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Sale 2574 | Lot 244
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Sale 2574 - Lot 244
"...Pete's away as much as I am." Original "On Stage" daily comic, published December 31, 1969, with The Chicago Tribune pastedown in center panel. Pen, ink, and correction fluid over graphite on thick paper. 155x445 mm; 6x17 1/2 inches, on 7x18 1/2-inch sheet. Signed "Leonard Starr" and dated in first panel. Inscribed in lower left margin, "For Bill Brown + friends - From Leonard Starr."
Provenance: Estate of William F. Brown and Tina Tippit Brown.
Condition:
Registration marks and printer's notations in margins, as well as on and under title pastedown. Pin holes in upper margin. Small ½-inch tear in title pastedown, which is slightly discolored. Extreme edges have some toning, adhesive residue, and remnants of paper from removal of old matte. Verso has light covering of dried and discolored adhesive reside, with numerical notation in graphite at left.
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