Comic Cuts
#v1#1
(17 May 1890)
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 1/2 d [0-0-0.5 GBP]
- Pages
- 8
- Indicia Frequency
- weekly
- On-sale Date
- 1890-05-17
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- [none printed]
- Editing
- ?
Issue Notes
First issue contains reprints of cartoon material from the United States, no new original material.
[no title indexed]
cartoon / 0.25 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- You women don't know how to hang pictures-...
- Genre
- humour
- Reprints
- from ?
Indexer Notes
On front cover.
The Latest Botanical Discovery
cartoon / 0.2 page
- Genre
- humour
- Reprints
- from ?
Indexer Notes
On front cover.
The Joys of the Suburbanite
cartoon / 0.05 page
- Genre
- humour
- Reprints
- from ?
Indexer Notes
On front cover.
Why Timpkins is Going to Move Again
cartoon / 0.1 page
- Genre
- humour
- Reprints
- from ?
Indexer Notes
On front cover.
The Editor Talks to His New Friends
text article / 1 page
- Genre
- humour; non-fiction
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover.
Text page starting with a editorial introduction to the comic paper (title used for this sequence). Short items includes five untitled brief humour text vignettes, one limerick poem, and two humour short poems.
Brief story articles include, "Landlord and Lawyer," "Sir Walter and the Bores; Something Like Wealth," "Stories Told by a Policemen," "Rough on the Cats," ""Great Secret" Prize Competition," and "Keeping Company."
Confessions of a Ticket-of-Leave Man
text story / 0.75 page
- Genre
- non-fiction; crime
Indexer Notes
Subtitled, "My Experiences of Ten Years' Penal Servitude."
Story has three chapters over 2 1/2 columns. Listed as "Author's Copyright" and "To be continued."
A Child's Lucky Find
text article / 0.25 page
- Genre
- non-fiction
Indexer Notes
Over 1 1/2 columns includes 12 factoid and trivia vignettes, and four titled articles; "A Child's Lucky Find" (of which this sequence is named), "Some Curious Jugs," "Big Feet of a Great Man," and "The Oddest of All."
[no title indexed]
cartoon / 0.15 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Thinshanks
- Genre
- humour
- Reprints
- from ?
Indexer Notes
This cartoon straddles the center-spread between pages 4 and 5.
[no title indexed]
cartoon / 0.1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Customer: Isn't it a trifle large, Levi?
- Genre
- humour
- Reprints
- from ?
Indexer Notes
This cartoon straddles the center-spread between pages 4 and 5.
[no title indexed]
cartoon / 0.1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Customer: Collars, please, fifteen and a half inch
- Genre
- humour
- Reprints
- from ?
Indexer Notes
This cartoon straddles the center-spread between pages 4 and 5.
[no title indexed]
cartoon / 0.05 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Sweet to the Spirit's listening ear!
- Genre
- humour
- Reprints
- from ?
Sir Frederick Leighton "Rejected"
text story / 1 page
- Genre
- humour
Indexer Notes
Text page with several short humour stories. Short stories titled, "Sir Frederick Leighton "Rejected" (first story on the page and title of this sequence, "Adventure in a Diving Bell," "How to Do It," "Mrs. "Dizzy"," Playful Twins," ""Hammering" on the Stock Exchange," "Outwitting the Lunatic," "The Lucky Duke," and "John Bright and the Prison." There are also nine untitled vignette humour stories on this page.
A Dog on the Stage
text story / 0.525 page
- Genre
- humour
Indexer Notes
Inside back cover.
Five humouous stories titled, "A Dog on the Stage" (used as the title for this sequence), "Pleasant," "He Carried the Cave in a Parcel," "Broken Moments," and "Interviewing the Pope." Also included are seven untitled humourous vignette stories.
Tiny Chips
text article / 0.2 page
- Genre
- non-fiction
Indexer Notes
Inside back cover.
A nearly full column of short factoids.
Trials of the Man Who Smokes
cartoon / 0.255 page
- Genre
- humour
- Reprints
- from ?
Indexer Notes
On back cover.
[no title indexed]
cartoon / 0.03 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- How is it you never married, Charlie?
- Genre
- humour
- Reprints
- from ?
Indexer Notes
On back cover.
My Sweetheart
illustration / 0.02 page
- Reprints
- from ?
Indexer Notes
On back cover.
A small portrait of what is presumed to be the cartoonist's girlfriend or wife.
It Occasionally Fails to Work
cartoon / 0.15 page
- Genre
- humour
- Reprints
- from ?
Indexer Notes
On back cover.
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0.
The Strong Man Fraud; or, The 1000-LB. Air-Ball
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1.
["You women don't know how to hang pictures-..."]
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2.
The Latest Botanical Discovery
-
3.
The Joys of the Suburbanite
-
4.
By Hook and Crook
-
5.
Why Timpkins is Going to Move Again
-
6.
The Editor Talks to His New Friends
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7.
Confessions of a Ticket-of-Leave Man
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8.
A Child's Lucky Find
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9.
Jokes
-
10.
They Each Had One
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11.
The Hammock
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12.
A Brillant Conception
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13.
The Cold, Hard, Unmistakable Hint
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14.
["Thinshanks"]
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15.
["Customer: Isn't it a trifle large, Levi?"]
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16.
["Customer: Collars, please, fifteen and a half inch"]
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17.
His Proposals
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18.
["Sweet to the Spirit's listening ear!"]
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19.
Last Easter Monday
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20.
Smiles
-
21.
Sir Frederick Leighton "Rejected"
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22.
£100 A Year for Life!
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23.
A Dog on the Stage
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24.
Tiny Chips
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25.
Sewing Machines Given Away!
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26.
Parental Authority
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27.
Consolatory
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28.
How She Did It
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29.
Trials of the Man Who Smokes
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30.
["How is it you never married, Charlie?"]
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31.
My Sweetheart
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32.
It Occasionally Fails to Work
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33.
["Enraged Husband:..."]
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34.
["Suburban Resident (Returning from Freemason Lodge):..."]
- Ray Bottorff Jr
- Lionel English
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