4GEMWORKS COMPLETE FOUR COLOR EMPORIUM
Four Color 210

COMIC DETAILS

Comic Description: Four Color #210 Universal
Grade: 9.2
Page Quality: OFF-WHITE
Pedigree: File Copy
Certification #: 0917590001
Owner: 4GEMWORKS

SET DETAILS

Winning Set: 4GEMWORKS COMPLETE FOUR COLOR EMPORIUM
Date Added: 5/20/2013
Research: See CGC's Census Report for this Comic

Owner's Description

Tippie and Cap Stubbs (#1) 1/49 File Copy

Cover Art: Edwina Dumm [as Edwina] (signed)
Script, Pencils, Inks and Letters: Edwina Dumm [as Edwina]
This is the second best of just two copies graded o date. A single 9.4 lies ahead. 06/13. Easily one of the scarcest books in the lower numbers. I originally bought this graded, as is, from Heritage Auctions.

Table of Contents
1. 0. [no title indexed]
Tippie and Cap Stubbs
2. 1. [Tightrope Walker]
Tippie and Cap Stubbs
3. 2. [Albert Returns After 20 years; The Wedding of Aunt Martha and Mr. Perkins]
The Adventures of Tippie and Cap
4. 3. The Two Magicians
Tippie and Cap Stubbs
5. 4. How Would You Like to Win One of Tippie's Pups? This is the back cover of this issue.

Some data courtesy of the Grand Comics Database under a Creative Commons Attribution license. http://www.comics.org/
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http://www.comics.org/issue/173078/

Wikipedia has a little extra detail below:

Cap Stubbs and Tippie was a syndicated newspaper comic strip created by the cartoonist Edwina Dumm. At times the title changed to Tippie & Cap Stubbs or Tippie.
After Dumm's strip about the young Cap and his dog Tippie debuted August 21, 1918 [1] in an Ohio newspaper, The Columbus Monitor, she moved to New York City and Cap Stubbs and Tippie was syndicated by the George Matthew Adams Service.[2]
When the George Matthew Adams Service went out of business in the 1940s, Dumm's strip was picked up by King Features Syndicate.[3] Dumm continued to write and draw Tippie until her 1966 retirement (which brought the strip to an end).
She was a recipient of the National Cartoonists Society Gold Key Award in 1978. After Dumm retired her comic strip, she remained active with water color paintings, photography and helping the elderly at her New York City apartment building when she was well into her eighties.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cap_Stubbs_and_Tippie

Below is some great fstuff from Don Marksteins Toonopedia:

From its earliest days, the comics page was rife with features about fun-loving, sometimes mischievous young boys — Henry, Skippy, Little Jimmy … This one gets high marks for both entertainment value and authenticity, and yet was written and drawn by someone with no experience at being a young boy, fun-loving and mischievous or otherwise. Frances Edwina Dumm was probably the first female political cartoonist in America as well as the first woman with a daily syndicated comic of her own, and the creator of Cap Stubbs & Tippie…. Tippie wasn't just a dog — "he" was actually a succession of two dogs. The first Tippie was short-haired, and looked a lot like one named Minnie who had been a regular in Edwina's earlier cartoons. At the same time Edwina was drawing a feature in Life magazine about a fluffy little dog called Sinbad (named in a reader contest, tho the winner may have been chosen because a family pet in the cartoonist's childhood was named Lily Jane Sinbad II). Adams suggested Cap's dog be re-designed after Sinbad, so she had Tippie get lost, setting off a suspenseful search. Eventually, he was found keeping company with a crippled boy who had bonded so thoroughly with the dog that Cap was too moved to part them. The second Tippie, who looked the same except wooly-furred, is the one people remember — and in fact, in an unusual instance of cross-syndicate cooperation, King Features began marketing a Tippie Sunday page in the '30s. (A third use Edwina made of the same basic dog design was in Alec the Great, a daily feature that ran from the 1930s to the '60s, in which she illustrated verses by her brother, Robert Dennis Dumm.
For a brief time during the late 1930s, the two were reprinted in Popular Comics, the early comic book anthology that collected Dick Tracy, Texas Slim, Smokey Stover and other popular comics. There were also some reprints in the back pages of a few early 1940s All-American comic books. Later, Dell Comics devoted two issues of its Four Color Comics series, #s 210 and 242 (January and August, 1949) to them. There was some licensed sheet music with Edwina-drawn covers in the late 1940s, with words and music by Edwina's roommate (she never married), Helen Slater. But that was about the extent of the feature's media penetration. This may have resulted from the Adams syndicate's less-than-overwhelming commitment to marketing comics — Cap Stubbs & Tippie was certainly as well liked by the general public as many strips that got more exposure. King Features later distributed the daily as well as Sunday, but by then, movies and Big Little Books about newspaper comics had become less common.
The title was changed several times. It started as Cap Stubbs before assuming the more familiar title. At various times it was called Tippie & Cap Stubbs or just Tippie.. There may even have been times Tippie's name was spelled "Tippy", tho a major comic book bibliography is mistaken when it gives this spelling in the title of the Dell comics.
Whatever the title, its vividly realized and well liked characters made it quite popular. It lasted nearly half a century, written and drawn by Edwina the whole time, and was last seen in 1966.

http://www.toonopedia.com/capstubs.htm
Copied and used with specific permission from GiGi Dane, the widow of the late Don Markstein. Please visit their site: http://www.toonopedia.com/articles/susie-q.htm
 
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