Here's a C.C. Beck cartoon I never saw before.
Regular visitor and famed collector/historian D.D. Degg sent me a better version.
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Showing posts with label C.C. Beck. Show all posts
Wednesday, May 31, 2017
Building The Baxters
Wednesday Advertising Day.
Here's a C.C. Beck cartoon I never saw before.
Regular visitor and famed collector/historian D.D. Degg sent me a better version.
Here's a C.C. Beck cartoon I never saw before.
Regular visitor and famed collector/historian D.D. Degg sent me a better version.
Thursday, December 15, 2016
Toot-toot Rolling Along
Wednesday Advertising Day.
I wish I had the time to look for every Captain Tootsie ad from every comic book in the forties and fifties. The C. C. Beck/Pete Costanza/Bill Schreiber series ran for over ten years in newspapers and comic books from every company, but no one has ever been abe to produce a complete list. So here are just a couple of random ones from various Fawcett Western titles.
I wish I had the time to look for every Captain Tootsie ad from every comic book in the forties and fifties. The C. C. Beck/Pete Costanza/Bill Schreiber series ran for over ten years in newspapers and comic books from every company, but no one has ever been abe to produce a complete list. So here are just a couple of random ones from various Fawcett Western titles.
Thursday, November 13, 2014
C.C. Post
Wednesday Advertising Day.
C.C. Beck did a lot of advertising work, most notably the Captain Tootsie series. This one is form a later date, but just as charming.
C.C. Beck did a lot of advertising work, most notably the Captain Tootsie series. This one is form a later date, but just as charming.
Thursday, February 20, 2014
Toot Sweet
Wednesday Advertising Day.
The Captain Tootsie ads by C.C. Beck and Pete Costanza appeared both in Sunday and daily newspaper ads. The Sunday ads were often reformatted and used in comic books. This makes Captain Tootsie the only comic book cahracter who appeared in books of (almost?) all publishers. As far as I know no one has ever attempted to create a complete overview of all ads in the newspapers and how where and when they were used in the comics. It must be a huge task, but also one that the internet seems built for. All someone has to do is st up a ebsite, start by uploading all of the ads I have shown over the years and ask comic book and newspaper fans to contribute new scans to the timeline.
The Captain Tootsie ads by C.C. Beck and Pete Costanza appeared both in Sunday and daily newspaper ads. The Sunday ads were often reformatted and used in comic books. This makes Captain Tootsie the only comic book cahracter who appeared in books of (almost?) all publishers. As far as I know no one has ever attempted to create a complete overview of all ads in the newspapers and how where and when they were used in the comics. It must be a huge task, but also one that the internet seems built for. All someone has to do is st up a ebsite, start by uploading all of the ads I have shown over the years and ask comic book and newspaper fans to contribute new scans to the timeline.
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Tooting my own horn
Wednesday Advertising Day.
As I seem to be doing comic book stories the whole week, I thought I'd share some more Captain Tootsie ads. They were run by just about every comic book company from roughly 1945 to 1955. A list of all available titles has never been made, but I believe someone at the FCA is working on it. The early ones were done by C.C. Beck, after which Bill Schreiber and Pete Costanza joined in. Some of them were either done as newspaper ads as well and it would seem to me the comic book ones were adaptations of the newpaper ones. Frankly, it's a mess. All I can do is collect them whenever I come across them, which I don't even do religiously. I have show quite a few before and there maybe doubles. But a part of me thinks it would be nice if a complete list can one day be made.
Wednesday Advertising Day.
As I seem to be doing comic book stories the whole week, I thought I'd share some more Captain Tootsie ads. They were run by just about every comic book company from roughly 1945 to 1955. A list of all available titles has never been made, but I believe someone at the FCA is working on it. The early ones were done by C.C. Beck, after which Bill Schreiber and Pete Costanza joined in. Some of them were either done as newspaper ads as well and it would seem to me the comic book ones were adaptations of the newpaper ones. Frankly, it's a mess. All I can do is collect them whenever I come across them, which I don't even do religiously. I have show quite a few before and there maybe doubles. But a part of me thinks it would be nice if a complete list can one day be made.
Sunday, November 07, 2010
Come Blow our Toot
Sunday Leftover Day.
Some more Captain Tootsie ads. These are from the first twenty issues if DC's Big Town. There are many many more where these came from (but at least not from these titles). There are two doubles, I see. So these ads were repeated in several titles.
Big Town #2:
Big Town #4:
Big Town #6:
Big Town #8:
Big Town #10:
Big Town #12:
Sunday Leftover Day.
