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Billy De Beck

(De Beck, Billy, 1890-1942)

William Morgan DeBeck (April 15, 1890 – November 11, 1942) was an American cartoonist. He is most famous as the creator of the comic strip Barney Google, later retitled Barney Google and Snuffy Smith. The strip was especially popular in the 1920s and 1930s, and featured a number of well-known characters, including the title character, Bunky, Snuffy Smith, and Spark Plug the race horse. Spark Plug was a merchandising phenomenon, and has been called the Snoopy of the 1920s. (From Wikipedia)

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De Beck, Billy, 1890-1942, illust.: Barney Google: Fox Trot (New York and Detroit: J. H. Remick and Co., c1923), by Billy Rose and Con Conrad (PDF at Maine)

Additional books by Billy De Beck in the extended shelves:

De Beck, Billy, 1890-1942: 1925 blue & gold : a record of the college year 1923-1924. (University of California, 1925), also by LQS., Clif Mayne, E. S. Firenze, Ham Buske, Nell Brinkley, Valenti Angelo, Fay Goldie, Eleanor King Bremer, Feg Murray, George McManus, Robert Wolfgang Schnell, TAD, Virgil Theodore Nahl, R. M. Crooke, Jack Lustig, H. G. McGurk, Frank King, Frank Swinnerton, Rube Goldberg, and Sidney Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
De Beck, Billy, 1890-1942: Barney Google and his faithful nag Spark Plug (New York : Cupples and Leon Co., 1923., 1923) (page images at HathiTrust)
De Beck, Billy, 1890-1942: Barney Google and Spark Plug. (New York : Cupples & Leon, [1926], 1926) (page images at HathiTrust)

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