Friday, October 20, 2006

 

Obscurity of the Day: The Little Old Wise Man

Here's a neat strip from 1922 called The Little Old Wise Man. It was sold in batches by Ad Art Service to newspapers that wanted to stimulate their classified ad sales. As you can see the wise man had an answer to all life's problems, and the answer was invariably to place a classified ad. Delightful art was supplied by Lawrence Redner.

EDIT 4/12/2022: Turns out this feature was first made available in June 1919; by 1922 it was definitely running in reprints. Thanks to Mark Johnson for alerting me to the much earlier start. Based on surveys of a few papers, I'd estimate that 70-100 episodes were made.

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