HENRY

Henry is a 1935 first edition of a long-running comic strip (1932-2018) created by Carl Anderson. The title character is a young bald boy who is mostly mute in the comics (and is sometimes drawn without a mouth). Except in a few early episodes, when the comic strip character communicates, he does so largely, but not entirely, through pantomime. Among the strip's accolades are its ingenuity in wordless storytelling and its positive portrayal of African American characters in the '30s and '40s, during a time when other representations were often negative. The Saturday Evening Post was the first publication to feature Henry, a series that began when Anderson was 67 years old. The series of cartoons continued in that magazine for two years in various formats of one, two, or multiple panels. It then moved to newspaper syndication on December 17, 1934. Anderson stopped drawing due to arthritis in 1942, but the strip continued with other artists. The daily strip went into reruns in 1995, and the Sunday strip followed in 2005. After 84 years of syndication, Henry was discontinued on October 28, 2018. Out Of Print. Condition: Very Good. Cover is stained and pages are discolored from age. Also has two water spots near the bottom front cover.