Camera-ready comic art drawing for <i>Joe Palooka</i>
date: label: date made
content: ca 1966
name: label: graphic artist
content: Fisher, Ham
label: author
content: Dipreta, Tony
label: publisher
content: McNaught Syndicate, Inc.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This pen-and-ink drawing prepared for the <i>Joe Palooka</i> comic strip shows Joe fighting an Arab monarch in a boxing match. The drawing includes the date "12-9" and is presumed to date from about 1966.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Hammond Edward "Ham" Fisher (around 1900-1955) worked for Pennsylvania and New York newspapers in the 1920s when he also began trying to sell his first <i>Joe Palooka</i> comic drawings. Fisher is remembered for having been expelled from the National Cartoonists Society in 1954 after a long-running disagreement with <i>Li'l Abner</i> artist Al Capp.
label: Description (Brief)
content: <i>Joe Palooka</i> (1930-1984) was a big, tough, simpleminded boxer with a good heart. His manager was an Irishman named Knobby Walsh. Ann Howe first appeared as Joe’s fiancée and later married him in 1949. Other characters included Max, the mute 8-year-old, and his peculiar friend Humphrey Pennyworth. In 1934 the comic strip was recreated as a popular film starring Stuart Erwin. The film spawned a number of sequels well into the 1950s.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Boxing
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content: Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
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content: Popular Entertainment
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content: Cultures & Communities
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content: Comic Art
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content: Communications
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content: Art
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Newspaper Comics Council, Inc., New York, NY
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: GA.22471.02
label: catalog number
content: 22471.02
label: accession number
content: 277502
objectType: label: Object Name
content: drawing
label: Object Type
content: Drawings
label: Other Terms
content: drawing; Pen and Ink
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 12.7 cm x 40.4 cm; 5 in x 15 7/8 in