OT : Tales from the New York Daily News Sunday Comics (#7) : Happy 100th anniversary to THE NEW YORK DAILY NEWS!!!!!

A happy centennial anniversary to America's very first tabloid newspaper, THE NEW YORK DAILY NEWS, first appearing on the newsstands as The Illustrated Daily News 100 years ago today, June 26, 1919!

Legend has it that Captain Joseph Medill Patterson and his cousin Colonel Robert R. McCormick
conceived their new tabloid on the French battlefields of the first World War, heavily influenced by the British tabloid, The Daily Mirror. Their family owned and published The Chicago Tribune.

Patterson wanted a paper with verve and planned a "picture" newspaper that would have heady front-page photos to grab a reader's attention at the newsstands. The earliest years were tough and the paper almost went under, but shortly sales skyrocketed and by 1924 it was outselling every newspaper in the city...

Time limitations curtail my ability to delve deeply into the paper's history. In fact, just this past Sunday, June 23, 2019, the paper published a 120 page Sunday supplement celebrating its history (and have placed the supplement in each daily edition subsequent). Although 65 pages of ads, that still leaves 55 pages of NEWS history to explore in all its tabloid glory.

I'm not going to re-hash what's in the centennial supplement. It does a decent enough job covering so much ground. All the highlights are there, all the decades, all the big stories, all the photos. The great journalists are slanted more towards the latter half of the century, but that's to be expected. You will find mention of the great Jimmy Breslin, Pete Hamill, and Mike McAlary.

You will relive all the NY sports glory, including the great cartoonist Bill Gallo and the controversial Dick Young.(who gets a near full page treatment by Bill Madden) but nothing of sports columnist greats of the past like Hy Turkin, Jack Smith, Gene Ward or Joe Trimble.  Even Pete Vescey's father Pete Vecsey Sr. had a sports by-line for a short period during the second world war.

There is also a small bit of coverage on their history of editorial cartoonists, highlighting the great Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist C.D. Batchelor and the great Leo O'Mealia, as well as more current artists like Ed Murawinski and Bill Bramhall, without mention of Warren King, Joe Papin, Paul Rigby or Shoe creator Jeff MacNelly.. There's no way for me to compete with the newspaper itself in giving cheer to its own history, and the folks mentioned above are well known and their accolades well deserved.

C.D. BATCHELOR

May 10, 1933

February 25, 1934

February 17, 1935

December 21, 1943

August 27, 1944

October 1, 1944

October 8, 1944

November 19,1944

August 1, 1945

August 15, 1945

December 28, 1947

August 16, 1948

September 18, 1954

November 15, 1959

August 11, 1963

November 25, 1963

March 6, 1966

August 4, 1968

August 11, 1968

August 25, 1968

LEO O'MEALIA

July 26, 1943

December 21, 1943

January 29, 1944

September 15, 1946

December 15, 1946

June 25, 1948

August 17, 1948

March 12, 1949

                  


May 15, 1949

March 24, 1950

October 8, 1955

And guess what? That classic image above was originally the sports cartoon inside!An alternate photo cover also ran (see way down below) and the image appeared on page 84.

June 1, 1958

October 29, 1958

November 15, 1959

And thousands of small spot illustrations in the sports section, primarily in the 1940's and early 1950's.

GUS EDSON

But I've always been a champion of the lesser-knowns and the left outs. Do folks know that DONDI co-creator Gus Edson was a News sports cartoonist in the early 1930's? Edson drew the Sunday strip STREAKY before taking over the iconic THE GUMPS when Gumps creator Sidney Smith died in an automobile crash in 1935. When The Gumps had nearly run its course, Edson corralled artist Irwin Hasen and launched DONDI in 1955. But he started in the News sports department, both the main sports section cartoon and the article spot illustrations, as seen below. His position, upon leaving for the comics pages, was taken over by Leo O'Mealia.

April 1, 1932

May 14, 1932

January 18, 1938

There were two big things missing in this anniversary supplement. The first was the absence of mentioning two staff cartoonists who abounded for years in the News. I'll begin with the late, great Bruce Stark. Stark was a staff cartoonist for the paper in the 1960's and 1970's, and one of the most talented artists of the decade. If you grew up in New York at the same time I did, in the late 1960's and early 1970's, Bruce Stark was "the" caricaturist in the city's newspapers. He alternated sports cartoons with Bill Gallo in the sports section and covered the political spectrum as well. His searing caricatures were stylistically a cross-pollination between Jack Davis and Mort Drucker. He was fantastic! When the Mets clinched the N.L. East in 1969, who do you think rendered Gil Hodges on the front page? Bruce Stark! You remember the the 1969 New York Mets championship portfolio? That was Bruce Stark! You recall the color Mets and Yankees posters in the centerfold of the Sunday comics during the summer of 1973? That was Bruce Stark! And what about the "Stark Impressions" color caricature that ran on Sunday in the News Sunday Magazine? Leaving him out of the celebration was a very large gaffe..

