Barney Google and Snuffy Smith : 75 years of an American legend / [written, designed, and edited] by Brian Walker.

This is the first comprehensive collection ever published of Billy DeBeck's and Fred Lasswell's classic comic strip. Included are more than 250 daily strips and Sunday pages, as well as over 100 rare photographs and drawings, documenting the debut appearances of Barney Google in 1919, his...

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Main Author: Walker, Brian, 1952-
Other Authors: De Beck, Billy, 1890-1942
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Wilton, CT : Northampton, MA : Comicana Books and Ohio State University Libraries ; Distributed by Kitchen Sink Press, Inc., ©1994.
Edition:1st ed.
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505 0 |a Foreward / by Brian Walker -- Introduction / by Lucy Shelton Caswell -- Before Barney: DeBeck's early years -- Take Barney Google, f'rinstance -- Spark plug: Barney's brown eyed baby -- Off to the races: 1923-1926 -- Melodrama & mayhem: 1927-1934 -- The life and times of Billy DeBeck -- "Sut Lovingood and Snuffy Smith" / by M. Thomas Inge -- Tetched in th'haid: 1934-1945 -- "Billy, Barney, Snuffy and me" / by Fred Lasswell -- The Lasswell legacy: 1946 -- 75 years later: Barney Google & Snuffy Smith today -- "Beyond newsprint" / by Bill Janocha. 
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