MARTIN BRANNER “WINNIE WINKLE” EARLY DAILY COMIC STRIP ORIGINAL ART PAIR.
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Auction #207 - Part II
Item numbers 1235 through 2949 in auction 207
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Item Description
Both are India ink on thin art boards w/four panels, complete w/ Chicago Tribune copyright stickers. Each has 5.75x19.75” image area. First is for July 5,1929. Winnie is in “Bibb’s Pins” office getting ready to go to dinner while her date Mr. Magner is distracted picking up loose pins for good luck. Last panel is inscribed to fellow cartoonist in ink “ To My Friend Ving Fuller Yours Till The Pope Turns Protestant. Branner”. Fuller was an animator for the Bray Studio and went on to greater fame w/the “Doc Syke” comic strip. Image area lightly aged, otherwise Exc. Second daily is from Nov. 8, 1930 titled “Advice To The Wealthy”. Winnie has won $500 in a typing contest and salesman suggests she put it under her pillow to “Have Something To Fall Back On”, causing Winnie to throw her typewriter at him. Bold “Branner” signature in last panel. Exc. Prime examples of this strip, the first to revolve around a “working girl”. From the Jan Wahl collection.
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