The same can be said for long-time staff cartoonist, the late Bill Kresse. A wonderfully stylized artist, he was all over the newspaper in nearly every capacity for a near 15 year period of the late 1960's through the early 1980's, including his great Sunday strip, "Super" Duper, with Rolf Ahlsen.

I'm going to correct their omission right here on this blog. I'll only give cursory samples as I want to devote longer future articles here to the both of them.

BRUCE STARK

 

 

BILL KRESSE

*** The great Bill Gallo received well deserved accolades in the supplement. While I'm striving here to show people left out, no article on the New's history should be without a Bill Gallo mention. So here's my short celebration.....

BILL GALLO

In addition of some of the most beloved sports cartoons of all time, including his treasured Basement Bertha, Gallo did spot illustrations all over the paper, although primarily in the sports section, accompanying columnists like Dick Young.

And let it be known that Bill Gallo turned his Basement Bertha sports character into a rarely run Sunday comics feature Bertha between 1972 and 1979.....

January 6, 1974

November 9, 1975

January 22, 1978

When Bill Gallo died in 2011 the News feted their own with a front page on May 11 and a thick special supplement on May 15.....

But the most glaring error truly boggles my mind. I was simply aghast that there was absolutely no mention whatsoever about the paper's long history of comic strips, both daily and Sunday. Zero. Zip. Nada. How is that even possible? The paper's original publisher, Joseph Medill Patterson, whose family owned The Chicago Tribune, personally picked, suggested and often even named strips for his new tabloid and did so until his death in 1946. Comic strips were a major determining factor in a buyer's decision on what newspaper to buy, especially in a day when there were up to seven daily newspapers on the New York City newsstands. These comic strips became iconic cultural touchstones. Hell, one of the strips, the venerable Gasoline Alley, just celebrated it's own 100th anniversary, predating this paper's debut by several months and being published for all 100 years of this paper's existence!

*** (To be fair, on p.61 there's a timeline that briefly states, March 11, 1923 - "Sunday News adds color comics." So the word "comics" does actually appear at least one single time among the 120 pages) ***

*** (And I just noticed that today's print edition, June 26, 2019, which has extensive editorial coverage of the anniversary, does mention Patterson's historical control of the comic strips on page 3, in an article by staff writer Larry McShane. Bravo, Larry!) ***

So yeah, that oversight really grinds my gears.

I've covered the history of the comics in this paper several times in various capacities over the years on this blog, and I will continue to do so. You can see them all here.....

OT : Tales from the New York Daily News Sunday Comics (#1)

OT : Tales from the New York Daily News Sunday Comics (#2) : "We Are Back!" The 1962-63 Newspaper Strike & the Return of the Sunday Comics

"A Date Which Will Live In Infamy" : December 7, 1941 OT : Tales from the New York Daily News Sunday Comics (#3)

OT : Tales from the New York Daily News Sunday Comics (#4) : Jack Kirby is Where You Find it!

OT : Tales from the New York Daily News Sunday Comics (#5) : CLOSER THAN WE THINK! by Arthur Radebaugh

OT : Tales from the New York Daily News Sunday Comics (#6) : Happy 100th Anniversary to HAROLD TEEN by Carl Ed!

OT : Tales from the New York Daily News Sunday Comics (#8) : 40th Anniversary of the 1978 New York Newspaper Strike & the Interim Strike Newspapers

Tales From the New York Daily News : Happy 50th Anniversary to the 1969 Miracle Mets!!!

OT : Tales from the New York Daily News Sunday Comics (#9) : "This is Next Year!!" - The Brooklyn Dodgers win the 1955 World Series!

OT : Tales from the New York Daily News Sunday Comics (#10) : Happy 100th Anniversary to WINNIE WINKLE by Martin Branner!

This particular blog post won't go into the full history of The New York Daily News' comics. I'll give a brief early history to get you started. For those interested, I run a closed Facebook group devoted solely to these comics. The New York Sunday Comics History Group, as well as New York Daily News history. The group also discusses the long history of the newspaper in general. It's just slanted 90% towards the comics. Folks are welcome to join.

