Bringing Up Father - 4th Series

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George McManus. Bringing Up Father ? 4th Series (New York: Cupples & Leon Company, 1921). Pictorial stiff paper boards with cloth spine; 48 pp + advertising on inside front and back covers; illustrated with 4-panel cartoons per page; measures 10 x 10 inches. Covers, held together by the cloth spine binding, have pulled away from the staples; pages are toned as usual from the use of cheap paper stock; corners bumped; overall, in VG to VG+ condition. [23-100] The comic strip Bringing Up Father was introduced by the cartoonist George McManus in 1913. The strip featured a Jiggs, an Irish-Catholic immigrant, who was a bricklayer that won a million dollar sweepstakes. Suddenly rich, his social status conscious wife, Maggie, constantly attempts to raise Jiggs up from his original lower income social standing to higher middle-class standards. Jiggs would rather hang out with his old crowd than join his wife in her zeal to become high society as a result of their new-found wealth. Jiggs and Maggie?s lovely daughter, Nora, is also a main character in the strip that ran for over 80 years. The inside front cover advertises a new ?Bringing Up Father? game ?for either children or grown-ups?. The inside back cover advertises a larger-sized Bringing Up Father book in color. Both were available by sending in money!. N° de ref. del artículo 000533

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