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)

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.

This ad is from November, 1899.

For more information, see Alexander Belford and Company.

Charles Atkinson with his Jollities theatre troupes produced plays that are noted below. Their performances overlapped to a degree Atkinson’s Peck Bad Boy productions.

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.

The Electric Spark was a comic opera written by Charles Pidgin and composed by Charles D. Blake. Atkinson’s Jollities performed it thousands of times in the 1880’s in America and Europe.

For more information, see The Theatre and Jollities

Charles C. Thompson published this comic book in two formats between 1909 and 1917. Each book has fourteen one sided pages of comics not including the title page. The blue backed book has black lettering on the title page whereas the red backed book has some red lettering on the title page.

The earlier Thompson and Thomas comics have black lettering whereas the later Stanton and Van Vliet have red lettering. It is presumed (but not certain) that the earlier Charles C. Thompson Co. comic is the one with the black lettering on the title page.

Earlier

Later

For more information, see Comics.

Peck’s Bad Boy and His Pa as a single volume that is not in combination with Peck’s Bad Boy and the Grocery Man was also published by this firm. It is of the same format (size, cover, etc.) as the Peck’s Bad Boy and the Grocery Man noted just above.

The exact date of publication is unknown but the volume above has a 1919 inscription. This book also has a number of True Williams illustrations.

The book shown here is undated. It has 176 pages and has 36 chapters. It is 8 x 5.5.

For more information, see Musson Book Company

Here are the original advertisements from the Thompson and Thomas catalogues for these comics.

For more information, see Comics.

Glick’s Bad Boy was a short series of columns that appeared in a number of Kansas newspapers in the late spring of 1883. These columns were in the Fort Scott Monitor, a Kansas Newspaper, and then syndicated to a number of other Kansas publications. The writings consisted of the “Bad Boy” talking to his barber about political issues. It was written by E. Vandergrift. The columns were not meant to be humorous at all.

Apparently the columns portrayed some inside history of the first ever democratic administration in Kansas and they showed the democrats were “not as advertised”. Governor George Washington Glick was the first democratic governor in Kansas and these writings were not kind to him.

Here are two columns.	5/10/1883