Percy Crosby's Skippy: Daily Comics #1 - 1925-1927

(August 2012)

[end pages] (Table of Contents: 1)

Skippy / illustration / 2 pages (report information)

Pencils

Percy Crosby

Inks

Percy Crosby

Characters

Skippy

Indexer Notes

Two-page illustration on inside front cover and facing page. Repeated on inside back cover and facing page. Same illustration used as end pages for other volumes in the series.

Other Books in the Library of American Comics (Table of Contents: 2) (Expand) /

promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

[spot illustration] (Table of Contents: 3)

Skippy / illustration / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

Percy Crosby

Inks

Percy Crosby

Characters

Skippy Skinner

[Percy Crosby circa 1931] (Table of Contents: 4)

photo story / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

? (photograph)

Inks

? (photograph)

Letters

typeset

Indexer Notes

Photo of Percy Crosby

Percy Crosby's Skippy (Table of Contents: 5)

credits, title page / 2 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Percy Crosby (spot illustrations)

Inks

Percy Crosby (spot illustrations)

Letters

typeset

Characters

Skippy Skinner

Indexer Notes

Title page and copyright page with spot illustrations of Skippy and friends by Crosby.

Preface (Table of Contents: 6)

foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page (report information)

Script

Lorraine Turner

Pencils

Percy Crosby (spot illustrations)

Inks

Percy Crosby (spot illustrations)

Letters

typeset

Characters

Skippy Skinner

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 7)

blank page(s) / 1 page (report information)

Chapter One: 1891-1923 (Table of Contents: 8)

Percy Crosby: A Life / text article / 65 pages (report information)

Script

Jared Gardner

Pencils

Percy Crosby (spot illustrations); ? (photographs)

Inks

Percy Crosby (spot illustrations); ? (photographs)

Colors

Percy Crosby ?

Letters

typeset; ?

Genre

biography

Synopsis

First installment of Percy Crosby biography, which continues in later volumes.

Indexer Notes

Text is accompanied by a large selection of family photos, in black and white, and a large selection of Crosby's pre-Skippy comics, in black and white and color; as well as a small selection of Skippy's appearances in Life magazine.

Skippy (Table of Contents: 9)

Skippy / comic story / 258 pages (report information)

Script

Percy Crosby

Pencils

Percy Crosby

Inks

Percy Crosby

Letters

Percy Crosby ?

Genre

humor; children

Characters

Skippy Skinner

Reprints

• from Skippy daily (King Features Syndicate) 1925-06-22 - 1927-12-31

The Great American Comics (Table of Contents: 10) (Expand) /

promo (ad from the publisher) / 3 pages (report information)

[A note on dates] (Table of Contents: 11)

text article / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Determining the original publication dates for Skippy dailies....

Indexer Notes

Short editorial note regarding the difficulties in properly dating the strips and the methodology used to determine them.

[end pages] (Table of Contents: 12)

illustration / 2 pages (report information)

Pencils

Percy Crosby

Inks

Percy Crosby

Characters

Skippy Skinner

Indexer Notes

Two-page illustration of Skippy and friends by Crosby on inside back cover and facing page; same as front end pages.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 13) (Expand) /

Skippy / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)