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They collected bringing up father, little orphan annie, reglar fellers, smitty, tillie the toiler and other leading strips of the 1920s and 1930s. Keep that in mind if you have only one copy of the old book you want to reprint. Even though the practice of collecting comics into trade paperbacks and. Reading facsimile reproductions of original artwork. We are not accepting orders for new or back issue comics at this time. Oct 30, 2019 the person who was primarily responsible for convincing goodman of this fact was frank torpey, a salesman for lloyd jacquet, the man behind funnies, inc.
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