McFadden’s Row of Flats
In honor (a day early) of St. Patrick’s Day, a pair of (non-Outcault authorized) Yellow Kid ephemera. Above, a rear cover advertisement, found on the back of an 1890s music sheet, featuring an obvious Yellow Kid rip-off. Below, the front & back covers plus interior from a flyer advertising one (of several) theatrical versions of McFadden’s Row of Flats. This version featured the Yellow Kid Twins, who starred in the parallel, rival Hogan’s Alley drawn by George Luks for the New York World. The World/Luks cartoon ran for a year opposite the New York Journal American/Outcault version of Yellow Kid, when William Randolph Hearst’s hiring of Outcault away from the World, resulted in a dispute over ownership of the character.
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— Doug
