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/ Comic Books / Modern Age (1992-Now)
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Little Joe Sunday Page by Leffingwell from ?/1941 Size: 11 x 15 inches
Little Joe Sunday Page by Leffingwell from ?/1941 Size: 11 x 15 inches
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Little Joe Sunday Page by Leffingwell from ?/1941 Size: 11 x 15 inches

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Condition: Paper: some light tanning, some slightly trimmed, many have archival reinforcement, otherwise: Very ... Read more about the seller notes Paper: some light tanning, some slightly trimmed, many have archiva ... Read More

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This is a "Little Joe" Sunday Page by Leffingwell Great Western Stories! These were cut from the original newspaper Sunday Comics sections of 1939. Size: Half Full Size: 11 x 15 inches. Paper: some light tanning, otherwise Excellent! Pulled from Bound Volumes! (Please Check Scans) $5.00 Flat Rate ! Postage (USA) $20.00 International Flat Rate. I combine postage on multiple pages. Check out my other auctions for more great vintage Comic Strips and Paper Dolls. Thanks for Looking!Buy as many as you want and Pay $5 automatic combined total postage, use shopping cart Do Not Pay one at a time.Little Joe (comic strip)Author(s) Ed Leffingwell (1933–1936)Bob Leffingwell (1936–1972)Current status/schedule Concluded Sunday stripLaunch date October 1, 1933End date 1972Syndicate(s) Chicago Tribune New York News SyndicatePublisher(s) Dell ComicsGenre(s) WesternLittle Joe was a 1933-1972 Western comic strip created by Ed Leffingwell and later continued by his brother Robert Leffingwell. Distributed by the Chicago Tribune Syndicate, this Sunday strip had a long run spanning four decades. It was never a daily strip.Ed Leffingwell began in comics as an assistant to his cousin, Harold Gray, the creator of Little Orphan Annie -- which may explain why the artwork and layouts on Little Joe were very similar to Annie's. Little Joe tended toward the highly dramatic, violent and sometimes even grisly. Its stories usually emphasized harsh frontier justice and basic virtues such as honesty, self reliance, and independence with an occasional touch of wry humor.HistoryLittle Joe began October 1, 1933, but Ed Leffingwell worked on the strip for only three years. When he died suddenly in December, 1936, Bob Leffingwell (also a Gray assistant) stepped in, continuing the strip until its conclusion in 1972. The resemblance to Little Orphan Annie in both style and content diminished in the early 1950s when the format changed from a dramatic adventure strip to a more simply rendered gag strip. It suffered greatly during its last few years routinely involving Joe and a Navajo boy named Dead Pan retelling a tired old joke. Bob Leffingwell continued to ink and letter Little Orphan Annie until Harold Gray's death in 1969 when the feature passed into other hands.Joe ran in an ever dwindling number of papers until it was caught up in a 1972 syndicate purge of formerly popular strips that included Terry and the Pirates and Smilin' Jack.Comics historian Don Markstein described the storyline:Joe Oak was 13 years old, though he looked younger, especially at first. He was an only child and his father had been murdered, leaving him and Mom to run the Oak Ranch by themselves. They were assisted by a white-moustached man named Utah, who had been a gunslinger in his youth. Utah was their foreman and, when times were rough, only employee. He assumed the paternal role when it came to teaching Joe proper behavior for a man, and the survival skills he'd need to become one. Other than that, the strip was populated by outlaws, corrupt businessmen and politicians, Indians both good and bad, and similar staples of the genre. Later on, an old friend of Utah's, a charming rogue known only as "Ze Gen'ral", joined the cast... helping the protagonists out of jams and occasionally (when opportunity permitted) cheating them.Starting May 16, 1943, Ze Gen'ral became a topper strip above Little Joe. The topper continued until at least the 1960s.Little Joe was reprinted in Dell Comics' Popular Comics, Super Comics and Dell's Four Color Comics series (1942). The character of "Utah" appears on the box art of the 1930s Little Orphan Anne Shooting Game. A CD-ROM reprinting early Little Joe strips was released in 2002.Please note: collecting and selling comics has been my hobby for over 30 years. Due to the hours of my job I can usually only mail packages out on Saturdays. I send out First Class or Priority Mail which takes 2 - 7 days to arrive in the USA and Air Mail International which takes 10 days or more depending on where you live in the world. I do not "sell" postage or packaging and charge less than the actual cost of mailing. I package items securely and wrap well. Most pages come in an Archival Sleeve with Acid Free Backing Board at no extra charge. If you are dissatisfied with an item. Let me know and I will do my best to make it right.Many Thanks to all of my 1,000's of past customers around the World. Enjoy Your Hobby Everyone and Have Fun Collecting!
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