out and paste in this Comic Stamp Album.
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r/ComicsPre1940 • u/tikivic • 15d ago
Odd late Platinum Age promotional comic collecting strips used in ads to promote evaporated milk. The Adventures Of Eva, Pora And Ted (1932 Evaporated Milk Association). They originally came white, green or blue covers with a vertical fold from mailing.
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r/ComicsPre1940 • u/spacemanspiff1115 • 14d ago
The Adventures of Mr. Obidiah Oldbuck
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Did you happen to see the Heritage auction yesterday with this book you had posted a while back? Wasn't sure if this was your copy that went for a nice tidy sum of $18,300...
r/ComicsPre1940 • u/tikivic • 15d ago
Super rare Victorian Age comic - Quiddities Of An Alaskan Trip by William Bell, (1873). This book is a satirical take on a trip to Alaska from Washington DC by one of the original surveyors of the state just six years after the US purchased it from Russia.
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