(March 2009)
Fantagraphics,
2009 Series
Published in English
(United States)
- Price
- 22.99 USD
- Pages
- 212
- On-sale Date
- 2009-02-25
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Fantagraphics Books
- Brand
-
FB
- ISBN
-
978-1-56097-972-2
- Barcode
- 9781560979722 52299
- Printer
- Printed in Singapore
- Editing
- Brian Walker (credited) (editor)
- Color
- color cover; some color but mostly black & white Interiors
- Dimensions
- 9.25" x 8"
- Binding
- softcover
- Publishing Format
- collected edition
Issue Notes
Completely reprints comic strip "Sam's Strip" which ran from 1961 to 1963. Designer: Adam Grano; Strip Restoration: Bill Janocha; Production Assistance: Paul Baresh and Neal Walker; Promotion: Eric Reynolds.
There is Something New in Comic Strips
Sam's Strip / foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 3 pages
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Sam; Jerry Dumas
- Reprints
- from Sam's Strip daily (King Features Syndicate) 1962.06.26
Indexer Notes
Splash page, indicia page, and title page.
How Sam's Strip Began
Sam's Strip / foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 6 pages
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Charlie Brown; Snoopy; Sam; Silo (unnamed); Mad Hatter; White Rabbit; Jerry Dumas (as character); Jerry Dumas (photo); Mort Walker (photo)
- Reprints
- from Sam's Strip daily (King Features Syndicate) 1962.10.03
- from Sam's Strip daily (King Features Syndicate) 1962.09.05
Indexer Notes
How the strip began. Includes a letter from Charles Schulz thanking Jerry for giving him a strip that had Charlie Brown in it, and two sales brochure from King Features Syndicate.
My Time with Sam's Strip
Sam's Strip / foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 5 pages
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Beetle Bailey; Blondie Bumstead; Ignatz Mouse; Krazy Kat; Plato; Sam; Silo (unnamed); Happy Hooligan; Yellow Kid; Paw; Si; Casper; Jerry Dumas (as character); Jerry Dumas (photo); Mort Walker (photo)
- Reprints
- from Sam's Strip daily (King Features Syndicate) 1962.09.26 [one panel]
- from Beetle Bailey daily (King Features Syndicate) 1967.02.25
- from Sam's Strip Lives! (Mort Walker and Jerry Dumas, 1967? series) #[nn]
- from Sams Serie (Semic Press, 1986 series) #[nn]
- from Sam & Silo - Sam's Strip (Interpresse, 1979 series) #1.
Indexer Notes
Mort Walker's remembrances of the strip. One page is in color. Includes a Beetle Bailey strip that cameos Sam and Silo, and three covers for compilation books from the US, Sweden, and Denmark.
[Complete Sam's Strip]
Sam's Strip / comic story / 170 pages
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Beetle Bailey (cameo); Betty Boop (cameo); Charlie Brown (cameo); Blondie Bumstead (cameo); Dagwood Bumstead (cameo); Donald Duck (cameo); Andy Gump (cameo); Ignatz Mouse; Krazy Kat; Little Orphan Annie (cameo); Olive Oyl (cameo); Popeye (cameo); Prince Valiant (cameo); Santa Claus (cameo); Dick Tracy (cameo); Uncle Sam; Sam; Silo (unnamed); Jerry Dumas; Happy Hooligan; World; Humpty Dumpty; Pixy; Horace the Car; Mr. Dry (cameo); Alphonse (cameo); Gaston (cameo); Crazy Cassem (cameo); Sandy (cameo); Gregory Beetle (cameo); Old Lady Who Lives in a Shoe (cameo); Little Tramp (cameo); Loch Ness Monster (cameo); Jiggs (cameo); Snuffy Smith (cameo); Charles De Gaulle (cameo); Mitch Miller (cameo); Cupid (cameo); Mad Hatter (cameo); White Rabbit (cameo); The Little King (cameo); Skipper [Toonerville Trolley] (cameo); Yellow Kid (cameo); Boss Tweed (cameo); Albert Schweitzer (cameo); Nikita Khrushchev (cameo); Lady Liberty (cameo)
- Reprints
- from Sam's Strip dailies (King Features Syndicate) 1961.10.16 - 1963.06.01
Indexer Notes
Credits are from Jerry's introduction.
Strip Comments
Sam's Strip / text article / 7 pages
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Sam; Silo (unnamed); Jerry Dumas (as character); Jiggs
- Reprints
- from Sam's Strip daily (King Features Syndicate) 1963.04.17
- from Sam's Strip daily (King Features Syndicate) 1961.10.21
- from Sam's Strip daily (King Features Syndicate) 1962.03.02
Indexer Notes
Jerry walks through specific strips, and gives commentary on them. Also included are several reworked strips, showing the unused ones and the final versions.
Sam's Sixties
Sam's Strip / text article / 6 pages
- Script
- Brian Walker (credited)
- Pencils
- Jerry Dumas
- Inks
- Jerry Dumas
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Ignatz Mouse; Sam; Jerry Dumas (photo); Mort Walker (photo)
Indexer Notes
Brian walks through specific strips, and gives context on them; what was going on in the 1960's that made this strip funny.
Sam & Silo
Sam & Silo / text article / 5 pages
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Sam; Silo; Mayor McGuffey; Granny Naps; Funny Floyd; Mrs. McGuffey; Foggy; Mr. Teetering; Christe
- Reprints
- from Sam & Silo dailies (King Features Syndicate) 1977.??.?? -1977.??.??
- from Sam & Silo Sunday (King Features Syndicate) 1977.05.08 [black & white]
- from Sam & Silo Sunday (King Features Syndicate) 1977.05.22 [black & white]
- from Sam & Silo Sunday (King Features Syndicate) 1981.10.18 [black & white]
- from Sam & Silo Sunday (King Features Syndicate) 1989.12.17 [black & white]
- from Sam & Silo daily (King Features Syndicate) 1993.??.??
- from Sam & Silo daily (King Features Syndicate) 2007.06.23
- from Sam & Silo Sunday (King Features Syndicate) 1988.05.08 [black & white]
Indexer Notes
An overview of the Sam & Silo strip, which was somewhat based on Sam's Strip. The first page (printed in color) is from the King Features' sales brochure for the strip. The remaining pages are in black and white.
[no title indexed]
Sam's Strip / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- A reader wants to know why I started this comic strip
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Sam
- Synopsis
- Sam discusses the "why" of his strip, and that he wants to be immortal.
- Reprints
- from Sam's Strip daily (King Features Syndicate) 1963.01.26
Indexer Notes
The closing page of the inside of the book, containing just one strip with no heading, probably meant to comment on the author's view of the strip.
Editing
Related Scans
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
Sam's Strip -
1.
There is Something New in Comic Strips
Sam's Strip -
2.
How Sam's Strip Began
Sam's Strip -
3.
My Time with Sam's Strip
Sam's Strip -
4.
[Complete Sam's Strip]
Sam's Strip -
5.
Strip Comments
Sam's Strip -
6.
Sam's Sixties
Sam's Strip -
7.
Sam & Silo
Sam & Silo -
8.
["A reader wants to know why I started this comic strip"]
Sam's Strip -
9.
[Blurb]
Sam's Strip -
10.
[Blank Pages]
This issue was modified by, among others
- Katie
- Peter Croome
- Martin Olsen
- John Pannozzi
- Allen Ross
- Steven Samuels
- Jim Stangas
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