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America:
American Comic Almanac - 1837
Illustration from
America's First Comic Book.
 
Cover
A few Words to our Patrons.
Eclipses, Sword Fish.
A Winter Scene...Slide off a Barn.

    
On Parade without any ammunition.
YAR -mouth Head, An EYE-land.
Cape Fear, Frying and Flying Fish.
A Pitchfork.

    
The Queue, Squash and Pumpkin Sauce.
The Family Circle
Pretty Dears.
CAT-ching.
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Churning, Four Y-ears running.
Jerk Beef, Vive la bag a tail.
An Unthankful Fellow.
Moll Pitcher, A Tale of the Sea.

    
Ready Wit.
Backing a friend.
Stealing Fruit
Practical Joke, A centre Bit.

    
Proverbs.
Time to be Off, A Jovial Time, Reflection.
Black man and plowhorse joke -1837
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American Comic Almanac - 1839
Cover
Getting up in the world
Economy, Sam Patch, Wearing Father's Clothes.
A Nautical Sketch, Running to Extremes.

Courting Scene, An Interesting Family.
First Day of May in New York.
Pas de Trois, The Devil and the Lawyers
La Diable, Gay Deceiver, A pair of Smellers

A Hint to the Ladies
Abstraction, The Chocolate Mill, Love-lie
The Angler and the Fowler, Striking for Wages
A Water Party, Infernal Machine
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Newspaper Courtship
What's in a name?, To Dandies
The Editor
Ornithology, Debtor & Creditor, Widders

Neck or Nothing, I'll back you
Fish's Friend Society, Corresponding Secretary
The Loafer's Soliloquy, Height of Fashion,
Madness - a Canine Monologue
Going to a Ball, A Bull and a Bull-dog

    
Going from a Ball, Head-work
Tis well you snapped at the hook!, Stocks!
Anecdote, Characteristic of Sailors, Here we go!
Look out for the Engine!
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American Comic Almanac - 1841   
Cover
Preface, Common Notes for 1841
January 1841
Mutual Puffing, A Love-letter

    
The Bailiff Baffled, A Swab, Dancing a Hornpipe
Loafer's Address to the Legislature
Loafer's Address cont.
February 1841
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The Virtue of Good Snuff, The Traveller's Dinner
March 1841
The Friend and the Rival, A House Dog
The Infantarians, Tail-or, Snow-bawl

    
April 1841
Passage at Arms, A Cannibal
May 1841
Popping the Question - Visiting Cards

    
Virtuous Indignation, Inventing Perpetual Motion
June 1841
Birds of a Feather, Two Strings to her Beau
July 1841
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To what base uses..., A Rail-Road
A Tale of Love, The man who couldn't STOOP...
August 1841
The Advantages...of long legs, Always harping...

    
September 1841
Crooked Ways, A Crying Evil, Jim Crow
October 1841
Hamlet Illustrated, Unappreciated Genius

    
The seat of the Soul, A Scene of Exalted Affection
November 1841






American Comic Almanac - 1843   
Cover
Preface, Eclipses, Seasons
January 1843
Light Readings

   
February 1843
Remarkable Escape, The Credit System
March 1843
Going into Liquidation, Bankruptcy Law Explained
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April 1843
A Finished Education, Hard Times
May 1843
Lofty Dancing, Value of Married Men,
One way as good as another, Character of a Sot

   
June 1843
The Impudent Bride, The Deacon for me
July 1843
The Ludicrous

   
A story of Olden Time, A Dutch Bull
A Chinese Tea Plant, Simplicity
August 1843
A Practical Joke, A Quaker's Rebuke
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September 1843
Correspondence of the Boston Post
October 1843
The Honey Moon, The Croakers

    
November 1843
All Sorts O' Sauce, Advantage of being Foolish
December 1843
Connubial Felicity

    
A Love-Letter
The Man whom the Dog barked at,
Hanging in Chains
A Second Major Longbow,
Shocking Occurrence
An English Corporat leading
his Regiment to Drink

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