"THE BUNGLE FAMILY" ORIGINAL ART FOR TEN CONSECUTIVE 1935 SUNDAY PAGES.
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Auction #204 - Part II
Item numbers 1447 through 3204 in auction 204
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Item Description
Each thin art board has 21-1/8x28-1/8" India ink image area including "Little Brother" topper strip and 16 panel Bungle Family strip. (See #2113 for history of this comic strip.) Dates and hand inked titles include: Aug. 25 "An Old Feud", Sept. 1 "Neighborly Fun", Sept. 8 "Neighbors Day", Sept. 15 "Anyhow George Tried", Sept. 22 "Ah, A Tax Payer", Sept. 29 "Hot Stuff!", Oct. 6 "Also A Problem For The Neighbors", Oct. 13 "Innocent!", Oct. 20 "Bad Guessing", Oct. 27 "Another Neighborly Mental Test". Storylines include George getting dizzy while shellacking floor and hallucinating about well-dressed talking mice, having difficulty putting water in car radiator, having difficulty watering lawn, trying to sell his convertible, listening to radio with wife with radio catching fire, being late for dinner and arguing, getting hit on head by flower pot thrown from "League of Peace" office, and in competition with neighbor while shoveling coal. Art boards have some wear around edges and image area has a few moisture marks here and there. Three pages are missing single paste-up panel original art which preceded "Little Brother" topper. Blank areas for printed title logos at top have glue stains and are missing logos. Sept. 22 page has several scattered tanned moisture marks and Oct. 6 page is lightly tanned. Overall group has VG/VF image area. All are signed in ink by Tuthill in one bottom panel. Funny and well drawn. All pages shown online.
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