JIGGS & MAGGIE TREASURY; VOLUME ONE STANDARD COLOR EDITION: RETRO COMIC REPRINTS #127

JIGGS AND MAGGIE ARE THE STARS OF GEORGE MCMANUS'S WILDLY SUCESSFUL COMIC STRIP BRINGING UP FATHER. THE STRIP BEGAN BEING PUBLISHED IN NEWSPAPERS IN 1913 AND LASTED EIGHTY YEARS. IT'S ONLY FITTING THAT THE STRIP WOULD THEN BE A PRECURSOR TO WHAT WE WOULD EVENTUALLY KNOW AS COMIC BOOKS WITH A SERIES OF GRAPHIC NOVELS PUBLISHED BY CUPPLES & LEON IN 1919. EVENTUALLY OTHER PUBLISHERS WOULD ALSO CREATE COMICS BASED ON BRINGING UP FATHER. DELL COMICS RELEASED THREE COMICS STARRING JIGGS & MAGGIE. THEY WERE FOUR COLOR COMICS #18 & 37 AND LARGE FEATURE COMICS VOLUME TWO, #9. LARGE FEATURE WAS PRINTED IN BLACK & WHITE. FOUR COLOR COMICS #37 WAS JUST A REPRINT OF #18 AND OTHER THAN THE COVER, THERE WAS NO NEW MATERIAL. THE PUBLISHING COMPANY, STANDARD COMICS BEGIN PRODUCING THEIR SERIES, JIGGS & MAGGIE STARTING WITH ISSUE #11.THAT RUN LASTED UNTIL ISSUE #21. HARVEY COMICS THEN PICKED UP THE SERIES WITH ISSUE #22 AND CONTINUED IT UNTIL #27, WHEN IT WAS CANCELED. NOT ALL OF THESE BOOKS ARE READILY AVAILABLE HENCE A TREASURY OF STORIES RATHER THAN A COMPLETE COLLECTION. COLLECTED HERE ARE DELL FOUR COLOR #18 AND LARGE FEATURE COMICS VOL.2 #9, AS WELL AS STANDARD PUBLISHING'S JIGGS & MAGGIE #13-15. THIS BOOK IS AVAILABLE IN BOTH HARDCOVER AND TRADE PAPERBACK EDITIONS AS WELL AS IN EITHER FULL COLOR OR GLORIOUS BLACK & WHITE