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LITTLE JOE COVER.indd 1 8/13/19 10:31 AM Ed Leffingwell’s EISNER-NOMINATED CLASSICS FROM SUNDAY PRESS society is nix Little Nemo in Slumberland Gleeful Anarchy at the Dawn of the American Comic Strip So Many Splendid Sundays Little Joe Origins of the American newspaper comics: Celebrating the centennial of by Harold Gray over 150 comics by 55 artists, 1895-1915 Winsor McCay’s masterpiece 1905-1910 • • Eisner Award Winner Edited by Peter Maresca WHITE BOY in Skull Valley • and Sammy Harkham The complete Sunday pages 1933-1936 Little Nemo in Slumberland A lost comic strip classic of the Old West by • Many More Splendid Sundays 1906-1926 New Yorker illustrator Garrett Price published by A second volume of full-size Nemo Sundays • from all three incarnations of the strip FOOLISH QUESTIONS Sunday Press Eisner Award Winner Palo Alto, CA And Other Odd Observations • by Rube Goldberg www.sundaypressbooks.com DICK TRACY A collection of Rube’s earliest comic strips Colorful Cases from the 1930s before his famed inventions distributed by IDW The greatest cases from the first decade • of Chester Gould’s famed detective “The world is for those who San Diego, CA Eisner Award Winner Crazy Quilt make their dreams come true.” • Scraps and Panels FIRST PRINTING – NOVEMBER 2019 On the Way to Gasoline Alley Harold Gray qUeer visitors from Nothing may be reproduced from this the marvelous land of oz Pre-Gasoline Alley Comics book in whole or in part without the • Complete runs of two rare Oz comic strips By Frank King written permission of the publisher. A multitude of thanks to: from 1904 to 1905 by L. Frank Baum, • The Billy Ireland Library and Museum Walt McDougall and W.W. Denslow The upside-down world at The Ohio State University, © 2019 Sunday Press • of gustave verbeek All Rights Reserved Sundays with The complete Upside-Down Sundays Dean Mullaney, Chris Beneke, with other comics and drawings Marc Greenberg, Per Maresca, Digital restoration © 2019 Walt and SkeEzix Ed Leffingwell, Jeff Kersten, Peter Maresca The best Sunday comics • Warren Bernard, Art Lorie, and Sunday Press of Frank King’s Gasoline Alley Forgotten Fantasy Dan Nadel and Don Rubin • from 1921-34 Sunday Comics 1900-1915 The complete comics • 978-0-9835504-7-1 • Little Sammy Sneeze of Lyonel Feininger designed by • The complete color Sundays of Sammy plus comics from Winsor McCay, Philippe Ghielmetti Printed in Malaysia and Hungry Henrietta by Winsor McCay George McManus, and many others • • KRAZY KAT THIMBLE THEATRE A Celebration of Sundays & the Pre-Popeye Cartoons of E.C. Segar The greatest Sunday comics from Early humor and adventure from Segar’s twenty-five years of Krazy Kat signature strip, reprinted for the first time

LITTLE JOE INTRO F4F.indd 160 8/21/19 10:22 AM Little Joe original art by Ed Leffingwell for June 7, 1936 — Courtesy of Heritage Auctions/HA.com The following five pages are examples of Ed Leffingwell’s Sundays from 1933 to 1935.

LITTLE JOE INTRO F4F.indd 11 8/20/19 5:05 PM October 1, 1933 (first Sunday page) March 31, 1935

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