Saturday, December 3, 2011

Episode list: Buck O'Rue Sundays 1951–52

Election in Mesa Trubil* (1/21 – 5/20/51)
The Birth of a Genius (5/27 – 7/8/51)
The Falseface Bandit (7/15 – 11/4/51)
Lillian Rustler (11/11 – 12/16/51)
Christmas page (12/23/51)
King Leery th' Great (12/30/51 – 1/20/52)
Varmint City (1/27 – 2/24/52)
The Annual Gunman's Convention (3/3 – 4/6/52)
Oily Business (4/13 – 6/1/52)
The Floomies are back! (6/8 – 7/6/52)
Gag Sundays (7/13 – 11/2/52)
Bet-A-Million Bates** (11/9 – 12/7/52)

* Dailies and Sundays
** Never finished storyline


Comments:
The last Sunday we have seen published in a newspaper is August 24, 1952 (later pages likely only exist as black & white proofs). Neither have we found any published complete Sundays in newspapers from 1952, only the cropped versions (which were used by many if not most newspapers) with 1/3 of the artwork deleted, corresponding to 4 missing panels
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Our book contains the full run of Sundays. They are all scanned from proofs, with the following exceptions which have been restored from newspaper tearsheets:
1951: 12/16,  12/30
1952: 1/20,  2/3,  5/4,  6/87/6,  8/10–8/24
This means that a mere 13 Sundays out of 100 are not scanned from excellent quality proofs, but the 11 tearsheet Sundays from 1952 are sadly all the cropped version. Need I mention that we too would love to see the complete versions of these Sundays?

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