Andy Madura's Sunday Comics - Ripley's Believe it or Not

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Ripley's Believe it or Not by Robert Ripley (1220-) (1st Named daily October 1919) - Sources claim that Ripley's Believe it or Not originates from a strip by Robert Ripley called 'Champs & Chumps' from 1918. Ripley actually started drawing his sports frames long before that, as early as 1912, perhaps even earlier. Robert Ripley was a a single frame artist who happened to have a passion for the exotic. It was this passion that drove Ripley to transform his sports strip into a frame centered around the unusual sights and facts of the world. He renamed the strip in 1919 to 'Ripley's Believe it or not' the signature strip of the odd and unusual. Ripley hired researchers for much of his content, however by the early 1930's the strip was writing itself thanks to the contributions of thousands of letter-writing fans around the globe. The strip started in many papers as a black and white daily and sunday. The sunday strip soon graduated to the front or back page of the magazine section for a few syndicates giving it even more exposure. It finally reached the color comics section in the later 1930's. The phenomenon that Ripley created expanded into pop culture through books, magazines, TV and even Themed 'Museums'. The market for Believe it or Not is actually fairly good. Offered mostly as halves or smaller, the magazine section-front fulls exist from the 30's and sell at a modest premium. Other than those, collectors look for runs where available. Dailies sell equally well as sundays. Because of the nature of the strip, these were fodder for quite a few scrapbooks in their day. If in good condition, those scrapbooks actually retain the loose strip value.

Sunday Comics
Item #	Date-#-size*	Condition*	Price	Notes
S1220-0001	1932 - 1F BW	G/G/G	$1.00	No reverse (undated)
S1220-0002	1933/08/27 - F	G/G/G	$3.00	No reverse
S1220-0003	1933/09 - 4F BW	G/G/G	$4.00	4 Tab on Full w/Sports News, No reverse
S1220-0004	1934/05 - 4F BW	G/G/G	$4.00	4 Tab on Full w/Sports News, No reverse
S1220-0005	1938 - 7H	FR-G/FR-G/G	$7.00	On reverse Tippie(1H), Henry(1H), Stars & Stripes Contest(1H) (9/11, 10/2, 10/9, 10/30, 11/6, 12/4, 12/11)
S1220-0006	1939 - 24H	FR-G/FR-G/G	$23.00	On reverse Tippie(10H), Little Annie Rooney(1H), Room & Board(2H), Squirrel Cage(2H) (1/22-2/12, 2/26, 3/5, 3/19-4/2, 4/16, 4/30, 5/7, 5/28, 7/2, 7/30, 8/13, 9/3, 9/24, 10/1, 10/29, 11/5, 11/26-12/10)
S1220-0007	1940 - 29H	G/G/VG	$29.00	On reverse Pete the Tramp(7H), Barney Google(1H), Squirrel Cage(1H), Little King(1H), Toots & Casper(2H), Room & Board(1H), Dinglehoofer(4TH), Hall of Fame of the Air(3H), Little Annie Rooney(4H) (1/14, 1/21, 2/4-2/18, 3/3-3/31, 4/14, 4/21, 5/19, 6/23-7/7, 7/21, 8/4, 8/25, 9/1, 9/15, 10/13-10/27, 11/17, 12/1, 12/8, 12/22. 12/29)
