Marten Toonder (1912-2005)

Copy(!) of an original strip Ollie B. Bommel and Tom Poes. Tom Puss, Captain Wal Rus and Wammes Waggel. Strip 625, 1943. Consisting of 3 plates in India ink with blue spot colour. Signed 'Marten Toonder' in the first plate. This copy was most likely not drawn (or signed) by Toonder but by one of the cartoonists in the studios. 11 x 26 cm.

*From the collection of Miepie van Baarle-Neuhaus and Nic van Baarle. **Although signed Marten Toonder strips were possibly created by or in cooperation with one of the other cartoonists at the Studios. *** Tom Puss strips from this period are extremely hard to find; the copies that did survive time have been archived. In increasingly rare cases like here strips or rejected versions of a strip are discovered at the legacy of an employee of the studios. This strip being a copy of the original that was used for publishing, and which is archived in the Literature Museum in the Hague.