Marge's Lulu and Tubby in Alaska (Dell Giant)

New York: Dell (No. 1, 1959). Comic book in very good condition. Pages are toned, but not brittle. Clean and unmarked. Spine is solid but has a bit of a lean. 1" vertical closed tear at bottom of spine connecting to front cover; the tear continues through page 5. Cover colors are bright. Front cover has a vertical crease the length of the spine from use. Front top corner a bit soft. Top corner of the back cover is creased. (See our photos for condition.) B/W

ABOUT THE BOOK: Little Lulu is a comic strip created in 1935 by Marjorie Henderson Buell. The character, Lulu Moppet, debuted in The Saturday Evening Post on February 23, 1935, in a single panel, appearing as a flower girl at a wedding and mischievously strewing the aisle with banana peels. Little Lulu replaced Carl Anderson's Henry, which had been picked up for distribution by King Features Syndicate. The Little Lulu panel continued to run weekly in The Saturday Evening Post until December 30, 1944.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Marjorie Henderson Buell (1904–1993), whose work appeared under the pen name "Marge", had created two comic strips in the 1920s: The Boy Friend and Dashing Dot, both with female leads. She first had Little Lulu published as a single-panel cartoon in The Saturday Evening Post on February 23, 1935. The single-panel strip continued in the Post until the December 30, 1944, issue, and continued from then as a regular comic strip.[2] Buell herself ceased drawing the comic strip in 1947. In 1950, Little Lulu became a daily syndicated series by Chicago Tribune–New York News Syndicate and ran until 1969.