S1220-0008	1941 - 26H	G/G/G-VG	$26.00	On reverse Thimble Theatre(1H), Toots & Casper(1H), Bunky(1H), Pete the Tramp(2H), Family Portraits(14H), Squirrel Cage(1H) (1/5, 1/12, 2/23, 3/16, 3/30-4/13, 5/18, 5/25, 6/8, 6/22, 7/6, 7/20-8/10, 8/24, 8/31, 9/14, 9/28, 10/19, 11/2-11/16, 11/30, 12/28)
S1220-0009	1942 - 20H	G/G/VG	$20.00	On reverse Toots & Casper(1H), Little King(2H), Family Portraits(2H), Tippie(3H) (1/11, 1/25, 2/1, 2/15-3/1, 3/29, 4/26-5/10, 6/14, 7/26, 8/9, 8/30, 10/25-11/8, 12/13-12/27)
S1220-0010	1943 - 28H	G/G/VG	$28.00	On reverse King of the Royal Mounted(1TH), Barney Google(1TH), Room & Board(3TH), Lone Ranger(4TH), Little Annie Rooney(1TH), Tim Tyler's Luck(2TH), Jungle Jim(2TH), Henry(1TH), Aladdin Jr(2TH), Col. Potterby(2TH), Toots & Casper(1TH) (1/3, 1/10, 1/24, 1/31, 2/14, 2/28-3/14, 3/28, 4/4, 5/2, 5/23, 5/30, 7/4, 7/11, 8/15, 8/29, 9/12, 9/19, 10/3-10/24, 11/7, 11/21, 11/28, 12/19, 12/26)
S1220-0011	1944 - 13H, 2TH	G/G/VG	$14.00	On reverse Right Around Home(3TH), Little Annie Rooney(1TH), Little Iodine(1TH), Tim Tyler's Luck(1TH) (1/2, 1/16, 2/6, 3/19, 5/7, 6/4, 6/11, 7/16, 8/6, 8/13, 8/27, 9/24, 10/15, 11/5, 11/19)
S1220-0012	1945 - 29H, 3TH	G/G/VG	$30.50	On reverse Squirrel Cage(2TH), Barney Google(1TH), Out Our Way(1H) (1/7, 1/21-2/4, 2/18, 2/25, 3/11, 3/18, 4/8-5/20, 6/3, 6/10, 7/1, 7/22, 8/12, 9/2, 9/9, 9/23-10/21, 11/11, 11/18, 12/2, 12/23, 12/30)
S1220-0013	1946 - 24H, 10TH	G/FR-G/VG	$29.00	On reverse Jungle Jim(1TH), Little Iodine(2TH) Col Potterby(1TH), Henry(1TH), Tillie the Toiler(1TH)(1/6-2/10, 2/24-3/17, 3/31, 4/14, 4/21, 5/5-6/16, 6/30, 7/7, 7/28, 8/11, 9/8-9/29, 10/13, 10/27-11/10, 12/1, 12/22)
S1220-0014	1947 - 1H	G/G/G	$1.00	No reverse (10/12)
S1220-0015	1948 - 1TH	FR-G/FR-G/G	$1.00	No reverse (9/26)
S1220-0016	1949 - 2TH	G/G/G	$1.00	On reverse Thimble Theatre(1TH) (3/27, 4/3)
S1220-0017	1952 - 2Q	VG/VG/VG-EX	$1.00	No reverse (6/15, 7/13)
S1220-0018	1953/11/22 - F	G/G/VG	$2.00	TT on Full w/Zerex ad(TH). On reverse Joe Palooka(TH), Jackson Twins(TH), Ben-Gay ad(TH)
S1220-0019	1953 - 1H, 1TH, 5Q	G/G/G-EX	$2.50	On reverse Grin an' Bear It(1TH) (1/25, 2/1, 3/1, 5/3, 5/31, 8/16, 12/6)
S1220-0020	1954/02/07 - F	G/G/VG	$2.00	TT on Full w/Ford ad(TH). On reverse Joe Palooka(TH), Dixie Dugan(TH), Bromo Sletzer ad(TH)
S1220-0021	1954 - 6TH, 6Q	G/G/G-EX	$4.00	On reverse Joe Palooka(1TH) Rex Morgan(1TH, 1Q), Dixie Dugan(1TH), Jackson Twins(2Q) (1/10, 1/17, 2/21, 2/28, 3/14, 6/27, 7/11, 7/25, 8/8, 8/22-9/5)
