Bootsie's Big '50s

(2022)

Bootsie's Big '50s (Table of Contents: 1)

credits, title page / 2 pages (report information)

Script

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Letters

typeset

Indexer Notes

Title page, credits, and publication data.

Introduction (Table of Contents: 2)

foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 2 pages (report information)

Script

Nat Gertler

Pencils

Ollie Harrington

Inks

Ollie Harrington

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Oliver W. Harrington was a tremendously talented cartoonist whose work was never seen by most of America.

Indexer Notes

Background and context on Ollie Harrington and Dark Laughter, a strip that originally only appeared in Black newspapers in the U.S.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 3)

Dark Laughter / cartoon / 147 pages (report information)

Script

Ollie Harrington (signed as OLLIE HARRINGTON)

Pencils

Ollie Harrington (signed as OLLIE HARRINGTON)

Inks

Ollie Harrington (signed as OLLIE HARRINGTON)

Letters

typeset

Genre

humor

Characters

Bootsie

Keywords

Harlem; single panel cartoons; urban life

Indexer Notes

147 single panel cartoons, one per page. Selected cartoons from the Pittsburgh Courier from 1954 to 1958. As noted in the introduction, the Courier was actually a national weekly newspaper produced for black readers in several different editions for different urban markets.

Notes (Table of Contents: 4)

text article / 2 pages (report information)

Script

Nat Gertler

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

5: The first-time married Porfirio Rubirosa was a Dominican sportsman, diplomat, and celebrated playboy.

Indexer Notes

Notes providing historical context for some of the cartoons.

[If You Like Your Cartoons with a Taste of History] (Table of Contents: 5) (Expand) /

promo (ad from the publisher) / 2 pages (report information)

"Negro America's Favorite Cartoonist" (Table of Contents: 6) (Expand) /

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