The history of The Daily News from its inception in 1929 to 1961, was told in the book, "Tell It To Sweeney: The Informal History of The New York Daily News" (Doubleday, 1961), by long-time Daily News employee, John Chapman. Everything you need to know... the origins of the paper, the big stories, the personalities, ... "all of it", is in there.

Of particular interest to me is the story author John Chapman relates about one of the most iconic front page images in the history of photo-journalism, the execution of Ruth Snyder on January 13, 1928.

From "Tell it to Sweeney" p.99-100....

"The most notable break-through in the development of truth-in-pictures was the page-one picture of Ruth Snyder in the Sing Sing electric chair in January 1928. Mrs. Snyder and her paramour, Judd Gray, had been convicted of the bludgeon murder of the woman's husband, Albert Snyder, in his Bayside, Long Island, home. The murder and the trial had been national sensations, and now Mrs. Snyder was to be the first woman to go to the chair. New York and other newspapers sent their fanciest writers to cover this grisly event, and columns and columns of purple prose were turned out by famous by-liners. The News had its own trained seals on the job, too, but it also had a photograph which told the story with stunning simplicity. There was Ruth Snyder, strapped in the wooden execution chair, and above the picture was a one-word headline, dead!

The picture caused a national furor. To many it was a great journalistic feat, to many others - editorial writers and pulpit speakers among them - it was a reprehensible breach of civilized taste. It also was a perfectly planned stunt which achieved the impossible and which caused consternation in Warden Lewis E. Lawes' prison. No camera had ever been permitted in the death chamber, and prison officials took all precautions to make sure that the most highly publicized executions of the era would go unphotographed. Yet, somehow, there was a camera there - a camera with a single exposure on a roll of film.

The News had to lick two problems. The first was to get the camera on the scene even though all witnesses were to be searched. The second was to get a photographer in without anybody knowing he was a photographer, for obviously competing newsmen would protest to prison authorities if they knew that one of their number was there to make a picture. To take care of the second problem, the News brought up from their Washington bureau os P. & A. a photographer named Tom Howard. Howard was not known to any other reporter present, so it was assumed he was another reporter.

To get his picture, Howard strapped a small camera on his ankle and ran a long cable release up his leg and through a hole in his trousers pocket. The camera shutter was set on bulb. When the moment for the exposure came, Howard hitched up his trousers cuff just far enough to clear the lens, set his leg in a position which he hoped would aim the camera at the chair, pushed the release - open - and ease it back - close.

The bulb exposure had to be made for two reasons; one was that fast lenses and fast emulsions had not been devised for making snapshots in existing artificial light, the other was that the click of a shutter might betray Howard in the stillness of the awful room."

*** (Not as well known is the fact that there was a different edition of that classic front page, the Final Edition.  I'm wondering if pressure caused them to pull the image from the later edition.....)

And of course, an entire Chapter 7 is devoted to the history of the comics, titled "The Funny Papers." 

THE COMICS

As John Chapman writes:

 "More than any other feature, the comic strip is responsible for holding readers to a newspaper. Once interest in a set of characters has been established in a reader, he becomes a steady purchaser."

News publisher Joseph Medill Patterson single-handedly was in charge of choosing and even naming comics strips for his tabloid. In 1921 a Sunday comics supplement was added, first in black and white, then color in 1923, a section that runs to this day.

"The Sunday News began offering color comic sections in February 1923, and these were printed by the Chicago Tribune. From September 1924 to February 1925 they were printed in New York by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate, until the News built its own color press in a building on Washington Square. This press was moved to the Brooklyn plant." (in 1927)

While dozens of strips came and went over the first few decades, below are the original bedrock strips that became ingrained in the readers' consciousness.  I will give a sample of each....



THE GUMPS:

The initial array of strips were iconic and the first 2 years were daily strips only. The first strip chosen for the paper was The Gumps by Sidney Smith, running since 1917 in the Chicago Tribune. Andy Gump was actually named by Patterson himself! A monster of a successful strip, it was the first to introduce continuity to the comics. Smith was killed in a car accident in 1935 shortly after signing a huge million dollar contract and the feature was taken over by Gus Edson (who would launch Dondi with Irwin Hasen in 1955).

