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Comic book
Object name
Comic book
Date
1897
Medium
Paper
Dimensions
10 3/8 x 7 x 1/4 in.
Description
This comic book features Outcault's Yellow Kid. The cover reads "Vol.I. No.5. Price 5 Cents/ TheYellow Kid/ R.F. Outcault By Permission of / The N.Y. Journal." The Yellow Kid is crown and wearing a garland as he walks through a grass field. His gown reads "Gee I Won't Do A Ting But Be De Queen Of De May". On the reverse is an advertisment for the N.Y. Sunday Journal.
Credit Line
Gift of Bella C. Landauer
Object Number
2002.1.1360
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
