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This is a lot of (51) Near Complete Year!\"Archie\"Sunday Pages by Bob Montana. These werecut from the original newspaper Sunday Comics sections of 1967. Size: Tabloids = 11 x 15 inches. Paper: some light tanning, a few have archival reinforcement, otherwise: Excellent ! Pulled from loose Sections!(Please Check Scans) Please include $5.00 Total postage on any size order (USA) $20.00 International Flat Rate. I combine postage on multiple pages. Check out my other sales for more great vintage Comic Strips and Paper Dolls.Thanks for Looking!
Bob MontanaRobert William Montana (October 23, 1920 – January 4, 1975) pen name as Bob Montana, was an American comic strip artist who created the original likenesses for characters published by Archie Comics and in the newspaper strip Archie.
Early lifeHe was born in Stockton, California, to Roberta Pandolfini Montana and Ray Montana. Both were in show business: Roberta had been a Ziegfeld girl, and Ray performed banjo on the vaudeville circuit. As a result, Bob Montana traveled extensively as a child. He attended Haverhill High Schoolin Haverhill, Massachusetts.
According to Jane (Donahue) Murphy, a high school classmate of Montana\'s, Archie and his friends were based on people from their hometown and high school. She said Archie Andrews was based on Donahue\'s cousin, Richard Heffernan; Veronica Lodge on Agatha Popoff, the daughter of the local football team\'s doctor; Jughead Jones on a mischievous teen named \"Skinny\" Linnehan; while Miss Grundy may have been based on a high school typing and shorthand teacher named Lundstrom; however, Haverhill\'s school librarian is also believed to be the model for Grundy.
CareerWhile freelancing at True Comics and Fox Comics, Montana created an adventure strip about four teenage boys and tried to sell it without success.
Archie ComicsMontana started working for MLJ Comics (which would later be known as Archie Comics). He was asked to work up a high school style comic strip story, featuring Archie Andrews.
The success of the Archie and friends story in MLJ Comics\' Pep Comics (Dec. 1941) led MLJ to assign Montana to draw the first issue of Archie (Nov. 1942). Montana was soon drawing the Archie comic strip, doing both the daily and Sunday strip, which over the next 35 years ran in over 750 newspapers.
*Please note: collecting and selling comicshas been my hobby for over 30 years. Due to thehours of my job I can usually only mail packages out on Saturdays. I send out Priority Mail which takes 2-3 days to arrive in the USAand Air Mail International which takes 5 -10 days depending on where youlive in the world. I do not \"sell\" postage or packaging and charge less than the actual cost of mailing. I package items securely and wrap well. Most pages come in an Archival Sleeve with Acid Free Backing Board at no extra charge. If you are dissatisfied with an item. Let me know and I will do my best to make it right.
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