April 20, 1924

GASOLINE ALLEY:

The second strip was Frank King's Gasoline Alley. In 1919 Patterson thought a daily panel on motoring would be a good idea and thought Gasoline Alley would be a good title. The strip shortly became multi-panel and introduced continuity leading to one of the most important events in comic strip history, when baby Skeezix was discovered by Walt on his doorstep on Valentine's day of 1921. From there the strip became a century's slice of Americana, quite possibly the greatest continuity strip in history. The characters aged in real time, an innovation never seen before as characters grew up, got married, had children and died over the century.

May 4, 1924

HAROLD TEEN:

The third strip was Carl Ed's Harold Teen, also just celebrating 100 years since its debut in 1919. The link to my article on that is above. No other comic strip had so wide an influence on the language, dress, and antics of American children of the 1920's and 1930's. Harold Teen ran through 1959 but was dropped by the News in 1951 as tastes changed in post-war America and fads of the previous decades were left behind.

March 11, 1934

WINNIE WINKLE:

Winnie Winkle by Martin Branner was next. A "working girl" strip that predated Brenda Starr, it would run from 1920 to 1996.

October 29, 1933

MOON MULLINS:

The idea for Moon Mullins in 1923 came from Patterson, who wanted a roughneck character and assigned it to Frank Willard. Patterson named the character after looking in a directly for the last names of plumbers, picking out "Mullins." Ferd Johnson became the long-time artist on the feature shortly after, getting the by-line finally in 1958. The strip would last until 1991, although the News dropped it in 1977.

April 20, 1924

Another way you can see just how much control publisher Patterson had over the comics in his paper is the fact that the Moon Mullins topper Kitty Higgins was named after his personal secretary, Katherine "Kitty" Higgins!

January 3, 1937

SMITTY:

Smitty was created by Walter Berndt and launched in 1922. The Sunday started in the News on February 25, 1923 and it ran until March 7, 1971. The feature had a topper titled Herby, that ran spottily in this paper. Walter Berndt lent his name to the Long Island chapter of the National Cartoonists Society, created in 1966, "The Berndt Toast Gang."

January 6, 1935

LITTLE ORPHAN ANNIE:

Little Orphan Annie by Harold Gray is one of the most beloved of all newspaper comic strips. This masterpiece debuted August 5, 1924 and ended its initial run in 1974, last seen in the NY Sunday News comics on February 14, 1976 (after 2 years of reprints). Gray was the artist up through July 21 1968, followed primarily by Tex Blaisdell. After a hiatus of 3 years, it was re-launched by Leonard Starr on December 9, 1979 as Annie coinciding with the success of the Broadway musical (and film) of the same name, continuing to run to this day (although not in the NY Sunday News any longer).

February 3, 1935

THE TEENIE WEENIES:

The Teenie Weenies - This long-running feature by William Donahey had 3 distinct runs. 1914-1924, 1933-1934, 1941-1970. In the NY Sunday News it ran in 1924, 1933-34, and 1941 through 1967 with a handful of appearances in 1968 and 1969.

April 20, 1924

DICK TRACY:

Dick Tracy debuted on October 4, 1931, Chester Gould's crime-fighting masterpiece would soon rise to occupy the front page of the NY Sunday News comics for over 44 years from 1936 until December 7, 1980. It was finally pushed inside and replaced on the front page by Dik Brown's Hagar the Horrible on December 14, 1980.

December 29, 1933

SWEENEY & SON:

Sweeney & Son by Al Posen launched in 1933 and ran through 1960. Toppers included Jinglet, Rhymin' Time and Them Days is Gone Forever.

July 7, 1935

SMILIN' JACK:

Smilin' Jack by Zack Mosley began as On The Wing in 1933 and was re-named by Patterson in 1934. It ran until 1966 in the News, carrying on until 1973 elsewhere.

October 29, 1933

June 9, 1935

TINY TIM:

Tiny Tim by Stanley Link ran from 1933 in the News until Link's death in December of 1957.

June 23, 1935

LITTLE JOE:

Little Joe by Ed Leffingwell (a cousin of Harold Gray) ran from 1933 to 1962 in the News (often missing for partial years at a time!). It ran elsewhere until 1972.  Ed died in 1936 and his brother Bob took over the strip (often heavily ghosted by Gray himself).

March 11, 1934

TERRY AND THE PIRATES:

Terry and the Pirates.  One of the most beloved adventure strips of all time, this long-running feature was created by Milton Caniff  for publisher Patterson and ran under his auteurship from October 22, 1934 to December 29, 1946. Friction with the syndicate over ownership caused Caniff to leave the strip and launch Steve Canyon for a rival syndicate. Terry was continued by George Wunder and the feature lasted until February 25, 1973, dropped by the NY Sunday News a month earlier in January.

