FFF Results Post #512: Before 1960

On Friday, CR readers were asked to "Recommend Five Comics Publications Released Before 1960 You'd Recommend To A Contemporary Comics Reader." This is how they responded.

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James Langdell

1. The Pogo Stepmother Goose, Walt Kelly (1954)
2. The Life and Times of the Shmoo, Al Capp (1948)
3. The Last Flower, James Thurber (1939)
4. Sports et Divertisements, Charles Martin (art) and Erik Satie (words and music) (1914 and 1923, two different sets of art by Martin)
5. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, William Blake (1793)

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Stephen Harrick

1. "Lost in the Andes!," Carl Barks (1949)
2. Stardust the Super Wizard, Fletcher Hanks (1939-1941) (pictured)
3. Betsy and Me, Jack Cole (1958)
4. Spacehawk, Basil Wolverton (1940-1942)
5. "Massacred!," Harvey Kurtzman and John Severin (1951)

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Tom Spurgeon

1. The Passport, Saul Steinberg (1954) (pictured)
2. Sick, Sick, Sick, Jules Feiffer (1958)
3. The Bungle Family, Henry J. Tuthill (1918-1945)
4. Man In The Shower, Peter Arno (1944)
5. Barnaby, Crockett Johnson (1942-1952)

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Dave Knott

1. Addams And Evil, Charles Addams (1947)
2. Objectif Lune, Hergé (1953)
3. The Mad Reader, The Usual Gang Of Idiots (1954)
4. La Mauvaise Tête, André Franquin (1957)
5. Jungle Book, Harvey Kurtzman (1959)

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Sean Rogers

1. Une semaine de bonté, Max Ernst (1934)
2. Moomin, Tove Jansson (1954-1959)
3. Tricky Cad, Jess (1952-1959)
4. Passionate Journey, Frans Masereel (1919)
5. The Lonely Ones, William Steig (1942)

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Steven Stwalley

1. Krazy Kat, George Herriman (1946)
2. The Gluyas Williams Book, Gluyas Williams (1929)
3. Peanuts, Charles Schulz (1952)
4. Uncle Pogo So-So Stories, Walt Kelly (1953)
5. Cartoon Cavalcade, edited by Thomas Craven (1943)

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Joe Schwind

1. By The Dawn's Ugly Light, Richard Taylor (1953)
2. Dreams of Glory, William Steig (1953)
3. Kids Out Our Way, J.R. Williams (1946)
4. Sad Sack, Sgt. George Baker (1944)
5. Cartoon Cavalcade, edited by Thomas Craven (1943)

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Oliver Ristau

1. Voyages et aventures du Dr Festus, Rodolphe Töpffer (1829)
2. Ally Sloper, Charles H. Ross and Émilie de Tessier (Marie Duval) (1867)
3. Vater und Sohn, e. o. plauen (Erich Ohser), (1934-1937)
4. Martin Luther King And The Montgomery Story, Alfred Hassler, Benton Resnik and Sy Barry (1957)
5. El Eternauta, Héctor Germán Oesterheld and Francisco Solano López (1957-1959)

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Thanks for participating. Lot of creative formatting this time out. Please know I reserve the right to skip and delete any entry that does not provide that courtesy, and will likely do so in the future.

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