Frankie Doodle

New York: United Feature Syndicate, Inc.. Very Good. 1939. Comic Book. [modest age-toning and light edgewear to covers, slight spine roll; NOTE that this has been graded by book standards, NOT on the comic-book grading scale]. (Single Series No. 7) Series (color cartoon strips) A rare-ish one-off comic book (in a slightly larger, magazine-size format), consisting of reprints of Sunday entries in Ben Batsford's strip about a pugnacious newsboy. It originated as a strip called "Susie Sunshine," created by Earl Hurd, which ran in the New York Evening Graphic from 1927 to 1929, and was then handed off to a couple of other artists (one of whom changed the title to "The Boomers"), before being taken over by Batsford in 1934, at which point the title was changed again to "The Doodle Family," and finally "Frankie Doodle." It ended in 1938, although the character headlined at least two comic-book-format issues, this one and Sparkler Comics #2 (1940). .