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Publisher: Cupples & Leon
Years in Operation: 1902 - 1956
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Country: Flag United States Web Site: Brands: 2 Indicia Publishers: 3 Series: 73 Printings: 147 (143 Issues) Disclose Notes: Cupples & Leon was an American publishing company founded by Victor I. Cupples (1864–1941) and Arthur T. Leon (1867–1943). They published juvenile fiction and children's books but are mainly remembered today as the major publisher of books collecting comic strips during the early decades of the 20th century.

In Manhattan, the company was initially located in the Presbyterian building at 156 Fifth Avenue and, during the 1920s, at 449 Fourth Avenue.

In 1903, Cupples & Leon collected such strips as The Katzenjammer Kids. Alphonse and Gaston, Happy Hooligan, On and Off the Ark, Poor Lil Mose and The Tigers. Their major competitor in books of comic strip reprints was Frederick A. Stokes, who died in 1939.

They left the comic strip reprint field in 1934, concentrating on their juvenile fiction lines. The Platt & Munk publishing firm acquired Cupples & Leon in 1956.
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Series Name Years in Print Issues (Printings)
The Adventures of Harold Teen {Hardcovers} 1931 - 1
The Adventures of Harold Teen [Treasure Box of Famous Comics] {Trade Paperbacks} 1934 - 1
The Adventures of Mutt and Jeff {Hardcovers} 1920 - 1
America's Black and White Book: 100 Pictured Reasons Why We Are at War {Hardcovers} 1917 - 1
Angelic Angelina {Hardcovers} 1909 - 1
Barney Google and Spark Plug {Comic Books} 1923 - 1926 4
Bringing Up Father {Hardcovers} 1919 - 1934 26 (27)
Bringing Up Father The Big Book {Hardcovers} 1926 - 1929 2
Buddy Tucker and His Friends {Hardcovers} 1906 - 1
Buddy Tucker Meets Alice in Wonderland [Buster Brown Nuggets Series] {Hardcovers} 1907 - 1
Buddy Tucker Visits the House That Jack Built [Buster Brown Nuggets Series] {Hardcovers} Disclose
Note: Reprints Sunday newspaper strips one panel per page. One of ten books collectively designated "Buster Brown Nuggets Series", all published the same day; becomes "Buster Brown Muslin Books". This is BB Nugget "#10" -- numbering derived from the list in the books (there is no real numbering).
1907 - 1
Buster Brown and His Pets {Hardcovers} 1913 - 1
Buster Brown and Uncle Buster and Other Stories [Buster Brown Nuggets Series] {Hardcovers} 1907 - 1
Buster Brown at Play {Hardcovers} 1915 - 1
Buster Brown Goes Fishing [Buster Brown Nuggets Series] {Hardcovers} Disclose
Note: One of ten books collectively designated "Buster Brown Nuggets Series,", all published in December, according to Gifford, but were released in April. This is Buster Brown Nugget "#1" -- numbering derived from list in books (there is no real numbering). Later released as "Buster Brown Muslin Books". Reprints Sunday newspaper strips one panel per page.
1907 - 1
Buster Brown Goes Shooting [Buster Brown Nuggets Series] {Hardcovers} Disclose
Note: One of ten books collectively designated "Buster Brown Nuggets Series", all published the same day; becomes "Buster Brown Muslin Books". This is BB Nugget "#4" -- numbering derived from list in books (there is no real numbering). Reprints Sunday newspaper strips one panel per page.
1907 - 1
Buster Brown Goes Swimming [Buster Brown Nuggets Series] {Hardcovers} Disclose
Note: One of ten books collectively designated "Buster Brown Nuggets Series." This is "#2" -- numbering derived from a list in the books (there is no real numbering). Later released as "Buster Brown Muslin Books." Reprints Sunday newspaper strips one panel per page.
1907 - 1
Buster Brown in Foreign Lands {Hardcovers} 1912 - 1
Buster Brown on His Travels {Comic Books} 1910 - 1
Buster Brown on Uncle Jack's Farm [Buster Brown Nuggets Series] {Hardcovers} Disclose
Note: One of ten books collectively designated "Buster Brown Nuggets Series", all published the same day; becomes "Buster Brown Muslin Books". This is BB Nugget "#6" -- numbering derived from a list in books (there is no real numbering). Reprints Sunday newspaper strips one panel per page.
1907 - 1
