The Cartoonist Cookbook: A Gathering by the Newspaper Comics Council

New York: Hobbs, Dorman & Company, 1966. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Quarto. Foreword by Stephen Becker. Introduction by James A. Beard. 189pp. Black and white illustrations. Some toning on the board edges and slight edgewear thus very good in a very good dust price-clipped dust jacket with shallow chips and toning. A collection of recipes by comic strip artists edited by Theodore Illenberger and Avonne Eyre Keller. Each entry includes a photo of the artist, a brief bio, and an illustration. The artists include Charles Schulz, Milton Caniff, Al Capp, Lee Falk, Chester Gould, Al Jaffee, Mort Walker, and a young Neal Adams, who would go to become the most popular comic book artist of the 1970s and define the look of Batman for a generation.