Camera-ready comic strip, entitled Moon Mullins
date: label: date made
content: 8/8/1966
label: date made
content: 08/08/1966
name: label: graphic artist
content: Johnson, Ferd
label: publisher
content: News Syndicate Co., Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: Moon Mullins was created and drawn by Frank Willard (1893-1958), later drawn by Ferd Johnson (1905-1996), Willard's assistant. The strip was syndicated by The Chicago Tribune-New York News Syndicate Company from 1923 until 1991. The strip featured a cast of characters at a boarding house, including the title character Moonshine "Moon" Mullins, a failed and often broke prizefighter. In this strip, Moon and the other boarders are enjoying air conditioning, mentioning that they do not know how they lived without it. Suddenly, the unit breaks and they panic.
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content: Popular Entertainment
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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.22582
label: catalog number
content: 22582
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 material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 14.5 cm x 43.7 cm; 5 11/16 in x 17 3/16 in