Walter McDougall illustrated all seven of the comics shown here. The rarest however of McDougall’s Peck’s Bad Boy items is the “Painting Book”. This book contains the entire contents of two of the smaller comics:

Peck’s Bad Boy and His Country Cousins: Their Balloon Trip to the Country
Peck’s Bad Boy and His Country Cousins: Their Adventures with the Teddy Bears

The Painting Book has the comic from the original comic book opposite the same line drawn picture without colors. It is up to the “artist” to color the picture.

This Painting Book is 12″ x 7.5″ as opposed to the 11″ x 5.5″ dimensions of the smaller comics. In this volume in the back after the Bad Boy comics there are four pages of farm animals to be colored. Their relationship to McDougall or the rest of the book is a mystery.

The painting book was published in 1919 by Stanton and Van Vliet Company and cost 50 cents. There is no evidence that Stanton and Van Vliet ever published the smaller comics but “Their Balloon Trip..” did appear in its entirety in the larger book: Pecks Bad Boy and His Country Cousin Cynthia which Stanton and Van Vliet Company did publish.

No other Peck’s Bad Boy comic painting books are known.