1910 Vintage Hubley Cast Iron Rubber Neck Nice Original Paint Bobble Head This is in very original condition. The paint is original and there are no breaks. Got this info online…. Antique CIRCA 1905 Cast Iron Kenton Happy Hooligan COMIC CHARACTER RUBBER NECK ON MULE WAGON Toy RARE!! Description: Kenton made a series of three different comic characters “The nodders” In carts Being pulled by being pulled by a mule. This example is Happy Hooligan From Wiki: Happy Hooligan was a popular and influential early American comic strip, the first major strip by the already celebrated cartoonist Frederick Burr Opper. It debuted with a Sunday strip on March 11, 1900 in the William Randolph Hearst newspapers, and was one of the first popular comics with King Features Syndicate. [1] Characters and story The strip told the adventures of a well-meaning hobo who encountered a lot of misfortune and bad luck, partly because of his looks and his low position in society, but who did not lose his smile over it. [2] He was contrasted by his two brothers, the sour Gloomy Gus and the snobbish Montmorency, both just as poor as Happy. Montmorency wore a top hat and monocle but was otherwise as ragged as his siblings. After a few years, though, Happy Hooligan became a regular feature with both daily strips and Sunday pages. Frederick Opper’s Happy Hooligan (April 9, 1905) Opper was one of the most popular comic creators of his time. [3] Happy Hooligan and his other popular strips were collected in book form and developed into merchandise products. [4][5] The comic got translated as well and was, together with the Katzenjammer Kids and And Her Name Was Maud, one of the first North American comics to be published in Argentina, as Cocoliche. [6] [7][8] The comic was also probably the very first American comic strip adapted for films, when J. Stuart Blackton directed six live-action shorts (190002). [9] Some 15 years later, it was adapted for more than 50 animated cartoons. Beginning in 1904, Opper drew And Her Name Was Maud, about the kicking mule Maud, into comic strips and books, but on May 23, 1926, he positioned And Her Name Was Maud as the topper to his Happy Hooligan, and it ran along with Happy Hooligan until both strips came to a conclusion on October 14, 1932. As Opper did not use an assistant, the series ended in 1932 when Opper abandoned it due to failing eyesight. [2] While lacking lasting popularity, the series remained influential and inspired other cartoonists such as Rube Goldberg and Jules Feiffer(who compared the title character to President Gerald Ford) and was also arguably a major inspiration for Charlie Chaplin’s The Tramp character. [10] It was called “Opper’s greatest comic character” by comics artist Coulton Waugh. [11]Happy Hooligan is also cited as the first comic to use speech balloons on a regular basis as an integral part of the comic (The Yellow Kid used speech balloons as early as 1896 but did not use them as the main means of communication). [12] In the early 1960s, Happy Hooligan was a semi-regular character in Sam’s Strip; dozens of other comic-strip characters had appeared as “guests” in the strip, but Hooligan appeared so often that he was eventually treated as a regular member of the cast. The item “1910 Vintage Hubley Cast Iron Rubber Neck Nice Original Paint Bobble Head Kenton” is in sale since Tuesday, March 13, 2018. This item is in the category “Toys & Hobbies\Vintage & Antique Toys\Cast Iron”. The seller is “tommymang21″ and is located in Buffalo, New York. This item can be shipped worldwide.

• Year: 1920