1947 citing in Archie Comic of "butthole." What did it mean? (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Baker, John]

        Note that, if there were vandalism by a letterer, which is the current theory, that would be reflected in the original art, so examining it wouldn't tell us anything.  The family might know if Bob Montana used a letterer, as opposed to lettering the strip himself.

        Examining the original would alert us to the discrepancy if there were vandalism at the syndicate, although that seems quite unlikely to me.  The syndicate would have had procedures in place to prevent such a thing.  Since "butthole" is in more than one newspaper, we know that there was not vandalism at the newspaper.


John Baker


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Subject: Re: 1947 citing in Archie Comic of "butthole." What did it mean? (UNCLASSIFIED)

Pretty important post here.

Montana gave these original art strips to Syracuse 1970.  Why he didn't give them all, who knows?

Montana died in 1975, and his family had all the remaining original art strips.  They sold them to a comic mogul, Steve Geppi, who sold many of them off.  Link to the story.

http://ohdannyboy.blogspot.com/2011/08/original-art-stories-steve-geppis.html

The family "perhaps" have  back the strips that weren't sold to collectors.  Many of the original art strips were sold through Heritage(Texas).   Since they are also the largest auction house for coins, which is my profession, I"ve looked in their archives and they did NOT sell the original art strip for 2 April 1947.  Of course, it could have been sold in another venue.

I'm of the opinion that contacting the family to see if they still have the original for that date might be the only way to find out if the newspaper copies were vandalized(which is my current leaning).

Sam Clements
---- "Mullins wrote:
> Classification: UNCLASSIFIED
> Caveats: NONE
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>
> > "...nearly all of [the strips] have never appeared in book form -- in
> fact
> > the originals are gone -- and IDW had to find a fan who cut all these
> strips out of the original newspapers."
> >
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> Not so -- Syracuse has the original art of many strips:
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> http://library.syr.edu/digital/guides/m/montana_b_inv.pdf
>

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