Thursday Story Strip Day.
About a year ago, I shared with you a large run of Ray Bailey's Tom Corbett newspaper strip dailies. A terrific series, which shows what it would have looked like if Milt Caniff had decided to draw a science fiction strip (with occasional dinosaurs). I got stuck somewhere in te summer of 1952, but still intend to finish the run until the end of the strip of 1953. Unfortunately, I have only the dailies and a couple of scattered color Sundays. Last week I got me hopes up when an eBay seller offered a complete run of 1951/2 Sundays, but unfortunately, I wasn't the only one bidding. At $150 I bowed out (actually three times $52, as the lot was devided into three parts). If the buyer comes across this and want to talk about sharing scans, I am up for that.
It did prompt me to go back and look for some more black and whote Sundays on NewspaperArchive. I found a decent run for 1951, when the Sunday still wasn't integrated into the strip. I toed with the idea of putting them in with the earlier posts, but since they are stand alone gags I though it would be better to show them here. Maybe I will ad them in the old run later, now that they are uploaded. Here are (almost all) of them for October to December 1951.
4 comments:
Thanks for posting - I've been working on putting the whole run of Tom Corbett together. I "clipped" my strips from Newspaper Archives in the Long Beach (CA) Independent. They have all the Sundays too.
I think I have mine from the same paper... but I couldn't find all of them. If you have the missing ones, I'd love a copy. I like to have all of them up here so I can replace them with color versions if and when I get those.
And what do you think... do they have their own continuity or are these seperate gags? They all semm to be about some sort of training mission.
I haven't had time to read them yet so I'm not sure about continuity.
I have off from work next week so I'll spend some time and see what I have.
I know I have a 99 page word file that has almost all the strips from 8/1952 to 9/1953. Not sure how to send that to you but if you know a way I will.
Yes, much thanks for posting. maybe someone could compile them all in a cbr file?
Was there ever a book of reprints. I had been looking for one and no luck. They must even be out of copyright at this stage.
I'd love to see more Stony Craig by Bill Draut too.
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