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Abie The Agent Sunday Page by Hershfield from 10/4/1936 Tabloid Size: 11 x 15
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Condition: Some light tanning/wear, a few have small archival repairs otherwise: Excellent! Bright ... Read more about the seller notes Some light tanning/wear, a few have small archival repairs otherwise: Excellent ... Read More
Condition: Some light tanning/wear, a few have small archival repairs otherwise: Excellent! Bright ... Read more about the seller notes Some light tanning/wear, a few have small archival repairs otherwise: Excellent! Bright Colors!Slightly Trimmed as shown. Read Less about the seller notes
This is an Abie The Agent Sunday Page by Harry Hershfield. Great Yiddish, Jewish Humor! This was cut from the original newspaper Sunday/Saturday comics sections of 1936. Size: 11 x 15 inches (Tabloid Full Page) Paper: Some light tanning/wear, otherwise: Excellent! Bright Colors! Pulled from loose sections! (Please Check Scans) Please include $5.00 Total postage on any size order (USA) $20.00 International Flat Rate. I combine postage on multiple pages. Check out my other auctions for more great vintage Comic strips and Paper Dolls. Thanks for Looking!Abie the AgentHarry Hershfield's Abie the AgentAuthor(s) Harry HershfieldCurrent status/schedule Concluded daily & Sunday stripLaunch date February 2, 1914End date 1940Syndicate(s) King Features SyndicateGenre(s) Humor, immigrant Jewish life, YiddishismAbie the Agent is an American comic strip about a Jewish car salesman by Harry Hershfield. It debuted in 1914.Publication historyWhen Hershfield had success with a Yiddish character in his comic strip Desperate Desmond, he was encouraged by his editor to create a new strip concerning Yiddishism and Jewish immigrants in the United States. The strip debuted in the New York Journal on February 2, 1914.The strip became popular and other cartoons were made. The titles were "Iska Worreh" (Aug 5) and "Abie Kabibble Outwitting His Rival" (Sept 23).After the strip dated January 24, 1932, the comic strip went on hiatus, due to a contract dispute between Hershfield and the syndicate, International Feature Service. The strip resumed in 1935 with the King Features Syndicate and ran until 1940.The Sunday page included a topper. This was called Phooey Fables in January 1926, Dictated But Not Read from February until the end of 1926, and Homeless Hector from 1927 until the hiatus in 1932.Characters and storyAbraham Kabibble, known as Abie the Agent, was the first Jewish protagonist of an American comic strip. Abie’s humorous caricature was a rebuttal of some of the Jewish stereotypes in caricatures, and represented a moderately successful middle-class immigrant.[5] Abie and his friends had many typical Jewish characteristics, such as their names or their use of Yiddish words and accents, they also lacked many of the negative or malicious elements, such as exaggerated physical traits, found in the depictions of Jews from this time. Abie was in many ways indistinguishable from other Americans, and he was a prime example of the belief in the integration of German Jews into U.S. society. During 1917, the character enlisted in the United States Army to help the U.S. forces in World War I.The character lost many of his more typical Jewish characteristics over the decades, showing his successful integration but also slowly diminishing the particular features of this comic strip.The comic was produced by a Jewish artist, but can be considered discriminatory since it arguably only tried to promote the cultural assimilation of Jews as Americans, at the same time distinguishing them from other ethnicities like Mexicans or African Americans who were often depicted negatively. That, however, was the focus of the strip.In popular cultureAn indication of the strip's popularity was the reference to ‘Abe Kabibble’ in the 1930 Marx Brothers movie Animal Crackers.*Please note: collecting and selling comics has been my hobby for over 30 years. Due to the hours of my job I can usually only mail packages out on Saturdays. I send out First Class or Priority Mail which takes 2 - 7 days or more to arrive in the USA and Air Mail International which takes 5 - 30 days or more depending on where you live in the world. I do not "sell" postage or packaging and charge less than the actual cost of mailing. I package items securely and wrap well. Most pages come in an Archival Sleeve with Acid Free Backing Board at no extra charge. If you are dissatisfied with an item. Let me know and I will do my best to make it right. Many Thanks to all of my 1,000's of past customers around the World. Enjoy Your Hobby Everyone and Have Fun Collecting!
