USA set of 2 “Black Kid Comics” Black Americana postcards

$20.00 CAD

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 ‘BLACK KID COMICS’ Printed in U.S.A. Bamforth Co, Mohegan Lake , N.Y.

Two young friends #2012

“TWO LOVING HEARTS!”

Artist "J.C.Y"(?)

Message on back from 1968

 

Punished child crying #13553

“I’SE BLACK ALL OVER , ‘CEPT WHERE I’SE BLUE!”

Artist "D. Tempest" Douglas Tempest

Douglas Tempest was born in Thurlton, Norfolk, in 1887. The family subsequently moved to Leeds, Yorkshire.

He studied at Leeds School of Art and in 1912 he began work designing comic images for Bamforth & Co. a slide-making company in Holmfirth that had branched out into postcard production,.

Mailed from Ashville N.C. June 1939 to Illinois