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General Category => Comic Related Discussion => Topic started by: fett on July 22, 2018, 02:23:09 PM

Title: Unknown Mopsy book
Post by: fett on July 22, 2018, 02:23:09 PM

anyone ever seen this and can identify the publisher?

Title: Re: Unknown Mopsy book
Post by: erwin-k on July 23, 2018, 08:40:08 AM

Good luck!

If this was indeed published in 1944, it might be a one-off by someone outside the industry who happened to have rationed paper available.

Title: Re: Unknown Mopsy book
Post by: SuperScrounge on July 23, 2018, 08:06:05 PM

I don't think it was published in '44, that date on the back looks more like the date the cartoon ran in the paper.

The odd coloring makes me think it might be a non-US publisher, but the GCD doesn't have a listing for it.

Title: Re: Unknown Mopsy book
Post by: crashryan on July 23, 2018, 08:30:09 PM

I found it listed on some bookseller sites as "Mopsy, the Maid Who Makes You Laugh," published by the Mopsy Publishing Company in 1945. Could this mean it was a personal project of Gladys Parker? The index to the Michigan State University comics collection says:

Mopsy : the maid who makes you laugh / Gladys Parker. -- New York : Mopsy Publishing Co., 1945. -- 96 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
   -- Title from cover. -- Collects cartoon panels dated 1944-45.

Title: Re: Unknown Mopsy book
Post by: OtherEric on July 24, 2018, 02:16:43 AM

For some reason it makes me think of the Barnaby Quarterly books, but that's a pure stab in the dark.  Same era and format, at least roughly; and they're both strip reprints.