Cupples & Leon
1902
-
1956
- A-Z
- 1
- Country:
- United States
- Indicia / Colophon Publishers:
- 3
- Brand Groups:
- 1
- Brand Emblems in Use:
- 2
- Total Number of Series:
- 72
- Total Number of Issues:
- 143
- Show Covers by Month:
- using on-sale date or using publication date
- Show Issues by Month:
- using on-sale date or using publication date
- Creator Checklist:
- via linked story records
- Notes:
- Cupples & Leon was an American publishing company founded by Victor I. Cupples (1864–1941) and Arthur T. Leon (1867–1943). They published juvenile fiction and children's books but are mainly remembered today as the major publisher of books collecting comic strips during the early decades of the 20th century.
In Manhattan, the company was initially located in the Presbyterian building at 156 Fifth Avenue and, during the 1920s, at 449 Fourth Avenue.
In 1903, Cupples & Leon collected such strips as The Katzenjammer Kids. Alphonse and Gaston, Happy Hooligan, On and Off the Ark, Poor Lil Mose and The Tigers. Their major competitor in books of comic strip reprints was Frederick A. Stokes, who died in 1939.
They left the comic strip reprint field in 1934, concentrating on their juvenile fiction lines. The Platt & Munk publishing firm acquired Cupples & Leon in 1956.
Editing
| Series | Year | Issues | Covers | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Adventures of Harold Teen [b] | 1931 | 1 issues (0 indexed) | Gallery | 1931 |
| The Adventures of Harold Teen [Treasure Box of Famous Comics] [b] | 1934 | 1 issues (0 indexed) | Gallery | [December] 1934 |
| The Adventures of Mutt and Jeff [b] | 1920 | 1 issues (1 indexed) | Gallery | [September 7, 1920] |
| America's Black and White Book: 100 Pictured Reasons Why We Are at War [b] | 1917 | 1 issues (1 indexed) | Gallery | 1917 |
| Angelic Angelina [b] | 1909 | 1 issues (0 indexed) | Add | [December 18] 1909 |
| Buddy Tucker and His Friends [b] | 1906 | 1 issues (0 indexed) | Gallery | 1906 |
| Buddy Tucker Meets Alice in Wonderland [Buster Brown Nuggets Series] [b] | 1907 | 1 issues (1 indexed) | Have 1 (Need 1) | [April 11] 1907 |
| Buddy Tucker Visits the House That Jack Built [Buster Brown Nuggets Series] [b] | 1907 | 1 issues (1 indexed) | Have 1 (Need 1) | [April 11] 1907 |
| Buster Brown and His Pets [b] | 1913 | 1 issues (0 indexed) | Gallery | 1913 |
| Buster Brown and Uncle Buster and Other Stories [Buster Brown Nuggets Series] [b] | 1907 | 1 issues (0 indexed) | Have 1 (Need 1) | [April 11] 1907 |
| Buster Brown at Play [b] | 1915 | 1 issues (0 indexed) | Have 1 (Need 1) | 1915 |
| Buster Brown Goes Fishing [Buster Brown Nuggets Series] [b] | 1907 | 1 issues (1 indexed) | Gallery | [April 11] 1907 |
| Buster Brown Goes Shooting [Buster Brown Nuggets Series] [b] | 1907 | 1 issues (1 indexed) | Gallery | [April 11] 1907 |
| Buster Brown Goes Swimming [Buster Brown Nuggets Series] [b] | 1907 | 1 issues (1 indexed) | Have 1 (Need 1) | [April 11] 1907 |
| Buster Brown in Foreign Lands [b] | 1912 | 1 issues (0 indexed) | Have 1 (Need 1) | 1912 |
| Buster Brown on His Travels | 1910 | 1 issues (0 indexed) | Gallery | 1910 |
| Buster Brown on Uncle Jack's Farm [Buster Brown Nuggets Series] [b] | 1907 | 1 issues (1 indexed) | Have 1 (Need 1) | [April 11] 1907 |
| Buster Brown Plays Cowboy [Buster Brown Nuggets Series] [b] | 1907 | 1 issues (0 indexed) | Gallery | [April 11] 1907 |
| Buster Brown Plays Indian [Buster Brown Nuggets Series] [b] | 1907 | 1 issues (1 indexed) | Gallery | [April 11] 1907 |
| Buster Brown's Amusing Capers | 1908 | 1 issues (0 indexed) | Gallery | 1908 |
| Buster Brown's Funny Tricks [b] | 1914 | 1 issues (0 indexed) | Gallery | 1914 |
| Buster Brown's Happy Days [b] | 1911 | 1 issues (0 indexed) | Gallery | 1911 |
| Buster Brown's Latest Frolics [b] | 1907 | 1 issues (0 indexed) | Gallery | 1907 |
| Buster Brown, His Dog Tige and Their Jolly Times | 1906 | 1 issues (0 indexed) | Gallery | [March 7] 1906 |
| Buster Brown: The Busy Body | 1909 | 1 issues (0 indexed) | Gallery | 1909 |
| Buster Brown: Tige and the Bull [Buster Brown Nuggets Series] [b] | 1907 | 1 issues (0 indexed) | Gallery | [April 11] 1907 |
| Daffydils [b] | 1911 | 1 issues (1 indexed) | Gallery | 1911 |
