JIGGS AND MAGGIE ARE THE STARS OF GEORGE MCMANUSÕS WILDLY SUCESSFUL COMIC
STRIP BRINGING UP FATHER. THE STRIP BEGAN BEING PUBLISHED IN NEWSPAPERS IN 1913
AND LASTED EIGHTY YEARS. ITÕS ONLY FITTING THAT THE STRIP WOULD THEN BE A
PRECURSOR TO WHAT WE WOULD EVENTUALLY KNOW AS COMIC BOOKS WITH A SERIES OF
GRAPHIC NOVELS PUBLISHED BY CUPPLES & LEON IN 1919. EVENTUALLY OTHER PUBLISHERS
WOULD ALSO CREATE COMICS BASED ON BRINGING UP FATHER.
DELL COMICS RELEASED THREE COMICS STARRING JIGGS & MAGGIE. THEY WERE FOUR
COLOR COMICS #18 & 37 AND LARGE FEATURE COMICS VOLUME TWO, #9. LARGE FEATURE
WAS PRINTED IN BLACK & WHITE. FOUR COLOR COMICS #37 WAS JUST A REPRINT OF #18
AND OTHER THAN THE COVER, THERE WAS NO NEW MATERIAL. THE PUBLISHING COMPANY,
STANDARD COMICS BEGIN PRODUCING THEIR SERIES, JIGGS & MAGGIE STARTING WITH
ISSUE #11.THAT RUN LASTED UNTIL ISSUE #21. HARVEY COMICS THEN PICKED UP THE SERIES
WITH ISSUE #22 AND CONTINUED IT UNTIL #27, WHEN IT WAS CANCELED.
NOT ALL OF THESE BOOKS ARE READILY AVAILABLE HENCE A TREASURY OF STORIES RATHER
THAN A COMPLETE COLLECTION. COLLECTED HERE ARE STANDARD PUBLISHINGÕS JIGGS &
MAGGIE #16-21 AND THE HARVEY COMICS SERIES ISSUES #24 AND 25.