Tijuana Bible Museum: Mutt and Jeff: Historieta (Galante)

Nutshell

I have no idea what is going on in this title, but it involves Mutt and Jeff ~~and a little guy resembling the Monopoly Man~~. Enjoy!

Keywords

toons

Notes

Our first Spanish-language bible, featuring Mutt and Jeff. Images donated by a reader from Mexico.

History

20040625: Reader Cole Johnson writes: This is quite an odd one. In Latin America, Mutt and Jeff actually ran under another name. Perhaps this, [and the "Kansas City" nonsense,] is to affect a phoney American pedigree, just the reverse of the U.S. bibles, with a spuriously implied Mexican origin! This one can be dated by the logo, swiped from the [Mutt and Jeff] Sunday page. In 1935 or 36 they started using this logo, and it was seen into the 1950's. Our artisto olividado has a nice clean line, but surely was not striving to impersonate Al Smith's style. What's with the 1920's animated cartoon style bodies? Mutt and Mrs. Mutt have the same hands-and-feet-on-rubber-sticks that, say, Horace Horsecollar has! This guy also must have learned to draw his Senorita caliente in 1919! [The "Monopoly Man", Quinn, is Jeff in his regular appearance-that is, with his clothes on!] A very odd item, very sharp images, as in an original printing.

History

Notable for the price on the cover, the 12-page format, and of course the Spanish text. The price is 25c, and there is a definite "World Rights Reserved" from St. Louis, MO. Very unusual for a bible.