ISBN: 9798881203238 - bringing up father, eighteenth series: edition 1930, restoration 2024 (1 resultados)

Condición: Hervorragend. Zustand: Hervorragend | Seiten: 50 | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | ----Bringing Up Father is an American comic strip createdby cartoonist George McManus.--- Here the EIGHTEENTH series edited in 1930. New lay-out byComic Books Restore.--- The strip centers on an immigrant Irishman named Jiggs, a former hod carrier who came into wealth in the United States by winning a million dollars in a sweepstakes.Now nouveau-riche, he still longs to revert to his former working class habits and lifestyle. His constant attempts to sneak out with his old gang of boisterous, rough-edged pals, eat corned beef and cabbage (known regionally as "Jiggs dinner"), and hang out at the local tavern were often thwarted by Maggie, his formidable, social-climbing (and rolling-pin wielding) harridan of a wife, their lovely young daughter Nora, and infrequently their lazy son Ethelbert, later known as Sonny. Also a character presented in the strip (portrayed as a miserly borrower) was named, fittingly, Titus Canby ("tight as can be").…