Friday, October 14, 2005

 

Obscurities - Mister Rumbles






Here's the first five installments of Mister Rumbles by Jack Sparling. The strip started on April 18 1955 and lasted until sometime in 1956. Can anyone supply a definite end date?

The Eisner influence on Sparling is obvious here, but good art wasn't enough to keep this strip afloat. I guess the world just wasn't ready for an adult version of Barnaby or Calvin And Hobbes.

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# posted by Allan Holtz @ 7:47 AM
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Ver interesting Strip, do you have the complete run? Also what paper was this pulled from. Thanks
# posted by Blogger ssss : 10/15/2005 7:07 PM
 
No, I don't have the complete run, just the first few months. My run came from the Washington Post, which dropped it early.
# posted by Blogger Allan Holtz : 10/16/2005 9:22 AM
 
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