Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum

Sappo. "My trick box has worked great so far" / Thimble Theatre. "Hoo-ray! Look, Castor, I have discovered a new flower - it will make me famous"

Public Deposited
Resource type
Creator
Description
  • ©1928, King Features Syndicate, Inc. Great Britain rights reserved.
  • Seventeen panel color comic strip.
Subject
Rights statement
Language
Identifier
  • Finding Number: CGA.SFT117
  • Digital ID: d_17514
Summary
  • Thimble Theatre: The Professor tells Castor he has discovered a new flower. Castor comes running up and steps on the flower. The Professor fires Castor and boots him. Castor tells the Professor he has found a skeleton of a two-headed prehistoric cow. The Professor wires the skeleton and covers them with cow hide. He stands it up and Castor tells him he got the bones from a couple of common cow skeletons.
  • Sappo: John wants to go out and play billiards. He asks Myrtle who tells him no. She locks him in the box but he escapes out the back door. He puts on a disguise and confronts Myrtle. She kicks what she thinks is a stranger out. John takes off the disguise and goes to play billiards while Myrtle looks on, shocked.
Source Collection
Published in
  • Evening Herald
Collection identifier
  • SPEC.CGA.SF
Repository
  • Ohio State University. Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum
File Format
Date copyrighted
  • 1928
Date issued
  • September 23, 1928
Rights note
  • This item, made available for research and educational purposes, may be protected by copyright; the user is responsible for making a final determination of copyright status.
Version
  • tear sheets
Medium
  • ink
  • newsprint
Syndicate
  • King Features Syndicate
Permanent link
Time period (Topic)
Genre
Extent
  • 54 x 40.5 cm
Credit line: San Francisco Academy of Comic Art Collection, The Ohio State University, Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum

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