American cartoonist (1900-1993) best known as the creator of the strip Alley Oop. Desirable grouping of two original hand-inked comic strips and one ALS: a four-panel comic strip from 1956 about bootleggers, 20.75 x 6.75, stylistically signed within the strip, and signed and inscribed later in red pencil, "To the Ken Brownes, Best wishes, V. T. Hamlin"; a four-panel comic strip from 1958 about spacemen, 20.75 x 6.75, stylistically signed within the strip, and signed and inscribed later in red pencil, "To the Ken Brownes, Best wishes, V. T. Hamlin"; and an ALS, one page, 7.25 x 10.5, April 10, 1958, in part: "It has been quite some time since I passed through your home town—back in '52, I believe…You know my home town was, years ago, in Perry, Iowa and sometime ago, a couple of years I think, I did a story on my childhood there." In overall fine condition, with central vertical folds to the comic strips.
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