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Charlie Chaplin's Comic Capers, Series 1, No. 315

by Stuart Wallace Carothers, Warren & Ramsey, Elzie Crisler Segar

This book is a coloring book, with various black and white comic strips from the "Charlie Chaplin's Comic Capers/Charley Chaplin's Comic Capers". Each edition had one comic on the inside of each cover, and then two comics per page, on all pages except the title page, and "instructions" page. The "First Edition" had 62 comics, the "Version 2" had 61 comics because one was repeated {14 of them are new to this edition, while the rest are reprinted from the first Edition. There is one other known edition, known as the Michigan State University version {MSU Version} it has 12 pages, and 22 comics. All of it's contents were printed in the "Version 2", except the inside of the front and back covers. It features artwork by various artists including; Stuart Wallace Carothers, Warren & Ramsey, Elzie Crisler Segar. There are three known Editions of this book. The First edition had a back cover with a orange tiger on it, while later re-released editions featured Charlie with prison hat. Books in this series; * Charlie Chaplin's Comic Capers, "No. 315" * Charlie Chaplin in the Movies "No. 316" * Charlie Chaplin Up in the Air "No. 317" * Charlie Chaplin in the Army "No. 318" * Charlie Chaplin's Funny Stunts, "No. 380"