July 7, 1935

SMOKEY STOVER:

Smokey Stover by master pun-maker Bill Holman began in 1935 as Smokey and carried on until 1972. Smokey was a farcical masterpiece of irreverence, deserving a higher standing in the pantheon of comic strip history greatness than it seemingly currently holds.

October 26, 1935

THE RIPPLES:

The Ripples by George Clark grew sideways out of his single panel The Neighbors. It had a 10 year run in The News from 1939 to 1949 and is an absolute masterpiece of form and function. The entire 10 years should be collected into a single hardcover volume for posterity (Hint!!)

November 5, 1939

BRENDA STARR REPORTER:

Brenda Starr Reporter - This feature by Dale Messick began June 30, 1940 in the Chicago Tribune but didn't appear in the NY Sunday News until briefly in 1945 due to the fact that publisher Joseph Medill Patterson didn't like the strip. It then vanished in the News only to reappear in October of 1948, two years after Patterson's death in 1946, continuing onward to its final Sunday here on June 2, 1985, where it was replaced by Tom Wilson's ZIGGY. It continued elsewhere until its end on January 2, 2011.

May 27, 1945

In addition to the features above, shorter-run strips in the 1930's and 1940's included  White Boy/Skull Valley (Garrett Price), Streaky (Gus Edson, Loy Byrnes), A Strain on the Family Tie (Gaar Williams) , Sister Suzie (Alice Harvey) Aggie Mack (Hal Rasmusson) and Texas Slim (Ferd Johnson). The 1950's and beyond would see an even larger expansion of the comics with classic characters produced by talented cartoonists, but that's a story for another time.

SUNDAY MAGAZINE

One of the highlights of the Sunday edition of the News was the color Sunday magazine. A rotogravure section was added in October 1926, originally printed by the Artgravure company. By March 1935 the Newspaper had built their own presses in the Brooklyn plant and the first in-house Coloroto cover was printed on the July 28 of that year. For the next several decades, the Sunday covers were awash in gorgeous, vibrant color studios photos taken by a Daily News photographer in their own on site studio. What follows are some of the nice ones I've acquired over the years.....

The final part of my tribute here will be images and/or articles taken from my vast collection of  THE NEW YORK DAILY NEWS original newspapers. It's for this reason my grandfather once referred to me as "the third Collyer brother." It's not an all-time greatest collection of the greatest front pages or back pages, it's a collection of my favorites, papers I personally own. That said, sports will slant heavily to the New York Mets and covers that suit my particular interests. Hope you enjoy the trip down memory lane.....


*** Warning ... Newspapers of earlier decades, specifically the 1910's, 1920's, 1930's, 1940's and 1950's, often depicted racial stereotypes in a manner completely unacceptable today. This was even more prevalent and pronounced during war time. As they were so common across all media of the times, pretending they didn't exist, or censoring them, would be an injustice to accurate history. Please keep this context in mind if it offends you... ***



June 24, 1919 - Ashcan edition with alternate cover, same contents as June26 (debut) will have.

June 26, 1919 - Official debut issue.

January 17, 1924

[Back Page]

August 12, 1926

[Back Page]

January 13, 1928 

(Extra Edition)

(Final Edition)

April 1, 1932 (Lindbergh baby Kidnapping)

April 7, 1932 (Lindbergh baby Kidnapping)

May 14, 1932 (Lindbergh baby Kidnapping)

May 10, 1933

November 8, 1933

February 25, 1934

January 4, 1935 (Lindbergh baby Kidnapping) 

January 18, 1935 (Lindbergh baby Kidnapping) 

January 19, 1935 (Lindbergh baby Kidnapping) 

February 17, 1935 (Lindbergh baby Kidnapping) 

March 31, 1936 (Lindbergh baby Kidnapping) 

April 5, 1936 (Lindbergh baby Kidnapping, Joe DiMaggio debut) 

June 11, 1939

August 31, 1939

September 1, 1939 [A] (early edition) - World on the verge of war

September 1, 1939 [B] (late edition) - World War 2 starts

September 3, 1939

June 26, 1940

August 22, 1940

August 22, 1941

December 8, 1941
 

February 27, 1942

March 10, 1942

March 13, 1942

March 26, 1942

May 2, 1942

August 21, 1942

October 13, 1942 

October 21, 1942

December 5, 1942

January 23, 1943

July 26, 1943

September 9, 1943

December 21, 1943

January 29, 1944

February 27, 1944

March 9, 1944

April 23, 1944

May 7, 1944

May 21, 1944

June 6, 1944 - (D-Day, early edition)

