Early Comics Archive

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'Harper's Round Table', Annual 1897
The boys magazine Harpers Round Table had a little wordless strip on many of its back covers.
Here are those from the year 1897, when regular comics were already being developed in the newspapers.

(Click on any picture to get back to this index...)


                72 - W. M. Goodes - 'The Funniest Thing he ever saw'

                176 - Gustav Verbeek - 'The Hunter's Strategy'

                280 - ? - How Tommy made one Skate do

                544 - ? - An African Bridge

                568 - R. F. Bunner - 'An Event that was not on the Programme'

                640 - W. C. Kemble - 'An Ingenious Escape'

                736 - O. Herford - 'The Bow Legged Admiral and the Educated Dog'

                760 - ? - 'The Stolen Cigar or The Monkey who got it in the Neck'

                784 - ? - 'An Interesting Article'

                808 - P. Newell - Policeman / Fourth of July

                832 - A. S. Daggy - 'A New Use for the Japanese Umbrella'

                864 - ? - 'An Unintentional Exchange'

                888 - O. Herford - 'The Lost Joke Recovered by Xray'

                912 - ? - 'The Adventures of a Cartwheel'

                936 - ? - 'How a Famous Hunter Won a Reputation'

                960 - ? - 'A New Wag to an Old Tale'

                1008 - ? - 'A Cat Tale'

                1032 - F. T. Richards - 'It's an Ill Wind Blows Nobody Good'

                1056 - ? - 'How the Dromedary Became a Camel'

                1080 - ? - 'A Friend in Need is a Friend Indeed'

                1104 - C. J. Budd - 'The Bill Poster's Revenge'

                1128 - F. T. Richards - 'The Fakir and the Prestidigitateur'

                1152 - F. T. Richards - 'An Occidental Transformation'

                1176 - ? - 'The Patent Sure-to-arrouse Alarm Clock'

                1200 - ? - 'The Artist and his Model'

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