These trade cards dated December 10, 1885 advertise Peck’s Sun. Peck states on the back of the cards that because of popular demand he is going to continue to write about the Bad Boy’s adventures. The front of the cards appears to be rather generic and are certainly not specific for Peck.
Here is the publisher’s announcement in a 1900 trade journal.
For more information, see Sunbeams
April 28, 1902 – Third Avenue Family Theatre
Dixon’s Third Avenue Family Theatre was located in New York City.
Joe Madison along with Fred Wenzel starred in this play in the early 1900’s. Wenzel had been the Groceryman in earlier plays as well. April 28th was a Monday in 1902 and thus is the most likely year for the play advertised below.
There is no mention of authorized producers on the playbill. I suspect that this was an unauthorized production.
For more information, see Playbills.
Copyright Series ca. 1902-1904
The Jollities put on “The Electric Doll” in America and Europe. This was written by Clinton G. Parrefield with music by J. Adalim. It appears the play premiered in December 1879. It ran for a number of years thereafter.
Here are two more trade cards for the Jollities.
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For more information, see Jollities
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.
Sully produced several very popular plays in the 1880’s and 1890’s. This token advertises his production of “The Millionaire”.
Goldsmith Publishing Company, Chicago (ca. 1930-1940’s)
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This title was part of Goldsmith’s Red Star Classics’ Series. Although not precise, I believe this series of reprints was published in the 1930-1940’s era. The text is unabridged. There are eight line drawn illustrations by an artist BT (or TB) I do not know to whom the initials belong. The dust jacket picture is a generic one used by Goldsmith for a number of their juvenile works.
For more information, see Story of a Bad Boy by Thomas Bailey Aldrich.
This ad appeared on March 9, 1900
For more information, see Jamieson-Higgins Co.