Buster Brown Plays Cowboy [Buster Brown Nuggets Series] {Hardcovers} 1907 - 1
Buster Brown Plays Indian [Buster Brown Nuggets Series] {Hardcovers} 1907 - 1
Buster Brown's Amusing Capers {Comic Books} 1908 - 1
Buster Brown's Funny Tricks {Hardcovers} 1914 - 1
Buster Brown's Happy Days {Hardcovers} 1911 - 1
Buster Brown's Latest Frolics {Hardcovers} 1907 - 1
Buster Brown, His Dog Tige and Their Jolly Times {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Came in 68-page and 46-page editions.
1906 - 1
Buster Brown: The Busy Body {Comic Books} 1909 - 1
Buster Brown: Tige and the Bull [Buster Brown Nuggets Series] {Hardcovers} 1907 - 1
Daffydils {Hardcovers} 1911 - 1
Dick Tracy and Dick Tracy, Jr. and How They Captured "Stooge" Viller {Hardcovers} Disclose
Note: #2 in a series.
1933 - 1
Dick Tracy and Dick Tracy, Jr. and How They Captured "Stooge" Viller [Treasure Box of Famous Comics] {Comic Books} 1934 - 1
Dolly Dimples and Bobby Bounce {Hardcovers} 1931 - 1
Dolly Dimples and Bobby Bounce [Wonder Chest of Famous Comics] {Comic Books} 1935 - 1
Gasoline Alley {Hardcovers} 1929 - 1
The Gumps {Comic Books} 1924 - 1930 7
Harold Teen {Comic Books} 1929 - ? 1
How Dick Tracy and Dick Tracy Jr Caught the Racketeers [Wonder Chest of Famous Comics] {Comic Books} 1935 - 1
How Dick Tracy and Dick Tracy, Jr. Caught the Racketeers {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Publication date from Library of Congress copyright catalog.
1934 - 1
Jimmie Dugan and the Reg'lar Fellers {Hardcovers} 1921 - 1
Joe Palooka {Comic Books} 1933 - 1
Keeping Up with the Joneses {Hardcovers} 1920 - 1921 2
Little Nemo in Slumberland {Hardcovers} 1909 - 1
Little Orphan Annie {Hardcovers} Disclose
Note: Between 2000 and 2002, Pacific Comics Club published softcover reprints of issues 1-7 and 9.
1926 - 1934 9
Little Orphan Annie [Treasure Box of Famous Comics] {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Abridged edition of Little Orphan Annie (Cupples & Leon, 1926 series) #[1], originally distributed in the Treasure Box of Famous Comics (see http://docs.comics.org/wiki/Non_Qualifying for more information on this item).
1934 - 1
Little Orphan Annie [Wonder Chest of Famous Comics] {Comic Books} 1935 - 1
Men of Daring {Hardcovers} 1933 - 1
Monkey Shines of Marseleen {Hardcovers} 1909 - 1
Moon Mullins {Comic Books} 1927 - 1933 7
Moon Mullins Big Book {Comic Books} 1930 - 1
Mr. Twee Deedle {Hardcovers} 1913 - 1
Mr. Twee Deedle's Further Adventures {Hardcovers} 1914 - 1
Mutt and Jeff {Hardcovers} Disclose
Note: Continuation of earlier newspaper strip reprint series, featuring Bud Fisher's creations, Mutt and Jeff; now in revised format. There is also a UK edition of the first issue: Mutt and Jeff (Dean & Son, 1920 series) #6 (info Per Denis Gifford's The American Comic Book Catalogue: The Evolutionary Era, 1884-1939)
1919 - 1931 13
Mutt and Jeff Big Book {Comic Books} 1926 - 2
The Nebbs {Comic Books} 1928 - 1
Percy and Ferdie {Hardcovers} 1921 - ? 1
Pore Lil Mose: His Letters to His Mammy {Comic Books} 1903 - 1
Reg'lar Fellers {Hardcovers} 1921 - 1
Reg'lar Fellers {Hardcovers} 1929 - 1
Reg'lar Fellers [Treasure Box of Famous Comics] {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Abridged edition of Reg'lar Fellers (Cupples & Leon, 1929 series) #[nn], originally distributed in the Treasure Box of Famous Comics (see http://docs.comics.org/wiki/Non_Qualifying for more information on this item).
1934 - 1
Smitty {Hardcovers} 1928 - 1
Smitty [Treasure Box of Famous Comics] {Trade Paperbacks} 1934 - 1
Smitty at Military School {Hardcovers} 1933 - 1
Smitty at the Ball Game {Comic Books} 1929 - 1
Smitty at the Ball Game [Wonder Chest of Famous Comics] {Comic Books} 1935 - 1
Smitty in the North Woods {Comic Books} 1932 - 1
Smitty the Flying Office Boy {Comic Books} 1930 - 1
Smitty the Jockey {Comic Books} 1931 - 1
Tailspin Tommy {Hardcovers} 1932 - 1
Terrors of the Tiny Tads {Hardcovers} 1909 - 1
Tillie the Toiler {Comic Books} 1925 - 1933 8
Toonerville Trolley and Other Cartoons {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Daily newspaper strip reprints.
1921 - 1
Winnie Winkle {Hardcovers} 1930 - 1933 4

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