Art from comic strips; front jacket: art by Gustave Verbeek and Harry Grant Dart (from sequence 12, The Explorigator, circa 1908); back jacket: art by Charles Forbell; inside front jacket: introduction; inside back jacket: Dan Nadel biography
Wraparound cover; title on the spine
endpapers made up of various covers: Herbie #3 August 1964, Milt Gross Funnies #2 September 1947, Sparky Watts #8 1948, Black Cat Mystic #61 January 1958, Witches Tales #25 June 1954, Jingle Jangle Comics #2 April 194?
half-title page, preceded by a blank page
full title page
Dedication and Contents page, background art from S'Matter Pop July 21, 1918
Introduction + a brief chronology of modern comics
Introduction to the works of Harry Grant Dart, Howard Nostrand, Herbert Crowley, Ogden Whitney, Raymond Crawford Ewer, Stanley Armstrong, Bob Powell, Walter Quermann
from page 4 panel 7 of the following story
April 3, 1910; April 17, 1910; May 1, 1910; May 8, 1910; May 15, 1910; May 22, 1910; June 5, 1910; June 12, 1910
taken from May 27, 1911 strip
Sunday pages from April 30, May 27, June 17, June 24, July 8, December 16 1911
Sunday pages from November 29 1914, April 11, October 31 1915
From page 4 panel 1 of the following story
art extracted from Oct 23, 1938 strip
Sunday pages from July 3, July 31, August 21, September 11, October 23 1938
art from page 14 panel 5 of Pete the Pooch Milt Gross Funnies #2
Introduction to the work of Milt Gross, Stan Mac Govern, Dick Briefer, Jack Mendelsohn
April 3 1927, May 28 1927, August 6 1927
30 strips from July 3, 5-7, 10-13, September 5, December 11, 19-22 1944; March 26-30, April 3-6, May 21, June 11-15 1945
From page 7 panel 3 of "Frankenstein and the Sorcerer " in Frankenstein (Prize, 1945 series) #4
The Dell comic reprints the 1959 Sunday comic
Art from the 1918 strip first reprinted on page 118
Introduction to the work of Charles M. Payne, Fletcher Hanks, Garrett Price, A.E. Hayward, Jefferson Machamer, Rory Hayes
Sunday pages from July 21 1918, February 20, April 1, circa May 1921, circa 1924
18 consecutive Sunday pages from June 3 to September 30, 1934
art from panel 11 of May 12, 1929 strip
Sunday pages from July 23, August 20 1922, March 28 1926, May 12 1929, April 3 1932
art from last panel of November 28, 1937
art from panel 3 page 17 of Bogeyman's Comics #1
pages numbered 15 to 19
art taken from an unidentified strip
Introduction to the work of Harry Hershfield, Cecil Jensen, Boody Rogers, Harry J. Tuthill, C. W. Kahles
62 daily strips, four on each page
This started as a comic strip in 1946 before being reprinted in comic book form.
Sunday pages from January 1, August 6, August 13, November 26, December 3, December 17 1933, February 4, March 4, March 11, March 18, April 15, April 22, July 29 1934, December 26 1937
Sunday pages from February 9, February 23, March 8, April 5, April 12, April 19, April 26, May 3, May 10, May 17 1924, January 20, February 3, March 24, March 31 1929
art from panel 11 of October 5, 1913 page
Introduction to the work of Charles Forbell, T.E. Powers, Gustave Verbeek, Gene Deitch, George Carlson, Norman E. Jennett
Sunday pages from August 17, August 24, October 5, October 12, October 19, October 26, November 2, November 16, November 23, November 30; December 7 1913
Art taken from panel 10 of August 17, 1913 page
art from panel 3 of May 22, 1904 page
Strips from May 1, May 8, May 22, June 5, June 12, circa 1904
2 strips from 1905, July 31 1910, June 13 1913
18 consecutive daily and Sunday strips from October 20 to November 6, 1966
4 consecutive daily and Sunday strips from November 10-13, 1955
Sunday page from February 5, 1955
Sunday pages from February 28, March 14, March 28, April 4, April 18, May 2, September 26, November 21 1909
Acknowlegments, credits, copyright information, Library of Congress cataloging data, Publisher data; this is followed by a blank page
montage of covers Sparky Watts #8, Frankenstein #4, Black Cat #61, Jingle Jangle Comics #2; Four Color #1091; Fantastic Comics #10