Some more Captain Tootsie ads. These are from the first twenty issues if DC's Big Town. There are many many more where these came from (but at least not from these titles). There are two doubles, I see. So these ads were repeated in several titles.
Big Town #2:
Big Town #4:
Big Town #6:
Big Town #8:
Big Town #10:
Big Town #12:
Friday, November 05, 2010
Honk If You Want More
Saturday Leftover Day.
P. Hamerlinck mailed me to ask if I had shown all my Captain Tootsie ads on my blog. I answered him that I have shared with you all I have from the papers, but that there is of course a whole load of Tootsie ads in all sorts of books comic books from 1945 to at least 1952. And maybe even 1955, when the ads reappeared in the papers. Here are some more. I have added the titles of the books they were in and will go and do the same with the ones I showed wednesday.
Adventure Comics #132:
Adventure Comics #130:
All-Star Western #61:
All-Star Western #60:
All-Star Western #59:
All-Star Western #58:
Romance Trail #1
Romance Trail #3:
Saturday Leftover Day.
P. Hamerlinck mailed me to ask if I had shown all my Captain Tootsie ads on my blog. I answered him that I have shared with you all I have from the papers, but that there is of course a whole load of Tootsie ads in all sorts of books comic books from 1945 to at least 1952. And maybe even 1955, when the ads reappeared in the papers. Here are some more. I have added the titles of the books they were in and will go and do the same with the ones I showed wednesday.
Adventure Comics #132:
Adventure Comics #130:
All-Star Western #61:
All-Star Western #60:
All-Star Western #59:
All-Star Western #58:
Romance Trail #1
Romance Trail #3:
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Beck and All
Wednesday Advertising Day.
Captain Tootsie was one of the longer running comic style ad campaigns. It started somewhere in the midfifties, with ads for Sunday pages and comic books. As far as I can see, the same ads were used for both purposes, although I have never seen a 'life' conversion. Paul Hamerlinck of the FCA is preparing a complete list of all Captain Tootsie's comic book appearances, but if he wants to do a list of all newspaper samples as well, he'll have a couple of problems. First of all, most of these ads do not appear in NewspapaerArchive, so it he will need accces to a lot of papers to compile a complete list. And they will have to cover a large time sread as well, as I have seen these ads appearing from somewhere in the late forties until the mid fifties. As far as I know these ads were on a regular two week rotation, which seems to have been the norm for most newspaper ad strips. So there may be as many as 250 of them. At first they were signed by C.C. Beck, but later they seem to have been taken over by Peter Costanza (in the same style). Sometimes Beck and Costanza signed together, so they may have had some sort of joined operation.
On top of that, there also seem to have been smaller black and white streamer typ ads, which appeared both in daily and Sunday newspapers. These were always signed by Beck himself, whatever that means. For these ads, which you can only find by accidentally coming across them in papers and on NewspaperArchive, I have found multiple instances of the same ad being used on different dates. Wether the same thing was going on in the Sundays ads I don't know.
Here are three more of the streamers I found in 1947. The link will take you to my 1948 samples. After that two Sunday samples from 1950. By then the signing name is Bill Schreiber.
Wednesday Advertising Day.
Captain Tootsie was one of the longer running comic style ad campaigns. It started somewhere in the midfifties, with ads for Sunday pages and comic books. As far as I can see, the same ads were used for both purposes, although I have never seen a 'life' conversion. Paul Hamerlinck of the FCA is preparing a complete list of all Captain Tootsie's comic book appearances, but if he wants to do a list of all newspaper samples as well, he'll have a couple of problems. First of all, most of these ads do not appear in NewspapaerArchive, so it he will need accces to a lot of papers to compile a complete list. And they will have to cover a large time sread as well, as I have seen these ads appearing from somewhere in the late forties until the mid fifties. As far as I know these ads were on a regular two week rotation, which seems to have been the norm for most newspaper ad strips. So there may be as many as 250 of them. At first they were signed by C.C. Beck, but later they seem to have been taken over by Peter Costanza (in the same style). Sometimes Beck and Costanza signed together, so they may have had some sort of joined operation.
On top of that, there also seem to have been smaller black and white streamer typ ads, which appeared both in daily and Sunday newspapers. These were always signed by Beck himself, whatever that means. For these ads, which you can only find by accidentally coming across them in papers and on NewspaperArchive, I have found multiple instances of the same ad being used on different dates. Wether the same thing was going on in the Sundays ads I don't know.
Here are three more of the streamers I found in 1947. The link will take you to my 1948 samples. After that two Sunday samples from 1950. By then the signing name is Bill Schreiber.
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