I’ve not seen a newspaper in many many years but I’m always digging in consignment shop crates for the extraordinary. This Beetle Bailey pullover was just that…extrodinary. This is the highlight of my throwback Thursday.
tWhere are you going find this again? Thats what I thought when i pulled this one tightly tucked inbetween pounds of vintage fall wear at father and son. That’s really what I say about everything i find in the vintage shops. The fact that this would be hard to find is most certainly true. I should know because i looked for it with google images. In searching, i did find a retailer, that sells very affordable t-shirts. Here’s the link if you’re interested.
You could always get a comic strip screen printed onto a pullover. Heck maybe that is what happened to this. I doubt it. More over, a pullover is hard to find and no ones going to steal the joy i have for feeling like found a jewel.
Mark Wort was still creates these comics. He is said to the be the longest tenured cartoonist in history. He started Beetle Bailey in 1950.
It got its first catapult as a military entertainment strip that went from 100 to 1100 newspaper by 1968. Let me also point out that, Wort was professionally distributing his comic while he was in high school. He was published and considered professional before he graduated.
I bet you didn’t know that he main character’s name used to be Spider. You know the iconic guy that we know now as Beetle Bailey came to us with when Wort was told to do comic series about his experience in college. As the Korean war went on, Wart was encouraged to enlist Spider and because there was already another popular character named Spider, the Spider, we didn’t really know, became the famous Beetle Bailey we remember.
Do you have any vintage threads that speak to your child memories, that have also become hard to find? Share with me at iamcoulstyle@coulstyle.com. I’d like to post what you share.
