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Published: August 1904, Price: [0.70 USD] (see notes), Pages: 66, Editing:
Color: Color Dimensions: 16 Inches Wide X 11.25 Inches Tall (oblong) Paper Stock: Cardboard Glossy Exterior; Glossy Paper Interior Binding: Cloth Bound; Squarebound Publishing Format: Collected Edition
Notes: The comic stories are printed on only one side of the page, the reverse sides are left blank.
All the stories are copyrighted 1903 by The New York Herald Co.
Overstreet's Platinum Age section states the book was the first nationally distributed comic book, distributed through the Sears and Roebuck catalog originally.
The price is not listed on this book. Information on how much it was sold for was found in The Publisher's Weekly (R. R. Bowker, 1872 series) #1738 (May 20, 1905) on page 1354.
On sale date from the publication date as reported by the publisher to the U.S. Copyright Office, recorded in the Catalogue of Title Entries of Books and Other Articles, Third Quarter, 1904. Page 452. Copyright number: A 92841. Two copies arrived at the Copyright Office on July 27, 1904.
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