Soft covered book titled The Smithsonian Collection of NEWSPAPER COMICS Edited by Bill Blackbeard and Martin Williams, Foreword by John Canaday, 336 pages.

Sections Include:

• STRUWWELPETER, PAGLIACCI, & PUSS IN BOOTS: FOLKLORE FIGURES IN THE EARLY SUNDAY COMIC STRIP, 1896-1916
• MR CAUDLE, SHERLOCK HOLMES, & THE ARTLESS DODGER: POPULAR IMAGES IN THE EARLY DAILY COMIC STRIP, 1907-1927
• OLD CUNNING STAGERS: LONG LIVED STATS OF THE COMIC STRIP'S SECOND TWO DECADES, 1916-1936
• SUNNY TOONERVILLE & THE DARKLING WORLD: ANECDOTE & NARRATIVE IN THE DAILY COMIC STRIP, 1917-1933
• POPEYE, THE SKIPPER, & THE ABYSSES OF SPACE & TIME: ANECDOTE & NARRATIVE IN THE SUNDAY COMIC STRIP 1930-1941
• SHADOW SHAPES IN MOVING ROWS: EXTENDED NARRATIVE IN THE DAILY AND SUNDAY COMIC STRIP 1928-1943
• CATS, DOGS, POSSUMS, COUNTS, AND OTHERS: A COMICS MISCELLANY, 1928-1950
• LITTLE PEOPLE, WISE GUYS, AND WITCHES: THE RETURN OF THE FUNNIES

This book is in VG+ condition,  pages clean and intact, and the binding is tight. A must have for any library.