| Just Kids | |
| Available Strips: | 4 |
| Latest Strips: | Just Kids 1937 Sundays | Uploaded: Dec 19, 2016 |
| Categories: | Children/Teenagers | Humor |
| A young cartoonist August Daniels "Ad" Carter was working a low-level job at The Brooklyn Eagle, when co-worker Clare Briggs advised him to create a comic strip and try selling it to a syndicate. He responded with Our Friend Mush, which his paper started running in 1916. It was years before anything came of it in syndicated form, but King Features Syndicate mogul William Randolph Hearst eventually took an interest in Carter's work. King launched Just Kids, where title character Mush Stebbins continued as part of an ensemble cast, as a daily on July 23, 1923. A Sunday page was added the following month. Other regulars included Mush's pals, Fatso Dolan and Pat Chan. The group functioned as a kid gang operating in and around a small town called Barnsville. The strip is pretty much a copy of Reg'lar Fellers, by Gene Byrnes. Just Kids even looked like Reg'lar Fellers, as Carter imitated Byrnes's art style as well as his character set-up, especially in the early days. But while the imitation was never as popular as the original, it still carved out its own place in the public consciousness. In addition to pins, dolls, games and other merchandised products, it was the subject of a coloring book in 1928 and a 16-page comic book reprint in 1932. Starting in 1934, it was the subject of at least a half-dozen Big Little Books. In the late '30s, as modern-style comic books rose to prominence, Dell Comics put it in the back pages of several of its comic strip reprints. The daily Just Kids ran nearly a quarter of a century, ending in 1947. The Sunday version continued, but when Carter died, in 1957, Just Kids was laid to rest with him. (source:toonopedia) | |
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Just Kids 1929 Sundays | 48 | JonTheScanner | Mar 28, 2016 | 36.00 | 5003 | 54 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Just Kids 1935 Sundays | 53 | JonTheScanner | Sep 19, 2015 | 47.00 | 3244 | 81 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Just Kids 1936 Sundays | 53 | JonTheScanner | Mar 28, 2016 | 44.00 | 4113 | 54 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Just Kids 1937 Sundays | 53 | JonTheScanner | Dec 19, 2016 | 46.00 | 4238 | 38 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
