"Champaign Chicken Shit" -- Unpublished, Unrecorded WWII-era Satirical Serial
[Champaign, Illinois]: 1944. Seven mock-up leaves in pencil and ink manuscript for an unpublished, unrecorded WWII-era satirical serial that appears to have been created by and for a group of college-aged students at the University of Illinois, rife with inside jokes and tongue-in-cheek humor. Includes humorous faux headlines such as "LOST Issue No. 4 ... There is a shortage of paper" and "Summary court fines Lien, McIntosh $25.00 [for being] absent from study hall March 3rd". Includes faux adverts and headlines relevant to the friend group (e.g. "Don't Miss Matthew's Birthday Celebration at Hanley's TONITE").
Seven (7) leaves of graph paper sometime excised from notebook, each 10" by 7.75" Very good. Some dust soiling, toning, occasional small water stain.
Price: $650.00
Item #23008935