LOAC Volume 5 THE BUNGLE FAMILY 1930

Almost three decades before The Honeymooners, The Bungle Family revolved around a squabbling couple, George and Josephine Bungle, apartment dwellers who are constantly at odds with not only each other, but with their neighbors, landlords, relatives, and just about anyone who crosses their paths, constantly conniving and scheming for financial or social advantage. Unlike Ralph and Trixie Kramden, the Bungles are also trying to marry their daughter Peggy to a rich prospect (including the recurring con man, J. Oakdale Hartford, who figures prominently in this volume). Art Spiegelman called The Bungle Family "the most underrated comic strip in our history." Bill Blackbeard wrote, “There has been nothing like it in comic strips since.” Hogan’s Alley magazine proclaimed, “The Bungle Family was about as wholly an adult comic strip as the field has ever known.” Yet until now only sporadic examples of Harry J. Tuthill’s masterpiece have been available to modern readers. This complete collection of 1930 dailies remedies that situation. Library of American Comics Essentials Volume 5. Out of Print. Condition: Fine Plus. Top bumped spine corner.