I LOVE LUCY 2 Comic Books. #1 & #2
HARD TO FIND COLLECTORS ITEMS FOR THE FANS OF THE TELEVISION SERIES!
I Love Lucy was one of the first indisputable hits of the then-new television medium in the early 1950s. Starring the real-life married couple, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnez, as Lucy and Ricky Ricardo, with perennial sidekicks William Frawley and Vivian Vance as friends and neighbors, Fred and Ethel Mertz, this comical battle of the sexes went on to virtual immortality via its continuous presence in reruns.
Its popularity lead to a daily comic strip by writer Lawrence Nadel and artist Bob Oksner under the byline Bob Lawrence. Oksner was able to portray a genuine likeness of the characters, (an absolutely necessary component when a strip is based on real people), with his deceptively simple style. Bob Oksner would become familiar to comic fans as the artist for The Adventures of Jerry Lewis and sometimes Supergirl (1st Series) and Superman’s Girl Friend Lois Lane in the 1970s.
In 1990 Eternity Comics collected the newspaper strips and reprinted them in a landscape format
This item was not available for sale in any mass market retail outlet and could only be found in comic book specialty stores.
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