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Telephone numbers emerging from mouthpiece (#593, January 19, 1913).
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Artist-writer Winsor McCay posing and looking his sharpest.
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Winsor McCay at work in the live-action prologue of ‘Little Nemo’, his first animated film (1911).
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A dreamer wakes up a true believer (#617, July 6, 1913, final panel).
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Smothered with praise for his stage appearances, Silas’s head explodes (#241, November 22, 1906).
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Gradually being destroyed by ink blots, a character talks to his creator (#277, March 30, 1907).
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Poster for Winsor McCay’s third animated film, ‘Gertie the Dinosaur’ (1914).
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A man commutes in his own flying machine (#563, 1910).
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Buried alive, as seen through the victim’s own eyes (#44, February 25, 1905).
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Only 29 Rarebit episodes appeared in color, this is from one of them (#601, March 16, 1913).
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The chafing dish in which Welsh rarebit is prepared. A heady dish of melted cheese over toast, similar to cheese fondue.
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A 1907 mounted cop chasing a speeding car across New York City closely resembles a 1971 movie, ‘The French Connection’, and a 1994 movie, ‘True Lies’. (#314, August 10, 1907).
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A businessman missing his boat is wired aboard wireless, using a ‘seperator and grinding machine‘ (#189, May 19, 1906).
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A man’s anger over the cost of his wife’s new hat turns him into a human torch (#400, 1908).
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A comical fight as pictured a century ago (#56, April 8, 1905).
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Complaining to boxer James Jeffries, a man is attacked through the phone (#152, February 15, 1906).
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A businessman who wants to own everything turns into an octopus, in 1908 (#452).
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Possibly the widest speech balloon ever (#174, April 7, 1906).
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A married couple goes insane after receiving 5 million dollars from Mr. Carnegie (#60, April 22, 1905).
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Ulrich Merkl scanned complete newspaper archives digitally, a 1906 law student had to check his archival library manually (#174, April 7, 1906).
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A dreamer wakes up with a death wish (#604, April 6, 1913, final panel).
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McCay’s logo for the widest episodes of his Rarebit Fiend strip.
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A dreamer finally wakes up (#598, February 23, 1913, final panel). What a nightmare!
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A man who considers himself to be a theatre star, falls off the turning earth (#600, March 9, 1913). ‘…McCay laid the groundwork & climate (…) & was largely ignored…’