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""One of the great, lost classics of thenewspaper age. The best. Simply the best." - New YorkTimes"A scintillating collection ofthe greatest children's comic strip ever." - The WashingtonPostWith the release of theOscar-winning Skippy movie in 1931, Percy Crosby had his biggest stage atprecisely the moment he was committing himself to bringing his creative andpolitical work together. Skippy suddenly was everywhere and Crosby wasdetermined to use his visibility and influence as one of the most successfulcartoonists of his generation to transform a society in the grips of a deepeningDepression and the late years of the failed policy of Prohibition. Like hisbeloved Skippy, Crosby had yet to back down from a fight, now matter howdaunting the opposition. This volume,reprinting all the dailies from 1931-1933, brings us to some of Percy Crosby'smost inspired strips of Skippy's long run. Bonus material includes manyphotographs and rare artwork from the collection of the cartoonist's daughter,Joan Crosby Tibbetts.
