Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #264 VG $10 Donald Duck in "The Master Wrecker" by Carl Barks 10 pages Li'l Bad Wolf in "Apple Pie Guy" Gyro Gearloose in "Magic Rug Bug" Mickey Mouse in"The Treasure of El Dorado" |
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Sept 1962 |
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| A moment in comic
history, dateline 1933. The Ledger Syndicate published a small broadside of their Sunday comics on 7" by 9" plates. Employees of Eastern Color Printing Company in New York, sales manager Harry I.Wildenberg & salesman Max C. Gaines, thought if they put two plates together they would fit on a tabloid page & when folded would produce a book 7 1/2" x 10". Funnies on Parade was the result of the first printing. Procter & Gamble bought 10,000 copies of Funnies on Parade, consiting of reprints from the Sunday pages, to be given away as premiums.
Wally: Eddie, we can't go without my brother. Eddie: Who needs him? He already paid his dough for the ticket... Oh, good morning, Mrs. Cleaver. Poor little fellow-- I wouldn't want him to miss this outing for anything. June: Really, Eddie? Eddie: Oh, yes -- I've always felt that older boys should devote more time to the little ones. |