Hamlin, V T
Entry updated 11 August 2018. Tagged: Artist, Author, Comics.
(1900-1993) US Comics writer and artist who created the Alley Oop (which see) comic strip in 1932, initially as Prehistoric SF but later ranging much more widely via Time Travel, beginning with Alley Oop: The First Time Travel Adventure (6 March 1939-23 March 1940 Alley Oop; graph 2013); there is even a trip to the Moon in Alley Oop: Daily Strips from August 31, 1948 to November 9, 1949 (graph coll 1995). Earlier, several pre-World War Two book-length tales of Alley Oop appeared, either in the Big Little Book series (interacting text and illustration on opposite pages) or in similar series by other names: Alley Oop and Dinny (graph 1934) and Alley Oop and Dinny in the Jungles of Moo (graph 1938), both Big Little Books; and Alley Oop in the Invasion of Moo (graph 1935) and Alley Oop and the Missing King of Moo (1938 chap). Extended tales reprinted from the actual daily strip appear in Hamlin's Alley Oop: Daily Strips from July 20, 1946 to June 20, 1947 (graph coll 1990) and its continuations [see Checklist below]. Hamlin retired from the daily Alley Oop strip in 1968 and from the Sunday strip in 1973, when it was taken over by his assistant Dave Graue (1926-2001). [JC/DRL]
Vincent Trout Hamlin
born Perry, Iowa: 10 May 1900
died Brooksville, Florida: 14 June 1993
works
series
Alley Oop
- Alley Oop and Dinny (Racine, Wisconsin: Whitman Publishing Company, 1934) [in Big Little Book format: Alley Oop: hb/V T Hamlin]
- Alley Oop in the Invasion of Moo (Racine, Wisconsin: Whitman Publishing Company, 1935) [Alley Oop: pb/V T Hamlin]
- Alley Oop and Dinny in the Jungles of Moo (Racine, Wisconsin: Whitman Publishing Company, 1938) [in Big Little Book format: Alley Oop: hb/V T Hamlin]
- Alley Oop and the Missing King of Moo (Racine, Wisconsin: Whitman Publishing Company, 1938) [Alley Oop: pb/V T Hamlin]
- Alley Oop: The Sawalla Chronicles (Franklin, Wisconsin: Ken Pierce Books, 1983) [Alley Oop: pb/V T Hamlin]
- Alley Oop: Daily Strips from July 20, 1946 to June 20, 1947 (Princeton, Wisconsin: Kitchen Sink Press, 1990) [coll: graph: title given as Alley Oop: The Adventures of a Time-Traveling Caveman on copyright page and cover: Alley Oop: hb/V T Hamlin]
- Alley Oop: Daily Strips from June 21, 1947 to August 30, 1948 (Princeton, Wisconsin: Kitchen Sink Press, 1991) [coll: graph: title given as Alley Oop: Mystery of the Sphinx on copyright page and as The Sphinx and Alley Oop on cover: Alley Oop: hb/V T Hamlin]
- Alley Oop: Daily Strips from August 31, 1948 to November 9, 1949 (Northampton, Massachusetts: Kitchen Sink Press, 1995) [coll: graph: title given as Alley Oop: First Trip to the Moon on copyright page and as Alley Oop: The Adventures of a Time Traveling Caveman on cover: Alley Oop: hb/V T Hamlin]
- Alley Oop Volume 4 (Mountain Home, Tennessee: Manuscript Press, 2003) [coll: graph: strips from 10 November 1949 to 20 November 1950: Alley Oop: pb/V T Hamlin]
- Alley Oop: The First Time Travel Adventure (San Diego, California: IDW Publishing, 2013) [graph: first appeared 6 March 1939-23 March 1940 Alley Oop: in the publisher's Library of American Comics Essentials series: Alley Oop: hb/V T Hamlin]
- Alley Oop: The Complete Sundays, 1934-1936: Vol 1 (Dark Horse Comics, 2014) [coll: graph: illus/hb/V T Hamlin]
- Alley Oop: The Complete Sundays, 1936-1938: Vol 2 (Dark Horse Comics, 2014) [coll: graph: illus/hb/V T Hamlin]
links
- University of Missouri Libraries V T Hamlin Collection
- A Stretch in the Bone Age: The Life and Cartooning Genius of V.T. Hamlin (Comics Journal)
- Picture Gallery
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