Description

Barney Google & Snuffy Smith: 75 Years of an American Legend

by Billy De Beck

Softcover, ISBN 0878162836

Publisher: Kitchen Sink Pr 1994

175 pages. Over 250 daily strips + over 100 rare photographs and drawings. Also includes the sheet music and lyrics to Billy Rose s 1923 hit song, reproductions of other DeBeck features, highlights from Fred Laswell s 60 year career and a complete listing of Barney Google and Scuffy Smith books, comics, films and toys. With an essay by M. Thomas Inge and memoirs by Fred Lasswell

VERY GOOD+ BETTER with slightly rubbed covers with occaisional minor surface wear from being read, handled, stored & moved. Corner bump at bottom right. Please refer to scanned images… they truly are worth a thousand words.

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Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, originally Take Barney Google, F rinstance, is an American comic strip created by cartoonist Billy DeBeck. Since its debut on June 17, 1919, the strip has gained a huge international readership, appearing in 900 newspapers in 21 countries. The initial appeal of the strip led to its adaptation to film, animation, popular song and television. It added several terms and phrases to the English language and inspired the 1923 hit tune Barney Google (with the Goo-Goo-Googly Eyes) with lyrics by Billy Rose, as well as the 1923 record, Come On, Spark Plug!

Barney Google himself, once the star of the strip and a very popular character in his own right, has been almost entirely phased out of the feature. An increasingly peripheral player in his own strip beginning in the late 1930s, Google was officially written out in 1954, although he would occasionally return for cameo appearances. These cameos were often years apart—from a period between 1997 and 2012, Barney Google wasn t seen in the strip at all. Google was reintroduced to the strip in 2012, and has been seen very occasionally since, making several week-long appearances.

Snuffy Smith, who was initially introduced as a supporting player in 1934, has now been the comic strip s central character for over 60 years. Nevertheless, the feature is still titled Barney Google and Snuffy Smith. (wiki)

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