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Ad Code: 4
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from Auction House Records.
Andy Gum and Family Speeding Past
Artwork images are copyright of the artist or assignee
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A famous comic-strip artist in the 1920s and 1930s, Sidney Smith was
known as being one of the highest salaried in the business, and his
employers, the executives of The Chicago Tribune, used his
salary as a lure for hiring other employees. In 1922, he signed a
million dollar contract with that newspaper, which specified
$100,000.00 a year for the next decade and included a Rolls-Royce.
Smith was a celebrity at a time when comic-strip artists were of much
interest b (showing 500 of 3397 characters). |
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