Hello, Jim—Back in the late 70's, I had a similar experience. A fellow in West Virginia sent me a xerox of an "original" 1929 CONNIE daily he was asking $1000. for. It looked odd, lines broke strangely, the syndicate paste-on looked shaky, the size was small…He said the copy was life-size.It would have been the right size for a '29 BRINGING UP FATHER, but a CONNIE, (and all Ledger Syndicate dailies) are as large as a gorilla's arm! I called him on it, and he feined all manner of ignorance—he said it was found at an estate auction, or something. He simply gave it to me as a "curio" (From a thousand bucks to free in a week!) It was hand-made camera obscura work, swiped from the Hyperion CONNIE book, printing glitches intact, with a hand-drawn syndicate sticker! Later I found out this guy was trying to peddle phony TARZAN, SKIPPY, BUCK ROGERS, and more at comic cons. Could it be the same hombre you encountered?—–Cole Johnson.
Hello, Jim—Back in the late 70's, I had a similar experience. A fellow in West Virginia sent me a xerox of an "original" 1929 CONNIE daily he was asking $1000. for. It looked odd, lines broke strangely, the syndicate paste-on looked shaky, the size was small…He said the copy was life-size.It would have been the right size for a '29 BRINGING UP FATHER, but a CONNIE, (and all Ledger Syndicate dailies) are as large as a gorilla's arm! I called him on it, and he feined all manner of ignorance—he said it was found at an estate auction, or something. He simply gave it to me as a "curio" (From a thousand bucks to free in a week!) It was hand-made camera obscura work, swiped from the Hyperion CONNIE book, printing glitches intact, with a hand-drawn syndicate sticker! Later I found out this guy was trying to peddle phony TARZAN, SKIPPY, BUCK ROGERS, and more at comic cons. Could it be the same hombre you encountered?—–Cole Johnson.