S1220-0022	1955 - 2H, 9TH	G/FR-G/G	$4.00	No reverse (2/13, 2/27-3/13, 3/27, 4/24, 6/5, 6/19, 7/24, 8/28, 11/13)
S1220-0023	1956 - 2H, 6TH, 1Q	FR-G/FR-G/G	$3.50	No reverse Scamp(1H) (1/22, 1/29, 2/12, 7/8, 7/15, 7/29, 9/9, 9/23, 10/28)
S1220-0024	1957 - 2H, 2TH	G/G/VG	$2.00	No reverse (2/24, 3/3, 6/16, 6/30)
S1220-0025	1958 - 1H, 8TH	G/G/G	$3.00	No reverse (1/12-1/26, 2/9-3/2, 4/20, 12/21)
S1220-0026	1959 - 1TH	G/FR-G/G	$1.00	No reverse (9/20)
S1220-0027	1960 - 37TH	G/G/G	$12.50	On reverse Scamp(1TH) (1/24-2/7, 2/28-3/13, 3/27-5/1, 5/15, 5/22, 6/5, 6/19-7/10, 7/24, 8/14, 8/21, 9/4-10/23, 11/6-12/18)
S1220-0028	1961 - 3H, 42TH	G/G/G	$15.50	On reverse Little King(2TH), Katzenjammer Kids(1TH), Buz Sawyer(1TH) Hi & Lois(1TH), Right around Home(1TH) (1/8-7/2, 7/16-8/6, 8/20, 8/27, 9/10-11/19, 12/3, 12/17)
S1220-0029	1962 - 2H, 2TH	G/G/G	$1.75	On reverse Barney Google(1H), They'll do it ev'ry time(1TH) (1/14-2/4)
S1220-0030	1963 - 1H, 4TH	G/G/G	$2.00	On reverse Mickey Mouse(1TH) (8/11, 9/1, 11/10, 12/1, 12/29)
S1220-0031	1964 - 3TH, 2Q	G/G/G	$1.75	On reverse Beetle Bailey(1TH) (2/2, 10/4, 10/25-11/8)
S1220-0032	1965 - 2Q	G/G/G	$1.00	No reverse (1/17, 6/13)
S1220-0033	1970 - 1HT	G/G/G	$1.00	No reverse (12/6)`

Daily Comics Sets
Item #	Title	Date-#	Size*	Condition*	Price	Notes
D1220-0001	Ripley, by Robert	1913/05 - 5	6x11R	G	$25.00	Sports Strip by Robert Ripley
D1220-0002	Ripley, by Robert	1917/04-06 - 22	6x11R	G	$22.00	Sports Strip by Robert Ripley
D1220-0003	Ripley's Believe it or Not	1942/12 - 23	4x6R	G	$5.00	by Robert Ripley
D1220-0004	Ripley's Believe it or Not	1943/01 - 10	4x7R	G	$2.00	by Robert Ripley
D1220-0005	Ripley's Believe it or Not	1943/07 - 26	4x7R	G	$5.00	by Robert Ripley
D1220-0006	Ripley's Believe it or Not	1943/08 - 26	4x7R	G	$5.00	by Robert Ripley
D1220-0007	Ripley's Believe it or Not	1943/11 - 20	4x6R	G	$4.00	by Robert Ripley
D1220-0008	Ripley's Believe it or Not	1943/12 - 17	4x5R	G	$3.00	by Robert Ripley
D1220-0009	Ripley's Believe it or Not	1945/09 - 26	4x6R	G	$5.00	by Robert Ripley
D1220-0010	Ripley's Believe it or Not	1945/11 - 13	4x5R	G	$2.50	by Robert Ripley
D1220-0011	Ripley's Believe it or Not	1945/12 - 15	4x5R	G	$3.00	by Robert Ripley
D1220-0012	Ripley's Believe it or Not	1950/09 - 26	4x7R	G	$5.00	by Robert Ripley
D1220-0013	Ripley's Believe it or Not	1951/05 - 27	4x6R	G	$5.00	by Robert Ripley
D1220-0014	Ripley's Believe it or Not	1951/06 - 26	4x6R	G	$5.00	by Robert Ripley
D1220-0015	Ripley's Believe it or Not	1951/07 - 14	4x5R	G	$2.50	by Robert Ripley
D1220-0016	Ripley's Believe it or Not	1952/03 - 10	4x5R	G	$2.00	by Robert Ripley
D1220-0017	Ripley's Believe it or Not	1952/12 - 7	4x5R	G	$1.00	by Robert Ripley

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