San Francisco: Troubadour Press, 1969.
Price: $1,000.00
Hardcover. First edition. Illustrated by Morrie Turner. Quarto. [32]pp. Moderate wear, 10 pages with coloring (usually a small element), about very good. Inscribed, with an approximately 8½" x 5" original ink drawing of Nipper, a character from "Wee Pals," along with three friends inside the front cover. They carry signs that read "Billy and Joyce Saunders have SOUL / so does Cathy and Vicky / and Cheryl and Denise / don't forget Jim," and the drawing is additionally Inscribed, "Regards - Morrie."
"The Black & White Coloring Book presents a colorful introduction to famous Black Americans and their contributions to U.S. History as told by Wee Pals." In 1965, Turner's "Wee Pals" became the first American syndicated comic strip to have a cast of diverse ethnicity. Although the strip was originally carried by only five newspapers, after Dr. King's assassination in 1968 it was picked up by more than 100 papers. In 2003 the National Cartoonists Society recognized Turner with the Milton Caniff Lifetime Achievement Award. Very uncommon, especially with original art.
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