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Item # 612546

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June 28, 1882

PUCK, New York, June 28, 1882 

* Color political prints

Puck was America's first successful humor magazine of colorful cartoon caricatures and political satire, publishing from 1871 until 1918. It was also the first to successfully adopt full color lithography printing for a weekly publication. The color prints are much desired for their displayability. This issue has as its political cartoons:
front page: "Will He Cast His Sword Into the Balance?"
double-page centerfold: "The Murderer's Straight Route To Heaven--Bringing Religion Into Disrepute."
back page: "The Tortures of the Modern Witness-Box."
Complete in 16 pages, nice condition, 13 1/4 by  10 1/4 inches.

Category: Post-Civil War