June 6, 1944 - (D-Day, late edition)

June 7, 1944 - (D-Day +1)

June 18, 1944

July 13, 1944

July 23, 1944

August 20, 1944

[Babe Ruth sighting at the Polo Gounds on the back cover]

August 27, 1944 

September 24, 1944 

Back Cover - One-armed baseball player Pete Gray

October 1, 1944

October 8, 1944

October 22, 1944

November 19, 1944

November 26, 1944

February 4, 1945

February 18, 1945

April 13, 1945 - (Pink Edition)

April 15, 1945 - (Pink Edition)

April 15, 1945 - (Late Edition)

April 29, 1945

May 2, 1945

May 8, 1945

  

July 29, 1945

[National Edition]

August 5, 1945

August 7, 1945 (Pink edition)

August 8, 1945

August 9, 1945 (Pink edition)

August 12, 1945

August 14, 1945 (Pink edition)

August 15, 1945

[Pink Edition]

August 19, 1945

August 27, 1945

September 2, 1945

November 11, 1945

November 25, 1945

December 2, 1945

December 9, 1945

September 8, 1946

September 15, 1946

September 29, 1946

October 6, 1946

October 13, 1946

November 17, 1946

December 8, 1946

December 15, 1946

December 21, 1946

January 12, 1947

February 2, 1947

February 9, 1947

February 16, 1947

March 9, 1947

August 26, 1947

             

December 28, 1947

(Centerfold headlines from 1947)

June 25, 1948

August 1, 1948

August 16, 1948

August 17, 1948 - Cover [A] (early "City Edition")

August 17, 1948 - Cover [B] (late "Final Edition")

March 12 1949

May 15, 1949

May 31, 1949

July 20, 1949

March 24, 1950

July 23, 1950

September 3, 1950

March 2, 1952

March 16, 1952

August 3, 1952

July 27, 1953

September 18, 1954

October 8, 1955 - cover [A] Classic cover by Leo O'Melia

October 8, 1955 - cover [B] 

June 1, 1958

August 27, 1958 (Bob Wood arrested for murder. Two different covers)

October 29, 1958

November 15, 1959

November 12, 1960

December 25, 1960

January 28, 1961

January 28, 1961

March 18, 1961

May 5, 1961

September 10, 1961 [Jackie Gleason's daughter's wedding cover!]

March 18, 1962

July 22, 1962

July 29, 1962

August 5, 1962

August 6, 1962

August 7, 1962

August 14, 1962

September 16, 1962

September 30, 1962

October 7, 1962

October 14, 1962

November 4, 1962

August 11, 1963

September 1, 1963

September 8, 1963 [National Edition]

November 3, 1963 [National Edition]

November 23, 1963 (early edition)

(back page)

November 23, 1963 (late edition)

(back page)

November 24, 1963 

(back page)

November 25, 1963 

(back page)

November 28, 1963 

March 14, 1964

(Page 5): (Kitty Genovese murder)

March 15, 1964

April 6, 1964

April 9, 1964

August 1, 1964

November 4, 1964 [Main Edition, first News color front page]

[Back Cover]

November 4, 1964  [Election Special]

March 27, 1965

April 12, 1965

(Back cover) 

December 28, 1965

March 6, 1966

January 21, 1967

January 25, 1967

January 28, 1967

January 30, 1967

June 11, 1967 - [National Edition]

June 18, 1967

June 22, 1967

November 22, 1967

November 26, 1967 - [National Edition]

December 3, 1967 - [National Edition]

December 31, 1967 - [National Edition]

February 10, 1968

May 7, 1968 

June 2, 1968 - [National Edition]

June 5, 1968

June 6, 1968

[one-star edition]

[four star "Final" edition]

June 7, 1968

June 9, 1968

[one-star edition]

[National Edition]

June 14, 1968 

June 16, 1968 

[four-star "Final edition]

[National Edition]

August 4, 1968

August 9, 1968

August 11, 1968

August 18, 1968

August 19, 1968

August 25, 1968

September 22 1968

October 3, 1968

October 6, 1968

October 13, 1968 - [Home Edition]

October 13, 1968 - [National Edition]

November 1, 1968

November 10, 1968 - [Home Edition]

November 10, 1968 - [National Edition]

