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Posted By: mr. moses

and iconic "Yellow Kid"..... The "kid" and other products born of R.F.Outcault's talent are pretty widely collected by a few different kinds of collectors. Artist Outcault's cartooning is noted as being the first successful running strip in a newspaper that produced income by it's inclusion - and a first of sorts as a "character" that was actively marketed on it's own. Outcault was also the artist for the well known Buster Brown and Tigue characters. Comes from a set of 155 or so with different themes. Dan, your Little Pinkies is from a set of 21 (really 20 as there are two variations of the base ball player).

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