Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum

Bringing Up Father. "Yes- these ties are quite expensive Mr. Jiggs- but you can say you only paid ten cents apiece for them"

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Credit Line

  • San Francisco Academy of Comic Art Collection, Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum, The Ohio State University

Details

Title
  • Bringing Up Father. "Yes- these ties are quite expensive Mr. Jiggs- but you can say you only paid ten cents apiece for them"
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Resource Type
Version
  • tear sheets
Genre
Date Issued
  • April 30, 1939
Date Copyrighted
  • 1939
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Description

Summary
  • Jiggs buys a dozen expensive neckties at the store for ten dollars a piece but when he gets home he tells Maggie they cost fifteen cents each. Maggie and Nora open the box and distribute the ties to friends, family, butlers, milkmen, etc. Jiggs is shocked there is only one tie left but Nora tells him that tie is for her. Maggie tells him to go out and get two more dozen. He stops at a street vendor who is selling ties for ten cents a piece.
Description
  • Twelve panel color comic strip.
  • Copyright, 1939, King Features Syndicate, Inc.
Published In
  • Times-picayune
Syndicate
  • King Features Syndicate

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Item Identifier
  • Finding Number: CGA.SFT36
  • Digital ID: d_4137
Collection Identifier
  • SPEC.CGA.SF
Source Collection

Additional Details

Extent
  • 34 x 36 cm
Medium
  • ink
  • newsprint
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  • 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.

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