{"id":333,"date":"2007-06-13T22:36:29","date_gmt":"2007-06-14T06:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/?p=333"},"modified":"2008-02-07T14:55:33","modified_gmt":"2008-02-07T22:55:33","slug":"the-hyperion-library-of-classic-american-comic-strips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/13\/the-hyperion-library-of-classic-american-comic-strips\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hyperion Library of Classic American Comic Strips"},"content":{"rendered":"

There have been multiple times that I’ve tried googling for information about the excellent Bill Blackbeard<\/a>\"\" edited Hyperion Library of Classic American Comic Strips<\/em><\/a>\"\" series from 1977 and come up dry. I’ve decided to provide a list of them here for reference for anyone looking for the same info. Here are the “titles in series one”… I don’t believe there ever was a series two.<\/p>\n

Skippy<\/em> 1925-1926 by Percy Crosby<\/a>\"\"
\nBarney Google<\/em> 1919-1920 by Billy DeBeck<\/a>\"\"
\nSchool Days<\/em> 1923-1924 by Clare V. Dwiggins<\/a>\"\"
\nA. Mutt<\/em> 1907-1908 by Bud Fisher<\/a>\"\"
\nConnie<\/em> 1929-1930 by Frank Godwin<\/a>\"\"
\nBobo Baxter<\/em> 1927-1928 by Rube Goldberg<\/a>\"\"
\n Baron Bean<\/em> 1916-1917 by George Herriman<\/a>\"\"
\n The Family Upstairs Introducing Krazy Kat<\/em> 1910-1912 by George Herriman<\/a>\"\"
\n Abie the Agent<\/em> 1914-1915 by Harry Hershfield<\/a>\"\"
\n Dauntless Durham of the USA<\/em> 1913-1914 by Harry Hershfield<\/a>\"\"
\n Napoleon<\/em> 1932-1933 by Clifford McBride<\/a>\"\"
\n Winsor McCay\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Dream Days<\/em> 1903-1914 by Winsor McCay<\/a>\"\"
\n Bringing Up Father<\/em> 1913-1914 by George McManus<\/a>\"\"
\n Sherlocko the Monk<\/em> 1910-1912 by Gus Mager<\/a>\"\"
\n Jim Hardy<\/em> 1936-1937 by Dick Moores<\/a>\"\"
\n Happy Hooligan<\/em> 1904-1905 by Frederick Burr Opper<\/a>\"\"
\n Buster Brown<\/em> 1906 by Richard F. Outcault<\/a>\"\"
\n Thimble Theatre Introducing Popeye<\/em> 1928-1930 by Elzie C. Segar<\/a>\"\"
\n Polly and Her Pals<\/em> 1912-1913 by Cliff Sterrett<\/a>\"\"
\n Bobby Thatcher Including Phil Hardy<\/em> by George Storm<\/a>\"\" (Bobby Thatcher<\/em> 1927, Phil Hardy<\/em> 1925-1926)
\n The Bungle Family<\/em> 1928 by Harry J. Tuthill<\/a>\"\"
\n Minute Movies<\/em> 1927-1928 by Ed Wheelan<\/a>\"\"<\/p>\n

Note that you can still buy some of these rare volumes at reasonable prices (and many at outrageous prices) here.<\/a>\"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There have been multiple times that I’ve tried googling for information about the excellent Bill Blackbeard edited Hyperion Library of Classic American Comic Strips series from 1977 and come up dry. I’ve decided to provide a list of them here … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics","category-useful-information","category-ye-olde-comics-and-stuffe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paZfX-5n","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}