DONDI Volume 1

 Sep 1955-Mar 57. Follow the refugee Dondi, who starts as orphan friend to G.I.s in Europe, and comes to America with the eternal hope for a better future. Like Orphan Annie before him, he touches hundreds of lives. He fights crime and injustice, gets into hair-raising escapades, and makes himself indispensable to strip readers. Interview with Hasen, and an introduction by celebrated cartoonist Jules Feiffer. Dondi is drawn by Golden Age great Irwin Hasen, who drew for All-Star Comics and Green Lantern, in the 1940s, Dondi ran in American newspapers for over 30 years! The first 19 months of this piece of Americana are reprinted here, dailies and Sunday strips in black and white. Handsome oblong format. This won the National Cartoonists Society Award for Best Story Strip in 1961 and 1962. Out of Print. Condition: Very Fine Minus. Lightly bumped bottom front corner.