Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum

"Oily John" the Detective. "I'll put on my disguise and hunt the thief"

Public Deposited
Resource type
Creator
Description
  • p.111
  • Eight Panel monochrome comic strip.
Subject
Rights statement
Language
Identifier
  • Digital ID: d_18301
Summary
  • The small dealer is draining the oil tank. Oily John tells the oil trust he will wear his wig disguise and hunt the thief. He sees the thief and goes after him in an airship, but it is too slow. He gives a driver money to chase after the small dealer, who is on a horse. They catch up with him and capture him.
Source Collection
Published in
  • The New York Evening Journal
Collection identifier
  • SPEC.CGA.SF
Repository
  • Ohio State University. Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum
File Format
Call number
  • SPEC.CGA.SCRAPBOOK.100
Date issued
  • 1905
Rights note
  • The Ohio State University Libraries believes this object is in the Public Domain in the United States. Users are responsible for making a final determination of copyright status before reproducing.
Version
  • clippings
Medium
  • newsprint
  • ink
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Time period (Topic)
Genre
Extent
  • 28.7 x 19.5 cm
Credit line: San Francisco Academy of Comic Art Collection, The Ohio State University, Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum

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