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Beetle Bailey Volume 1: 1950-1951
by
Mort Walker
From the very first Beetle Bailey strips on a college campus through Beetle's enlistment in the U.S. Army, this volume contains the first two years of Mort Walker's famous strips encompassing September 1950 through June 1952. Enjoy two separate casts of quirky characters, the first based on Mort Walker's fraternity brothers at the University of Missouri and the second on h...more
Hardcover, 280 pages
Published
May 29th 2008
by Checker Book Publishing Group
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The earliest Beetle Bailey strips, from his college days to his first year plus in the army. These strips are unpolished compared to Walker's later work, repetitive, but enjoyable. There is one brief Hamlet reference. Notes follow.
Mort Walker (writer/artist)
Reprint: 2008 and 22 November 1950
Beetle Bailey
King Features Syndicate, Inc.
Page 36
In this early strip, college student Beetle Bailey is trying to go to bed. His roommate, Freshman, keeps asking philosophic...more
Mort Walker (writer/artist)
Reprint: 2008 and 22 November 1950
Beetle Bailey
King Features Syndicate, Inc.
Page 36
In this early strip, college student Beetle Bailey is trying to go to bed. His roommate, Freshman, keeps asking philosophic...more
We have a couple of his small books that I bought several years ago at a clearance sale for a quarter each. This was fun to see the origan strip and the older characters.
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Addison Morton Walker, more popularly known as Mort Walker, is an American comic artist, best known for creating the newspaper comic strips Beetle Bailey in 1950 and Hi and Lois in 1954.
Born in El Dorado, Kansas, he grew up in Kansas City, Missouri. He had his first comic published at the age of 11, and sold his first cartoon at 12. At 15 he worked as a comic-strip artist for a daily n...more
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Born in El Dorado, Kansas, he grew up in Kansas City, Missouri. He had his first comic published at the age of 11, and sold his first cartoon at 12. At 15 he worked as a comic-strip artist for a daily n...more
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