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Tuesday, August 18, 2015

Charles Addams Book Promotions

EBay paper seller 237 is currently offering a number of original promotions for Charles Addams's books. These volumes, mostly cartoon collections, are all terrific and are well worth hunting down. As you can see, even the vintage ads look great.

Monster Rally, 1950

Image added August 25, 2015

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/551198441868342678/

Homebodies, 1954

Nightcrawlers, 1957

Dear Dead Days, 1959

Black Maria, 1960

Drawn and Quartered, 1962 reissue

The Groaning Board, 1964

The Chas Addams Mother Goose, 1967

The World of Charles Addams was published three years after the cartoonist's death in 1988. This ad comes from another eBay seller.

The World of Charles Addams, 1991

eBay Link

Note: If you like these ads, my other posts about Charles Addams are sure to delight you.

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Saturday, December 8, 2012

Charles Addams: The Flashing Festers

Over the years, Charles Addams created a number of what I call "Flashing Festers," souvenir drawings featuring his iconic Addams Family character Uncle Fester revealing his bare chest and his underwear. A couple of them have been offered at auction by Heritage in the past:

Charles Addams, Uncle Fester.
Heritage Auctions Listing, July 28, 2012

http://comics.ha.com/c/item.zx?saleNo=7063&lotNo=94809

Charles Addams, Uncle Fester.
Heritage Auctions Listing, July 28, 2012

http://comics.ha.com/c/item.zx?saleNo=7063&lotNo=94809

Charles Addams
Uncle Fester. Dedicated "To Richard with all best"
on the front free endpapaper in a copy of The Groaning Board, 1964
Heritage Auctions Listing, November 16, 2011

http://comics.ha.com/c/item.zx?saleNo=7039&lotNo=92039#Photo

Charles Addams
Uncle Fester. Dedicated "To Richard with all best"
on the front free endpapaper in a copy of The Groaning Board, 1964
Heritage Auctions Listing, November 16, 2011

http://comics.ha.com/c/item.zx?saleNo=7039&lotNo=92039#Photo

Charles Addams
The Groaning Board, 1964
Heritage Auctions Listing, November 16, 2011

http://comics.ha.com/c/item.zx?saleNo=7039&lotNo=92039#Photo

Charles Addams, Uncle Fester. Dedicated "To Richard with all best"
on the front free endpapaper in a copy of The Groaning Board, 1964
Heritage Auctions Listing, November 16, 2011

http://comics.ha.com/c/item.zx?saleNo=7039&lotNo=92039#Photo

One of the most elaborate of these flashing Festers is currently being offered by Bauman Rare Books in New York City. At $3,800, it is also the most expensive one I've seen. It appears in a copy of the cartoonist's 1981 collection Creature Comforts and was dedicated by Mr. Addams to Mary Lee and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., for Christmas 1982. Uncle Fester sports boxer shorts with festive red and green stripes.

Now you know how to respond the next time someone asks you whether Uncle Fester wears boxers or briefs.

Charles Addams, Uncle Fester
inscribed to Mary Lee and Douglas [Fairbanks, Jr.], 1982,
in a copy of Creature Comforts, 1981

Bauman Rare Books Listing, 2012

http://www.baumanrarebooks.com/rare-books/addams-charles/creature-comforts/83792.aspx

Copy of Creature Comforts inscribed in 1982 by Charles Addams to
Mary Lee and Douglas [Fairbanks, Jr.]
Bauman Rare Books Listing, 2012

http://www.baumanrarebooks.com/rare-books/addams-charles/creature-comforts/83792.aspx

Charles Addams
Creature Comforts, Bauman Rare Books Listing, 2012

http://www.baumanrarebooks.com/rare-books/addams-charles/creature-comforts/83792.aspx

Sold!

Image added March 23, 2017

October 11, 2015 Update:

Charles Addams
eBay Listing Ended July 20, 2015

eBay

Charles Addams
eBay item description

September 4, 2018 Update: As mentioned in the comments section below, reader George Kovalenko of Saskatoon, who writes the Fountain Pen History, Hand & Pen blog, has found a Flashing Fester in a 1977 copy of Newsweek, where it is purportedly identified as an Addams self-portrait.