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The Wonderful Stories of Oz.
Five copies of the “Funny Side” Sunday comic supplement from The San Francisco Chronicle , January 28-June 17, 1923. (590 x 410 mm). Color newsprint. Condition : a few small closed tears to edges; pages yellowed as usual. Provenance : Fred M. Meyer Collection. [With:] Eight newspaper pages from the Los Angeles Junior Times, July 17, 1923-July 4, 1926. (420 x 290 mm). Color newsprint. Condition : occasional minor chipping to edges; pages yellowed as usual. Provenance : Fred M. Meyer Collecton. rare examples of the sunday syndication of the oz books . Beginning in 1919, the George Matthew Adams Service syndicated Baum’s Oz saga in Sunday newspaper supplements. The titles were not always simultaneous as seen in these two journals. The earliest stories retained John R. Neill’s pictures but they were soon replaced by new illustrations by another artist. The “Funny Side” includes Dwig’s “Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn,” Bud Fisher’s “Mutt and Jeff,” and Sydney’s Smith’s “The Gumps.” One issue of The Junior Times (September 20, 1925) has Harrison Cady’s “Peter Rabbit” and Winsor McCay’s “Little Nemo in Slumberland.