December 1, 1968

December 15, 1968

December 17, 1968  - [NYC Edition]

December 17, 1968  - [Country Edition]

December 18, 1968

December 21, 1968

December 22, 1968 - [Home Edition]

December 22, 1968 - [National Edition]

January 5, 1969

January 10, 1969

January 12, 1969

January 26, 1969

February 2, 1969

February 2, 1969

February 9, 1969

February 16, 1969

March 8, 1969

March 16, 1969

March 29, 1969

March 30, 1969

April 13, 1969

April 16, 1969

April 20, 1969

April 27, 1969

May 4, 1969

May 11, 1969

May 18, 1969

June 1, 1969

June 15, 1969

July 10, 1969

July 16, 1969

July 18, 1969

July 20, 1969

July 21, 1969

July 22, 1969

July 23, 1969

August 3, 1969

August 24, 1969

September 4, 1969

September 7, 1969

September 14, 1969

September 25, 1969 (Mets win N.L. East title)

September 26, 1969

October 5, 1969

October 6, 1969

October 7, 1969 [A] (Mets win N.L. Pennant)

October 7, 1969 [B]

October 8, 1969

October 9, 1969

October 10, 1969

October 12, 1969 (1969 World Series Game 1)

October 13, 1969 (1969 World Series Game 2)

October 14, 1969 - Bruce Stark Mets World Series cover

October 15, 1969 (1969 World Series Game 3)

October 16, 1969 (1969 World Series Game 4)

October 17, 1969 [A] (1969 World Series Game 5)

October 17, 1969 [B]

October 19, 1969

October 26, 1969

November 19, 1969

December 7, 1969

January 23, 1973

                    

October 2, 1973 (Mets clinch N.L. East)

October 10, 1973 - (1973 N.L. Playoffs Game 4)

October 11, 1973 - (1973 N.L. Playoffs Game 5)

October 14, 1973 - (1973 Wold Series Game 1)

October 15, 1973 - (1973 Wold Series Game 2)

October 16, 1973

October 17, 1973 - (1973 Wold Series Game 3)

October 18, 1973 - (1973 Wold Series Game 4)

October 19, 1973 - (1973 Wold Series Game 5)

October 20, 1973

October 22, 1973 - (1973 Wold Series Game 7)

April 9, 1974

August 9, 1974

(Extra Edition)

(Final edition)

August 7, 1975

October 1, 1975

July 3, 1976

July 4, 1976

July 5, 1976

March, 1977

May 27, 1977

June 13, 1977

June 14, 1977

June 15, 1977

June 16, 1977 (Tom Seaver traded)

June 17, 1977

June 18, 1977

June 19, 1977

August 10, 1977

August 11, 1977

August 12, 1977

August 14, 1977

August 22, 1977 (Tom Seaver's return to Shea)

July 25, 1978

July 26, 1978

July 29, 1978

July 30, 1978

November 6, 1978

January 1, 1979

March 26, 1979

March 27, 1979

August 3, 1979

August 4, 1979

August 12, 1980

December 9, 1980 - (early edition)

December 9, 1980 - (late edition)

December 10, 1980

December 11, 1980

December 12, 1980

December 13, 1980

December 14, 1980

December 15, 1980

December 16, 1980

December 17, 1980

January 31, 1981

March 31, 1981

April 10, 1981

April 11, 1981

April 13, 1981

(Back page - Death of Boxing legend Joe Louis)

May 14, 1981

July 31, 1981 - (Baseball strike ends)

October 05, 1981

September 18, 1986 (Mets clinch N.L. East)

October 8, 1986

October 9, 1986 - (Game 1 1986 N.L. Playoffs)

October 10, 1986 - (Game 2 1986 N.L. Playoffs)

October 11, 1986

October 12, 1986 - (Game 3 1986 N.L. Playoffs)

October 13, 1986 - (Game 4 1986 N.L. Playoffs)

October 14, 1986

October 15, 1986 - (Game 5 1986 N.L. Playoffs)

October 16, 1986 - (Game 6 1986 N.L. Playoffs)

October 17, 1986

October 18, 1986

October 19, 1986 (Game 1 1986 World Series)

October 20, 1986 (Game 2 1986 World Series)

October 21, 1986

October 22, 1986 (Game 3 1986 World Series)

October 23, 1986 (Game 4 1986 World Series)

October 24, 1986 (Game 5 1986 World Series)

October 25, 1986

October 26, 1986 - (Game 6 1986 World Series)

October 27, 1986

October 28, 1986 - (Game 7 1986 World Series)

