FLEISCHER STUDIOS (MARJORIE HENDERSON BUELL). Group of 12 illustrations for "Marge's Little Lulu; Her Train Ride to Grandma's." Original pen and ink designs each with hand-colored tissue overlays, comprising title vignette and 11 full-page illustrations. Each 225x190 mm; 8 3/4x7 1/2 inches, image; book title and date ("April 1946") captioned in the margin with printer's notations; occasional creasing or light chipping to overlay corners. Housed in later cloth-backed folding portfolio.
Designs done for the first of six Little Lulu volumes. Buell created her famous Little Lulu character in 1935, first for The Saturday Evening Post as a single uncaptioned cartoon, then beginning in 1944 as a daily syndicated comic strip. The drawings are accompanied by a First Edition of the book (Springfield, Mass.: McLoughlin Bros., 1946) that bears Buell's name on the copyright page, though it is quite likely that the present designs are the work of Fleischer studio artists rather than Buell herself, and are perhaps based on one of Paramount Pictures cartoon shorts. With 4-page illustrated publisher's announcement.
