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<DIV>In a message dated 10/17/2003 5:50:08 AM Eastern Daylight Time, mouse-ducks@wanadoo.fr writes:<BR><BR><<I saw this on Bud Plant's site:<BR>http://www.budplant.com/prod.itml/icOid/11983<BR>"THE ADVENTURES OF OBADIAH OLDBUCK<BR>By Rodolphe Töpffer.<BR>The First American Comic Book. Originally published in 1842, more than half<BR>a century before the creation of Yellow Kid! <snip><BR><BR>I'll have to order it some time.>><BR><BR>this is an extremely limited limited edition to the USA (not sure how many copies were printed for Europe though) -- and while the first American comic book -- it was a reprint of a European comic. And Bud Plant and Bob Beerbaum (which i misspelled) were the only USA dealers to import copies of this reprint. </DIV>
<DIV><BR> Don there is a group devoted to pre-1930s comics (platinum at yahoo or is it platinum comics at yahoo) - I'll be happy to post questions for you there if you don't want to join,.,,<BR><BR>steven rowe</DIV></BODY></HTML>