Sad Sad Sack World

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The Sad Sack is an American fictional comic strip and comic book character created by Sgt. George Baker during World War II. Set in the United States Army, Sad Sack depicted an otherwise unnamed, lowly private experiencing some of the absurdities and humiliations of military life. The title was a euphemistic shortening of the military slang "sad sack of shit", common during WWII. The phrase has come to mean "an inept person" or "inept soldier".

Originally drawn in pantomime by Baker, The Sad Sack debuted June 1942 as a comic strip in the first issue of Yank, the Army Weekly. It proved popular, and a hardcover collection of Baker's wartime Sad Sack strips was published by Simon & Schuster, Inc. in 1944, with a follow-up, The New Sad Sack (1946). The original book was concurrently published as an Armed Services edition mass market paperback, in that edition's standard squarebound, horizontal, 5 5/8" x 4" format, by Editions for the Armed Services, Inc., a non-profit organization of The Council on Books in Wartime; it was #719 in the series of Armed Service editions.

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Sad Sad Sack World #33

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Sad Sad Sack, October 1971 ed., vol 1. #33. Used comic in good condition. Cover shows minimal wear, pages are clean and tight.

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Sad Sad Sack World #33 Sad Sad Sack, October 1971 ed., vol 1. #33. Used comic in good condition. Cover shows minimal wear, pages are clean and tight. $3.20 AbeBooks

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Sad Sad Sack World #42 (April 1973) ... $6.78 Amazon

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Sad, Sad Sack World No. 41; Feb. 1972 The comic is in pretty nice shape, some mild rubbing, just a touch of edgewear. $7.00 AbeBooks

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Sad Sack Fun Around the World No. 1, 1974 Year, VG/F, $9.95 ... $9.95 Amazon

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Yank. The army weekly. World War II from the guys who brought you victory. Irwin Shaw, William Saroyan, Andy Rooney, Walter Bernstein, Merle Miller, the original Sad Sack cartoons of George Baker and other treasures from YANK'S Soldier-contributors. KLUGER, STEVE

Xii, 356 pages, well illustrated, cloth, DJ, very good. From the dust jacket: "Published between 1942 and 1945, Yank Magazine was written by, for and about GIs. A weekly like no other, Yankee recorded the experiences, gripes, jokes, and dreams of enlisted man and noncommissioned officers everywhere the war was fought. Yank is about as close as someone who did not participate in World War II can come to what soldiers were really thinking and feeling, but for the past forty years its treasure-trove of writing, art, and photography has been unavailable. Now the World War II author has put together the best from Yank in an extraordinary volume that recaptures the flavor and spirit of the legendary magazine. " ; 356 pages
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1973: December Sad Sad Sack World Comic Book By George Baker Comic Book

KLUGER, STEVE

Xii, 356 pages, well illustrated, cloth, DJ, very good. From the dust jacket: "Published between 1942 and 1945, Yank Magazine was written by, for and about GIs. A weekly like no other, Yankee recorded the experiences, gripes, jokes, and dreams of enlisted man and noncommissioned officers everywhere the war was fought. Yank is about as close as someone who did not participate in World War II can come to what soldiers were really thinking and feeling, but for the past forty years its treasure-trove of writing, art, and photography has been unavailable. Now the World War II author has put together the best from Yank in an extraordinary volume that recaptures the flavor and spirit of the legendary magazine. " ; 356 pages
$20.00 AbeBooks

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