JIGGS AND MAGGIE ARE THE STARS OF GEORGE MCMANUS'S WILDLY SUCESSFUL COMIC STRIP
BRINGING UP FATHER. THE STRIP BEGAN BEING PUBLISHED IN NEWSPAPERS IN 1913 AND
LASTED EIGHTY YEARS. IT'S ONLY FITTING THAT THE STRIP WOULD THEN BE A PRECURSOR TO
WHAT WE WOULD EVENTUALLY KNOW AS COMIC BOOKS WITH A SERIES OF GRAPHIC NOVELS
PUBLISHED BY CUPPLES & LEON IN 1919. EVENTUALLY OTHER PUBLISHERS WOULD ALSO CREATE
COMICS BASED ON BRINGING UP FATHER.
DELL COMICS RELEASED THREE COMICS STARRING JIGGS & MAGGIE. THEY WERE FOUR COLOR
COMICS #18 & 37 AND LARGE FEATURE COMICS VOLUME TWO, #9. LARGE FEATURE WAS
PRINTED IN BLACK & WHITE. FOUR COLOR COMICS #37 WAS JUST A REPRINT OF #18 AND OTHER
THAN THE COVER, THERE WAS NO NEW MATERIAL. THE PUBLISHING COMPANY, STANDARD
COMICS BEGIN PRODUCING THEIR SERIES, JIGGS & MAGGIE STARTING WITH ISSUE #11.THAT
RUN LASTED UNTIL ISSUE #21. HARVEY COMICS THEN PICKED UP THE SERIES WITH ISSUE #22
AND CONTINUED IT UNTIL #27, WHEN IT WAS CANCELED.
NOT ALL OF THESE BOOKS ARE READILY AVAILABLE HENCE A TREASURY OF STORIES RATHER THAN
A COMPLETE COLLECTION. COLLECTED HERE ARE DELL FOUR COLOR #18 AND LARGE FEATURE
COMICS VOL.2 #9, AS WELL AS STANDARD PUBLISHING'S JIGGS & MAGGIE #13-15.HIS BOOK IS
AVAILABLE IN BOTH HARDCOVER AND TRADE PAPERBACK EDITIONS AS WELL AS IN EITHER
FULL COLOR OR GLORIOUS BLACK & WHITE