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Chester Gould - Modern Mollie Try-Out Daily Comic Strip

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Comics Start Price:100.00 USD Estimated At:800.00 - 1,200.00 USD
Chester Gould - Modern Mollie Try-Out Daily Comic Strip
<B>Chester Gould - Modern Mollie Try-Out Daily Comic Strip Original Art (circa 1925).</B></I> Chester Gould was driven to succeed as a cartoonist. After mastering the lessons set forth in W.L. Evans' famed mail-order cartooning course, Gould left Pawnee, Oklahoma to pursue his career in Chicago. Before he hit the big time with <I>Dick Tracy</B></I>, Gould worked on humorous strips such as <I>Fillum Fables</B></I>, <I>Radio Lanes</B></I>, <I>Radio Cats</B></I>, and <I>The Girl Friends</B></I>. Light-hearted flapper fare such as this try-out strip, <I>Modern Mollie</B></I>, went quickly out of fashion as soon as the Great Depression struck. Soon Gould had found his niche as <I>Dick Tracy</B></I> brought his brand of hard-hitting justice to the ""dirty thirties."" This daily gives a rare glimpse into an alternate facet of Chester Gould's cartooning talent. The daily has an image area of 20"" x 6"", and the art is in Excellent condition. <BR><BR><B>Important notice:</B> Heritage usually auctions material at the rate of 200-250 lots per hour. On some occasions eBay Live bid software or the Internet may not be able to keep up with the pace of the auction. We recommend placing a realistic absentee bid now as insurance to avoid disappointment. Occasionally the auctioneer may eliminate or reject an eBay Live bid, and the auctioneer may also reopen a lot after the close of the eBay live bidding (usually because we missed an audience bid), and may reject your bid even if it shows you as the winning bidder. By bidding via eBay Live, you agree that Heritage may award the lot to another bidder at its sole discretion under the circumstances described above or any other reasonable circumstances. Since eBay bids are not shown to us until we open the lot on the floor, we treat those bids just like floor bids. In most cases the floor responds before the eBay bid is presented to us, due to Internet lag time, so for consistency we have made it a policy that floor bids are always conside