Jun 24, 2021 - Sale 2574

Sale 2574 - Lot 234

Price Realized: $ 2,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
[OTTO MESSMER (1892-1983)] (PAT SULLIVAN).
"We could get in, maybe, if they had an elephant to wash, like the circus." Original "Felix the Cat" Sunday comic, published September 17, 1933, with King Features Syndicate pastedown. Pen and ink over graphite on Bristol board. 410x520 mm; 16 1/4x20 1/2 inches, on 18x23-inch sheet. Unsigned.

Messmer worked for the Pat Sullivan Studios, who claimed credit for the character.