| Dick Tracy and Dick Tracy, Jr. and How They Captured "Stooge" Viller [b] | 1933 | 1 issues (1 indexed) | Have 1 (Need 1) | [April] 1933 |
| Dick Tracy and Dick Tracy, Jr. and How They Captured "Stooge" Viller [Treasure Box of Famous Comics] [b] | 1934 | 1 issues (0 indexed) | Gallery | [December] 1934 |
| Dolly Dimples and Bobby Bounce [b] | 1931 | 1 issues (0 indexed) | Have 1 (Need 1) | [May] 1931 |
| Dolly Dimples and Bobby Bounce [Wonder Chest of Famous Comics] [b] | 1935 | 1 issues (0 indexed) | Add | 1935 |
| Harold Teen [b] | 1929 | 1 issues (0 indexed) | Gallery | [April] 1929 |
| How Dick Tracy and Dick Tracy Jr Caught the Racketeers [Wonder Chest of Famous Comics] [b] | 1935 | 1 issues (0 indexed) | Add | 1935 |
| How Dick Tracy and Dick Tracy, Jr. Caught the Racketeers | 1934 | 1 issues (1 indexed) | Gallery | [April 1934] |
| Jimmie Dugan and the Reg'lar Fellers [b] | 1921 | 1 issues (0 indexed) | Gallery | [August] 1921 |
| Joe Palooka | 1933 | 1 issues (0 indexed) | Gallery | [February 17] 1933 |
| Little Nemo in Slumberland [b] | 1909 | 1 issues (0 indexed) | Have 1 (Need 1) | 1909 |
| Little Orphan Annie [Treasure Box of Famous Comics] | 1934 | 1 issues (0 indexed) | Gallery | [December] 1934 |
| Little Orphan Annie [Wonder Chest of Famous Comics] [b] | 1935 | 1 issues (0 indexed) | Add | 1935 |
| Men of Daring [b] | 1933 | 1 issues (0 indexed) | Gallery | [June] 1933 |
| Monkey Shines of Marseleen [b] | 1909 | 1 issues (0 indexed) | Have 1 (Need 1) | 1909 |
| Moon Mullins Big Book [b] | 1930 | 1 issues (0 indexed) | Gallery | 1930 |
| Mr. Twee Deedle [b] | 1913 | 1 issues (0 indexed) | Add | 1913 |
| Mr. Twee Deedle's Further Adventures [b] | 1914 | 1 issues (0 indexed) | Gallery | 1914 |
| The Nebbs | 1928 | 1 issues (0 indexed) | Gallery | 1928 |
| Percy and Ferdie [b] | 1921 | 1 issues (1 indexed) | Gallery | [February] 1921 |
| Pore Lil Mose: His Letters to His Mammy | 1903 | 1 issues (1 indexed) | Gallery | 1903 |
| Reg'lar Fellers [b] | 1921 | 1 issues (1 indexed) | Gallery | [March] 1921 |
| Reg'lar Fellers [b] | 1929 | 1 issues (0 indexed) | Gallery | [April] 1929 |
| Reg'lar Fellers [Treasure Box of Famous Comics] | 1934 | 1 issues (0 indexed) | Gallery | [December] 1934 |
| Smitty [b] | 1928 | 1 issues (0 indexed) | Gallery | [April] 1928 |
| Smitty at Military School [b] | 1933 | 1 issues (0 indexed) | Gallery | [May] 1933 |
| Smitty at the Ball Game [b] | 1929 | 1 issues (0 indexed) | Gallery | [May] 1929 |
| Smitty at the Ball Game [Wonder Chest of Famous Comics] [b] | 1935 | 1 issues (0 indexed) | Add | 1935 |
| Smitty in the North Woods [b] | 1932 | 1 issues (0 indexed) | Gallery | [May] 1932 |
| Smitty the Flying Office Boy [b] | 1930 | 1 issues (1 indexed) | Gallery | [June] 1930 |
| Smitty the Jockey [b] | 1931 | 1 issues (1 indexed) | Gallery | [May] 1931 |
| Smitty [Treasure Box of Famous Comics] [b] | 1934 | 1 issues (0 indexed) | Gallery | [December] 1934 |
| Tailspin Tommy [b] | 1932 | 1 issues (1 indexed) | Gallery | [May] 1932 |
| Terrors of the Tiny Tads [b] | 1909 | 1 issues (0 indexed) | Add | [August 5] 1909 |
| Toonerville Trolley and Other Cartoons [b] | 1921 | 1 issues (0 indexed) | Gallery | [September] 1921 |
| Bringing Up Father The Big Book [b] | 1926 | 2 issues (0 indexed) | Gallery | 1926 - [March] 1929 |
| Keeping Up with the Joneses [b] | 1920 | 2 issues (1 indexed) | Gallery | [May] 1920 - [May] 1921 |
| Mutt and Jeff Big Book [b] | 1926 | 2 issues (0 indexed) | Have 3 (Need 1) | [June] 1926 - [March]1929 |
| Barney Google and Spark Plug | 1923 | 4 issues (2 indexed) | Gallery | [August] 1923 - [March] 1926 |
| Winnie Winkle [b] | 1930 | 4 issues (1 indexed) | Gallery | [May] 1930 - 1933 |
| The Gumps [b] | 1924 | 7 issues (0 indexed) | Have 6 (Need 1) | [May] 1924 - 1930 |
| Moon Mullins | 1927 | 7 issues (1 indexed) | Gallery | [May] 1927 - 1933 |
| Tillie the Toiler | 1925 | 8 issues (3 indexed) | Have 8 (Need 1) | [July] 1925 - [March] 1933 |
| Little Orphan Annie [b] | 1926 | 9 issues (5 indexed) | Gallery | [June] 1926 - [April] 1934 |
| Mutt and Jeff [b] | 1919 | 13 issues (6 indexed) | Gallery | [September] 1919 - [May 19] 1933 |
| Bringing Up Father [b] | 1919 | 24 issues (13 indexed) | Gallery | [March] 1919 - 1933 |
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