Here are scans of four tabloid Sundays of Frank Godwin's Connie.They appeared in the Milwaukee Journal in 1935. I bought them a long time ago (you can guess how long by noting that the ad appeared in the Menomonee Falls Gazette).
At the time I had seen only one Connie Sunday, a translated, undated reproduction in a French fanzine. It was part of a continuity and was drawn in Godwin's familiar Flagg-Gibson style. So I was surprised to find these Sundays to be self-contained "mysteries of the week" drawn in the simpler style of the early Connie dailies. That would change within a year, because by 1936 Connie was a full-blooded adventure continuity strip. The Sunday stories didn't tie into the dailies, which was a good thing. Few papers carried Connie dailies; fewer yet ran the Sundays.
20 January 1935:
27 January 1935:
3 February 1935:
10 February 1935:
2 comments:
Thanks for sharing these. Amazing discipline in writing to solve a mystery in one page. Nice to see what Connie Sundays looked like before the grander adventures.
Thanks for sharing these. Amazing discipline in writing to solve a mystery in one page. Nice to see what Connie Sundays looked like before the grander adventures.
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