Friday, October 28, 2022

Gag Cartoons from 1944 Booklet "Say 'Ah!'"


Here's something to buy for your loved one who is sick: "Say 'Ah!'" It's the "Fun Book for Convalescents." The 64 page 6"x9" staple-bound booklet comes with this RX cover warning:

WARNING!

LAUGHS ON

EVERY PAGE

CARTOONS - GAGS

- - - STORIES - - -

DON'T SEND THIS

TO ANY ONE TOO

WEAK FOR HEARTY

LAUGHTER, OR ANY

ONE WHO MIGHT

"BURST HIS STITCHES"

It's compiled by R.M Barrows and copyright 1944 by Book Production Industries, Inc. Featured writers include Ogden Nash, Robert Benchley, Hilaire Beloc, Cornelia Otis Skinner and others. The cartoons are mostly by Charles Cartwright and Martin Garrity, with more by Frank Beaven, Ed Graham, Marjorie "Marge" Henderson Buell, Herbert Middlecamp, Bill O'Malley, Herb Williams, Ralph Pekor and Barbara Shermund. All of the material was previously published in magazines or syndicates.





























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