| Description |
350 pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm. |
| Series |
A Toon book
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| Note |
Includes index. |
| Summary |
A collection of comics drawn from Golden Age comic books from the 1940s through the early 1960s features selections from such comics as Captain Marvel, Pogo, Donald Duck, and Dennis the Menace. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Jon Scieszka -- Out of the trash and into a treasury / Art Spiegelman, Françoise Mouly. |
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Ch.1 Hey, Kids! : Clifford in "Reading comics" / Jules Feiffer -- Sugar and Spike in "First meeting" / Sheldon Mayer -- Sugar and Spike in "Pint-size love story" / Sheldon Mayer -- Dennis the Menace in "We want a clubhouse!" / Al Wiseman, Fred Toole -- Clifford in "Crossing the street" / Jules Feiffer -- Little Archie in "It's Friendship" / Bob Bolling -- Little Lulu in "Five little babies" / John Stanley, Irving Tripp -- Scribbly in "The cartoonist" / Sheldon Mayer -- Egghead Doodle in "Quiet" / Harvey Kurtzman -- Intellectual Amos in "In the library" / André LeBlanc -- Sugar and Spike in "Grown-up game" / Sheldon Mayer -- Dennis the Menace in "Double talk" / Al Wiseman, Fred Toole -- Little Lulu in "Two foots is feet" / John Stanley, Irving Tripp. |
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Ch.2 Funny animals : Uncle Wiggily in "Watering lillies" / Walt Kelly -- Hickory and Dickory in "Hickory and Dickory help the Easter Bunny" / Walt Kelly -- Nutsy Squirrel in "Flying squirrel" / Woody Gelman, Irving Dressler -- Pogo in "Never give a diving board an even break" / Walt Kelly -- Anthony, the rogue in "Night life" / Dan Gordon -- The Three Mouseketeers in "Mousketeering" / Sheldon Mayer -- The fox and the crow in "Digging for treasure" / Jim Davis -- The fox and the crow in "Cold cuts" / Jim Davis -- The fox and the crow in "The great chiseler" / Jim Davis -- Donald Duck in "Hypno-Gun" / Carl Barks -- Intellectual Amos in "A queer bird" / André LeBlanc -- Animal comics / cover by Dan Noonan, Walt Kelly -- Uncle Wiggily in "Gone fishing" / Walt Kelly -- Rover in "Wolf attack" / Dan Noonan -- Jigger in "A day in the country" / John Stanley. |
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Ch.3 Fantasyland : Fairy tale parade, "The moon in the lake" / Walt Kelly -- Alix in Folly-land in "One little match" / Tom McNamara -- The Pie-face Prince of Old Pretzleburg in "Gooseberry jam" / George Carlson -- Fairy tale parade / cover by Walt Kelly -- Fairy tale parade, "Map of the fairy tale lands" / Walt Kelly -- Fairy tale parade, "Prince Robin and the dwarfs" / Walt Kelly -- Puzzle fun / cover by George Carlson -- Puzzle fun, "Tom Thumb is lost!" / George Carlson -- Supermouse in "Daze of yore" / Milt Stein -- The Tweedle twins in "The horrible groark" / Dave Berg -- Little Lulu / cover by John Stanley -- Droopy in "Snow day" / Dan Gordon -- Tubby in "The guest in the ghost hotel" / John Stanley -- Alice in "Topsy turvy" / Dave Berg. |
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Ch.4 Storytime : Pogo in "Bam!" / Walt Kelly -- Egbert the elephant in "The hunters" / Dan Noonan -- Billy and Bonny Bee in "The dragonfly" / Frank Thomas -- Intellectual Amos in "Ants" / André LeBlanc -- Donald Duck in "Bee bumbler" / Carl Barks -- Donald Duck / cover by Carl Barks -- Uncle Scrooge in "Tralla la" / Carl Barks -- Captain Marvel in "In the land of surrealism!" / C.C. Beck, with Pete Costanza. |
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Ch.5 Weird and wacky : Hey look!, "Me hit I!" / Harvey Kurtzman -- J. Rufus Lion, in "Lyin' lion" / Sheldon Mayer -- Funny stuff / cover by Sheldon Mayer -- Hey look!, "Hard-boiled egg" / Harvey Kurtzman -- Patsy pancake in "Dinner is served" / Milt Gross -- Burp the twerp in "Babysitting" / Jack Cole -- Flip and Flopper in "You are what you think you are" / Don Arr -- Burp the twerp in "By a nose" / Jack Cole -- Foolish faces, "Five curious cases" / Basil Wolverton -- Powerhouse Pepper in "A nightmare scare" / Basil Wolverton -- Foolish faces, "Profiles" / Basil Wolverton -- Burp the twerp in "The proposal" / Jack Cole -- Melvin Monster in "Mice business" / John Stanley -- Frankenstein in "Musical monster" / Dick Briefer -- Hey look!, "Optical illusions" / Harvey Kurtzman -- Gerald McBoing Boing in "Boing boing" / Theodor Seuss Geisel, P.D. Eastman -- Hey look!, "I'm a teapot" / Harvey Kurtzman -- More comics for your reading pleasure! |
| Subject |
Comic books, strips, etc.
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Children's stories, American.
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| Genre/Form |
Comic books, strips, etc.
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| Added Author |
Spiegelman, Art.
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Mouly, Françoise.
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| Added Title |
Classic children's comics |
| ISBN |
9780810957305 |
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0810957302 |
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