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Beetle Bailey - The First Years 1950-1952
Checker publishing has relased a new Beetle Baily book this month: Beetle Bailey - The First Years 1950-1952. The book is a hardcover collection of the first two years of the Beetle strip, and is of particular relevance to Mid-Missourians since it shows many of Walker’s influences from his college days at MU on the comics page. From the website:
From the very first Beetle Bailey strips on a college campus through Beetle’s enlistment in the U.S. Army, this volume contains the first two years of Mort Walker’s famous strips, encompassing September 1950 through June 1952. Enjoy two separate casts of quirky characters, the first based on Mort Walker’s fraternity brothers at the University of Missouri and the second on his Korean era stint in the Army. These are the strips that won him the Ruben Award in 1953. Beetle Bailey went on to become the third most widely distributed comic strip of all time. Introduction with comments by Mort Walker himself!
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