Betty Boop's Sunday Best: The Complete Color Comics, 1934-1936 [Hardcover]

Max Fleischer (Author), Bill Blackbeard (Editor)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 110 pages
• Publisher: Kitchen Sink Pr (July 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0878163654
• ISBN-13: 978-0878163656
• Product Dimensions: 12.5 x 9.5 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,739,156 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Oh, why don't you behave?, May 20, 2003

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Heath Row "h3athrow" (Brooklyn, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Betty Boop's Sunday Best: The Complete Color Comics, 1934-1936 (Hardcover)

Collecting the complete color comics from 1934-1936, this volume even includes the earliest strips featuring actress Helen Kane, the Boop-Boop-a-Doop Girl. While Fleischer dropped the Kane conceit relatively quickly, the strip's Hollywood elements continued. Despite the Koko the Clown "Out of the Inkwell" anomaly, the storyline is relatively continuous, portraying page-long parables touching on fashion faux pas, affectionate appraisals, the foibles of fandom, liberated women, and challenging children. The recurring characters of the director, Aunt Tilly, Hunky, and Bubby contribute some consistency, but for the most part, the strip's cameo characters -- including Betty's many love interests, pretty boys all -- are relatively interchangeable. Bill Blackbeard's introductory essay adds some valuable cultural context to what might otherwise be mistaken as a one-joke wonder or Hollywood licensing deal, making the book a solid source of comic strip history.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Two years of Betty, the most scantily dressed cartoon girl, May 16, 2005

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Charles Ashbacher (Marion, Iowa United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Betty Boop's Sunday Best: The Complete Color Comics, 1934-1936 (Hardcover)

The way she was drawn, Betty Boop could be considered a form of soft porn. On the cover of this collection, she is lying in bed wearing some form of slip and approximately half her breast is exposed. In most captions, she is wearing a very short dress with a garter on her left thigh. The top of the dress looks like a set of mouse ears, as the only thing it covers is her breasts. Her muscular aunt Tillie swings her fists in many of the cartoons and Bubby the bratty baby also regularly appears. Given the state of modern cartoons, Betty is a bit of archaic character. Nevertheless, if you have seen some of her cartoons, you will probably enjoy reading these comics taken from the color Sunday pages.