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Antique Sunday funnies page from September 7, 1924, featuring S'Matter Pop by Charles M. Payne, as it appeared in The Boston Sunday Post.

Antique Sunday funnies page from August 31, 1924, featuring Mr. Straphanger by Burt Thomas, as it appeared in the Boston Sunday Post.

Antique Sunday funnies page from the late 20's featuring The Kelly Kids by Charles William (C.W.) Kahles, as it appeared in The Daily Capital News, Jefferson City, Missouri.

Antique Sunday funnies page from the late 1920's featuring a reprinted Hank strip by Walt McDougall from 1916.

Antique Sunday funnies page from September 24, 1922, featuring Jerry on the Job by Walter C. Hoban, as it appeared in the Boston American.

Antique Sunday funnies page from October 23, 1910, featuring Buster Brown by Richard Felton Outcault, as it appeared in the Oregon Sunday Journal.

Antique Sunday funnies page from April 10, 1910, featuring Buster Brown by Richard Felton Outcault, as it appeared in the Oregon Sunday Journal.

Antique Sunday funnies page from March 13, 1910, featuring Buster Brown by Richard Felton Outcault, as it appeared in the Oregon Sunday Journal.

Antique Sunday funnies page from October 16, 1932, featuring The Captain and the Kids by Bernard Dibble, as it appeared in The Milwaukee Journal, and Hawkshaw the Detective by Watso.

Antique Sunday funnies page from July 15, 1906, featuring The Katzenjammer Kids by Rudolph Dirks, as it appeared in The Chicago American and Examiner.

Antique Sunday funnies page from the late 20's featuring a reissued Zippo the Monk strip by Charley Hughes, as it appeared in The Daily Capital News, Jefferson City, Missouri.

Antique Old Opie Dilldock's Stories Sunday funnies page from 1910. Art by F.M. Howarth.

Original art for the long-running Mickey Finn comic strip by Frank (Lank) Leonard - strip dated May 22, year unspecified, but likely mid 1940's.

Newspaper advertisement for Wheaties featuring Babe Ruth as it appeared in The Sunday Oregonian, July 30, 1933. For just one measly box top, kids could score a copy of the Babe's animated "moviebook" which shows how he hits a home run when you flip through the pages rapidly. p.s. I wish it was that easy to get one of these today!

In the weeks and days before that fateful attack on Pearl Harbor, rumors of war mingled with offsetting rumors of peace, while generals and diplomats conspired in marble halls as the spectre of war hovered ominously over an uneasy public. Imagine, if you will, back on the mainland, an average American sipping their morning coffee and checking out the latest exploits of the Man of Steel, unaware that history was already unfolding midway across the ocean that would change the world forever. Even Superman, it appears, muddled through that morn, oblivious to the great, impending danger fomenting in the Pacific. In the aftermath of those events, however, the comics responded swiftly, and with a single-minded fury impossible in today's politically-divided landscape. Theirs was an outburst of patriotism and propaganda like nothing previously unleashed in popular culture. The very same heroes previously concerned with petty criminals and two-bit villains spearheaded a vigorous and gallant charge against the wartime enemies of America - a charge that would unfold equally in the Sunday comics as well as the comic books themselves. Some of those heroes defended the home-front; others worked to sabotage efforts behind enemy lines. Some fought on land, while others toiled at sea. But the greatest among them took to the skies to meet the oppressors head-on, and the effect on morale cannot be understated - after all, with Superman on our side, how could we possibly lose?

One of many comic strips birthed in the 30's, the legend of the Phantom - or 'the Ghost Who Walks' - continues to this day. The Phantom mythos dates back to the 1500's, when the father of British sailor Christopher Walker was slain by pirates and his son swore a blood oath to fight evil-doers, and thus the legacy passes from father to son each generation. The Phantom - January 21, 1940. Written by Lee Falk and drawn by Ray Moore.

Smilin' Jack was an aviation/adventure strip created in 1933 by Zack Mosley. It didn't take long for Mosley to really settle into the style of cartooning that would define not only the strip but, in large part, the era in general. Just look at the middle panel: the crisp, economical linework and graceful caricatures! Smilin' Jack by Zack Mosley, 1936.