This is an Abie The Agent Sunday Page by Harry Hershfield. Great Yiddish, Jewish Humor! This was cut from the original newspaper Sunday/Saturday comics sections of 1936. Size: 11 x 15 inches (Tabloid Full Page) Paper: Some light tanning/wear, otherwise: Excellent! Bright Colors! Pulled from loose sections! (Please Check Scans) Please include $5.00 Total postage on any size order (USA) $20.00 International Flat Rate. I combine postage on multiple pages. Check out my other auctions for more great vintage Comic strips and Paper Dolls. Thanks for Looking!Abie the AgentHarry Hershfield's Abie the AgentAuthor(s) Harry HershfieldCurrent status/schedule Concluded daily & Sunday stripLaunch date February 2, 1914End date 1940Syndicate(s) King Features SyndicateGenre(s) Humor, immigrant Jewish life, YiddishismAbie the Agent is an American comic strip about a Jewish car salesman by Harry Hershfield. It debuted in 1914.Publication historyWhen Hershfield had success with a Yiddish character in his comic strip Desperate Desmond, he was encouraged by his editor to create a new strip concerning Yiddishism and Jewish immigrants in the United States. The strip debuted in the New York Journal on February 2, 1914.The strip became popular and other cartoons were made. The titles were "Iska Worreh" (Aug 5) and "Abie Kabibble Outwitting His Rival" (Sept 23).After the strip dated January 24, 1932, the comic strip went on hiatus, due to a contract dispute between Hershfield and the syndicate, International Feature Service. The strip resumed in 1935 with the King Features Syndicate and ran until 1940.The Sunday page included a topper. This was called Phooey Fables in January 1926, Dictated But Not Read from February until the end of 1926, and Homeless Hector from 1927 until the hiatus in 1932.Characters and storyAbraham Kabibble, known as Abie the Agent, was the first Jewish protagonist of an American comic strip. Abie’s humorous caricature was a rebuttal of some of the Jewish stereotypes in caricatures, and represented a moderately successful middle-class immigrant.[5] Abie and his friends had many typical Jewish characteristics, such as their names or their use of Yiddish words and accents, they also lacked many of the negative or malicious elements, such as exaggerated physical traits, found in the depictions of Jews from this time. Abie was in many ways indistinguishable from other Americans, and he was a prime example of the belief in the integration of German Jews into U.S. society. During 1917, the character enlisted in the United States Army to help the U.S. forces in World War I.The character lost many of his more typical Jewish characteristics over the decades, showing his successful integration but also slowly diminishing the particular features of this comic strip.The comic was produced by a Jewish artist, but can be considered discriminatory since it arguably only tried to promote the cultural assimilation of Jews as Americans, at the same time distinguishing them from other ethnicities like Mexicans or African Americans who were often depicted negatively. That, however, was the focus of the strip.In popular cultureAn indication of the strip's popularity was the reference to ‘Abe Kabibble’ in the 1930 Marx Brothers movie Animal Crackers.*Please note: collecting and selling comics has been my hobby for over 30 years. Due to the hours of my job I can usually only mail packages out on Saturdays. I send out First Class or Priority Mail which takes 2 - 7 days or more to arrive in the USA and Air Mail International which takes 5 - 30 days or more depending on where you live in the world. I do not "sell" postage or packaging and charge less than the actual cost of mailing. I package items securely and wrap well. Most pages come in an Archival Sleeve with Acid Free Backing Board at no extra charge. If you are dissatisfied with an item. Let me know and I will do my best to make it right. Many Thanks to all of my 1,000's of past customers around the World. Enjoy Your Hobby Everyone and Have Fun Collecting!
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