October 29, 1986

October 30, 1986

June 25, 1987

February 22, 1988

October 20, 1988

October 4, 1988

October 5, 1988 - (Game 1 1988 N.L.Playoffs)

October 6, 1988 - (Game 2 1988 N.L.Playoffs)

October 7, 1988

October 8, 1988

October 9, 1988 - (Game 3 1988 N.L.Playoffs)

October 10, 1988 - (Game 4 1988 N.L.Playoffs)

October 11, 1988

October 12, 1988 - (Game 6 1988 N.L.Playoffs)

October 13, 1988 - (Game 7 1988 N.L.Playoffs)

October 14, 1988

November 23, 1988

December 22, 1988

January 7, 1989

March 25, 1989

October 8, 1989

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July 30, 1996

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August 31, 1997

September 1, 1997 - [A]

September 1, 1997 - [B]

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October 1, 2001

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January 23, 2002

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June 11, 2004

April 4, 2007

February 20, 2008

June 18, 2009

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May 11, 2011

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May 15, 2011 

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July 24, 2011

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June 30, 2013

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March 27, 2014

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December 6, 2014

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May 26, 2015

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December 31, 2015

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November 27, 2016

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 January 11, 2017  (Huge editorial blunder not giving Officer McDonald the entire front page)

January 14, 2017

January 26, 2017

March 19, 2017

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June 7, 2017

October 3, 2017

November 20, 2017

March 3, 2018

March 25, 2018

March 30, 2018

April 4, 2018

April 27, 2018

May 5, 2018

June 9, 2018

September 7, 2018

September 26, 2018

September 27, 2018

November 6, 2018

November 7, 2018

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November 13, 2018

December 6, 2018

December 19, 2018

December 22, 2018

December 28, 2018

January 15, 2019

January 23, 2019

March 7, 2019

March 10, 2019

June 26, 2019 (100th Anniversary issue)

August 17, 2019

December 5, 2019 (Christmas comes early this year!)

December 19, 2019

December 28, 2019

January 17, 2020

January 22, 2020

January 27, 2020

February 26, 2020

February 8, 2020

April 4, 2020

April 12, 2020

May 24, 2020

June 26, 2020 (101st Anniversary issue)

July 1, 2020

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September 3, 2020 

October 3, 2020 

 October 10, 2020 

October 16, 2020

November 4, 2020

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November 20, 2020

November 22, 2020

January 7, 2021

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February 10, 2021

February 24, 2021

March 7, 2021 (mis-dated February 7, 2021)

April 15, 2021

April 17, 2021

April 21, 2021

May 20, 2021

May 26, 2021

July 1, 2021

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August 11, 2021

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November 3, 2021

November 18, 2021

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November 27, 2021

January 01, 2022

January 06, 2022

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February 1, 2022

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February 16, 2022

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March 2, 2022

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March 26, 2022

March 29, 2022

April 8, 2022

April 13, 2022

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April 26, 2022

May 3, 2022

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May 29, 2022

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July 2, 2022

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August 10, 2022

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August 27, 2022

August 30, 2022

August 31, 2022

September 3, 2022

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September 29, 2022

October 2, 2022

October 3, 2022

October 5, 2022

October 11, 2022

October 13, 2022

October 19, 2022

October 24, 2022

October 25, 2022

October 29, 2022

November 1, 2022

November 10, 2022

November 16, 2022

November 27, 2022

November 19, 2022

December 1, 2022

December 2, 2022

December 6, 2022

December 7, 2022

December 9, 2022

December 10, 2022

December 18, 2022

December 20, 2022

December 23, 2022

December 30, 2022 (Back page. They couldn't put Pele on the front page?? Idiots!)

December 31, 2022

January 1, 2023

January 4, 2023

January 11, 2023

January 12, 2023

January 14, 2023

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January 23, 2023

January 25, 2023

January 28, 2023

February 11, 2023

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March 28, 2023

March 31, 2023

POSTSCRIPT:

On June 26, 1940, the NEW YORK DAILY NEWS celebrated its 21st birthday. It ran this full page celebration for the event.....

SOURCES:

1. Tell It To Sweeney: The Informal History of The New York Daily News, 1960, Doubleday.
2. All comic strip image are from the authors collection.
3. All NY Daily/Sunday News images from the author's collection. (Except 11/12/60, 8/6/62, from the author's brother's collection; 6/26/19, 1/13/28, 10/8/55, and 8/27/58 from internet sources)